I'm trying to report a bug that I've know about for a year and half. I first tried to report it to this mailing list a year ago, but the message was lost. Here's a post I made on reddit 6 months ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/2twvsz/please_help_me_report_this_gitk_bug_to_the_git/ The problem is that diffs with angle brackets are displayed incorrectly in gitk. How to reproduce the bug: Create a file with the following, and commit: x < 1 y > 2 Modify it to this, and commit: z < 1 w > 2 Then view the results with: gitk --color-words You will see:
"Diff" shows bogus removal on 1st line and bogus addition on 2nd line.
"Old version" cuts off at right angle bracket.
"New Version" cuts off at left angle bracket.I personally use a 2-line patch to fix this by disabling/breaking the feature that does string comparisons for " >" and " <", but I know that's not the correct fix, so I'm not including it in this post.