From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:33:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Understanding and improving --word-diff
Message-ID: <201011081733.06502.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <vpqlj53zuum.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl> writes:
> 
> > Lastly, the "porcelain" word-diff format seems a bit weird to me. Is
> > the format specified somewhere, or are there any programs that use it
> > currently? I couldn't find any users inside the git.git tree itself?
> 
> There's a pending patch for "gitk --color-words". Actually, the
> porcelain format was precisely implemented to allow this patch to
> exist IIRC.

Also, my intent was to specify the format fully under its option
description.  It's rather simple, but if you think the
explanation/definition is inadequate, please provide a patch.  We'd
really want the writers of consumers (GUIs and such) to be very clear
about how it is formatted.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch