Hi Eike, On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 21:03:45 +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 14:05:27 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:For diffs I much prefer the gerrit view because it highlights changes within changed lines, for example https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/plugins/gitiles/core/+/9672d034b9e760f24ac9a6652ab45dee15ee260a%5E%21/ vs https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commitdiff;h=9672d034b9e760f24ac9a6652ab45dee15ee260a Would that be possible also with gitiles?
They both show marked changes now :-)
Not that I know of, and looking at the source I don't think so https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gitiles/+/master/java/com/google/gitiles/HtmlDiffFormatter.java#142
I patched this file to make use of Neil Fraser's ‘diff-match-patch’ library and find the array of differences to mark (with semantic cleanups so the result is readable). That array is also what's used to compute the Levenshtein distance, so it should be quite accurate ;-) On the other hand, gitweb's algorithm is rather dumb and crude. Only edits with the same number of deleted & inserted lines are considered; the marked part is what's left after removing the longest common prefix & suffix between a removed line is its corresponding insertion. It's therefore not possible to have more than one mark per line, and code reflowing might not marked properly. Complexity wise gitweb's algorithm has a lower worst case bound (linear vs. quadratic), but it shouldn't matter in practice as in our case the marks don't need to be optimal, and the algorithm will give up and return a sub-optimal solution if it hasn't found the best one under 50ms. Unfortunately that change is most likely not upstreamable since I had to abuse the JGit API quite heavily… :-/ -- Guilhem.
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