Re: Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC13)

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2013, 18:13 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0ne3GX7wA1U0-TnMqU3mTFNe12TQ_s0=2MVJ=BMs8tirA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87k3q5zfaa.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast wrote:

> 2. Improving the `git add -p` interface
>    ------------------------------------

>     * The terminal/line-based interface becomes a problem if diff hunks
>       are too long to fit in your terminal.

I don't know if it's worth coming up with another interface. The best solution for this is editor integration, in my opinion. I use Magit mostly for just the graphical staging/ unstaging. There's also a Fugitive.vim for vim.

>     * Cannot look at the diff in word-diff mode (and apply it normally).

Yes, this is a major limitation that would be nice to fix.
Also: Having to figure out, heuristically, when to actually turn it on
might be a worthwhile feature, especially for services like GitHub.

>    As the existing code is written in Perl, that is what you will use for
>    this project.

I don't know- is Perl a possible deterrent? Won't getting a word-diff to apply involve C work though? (patching builtin/apply.c?)