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

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 03:55:19PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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I think highlighting inline and side-by-side diff outputs is
something different from "git diff --word-diff". I find it useful for
people who are used to these diff formats (i.e. me :).

I was thinking about *using* "git diff --word-diff" for diff refinement
highlighting of inline (unified) and side-by-side diff... 

Yeah, you might be able to get better results out of a real diff engine
(i.e., having "git diff" do the color by doing a real LCS-match) than
out of diff-highlight (which is really just a couple of simple
heuristics). OTOH, the heuristics sometimes make the result "less noisy"
because they don't find little bits of commonality, and instead
highlight only a single chunk per line.

So if somebody wanted to work on that, I'd be really curious to see if
they could get better results. It's not high enough priority for me
personally, as I find diff-highlight is "good enough".

-Peff