From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:58:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: add the equivalent of diff --color-words
Message-ID: <20101017015836.GC26656@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <3c06517d478b3725054f4ca08fb8c38e681549c4.1287223650.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast wrote:

> Use the newly added 'diff --word-diff=porcelain' to teach gitk a
> color-words mode, with two different modes analogous to the
> --word-diff=plain and --word-diff=color settings.  These are selected
> by a dropdown box.
>
> As an extra twist, automatically enable this word-diff support when
> the user mentions a word-diff related option on the command line.

I like this a lot.

After this patch, the diff pane looks like this:

( ) Diff ( ) Old version ( ) New version   Lines of context: [3 +/-] \
	[ ] Ignore space changes  [ Line diff      v]

all on one line.  In particular, it is easy not to notice the
new dropdown.

One might be tempted to change the Elide added lines/Elide removed
lines radio buttons into a dropdown box, but that would remove the
neat-o ability to switch between "before" and "after" views with a
single click.  Oh well --- screens are getting bigger, anyway.