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Re: Project idea: github-like diff view

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 22, 2014, 09:59 UTC
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On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 04:58:28PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>
>> - --color-words within unified diff format, using background color to
>> show what part of the line has changed. This is only enabled for
>> 1-line changes.
>
> See contrib/diff-highlight.

Thanks. I'd rather have it built in core git still. I'll try to see if I can rewrite it in C. Else, any objection to promote it to a core helper and setup pager automatically? We can have a config key to turn it off, but if git diff is colored, then it could be on by default.

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Duy
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