Wincent Colaiuta <win@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Lately I've been wishing that Git's diff output were colorized in a > way that combines the standard line-by-line colorizing with the word- > by-word colorizing you get with --color-words. I like this idea, also because Emacs ediff / ediff3 / emerge uses it, from what I understand under the name of 'refinement'. > > Pictures speak louder than words, so here are some to show what I mean: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/wincent-colaiuta/sets/72157612877491482/ > [...] There was some discussion in this thread on how to do this, whether with --refine / --color-chars we shoud ony highlight differences, or whether for example use reverse (i.e. background green or background red), or other red / other green, or perhaps bold, or perhaps underline to highlight regions in line which differ > - Meld: http://meld.sourceforge.net/meld_file1.png Not extremly good example, as it uses equivalent of context diff format (-,+,!) with added, removed and _changed_ lines, and not unified diff format (only added / removed lines). > Would people be interested in seeing this feature go in? [...] +1 from me -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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
