On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 03:55:19PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > I think highlighting inline and side-by-side diff outputs is > > something different from "git diff --word-diff". I find it useful for > > people who are used to these diff formats (i.e. me :). > > I was thinking about *using* "git diff --word-diff" for diff refinement > highlighting of inline (unified) and side-by-side diff... Yeah, you might be able to get better results out of a real diff engine (i.e., having "git diff" do the color by doing a real LCS-match) than out of diff-highlight (which is really just a couple of simple heuristics). OTOH, the heuristics sometimes make the result "less noisy" because they don't find little bits of commonality, and instead highlight only a single chunk per line. So if somebody wanted to work on that, I'd be really curious to see if they could get better results. It's not high enough priority for me personally, as I find diff-highlight is "good enough". -Peff -- 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