From: E R <pc88mxer@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:38:07 GMT
Subject: Re: side-by-side diff for gitweb?
Message-ID: <3a69fa7c0906251838i7d6aa623y87cea3870db6a7fe@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3zlce35ds.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Here's something that could help:

http://svn.tools.ietf.org/tools/rfcdiff/

I don't like their colors, but that should be easy to change.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> E R <pc88mxer@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Is there a a side-by-side diff viewer for gitweb?
>
> No, it is for a long time on TODO list for gitweb, but it never got
> implemented.
>
>> If not, any suggestions for the best way to go about implementing one?
>
> Take a look at other web interfaces in Perl, and find how they do it
> (IIRC Codestriker web review tool is in Perl, and has side-by-side
> diffs).  Ask on #perl.  Ask on perlmongers.  Search CPAN[1].
>
> [1] Note that we frown upon introducing extra dependencies for gitweb,
> unless they are optional, and best detected automatically.
> --
> Jakub Narebski
> Poland
> ShadeHawk on #git
>