Re: RFC: git diff colorization idea

Wincent Colaiuta [off-list ref] writes:

Lately I've been wishing that Git's diff output were colorized in a
way that combines the standard line-by-line colorizing with the word-
by-word colorizing you get with --color-words.

I like this idea, also because Emacs ediff / ediff3 / emerge uses it,
from what I understand under the name of 'refinement'.

Pictures speak louder than words, so here are some to show what I mean:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wincent-colaiuta/sets/72157612877491482/

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There was some discussion in this thread on how to do this, whether
with --refine / --color-chars we shoud ony highlight differences, or
whether for example use reverse (i.e. background green or background
red), or other red / other green, or perhaps bold, or perhaps
underline to highlight regions in line which differ

- Meld: http://meld.sourceforge.net/meld_file1.png

Not extremly good example, as it uses equivalent of context diff
format (-,+,!) with added, removed and _changed_ lines, and not
unified diff format (only added / removed lines).

Would people be interested in seeing this feature go in? [...]

+1 from me
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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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