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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Revision histories of posts show headings being removed and re-added every single revision, even if they aren't changed
If a post has heading markup and has been edited, the revision histories' inline and side-by-side views seem to show them all changing on each and every edit, even though they aren't edited at all. (...
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Please keep title edits display consistent with content edits
Currently if the user edits the title of an answer as well as the content, the title changes are viewed in place (on the left) and the content changes are separate, on the right.
As a result you have ...
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Code marked as deleted does not look good in side by side markdown view in dark mode
Can't see deleted code
I have come across a situation in dark mode. This is a serious contrast problem according to the following preview:
It is too expensive to distinguish the text from the ...
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Remove the strikethrough on deleted text in suggested edits
I initially posted this on MathematicsMeta where it was relatively well received (+20/-0), then I thought to post it here since it relates to multiple sites - possibly all sites, at least all sites ...
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Revision diff columns overflowing
I was editing a post, and I formatted the code better (markdown hates code with tab characters in it). When I was viewing the revisions (in source side-by-side diff mode), some of the lines were ...
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Changing the type of diff view on revisions that don't change the post's rendered output doesn't work, and may cause excessive load on SE's servers
On post revisions that don't change the post's rendered output, such as addition/removal/edits of HTML comments, changing inline links to footnote links, changing image descriptions, etc., the toggle ...
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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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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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Edit review page: looks like all tags gone
No big deal, but here with the side by side display, a quick look gives the false impression that all the tags were removed in the new version.
So perhaps it would be best to repeat them anyway, in ...
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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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Diff doesn't take stripped HTML tags into account
Yesterday I edited this question to correct the display of something in angle brackets, <root_music_folder>. The Markdown parser thinks it's an HTML tag, it's not on the allow list so it strips ...
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Incorrect revision diff for lists
In the second revision of my post I've added two links as list items and removed a sentence. The Markdown diff looks fine:
But the inline and two-column mode diffs look weird:
The first eight list ...
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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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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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