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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Show markdowns for revision links [duplicate]
While seeing revisions of a post, there are three options inline, side-by-side and side-by-side markdown for every revision:
And every revision has link facility to share/link:
But the revision ...
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Can the side-by-side diff algorithm inform the side-by-side Markdown algorithm?
The side-by-side Markdown diff of this change (to the Recent feature changes) gets rather confused, because it decides to see some similarities in the new entry for 2016-06-30 to the old one, and thus ...
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Editor feature renumbers link tags, making diffs in long posts hard to read
It is known that the javascript-based post editor sometimes renumbers all Markdown format link identifiers in a post, including identifiers of links that aren't even touched in an edit.
This causes ...
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Left side markdown diff outside of its area
This is how I see this review on Chrome:
It seems removal of spaces went outside of its area from the left side and looks like something was removed on the right side.
This is very confusing way to ...
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Diff doesn't recognise properly the link order changes
This is the diff result (as part of the review process for suggested edits):
and so on.
I believe the only change was a new link and as result the ordering changed (where the order is usually re-...
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Excess whitespace deleted bleeds into suggested edit markdown
As I was making a suggested edit, I had noticed a lot of whitespace at the very end, which I then removed. Now, when I look at the markdown of the edit suggestion, it kind of makes it look like I've ...
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Improve display of suggested edit deltas for format changes
When I see an edit that adds backtick formatting like this, the formatted view shows a lot more changed text than is actually the case. Specifically, whitespace before the opening backtick and the ...
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Broken side-by-side comparison in revision page when a Youtube video is included and rendered
I came across this post and decided to check its revision (to explore the source code for the YouTube video).
If we choose a view then refresh, then the views show up correctly, except for the side-...
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Side-by-side markdown diff chokes on simple indentation edit
I don't think this qualifies as a bug, exactly, but revision 5 on this post has a terrifying side-by-side markdown diff that made me think I messed something up, when all I did was highlight all the ...
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Visualizing code diffs on posts (not edits)
This question is not about the diff tool used to validate post edits.
In many posts, the first person asks a question and provides some code, the reply contains some code as well. In some cases, it ...
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How do I ensure that the "formatting" edit I am reviewing does not add [undeclared] changes to the code being formatted?
A lot of edits to be reviewed does the formatting; like turning
code code code code
code code code code
code code code code
code code code code
into
code code code code
code code cOde code
code ...
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Diffs at /revisions differ from the diffs at /suggested-edits/
https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/posts/238/revisions (private beta; please don't make a mess) looks like this:
The corresponding suggested edit (https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-...
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Allow linking to specific revision of revision history showing diff
Currently, the only way to link to a revision (clicking "link"), you just get a page which shows what the post looked like at that revision:
Personally, I rarely use this and haven't ever found ...
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Edit changed nothing
A second or two after I made an edit on a post, I noticed that the original author of the post made an edit that changed absolutely nothing. Neither the Stack Overflow difference algorithm nor two ...
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The two sides of a side-by-side markdown diff are overlapping each other
Time for a super-ultra-trivial bug: if you look at diff #7 for this post on meta.Anime.SE, you see this (on Chrome 34 / Windows 7):
The deleted whitespace on the left side of the diff is slightly ...
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