Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial [LWN.net]

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

Posted Mar 3, 2010 12:55 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by oblio
Parent article: Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

Sorry, I found that graphical output horrible. The colours don't
signify 'appeared' or 'disappeared' in any particular fashion, lots of the
code is duplicated on both sides, spontaneously inserted vertical space
that doesn't exist in *any* version of the actual code, massive eye
movement is needed to figure out what changed... ew. Give me a unified
diff anyday. (Context diffs have the same problem as the graphical output:
massive eye movement just to figure out if a line was added or not.)

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Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

Posted Mar 3, 2010 21:45 UTC (Wed) by oblio (guest, #33465) [Link]

You can change the colors of course, to suit your idea of "right side changed" or "left side changed". Secondly, I don't care much about the "eye movement", since you can use "Next change"/"Previous change" buttons which move everything for me.

At this point, it boils down to: "I'm wired like this" or "I'm used like this". So any debate is moot. It's like religious people versus atheists. Nobody's right, since there is no "right" :)