Reading diff output is sometimes very hard, even if it's colored,
especially if lines differ only in few characters. This is often true
when a commit fixes a typo or renames some variables or functions.
This commit teaches gitweb to highlight characters that are different
between old and new line with a light green/red background. This should
work in the similar manner as in Trac or GitHub.
The algorithm that compares lines is based on contrib/diff-highlight.
Basically, it works by determining common prefix/suffix of corresponding
lines and highlightning only the middle part of lines. For more
information, see contrib/diff-highlight/README.
Combined diffs are not supported but a following commit will change it.
Since we need to pass esc_html()'ed or esc_html_hl_regions()'ed lines to
format_diff_lines(), so it was taught to accept preformatted lines
passed as a reference.
Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Michał Kiedrowicz
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