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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Side-by-side diffs are not side-by-side
This only seems to be an issue here on Meta. When in the side-by-side edit view, the two versions appear above each other instead of beside. The issue does not seem to depend on the browser width, and ...
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Does Stack Overflow save all the versions of the edited blobs in database or just the diffs?
I read in many posts that Stack Overflow uses some kind of diff algorithm to find diff between text blobs of edits. I wanted to know if Stack Overflow saves all the blobs in the database as-is or if ...
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Side-by-side markdown diffs no longer render newlines. Is this deliberate?
Self-explanatory title, I think.
Example here: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/21689452/revisions
FYI Firefox 26.0 Win XP SP3.
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What does Stack Overflow use for its community wiki edits comparison feature?
I am referring to this feature:
Note how Stack Overflow shows which bits have been deleted, and which parts have been added (shown in red and green).
Basically, I was wondering if Stack Overflow used ...
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Strike Through in Side by Side Views
Removing the red strike though of the red text on red background in side by side views would improve readability.
From https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/3702973
Even with markdown:
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Differentiate formatting changes in Revision Diff from text content changes
In the current style of diff pages, all changes made in an edit are shown as deletions and additions.
This makes it rather difficult to distinguish between formatting and capitalization changes from ...
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Bugged simultaneous edit
In the following post: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/19760375/revisions
A user made a minor edit to my post (edit 3) by correcting a mistake at the same time that I made a larger but non-...
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MathJax rendering for suggested edit queue [duplicate]
I would like to suggest a new feature that when reviewing suggested edits on sites that support MathJax that the suggested edit queue renders the MathJax in the rendered output view. The following ...
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Add a toggle for disabling diff markup when reviewing [duplicate]
I review suggested edits on Stack Overflow that contain lots of alterations to back-tick code tags. It can be quite difficult to get a feel for how the edited post looks once those changes have been ...
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Asked to review instead of edit, but cannot because temporary review quota reached
I clicked Edit to edit a question (to add tags). I was told to instead review a pending edit for the question. But I had already reviewed the maximum number of edits for that category for now, so it ...
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Reviewed suggested edit view for title-only edits takes body of last revision?
Yesterday I was pointed at some rejected suggested edits. Some of the corrections were valid, so I edited the posts accordingly, while making several further edits. Looking at the suggested edits now ...
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See edit diff before it has been accepted
Are you able to see the revision diff (eg) for a question/answer you just edited?
I.e. It hasn't been accepted yet, so it mightn't appear in the actual revision history.
Is there a way to see the ...
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Word-wrap unhelpful when reviewing code-block edits
The lack of horizontal scrolling in side-by-side diffs of code-blocks during the review process often makes the process somewhat challenging. Here is an example that prompted me to finally speak up ...
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Edit reviews: Highlight code formatting differently
Suppose you got the following edit to review:
Looks fairly reasonable to give that bunch of code the relevant formatting information, I would say. But would you notice if there was any relevant ...
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Empty markdown diffs do not show difference
Sometimes, there are empty diffs for review, like in this case. I believed they represent nothing, thus can be discarded. Edit: Actually, the markdown does not show the difference.
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