Questions tagged [diff]
Refers to the views that show revision differences and suggested edit changes in various ways by breaking them down into additions and deletions.
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Inline code not rendered correctly in rendered output diff on suggested edit
This suggested edit on Stack Overflow only removes excess indentation from code, as shown in the markdown diff:
However, the rendered output diff shows a newline being removed before ‘Sample output’ ...
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Diff for an old suggested edit contains more recent text [duplicate]
I just noticed that an old approved siggested edit for my post contains a more recent version of the post after my today edit.
I free-hand-circled a code from my post that I've added recently. At the ...
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Can I get a diff of my changes before submitting an edit?
When editing a post I usually want to write a concise summary (especially when suggesting an edit).
This would be much easier if I was able to get a diff for my changes. Sometimes editing a post ...
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Difference between revisions of a list is shown as complete rewrite of the list
I've come across a strange display of a difference between two revisions of a list in a post, where in a newer revision only one bullet point was changed: the "inline" and "side-by-side" differences ...
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Too much whitespace breaks markdown side-by-side diff
I came across this "bug" when reviewing this suggested edit. The review basically removes a lot of useless whitespace from a codeblock (that was used to show a stacktrace). This is how it looks like ...
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MathJax is (inappropriately) parsed in Markdown diffs
I just noticed that this diff (select "side-by-side markdown" mode if it's not already selected) is showing MathJax where it doesn't belong:
(MathJax right-click menu included to show that those ...
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"Rendered output", "inline", and "side-by-side" show everything as being removed then added back when it's a small edit on a long post
I just saw this edit to a very long post. The markdown diff of the edit looks fine, showing that six or so lines were changed, but the "rendered output" of the edit shows everything (even the image) ...
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Make reviewing edits with MathJax more manageable [duplicate]
Currently, when viewing an edit where MathJax is edited, the rendered output side-by-side diff breaks the MathJax rendering. This is particularly annoying when reviewing edits, as the actual result ...
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Bug in diff: wrong words are marked as deleted and inserted
I would expect the words " in this case" to be marked as deleted. Instead " properly" is marked as deleted and inserted.
Live: https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/17378116
Screenshot:
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Changing length of line prior to tab shows as changed in diff
If there's a tab in the answer, and the part before the tab is changed, the words after the tab will appear changed.
Here's the issue in action on Bitcoin SE. The address looks changed, even though ...
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Make suggested edits which indent code easier to verify
It's fairly frequent to review suggested edits where someone helpfully puts code into code blocks. For instance:
These edits are great and are appreciated; they generally improve the atmosphere of ...
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Allow side-by-side comparison of edited question titles [duplicate]
On a question's revision page, you can select between 3 diff modes:
This generally works fine for edits to the question body, but does not work for the question title. E.g. in the side-by-side ...
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Revision history marks spaces when retagging occurs
When question tags have been changed you can see spaces marked with green or red color. E.g. rev 18:
I suppose it's done because of easily implementation, but it looks ugly.
Is it possible do ...
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Insertion highlights in revisions differ between inline vs markdown, and prefer strange similarities
This seems to be an issue that was raised in the past and then marked as status-completed, so I'm not sure if it's a regression or a different issue.
There seems to be a minor issue with the ...
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Incorrect side-by-side visual diff when adding ` characters to links [duplicate]
In https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/345508/revisions, a user edited my post to, among other things, have ` characters. The side-by-side Markdown diff shows that [the zsh manual][1] was changed to ...
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