RE: Reviewing pull request for CfC

I have the Git command line tools installed. If there’s a branch for the pull request, I should be able to obtain the patch from it.
[Steve] At the bottom of the pull request on GitHub is where you can find the branch associated with the pull.  In this case the branch is “accessible-name-terminology-sync”.

Git can also be configured to show word-by-word diffs rather than line-by-line, a feature that I found especially useful in making final revisions to my Ph.d. thesis written in LaTeX.
[Steve] Yes, git can be configured to show a diff nearly any way you can configure the Linux diff command.  Unfortunately, the options on the GitHub web interface are very limited.

From: Andrew Kirkpatrick [mailto:akirkpat@adobe.com]
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:50 AM
To: White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org<mailto:jjwhite@ets.org>>; WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org<mailto:w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>>
Subject: Re: Reviewing pull request for CfC

Jason,
Github doesn’t make this too easy. Here’s what I’m seeing that might help:

The table rows reflect the line numbers that have changes. The rows that are highlighted are:
First file/table
231
470, 471
Next file/table
2, 8, 9, 10
Next file/table
1-9 (deletes whole file)
Last file/table
232

When I do a text search I can find the additions by searching for “+ “ in the browser. I can almost do the same for the deletions, but in some cases there isn’t a space after the “-“ that indicates that the markup will be removed, and searching for the dash without a space isn’t a helpful search.

I don’t see any good labels to otherwise search for. We should make a recommendation to GitHub – they have been quite responsive in the past.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe

akirkpat@adobe.com<mailto:akirkpat@adobe.com>
http://twitter.com/awkawk


From: "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org<mailto:jjwhite@ets.org>>
Date: Friday, September 29, 2017 at 10:22
To: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org<mailto:w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>>
Subject: Reviewing pull request for CfC
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Resent-Date: Friday, September 29, 2017 at 10:23

I’m having difficulty reviewing the tables on GitHub in which the source code is presented of the pull request currently under review in the CfC.

Is there a way to obtain a plain text diff patch of the change, or another textual format which would be easier to read and review?


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