If you are looking at a GitHub pull request it is good to know that there are two views - “unified” and “split”. For me these could be re-labled “hard to read” and “easier to read”. I try to remember to add the “?diff=split” to the URIs when sending them around, but GitHub remembers my preference so doesn’t bother with the URL parameter when I click on a pull request while showing me the code the way that I wanted to view it last.
You can see the difference between the views by checking out these links to the same pull request:
https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/177/files?diff=unified
https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/177/files?diff=split
If you are viewing a pull request and want to change the view you can do so easily by locating a button with the label “Diff options” located before the code and visually on the right side of the screen. When you click on it there is a drop-down with the two options.
It looks like this:
[cid:30D535A3-B675-4A17-811C-DD17F99D1A18]
I hope this helps…
Thanks,
AWK
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility and Standards
Adobe
akirkpat@adobe.com
http://twitter.com/awkawk
