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What are people's opinions of this type of diff? Are there certain cases where it's more useful to see it like this than the usual green/red above and below sty
by dkarp 8y ago
What are people's opinions of this type of diff? Are there certain cases where it's more useful to see it like this than the usual green/red above and below style?
Would be great if there were studies on this. What is the easiest to interpret: in-line, above/below, side-by-side, other options I don't know exist
- xori 8y agoIt's not really a diff, it's a snapshot. If we had the past on the left, and the future on the right, then I'd call it a diff.
- dkarp 8y agoYou're right, it's snapshots with the diff animated between them. A lot of people complaining here about it being difficult to see the diff haven't understood what this is for then. But then, what is it for? Just to look pretty? Is it to easily find the state of a file at a particular date or commit? But then it'd be hard to do if there were a lot of commits. Would be nice to know what use case the creator had.