Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> ... but with --color-words, it actually helps quite a
> bit (try it on the documentation patch from this series, for example).
This gets me back to another tangent, but this time a one that is
quite a lot more relevant to Git.
There is this change in "git show --word-diff" for the "italic"
patch:
The accepted attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink`,
{+`reverse`,+} and [-`reverse`.-]{+`italic`.+}
If we imagine that the pre- and post- image expressed in "one token
per line" format, the text before and after the patch would have
read like this:
preimage postimage
----------- ------------
... ...
blink blink
, ,
and reverse
reverse ,
. and
reverse
.
And the current output is showing an equivalent of this diff:
...
blink
,
+reverse
+,
and
-reverse
-.
+italic
+.
But if we were doing line-level diff for the above two, I would
think this is much easier to read:
...
blink
,
-and
reverse
+,
+and
+italic
+.
That would give us a word-diff more like this, I would imagine,
The accepted attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink`,
[-and-] reverse[-,-] {+and `italic`}.
and that would be much easier to read than the current --word-diff
output.
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