From: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 20:27:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve contrib/diff-highlight to highlight unevenly-sized hunks
Message-ID: <CA+C-WL9vAxxHvPA5XkHL-USBR7Dj1Or1vrbWsnpsJnWvmjBEqg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150618190841.GB12769@peff.net>

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:28:58PM -0400, Patrick Palka wrote:
>
>> By the way, what would it take to get something like this script into
>> git proper?  It is IMHO immensely useful even in its current form, yet
>> because it's not baked into the application hardly anybody knows about
>> it.
>
> I think if we were going to make it more official, it would make sense
> to do it inside the diff code itself (i.e., not as a separate script),
> and it might be reasonable at that point to actually do a "real"
> character-based diff rather than the hacky prefix/suffix thing (or
> possibly even integrate with the color-words patterns to find
> syntactically interesting breaks). There is some discussion in the
> "Bugs" section of contrib/diff-highlight/README.
>
> -Peff

Thanks for the pointers.  This is something I am interested in
implementing (though not any time soon).  I was actually in the
process of familiarizing myself with the diff code before I discovered
the existence of diff-highlight by accident.