Re: [PATCH 6/8] gitweb: Highlight interesting parts of diff

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:18:12AM +0100, Michał Kiedrowicz wrote:

The code that comares lines is based on
contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight, except that it works with
multiline changes too.  It also won't highlight lines that are
completely different because that would only make the output unreadable.
Combined diffs are not supported but a following commit will change it.

Have you considered contributing back the enhancements to
contrib/diff-highlight? I took a look at handling multi-line changes
when I originally wrote it, but I was worried too much about failing to
match up lines properly, and ending up with too much noise in the diff.
Maybe your "don't highlight lines that are completely different" rule
helps that, though.

Do you have any examples handy? (I was hoping not to need to get a
running gitweb installation in order to see the output).

-Peff