[Pdx-pm] diff_painter.pl
Jeff Lavallee
jeff at zeroclue.com
Thu Mar 10 09:55:08 PST 2011
Very cool. I've been enjoying colordiff quite a bit lately, but the output from diff_painter.pl seems significantly better.
Thanks!
On Mar 9, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Matthew Wickline wrote:
> Speaking of "worst useful hack", I was recently convinced to put this
> up on github.
> https://github.com/wickline/diff_painter/blob/master/diff_painter.pl
>
> Pipe diffs to diff_painter.pl and they look prettier.
> ...diff_painter.pl itself is very un-pretty.
>
> unpainted:
> http://wickline.org/diff_painter/exhibit_A.png
> uh... some stuff changed
>
> typical diff colorizer:
> http://wickline.org/diff_painter/exhibit_B.png
> uh... some stuff changed and now it's in color
>
> piped to diff_painter.pl:
> http://wickline.org/diff_painter/exhibit_C.png
> holy painless code reviews, batman!
>
> diffs are optimized for patch. Painted diffs are optimized for humans.
> Sometimes it messes up. Then you get "christmas barf".
>
> Your coworkers will thank you if you share it with them. Also, share
> ack if you haven't yet.
> http://betterthangrep.com/
>
> -matt
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