Comment 1 Szymon Brandys 2010-10-06 05:35:45 EDT

Tomasz, I think Krzysztof could handle that.

Comment 2 Tomasz Zarna 2010-10-06 05:47:38 EDT

I think we should consider backporting an eventual fix to 3.6.2 as well, shouldn't we?

Comment 3 Szymon Brandys 2010-10-06 06:12:39 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> I think we should consider backporting an eventual fix to 3.6.2 as well,
> shouldn't we?

We should.

Comment 4 Krzysztof Kazmierczyk 2010-10-06 06:53:14 EDT

Created attachment 180309 [details]
patch

Here is text patch.

Comment 5 Krzysztof Kazmierczyk 2010-10-06 07:17:26 EDT

Created attachment 180313 [details]
Image219_pref_cv.png

Here is Image219_pref_cv.png which should be copied into images folder in org.eclipse.platform.doc.user.

Comment 6 Krzysztof Kazmierczyk 2010-10-06 07:18:33 EDT

Created attachment 180314 [details]
Image219_pref_cv2.png

Here is Image219_pref_cv2.png which should be copied into images folder in
org.eclipse.platform.doc.user.

Comment 7 Tomasz Zarna 2010-10-06 08:03:59 EDT

Created attachment 180316 [details]
"Text Compare" tab in classic theme

Comment 8 Tomasz Zarna 2010-10-06 08:04:01 EDT

Created attachment 180317 [details]
mylyn/context/zip

Comment 9 Tomasz Zarna 2010-10-06 08:05:50 EDT

Created attachment 180318 [details]
more precise description

Comment 10 Tomasz Zarna 2010-10-06 08:32:13 EDT

Dani, is the description clear enough in your opinion?

"The capping mechanism is used to speed up finding differences in large files. In that case, the result may be inaccurate and contain too many changes. Turn this option on, if you prefer a precise result in favour of possibly longer calculation time."

Comment 11 Dani Megert 2010-10-07 02:25:03 EDT

(In reply to comment #10)
> Dani, is the description clear enough in your opinion?
> 
> "The capping mechanism is used to speed up finding differences in large files.
> In that case, the result may be inaccurate and contain too many changes. Turn
> this option on, if you prefer a precise result in favour of possibly longer
> calculation time."

AFAIK "inaccurate and contain many changes" is wrong: it finds all changes but the displayed region that covers them might be bigger than needed.

Comment 12 Tomasz Zarna 2010-10-09 08:59:15 EDT

(In reply to comment #11)

> AFAIK "inaccurate and contain many changes" is wrong: it finds all changes but
> the displayed region that covers them might be bigger than needed.

Right, what about: "The capping mechanism is used to speed up finding differences in large files. In case where the capping happens the result can either be correct or it can contain too many changes, but it never misses any change. Turn
this option on, if you prefer a precise result in favour of possibly longer
calculation time." ?

Comment 13 Dani Megert 2010-10-11 03:07:52 EDT

Looks good. Minor change:
>either be correct or it can contain too many changes,
either be correct or it can display too many changes,

Comment 14 Tomasz Zarna 2010-10-11 05:21:58 EDT

Done, thanks Dani. The doc has been updated in HEAD. Filed bug 327425 for backporting the same fix to 3.6.x branch.

Comment 15 Dani Megert 2010-10-26 06:32:22 EDT

Verified in I20101025-1800.