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Bug 370851

Summary:	compare could highlight changes within a line
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Susan McCourt <susan>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	libing wang <libingw>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	libingw
Version:	0.4
Target Milestone:	0.5
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Susan McCourt

2012-02-07 11:18:12 EST

I was noticing today that the github commit viewer is more helpful than ours for viewing diffs because they help to show what changed within a line.

For an example see:
https://github.com/max-li/orion.client/commit/37937d27dcab9963601cfdc05ac81794ff4b0e98

Comment 1 libing wang

2012-02-07 11:41:04 EST

I was thinking about this when I started to use jsDiff. I noticed that they have char level diff. Did not have a chance to unit test it yet. But the worst case is that we write one by ourselves.

I think eventually we should have our compare widget to be able to show all the diff blocks + all the changes within each block.
From the navigation point of view, there should also be current diff + current change concept, just like Eclipse does.

Comment 2 libing wang

2012-03-29 10:12:50 EDT

Two compare is basically working on the char/word level diff. Inline compare will use the same navigation model.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 373653 ***