Feature request: Unified Diff

[lifenstein]

Would it be possible to provide the option to view unified diffs in addition to side-by-side?

[daviddengcn]

What do you mean "unified diffs"?

[lifenstein]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff_utility#Unified_format

[daviddengcn]

Isn't this currently supported? if there's a bug of parsing some diffs, it'll help if you can provide the case. Thanks!

[lifenstein]

The extension supports viewing patch files which are in the unified diff format, yes. But the view is changed to side-by-side from unified. The feature request is to enable coloured highlighting of the patch file, with no transformation. It's much clearer and easier to peruse when there's visual distinction (colour-coding) between the lines that have been added/removed/modified when viewing the patch file.

[daviddengcn]

oic, so just colorize the original file, right?

[lifenstein]

Yes, that's right.