Use diff-highlight for a better diff output.

[vonavi]

Hi guys!

Git supports a nice diff-highlight feature from https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highlight. My workaround is to put the diff-highlight script in $PATH. Then I use Elisp snippet magit-diff-highlight.el and get a better diff output. For the details, see the description of diff-highlight. But my code is a hack, and I'm very interested in to incorporate such an opportunity into Magit immediately. What do you think about this?

Best regards,
Vladimir.

[mgalgs]

I would like to see this feature as well but would rather see it implemented in elisp. It's better not to depend on an external script (even if that script is bundled with the git source (not everyone has the git source around, for example)). It's only 173 lines of perl, should be a fairly straightforward port :).

[tarsius]

A before/after screenshot could help motivating me to look into this.

[vonavi]

I updated magit-diff-highlight.el, and now a Magit diff looks like this screenshot.

Best regards,
Vladimir.

[tarsius]

That looks interesting I will try to have a closer look soon.

[tarsius]

Actually magit already supports something like this. Try customizing magit-diff-refine-hunk.

[mgalgs]

magit-diff-refine-hunk (or magit-toggle-diff-refine-hunk, bound to h) works for me! That's so awesome...

[vonavi]

Thanks a lot @tarsius! magit-toggle-diff-refine-hunk looks excellent! Unfortunately, there is no documentation about this feature.