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reply "David Nadlinger" <code klickverbot.at> writes:
https://github.com/blog/1884-introducing-split-diffs

Now you don't need to fetch the PR or resort to hacks like 
Octosplit in order to view pull request diffs in side-by-side 
mode.
Sep 03 2014
parent reply "monarch_dodra" <monarchdodra gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 20:50:45 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:

 https://github.com/blog/1884-introducing-split-diffs

 Now you don't need to fetch the PR or resort to hacks like 
 Octosplit in order to view pull request diffs in side-by-side 
 mode.


Greatest news ever!
Sep 03 2014
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 9/3/2014 11:48 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:

 On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 20:50:45 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:

 https://github.com/blog/1884-introducing-split-diffs

 Now you don't need to fetch the PR or resort to hacks like Octosplit in order
 to view pull request diffs in side-by-side mode.


 Greatest news ever!


Yeah, it's a big improvement.
Sep 04 2014
parent reply Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
On 9/4/2014 4:48 AM, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 9/3/2014 11:48 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:

 On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 20:50:45 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:

 https://github.com/blog/1884-introducing-split-diffs

 Now you don't need to fetch the PR or resort to hacks like Octosplit
 in order
 to view pull request diffs in side-by-side mode.


 Greatest news ever!


 Yeah, it's a big improvement.


It sounds great, but TBH I'm a little disappointed with it: Without 
horizontal scrolling, it's still a huge step backwards from a dedicated 
native diff program like Beyond Compare and such. At least they're 
improving though. Although a native, no-HTML version of github would let 
them leapfrog years in R&D over their web interface, but oh well.
Sep 04 2014
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 04/09/14 23:46, Nick Sabalausky wrote:


 It sounds great, but TBH I'm a little disappointed with it: Without
 horizontal scrolling, it's still a huge step backwards from a dedicated
 native diff program like Beyond Compare and such. At least they're
 improving though.


Gitlab has had split view for diffs as long as I've been using it, 
including horizontal scroll.


 Although a native, no-HTML version of github would let
 them leapfrog years in R&D over their web interface, but oh well.


They do have that, although I have never used it:

OS X: https://mac.github.com/
Windows: https://windows.github.com/

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Sep 04 2014
parent reply Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
On 9/5/2014 2:41 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On 04/09/14 23:46, Nick Sabalausky wrote:


 It sounds great, but TBH I'm a little disappointed with it: Without
 horizontal scrolling, it's still a huge step backwards from a dedicated
 native diff program like Beyond Compare and such. At least they're
 improving though.


 Gitlab has had split view for diffs as long as I've been using it,
 including horizontal scroll.


Hmm, checking out the demo server, that side-by-side diff still doesn't 
really compare to the non-HTML ones I've used. On the real ones, the 
horizontal scrollbar is never hidden below the bottom of the window, all 
the way down at the bottom of the diffed files, like this one is. And 
the horizontal sizes and positions are normally kept pretty much in 
sync, unlike these HTML versions.

See this:
http://meldmerge.org/images/meld-filediff-full.png

That's how it should work, and how every real GUI diff tool I've used 
works. And it's done that way for good reason. The horizontal scroll bar 
is always right there. And scrolling it will scroll both together, 
instead of awkwardly scrolling one unified viewport within a larger 
"document" (which isn't nearly as practical).

By comparison, the GitHub and Gitlab side-by-side diffs both fall 
squarely into "cute little trick" territory rather than 
"professional-grade software". Granted, GitHub and Gitlab pretty much 
have their hands tied on the matter: It would likely be rather 
difficult, if realistically possible, to make it work right given their 
constraints. But that's the price they pay for clinging to HTML as their 
one and only UI.



 Although a native, no-HTML version of github would let
 them leapfrog years in R&D over their web interface, but oh well.


 They do have that, although I have never used it:

 OS X: https://mac.github.com/
 Windows: https://windows.github.com/


No, I've tried those. Disappointingly, they're not *at all* what they 
sound like.

You've seen that "Clone via GitHub for Windows" button in every GitHub 
repo? *That* is pretty much what the whole thing is all about.

JavaScript doesn't give them a way to invoke "git clone ..." on the 
client's computer, so they made a "program" to let them do it and 
claimed it was "GitHub on the desktop" (which really isn't true at all). 
And from what I can tell, it was never even *intended* to be any sort of 
alternative to the web interface, despite what it sounds like.

They're really nothing more than ordinary Git clients, like TortoiseGit 
or even "Git GUI", except straitjacketed and not particularly useful. 
Pretty much anything that GitHub's web interface provides, is still 
*expected* to be done via the web interface. "GitHub for Win/Mac" 
doesn't even attempt to provide access to most (any?) of those features.

Again, it's mainly just intended to be a way for "dummies" to clone a 
GitHub repo. It's a glorified GUI wrapper for "git clone 
[protocol]:github.com/[repo]" and a few other trivial things.
Sep 05 2014
parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 05/09/14 09:51, Nick Sabalausky wrote:


 Hmm, checking out the demo server, that side-by-side diff still doesn't
 really compare to the non-HTML ones I've used. On the real ones, the
 horizontal scrollbar is never hidden below the bottom of the window, all
 the way down at the bottom of the diffed files, like this one is. And
 the horizontal sizes and positions are normally kept pretty much in
 sync, unlike these HTML versions.

 See this:
 http://meldmerge.org/images/meld-filediff-full.png

 That's how it should work, and how every real GUI diff tool I've used
 works. And it's done that way for good reason. The horizontal scroll bar
 is always right there. And scrolling it will scroll both together,
 instead of awkwardly scrolling one unified viewport within a larger
 "document" (which isn't nearly as practical).


Right, I didn't think of that. I looked at a small diff.


 By comparison, the GitHub and Gitlab side-by-side diffs both fall
 squarely into "cute little trick" territory rather than
 "professional-grade software". Granted, GitHub and Gitlab pretty much
 have their hands tied on the matter: It would likely be rather
 difficult, if realistically possible, to make it work right given their
 constraints. But that's the price they pay for clinging to HTML as their
 one and only UI.


Yeah, having a web UI doesn't make it easier.


 No, I've tried those. Disappointingly, they're not *at all* what they
 sound like.

 You've seen that "Clone via GitHub for Windows" button in every GitHub
 repo? *That* is pretty much what the whole thing is all about.

 JavaScript doesn't give them a way to invoke "git clone ..." on the
 client's computer, so they made a "program" to let them do it and
 claimed it was "GitHub on the desktop" (which really isn't true at all).
 And from what I can tell, it was never even *intended* to be any sort of
 alternative to the web interface, despite what it sounds like.

 They're really nothing more than ordinary Git clients, like TortoiseGit
 or even "Git GUI", except straitjacketed and not particularly useful.
 Pretty much anything that GitHub's web interface provides, is still
 *expected* to be done via the web interface. "GitHub for Win/Mac"
 doesn't even attempt to provide access to most (any?) of those features.

 Again, it's mainly just intended to be a way for "dummies" to clone a
 GitHub repo. It's a glorified GUI wrapper for "git clone
 [protocol]:github.com/[repo]" and a few other trivial things.


I never used the Github application and I never intend to. The only 
useful Git related application I use is Gitx. It's similar to gitg or 
gitk and I use it only for looking a the history. Oh, and the Git 
integration in TextMate is pretty nice.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Sep 05 2014