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Re: [PATCH 1/2] diff: add --word-diff option that generalizes --color-words

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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Apr 6, 2010, 09:20 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 
> There is one difference between other uses of colors and color-words, but
> I can imagine that ordinary people may not have even realized nor thought
> about it.
> 
> To people who are somewhat but not completely color-challenged (like
> myself), it still helps to paint hunk headers in a color that is different
> from the body text to make the boundary of each hunk more visible.  Even
> without the perception of exact color/hue, the contrast alone helps in
> that case.
I see now.  My apologies for not thinking of that case!
I'll make a new patch.
-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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Message 14 of 15 in “gitk --color-words”
  1. 0/2 gitk --color-wordsThomas Rast, Apr 4, 2010
  2. 1/2 diff: add --word-diff option that generalizes --color-wordsThomas Rast, Apr 4, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2010
  4. Thomas RastApr 5, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2010
  6. Miles BaderApr 5, 2010
  7. 0/2 gitk --color-wordsThomas Rast, Apr 12, 2010
  8. 1/3 diff: add --word-diff option that generalizes --color-wordsThomas Rast, Apr 12, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2010
  10. Thomas RastApr 13, 2010
  11. 2/3 gitk: do not parse " >" context as submodule changeThomas Rast, Apr 12, 2010
  12. gitk: do not parse " >" context as submodule changeThomas Rast, Apr 12, 2010
  13. 3/3 gitk: add the equivalent of diff --color-wordsThomas Rast, Apr 12, 2010
  14. Thomas RastApr 6, 2010
  15. 2/2 gitk: add the equivalent of diff --color-wordsThomas Rast, Apr 4, 2010

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