On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:34 AM, David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:21:43PM -0500, Dan McGee wrote: >> When the base version is available, use a three-way, four panel view by >> default. This shows the (local, base, remote) revisions up top and the >> merged result by itself in the lower pane. All revisions will still scroll >> together by default, and the cursor still defaults to the merged result edit >> pane. >> >> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> >> Vim was one of the few diff commands to not support a three-way merge showing >> the base revision, so this is a stab at resolving that shortfall. The biggest >> objection I can see to this is making the interface a bit more cumbersome and >> bloated. >> >> An example screenshot of what this produces: >> http://www.toofishes.net/media/extra/vim_three_way.png >> >> -Dan > > > Patch 1/2 of this series looks good to me. > > Is it worth keeping the old behavior and calling this new > mode "vimdiff3" or something along those lines? > > I'm not a vimdiff user so I'm not be the best person to > judge the merits of this change. ÂI like what it's trying > to accomplish, though. ÂAre there any vimdiff users > with strong feelings either way? I think this is a definite improvement; the old mode wasn't really useful for me. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
