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Re: [PATCH v2] make diff --color-words customizable

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DLDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Date
Jan 13, 2009, 18:50 UTC
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Is this core algorithm available as some exported function in libxdiff?
> I mean would it be easy to replace default line tokenizer (per-line
> pre-processing) and post-processing to better deal with word diff?

In libxdiff, no. I hadn't thought to export the raw Meyer algo, and nobody ever asked before.

> The other side would be to generate per-paragraph diffs (with empty
> line being separator)...

In Git I guess you can use it to generate other kind of diffs. I don't see any problems with that. Just requires more memory WRT a line based one.

- Davide
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Message 17 of 34 in “make diff --color-words customizable”
  1. make diff --color-words customizableThomas Rast, Jan 9, 2009
  2. Johannes SchindelinJan 9, 2009
  3. Thomas RastJan 9, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinJan 9, 2009
  5. color-words: take an optional regular expression describing wordsJohannes Schindelin, Jan 9, 2009
  6. Thomas RastJan 9, 2009
  7. Teemu LikonenJan 9, 2009
  8. make diff --color-words customizableThomas Rast, Jan 10, 2009
  9. Jakub NarebskiJan 10, 2009
  10. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2009
  11. Jakub NarebskiJan 10, 2009
  12. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2009
  13. Jakub NarebskiJan 12, 2009
  14. Johannes SchindelinJan 13, 2009
  15. Davide LibenziJan 10, 2009
  16. Jakub NarebskiJan 13, 2009
  17. Davide LibenziJan 13, 2009
  18. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2009
  19. Thomas RastJan 10, 2009
  20. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2009
  21. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2009
  22. 0/4 customizable --color-wordsThomas Rast, Jan 11, 2009
  23. 1/4 word diff: comments, preparations for regex customizationThomas Rast, Jan 11, 2009
  24. 2/4 word diff: customizable word splitsThomas Rast, Jan 11, 2009
  25. 3/4 word diff: make regex configurable via attributesThomas Rast, Jan 11, 2009
  26. 4/4 word diff: test customizable word splitsThomas Rast, Jan 11, 2009
  27. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2009
  28. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2009
  29. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2009
  30. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2009
  31. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2009
  32. Jeff KingJan 9, 2009
  33. Johannes SchindelinJan 9, 2009
  34. Jeff KingJan 9, 2009

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