The problem here is the violet for skipped lines that is more outstanding than
the diff itself. I'm sure the colorful version can be tweaked to have the best
of both world.
In my case, 80% of the case, I prefer unified (with color via JS even more).
Especially when there's not a lot of changes in a line. With sbs diff, the 2
versions are far away, it' hard to see the diff. With unified, you can see
right away, the 2 lines are one next to the other.
More advanced diffs programs (meld, vimdiff etc..) solve that by highlighting
what is different in the line. That's become a lot more complex.
Le 2012-02-04 à 07:24, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> a écrit :
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:08 AM, <altufa...@mail.com> wrote:
> Same here. I like the colorful diff.
>
> But I would like to know (sorry if I missed) what's the problem with color
> sbs and what are we getting with retro sbs?
>
> Here is an example, two different websites showing the same Fossil project
> (TCL), one with the traditional colorful diff and the other with the new
> retro diff:
>
> (1) http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/ci/4ebc3a8e1e?sbs=1
> (2) http://mirror1.tcl.tk/tcl/ci/4ebc3a8e1e?sbs=1&dw=67
>
> The change of this check-in is a single line of code - indeed a single
> character on that one line. With (1), my eyes are distracted by a bunch of
> needless coloration, and I have to stare at the screen for a second or two
> before I can discern what has actually changed. I tried using colored diffs
> for a while, but I eventually gave up in frustration. They are simply not
> useful to me. I can read the old-style unified diffs faster. In (2), on the
> other hand, I can clearly and immediately see that one line has changed. The
> change "pops" out at me. I don't have to think about it - it is just there.
>
>
> - Altu
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Weber, Martin S
> > Sent: 02/03/12 11:03 PM
> > To: Fossil SCM user's discussion
> > Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs
> >
> > On 2012-02-03 12:31 , "Remigiusz Modrzejewski" <l...@maxnet.org.pl> wrote:
> >
> > >I'm for color-coded. All of the reasons have already been listed in the
> > >thread.
> >
> > Same here.
> >
> > -Martin
> >
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