Re: The new theme makes it difficult to analyze diff-s

On 10 January 2014 14:18, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Simion Onea wrote: > >> I work on PHP documentation and I often useð¨*°0«« >> ¬Khttp://svn.php.net/viewvc to >> >> see the diffs in English documentation files. Before the new website theme >> was implemented it was much easier to visualize the diffs: the added, >> removed, modified portions were delimited with distinctive colors. But now >> there is no color delimitation and the view is very "stripey" (too much >> contrast between odd and even lines). >> Please see this example: >> http://svn.php.net/viewvc/phpdoc/en/trunk/reference/ >> json/constants.xml?r1=296350&r2=331700&diff_format=h >> Could you please adjust the styles of >> thehttp://svn.php.net/viewvc to >> make >> diffs look better? >> > Simon, could you raise this as a bug on the bug tracker ( https://bugs.php.net) please; so that there is visibility on when this work gets done and so we don't forget! > > Simon while the on-line svn mirror can be convenient, if you are doing any > extensive work then the off-line facilities allow you to set up your own > preferences. I adopted Hg is my own DVCS for personal projects, and this > can easily access SVN and GIT hosted project and the local diff tools are > very powerful. The web based displays are always going to be a compromise, > but I can see what you are saying as these are well behind what other code > tools provide. I've commented already on the choice of font, and because > I've disabled that already, the diff pages are a lot more readable but > personally I'll stick with the colour coded diffs provided off-line. > http://hg.lsces.org.uk/bw/bitweaver/articles/rev/b7b922a81cfe > as a quick > example ... I have the phpdoc and source code mirrors available locally ;) The currently unreadable SVN viewer is only temporary. Prior to the introduction of the new "shared" website styling, the diffs in the SVN viewer were very pretty and colourful, and it would be nice to re-instate those pretty colours again (with the new sort-of-unified site styling). > > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > -- > PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >