Side-by-side diffs on Github

Menno Smits menno.smits at canonical.com
Fri Jun 6 22:12:52 UTC 2014


Yeah, it's definitely not perfect. It would be much better if Github had
native support for side-by-side diffs.


On 6 June 2014 22:10, Nate Finch <nate.finch at canonical.com> wrote:

> Yeah, note that it bugs out if you try to expand the context around your
> changes *after* turning on side-by-side mode, so expand what you want first
> and *then* turn on side-by-side mode.
>
> Also.... I wish it were really side by side mode,  It's still basically
> over/under, just horizontally separated with duplicated context around
> each.  It's *better* but I still miss a real line by line diff that can
> show changes in the middle of the lines, not just old line / new line.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Menno Smits <menno.smits at canonical.com>
> wrote:
>
>> For those of you missing side-by-side diffs on Github, have a look at the
>> Octosplit Chrome extension. I've just started using it and it looks pretty
>> good.
>>
>>
>> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/octosplit/mnkacicafjlllhcedhhphhpapmdgjfbb
>>
>>
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