Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-05 Thread Leo Razoumov
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 10:36, Richard Hipp wrote: > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Leo Razoumov wrote: >> Retro diff (2) looks really bad in Google Chrome-16 and in >> Firefox-3.6.24, see attached chrome screen-shot (Ubuntu-10.04). > > Huh.  On Ubuntu 11.10 running the latest Firefox sources (c

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-04 Thread Leo Razoumov
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 10:36, Richard Hipp wrote: >> > 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 >> >   (

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-04 Thread Richard Hipp
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Leo Razoumov wrote: > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 07:24, Richard Hipp wrote: > > 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) ht

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-04 Thread Leo Razoumov
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 07:24, Richard Hipp wrote: > 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.

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-04 Thread Peter Spjuth
o 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. >>> >>>&

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-04 Thread Matt Welland
t have to think about it - it >> is just there. >> >> >>> >>> - Altu >>> >>> > - Original Message - >>> > From: Weber, Martin S >>> > Sent: 02/03/12 11:03 PM >>>

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-04 Thread Martin Gagnon
as 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 > &

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-04 Thread Ramon Ribó
t;> >> > ----- 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 &g

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-04 Thread Jan Danielsson
On 02/04/12 11:08, altufa...@mail.com wrote: > Same here. I like the colorful diff. > > But I would like to know (sorry if I missed) what's th eproblem with color > sbs and what are we getting with retro sbs? The reason is that we have two different places in the code which do the same thing

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-04 Thread Richard Hipp
gt; 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" > wrote: > > > >

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-04 Thread altufaltu
scussion > Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs > > On 2012-02-03 12:31 , "Remigiusz Modrzejewski" wrote: > > >I'm for color-coded. All of the reasons have already been listed in the > >thread. > > Same here. > > -Martin > &

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 08:33:41PM +0100, Stephan Beal wrote: > How much work would it be to put together a proof-of-concept sbsdiff > > colorizer? > > > The new diffs can't reliably be colored using JS because of potential > syntactic ambiguities. It would work "often" but not "always." The s

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Stephan Beal
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Jan Danielsson wrote: > I wouldn't like that change very much. I think the way < and > are > used now is very intuitive, and it creates a nice separator column with > i agree but having them in the middle makes it literally impossible to reliably determine where/

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Jan Danielsson
On 02/03/12 18:40, Stephan Beal wrote: >>> I'm for color-coded. All of the reasons have already been listed in the >>> thread. >> >> Same here. > > If not color coded, perhaps adding add/change/remove markers to the _start_ > of each line, since that would make JS-scripting the colorification > re

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Tomek Kott
I'd be happy with Stephan's suggestion, since it would satisfy both parties with a little work on the colorizing side. I think the only additional point is to have the or whatever surrounds the code to have a good descriptive class we can latch on to with JS. Tomek On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:40 P

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Stephan Beal
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Weber, Martin S wrote: > On 2012-02-03 12:31 , "Remigiusz Modrzejewski" wrote: > > >I'm for color-coded. All of the reasons have already been listed in the > >thread. > > Same here. > If not color coded, perhaps adding add/change/remove markers to the _start_ of e

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Weber, Martin S
On 2012-02-03 12:31 , "Remigiusz Modrzejewski" wrote: >I'm for color-coded. All of the reasons have already been listed in the >thread. Same here. -Martin ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:808

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Remigiusz Modrzejewski
On Feb 3, 2012, at 16:25 , Richard Hipp wrote: > I find the "retro" side-by-side diff to be much more readable, which is why > I am using it on the SQLite and Fossil websites, as well as on my desktop. > And I've heard no complaints from users about the retro sbsdiffs on the > website. But before

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Richard Hipp
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Andreas Kupries wrote: > On 2/3/2012 7:25 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > >> For some time now, the SQLite and Fossil websites have been running on the >> "retro-sbsdiff" branch of Fossil. The retro-sbsdiff branch uses a vastly >> simplified format for the side-by-side

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Andreas Kupries
On 2/3/2012 7:25 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: For some time now, the SQLite and Fossil websites have been running on the "retro-sbsdiff" branch of Fossil. The retro-sbsdiff branch uses a vastly simplified format for the side-by-side diffs that omits all of the colors and decoration and provides plain

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 11:19:38AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Jan Danielsson > wrote: > > > - I haven't looked at the code lately, but does the web sbsdiff > > support the width argument in some manner? For quite a few diffs I've > > been looking at lately, sta

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Jan Danielsson
On 02/03/12 17:19, Richard Hipp wrote: [---] >> - I haven't looked at the code lately, but does the web sbsdiff >> support the width argument in some manner? For quite a few diffs I've >> been looking at lately, static 80 characters wide panes leaves a lot of >> empty "wasted" space, due to short

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Richard Hipp
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Jan Danielsson wrote: > - I haven't looked at the code lately, but does the web sbsdiff > support the width argument in some manner? For quite a few diffs I've > been looking at lately, static 80 characters wide panes leaves a lot of > empty "wasted" space, due t

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Jan Danielsson
On 02/03/12 17:01, Tomek Kott wrote: > My preference would be to keep the color SBS diffs, at least as a skin > option or something, since I find it easier to notice changes and match > them up. Maybe somewhere in the documentation on the header / skin, there > could be css for a default coloring o

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Matt Welland
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > For some time now, the SQLite and Fossil websites have been running on the > "retro-sbsdiff" branch of Fossil. The retro-sbsdiff branch uses a vastly > simplified format for the side-by-side diffs that omits all of the colors > and decoration

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Tomek Kott
My preference would be to keep the color SBS diffs, at least as a skin option or something, since I find it easier to notice changes and match them up. Maybe somewhere in the documentation on the header / skin, there could be css for a default coloring of the sbs diffs that one could copy into the

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Jan Danielsson
On 02/03/12 16:25, Richard Hipp wrote: [---] > Are there strong preferences one way or another? There are two aspects I prefer with the original: - I think color coding makes it easier to get a quick overview of what's happened in a diff. ("I see a lot of red" is roughly "optimizations", "I

Re: [fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 10:25:41AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > For some time now, the SQLite and Fossil websites have been running on the > "retro-sbsdiff" branch of Fossil. The retro-sbsdiff branch uses a vastly > simplified format for the side-by-side diffs that omits all of the colors > and de

[fossil-users] Retro side-by-side diffs

2012-02-03 Thread Richard Hipp
For some time now, the SQLite and Fossil websites have been running on the "retro-sbsdiff" branch of Fossil. The retro-sbsdiff branch uses a vastly simplified format for the side-by-side diffs that omits all of the colors and decoration and provides plain-text output - essentially the same output