Re: RFC: git diff colorization idea
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Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
- Date
- Jan 23, 2009, 08:28 UTC
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- <20090123172809.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
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- <7vhc3q6evi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
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> If you were to go this route, I suspect that showing the unchanged part on
> the preimage line in light gray might make sense, like:
>
> | _git_remote ()
> | {
> |- <gray>local subcommands="add rm show prune<gray> <red>update</red>"
> |+ local subcommands="add <green>rename</green> rm show prune"
> | local subcommand=$(__git_find_subcommand "$subcommands")"
> | if ...
>
> because there will be the same chars/words on the postimage line anyway.I think this makes a lot more sense than any of the screenshot WIncent prepared on his web pages, and it is a much easier output for users to spot which word is different by not coloring the unchanged word at all.
-- Nanako Shiraishi http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/