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Something like which likes were modified, added or removed

--- a/src/app/codemirror/codeEditor.tsx +++ b/src/app/codemirror/codeEditor.tsx M 12 + 72 + 73 - 83 - 84

The basic objective is to get nice status highlights like e.g. Atom (or VsCode):

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I've gone through https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff and can't figure it out.

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The closest I have gotten is git diff -U0 i.e. Unified diff format with 0 spare lines. This generates output like:

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Where each section @@ -n1,n2 +n3,n4 @@ means that previously (n1,n2) the lines n1 to n1+n2 are now lines n3 to n3+n4.

This means that

  • if n2 is zero then its all addition (Use n3 to n3 + n4 to highlight)
  • Else if n4 is zero then its all deletion (Use n3 to higlight)
  • Else its modification (Use n3 to highlight)
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complicated! Why don't git make the math for us? What exactly does it mean in your image the number -74,0?
Note that in some cases when n2 or n4 are meant to be 0, they and their comma are omitted. I haven't figured out what those cases specifically are yet.

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