Option to hide/truncate file path in header

MightyCreak / diffuse

Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories.

http://mightycreak.github.io/diffuse/

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Option to hide/truncate file path in header #154

Open blackboxlogic opened 2 years ago

blackboxlogic commented 2 years ago

First, this tool is awesome. Thank you for making/maintaining it.

I'm comparing three (or more) files which have long file names and a long path. But I can't tell which file is which because the file path/name is too long, and it cuts off the most important part (the file name).

I want to be able to see the file name even when the path is long.

Possible solutions:

Add a preference to only show the file name there (and hide the path)
Make that text overflow left instead of right
Detect that the text is overflowing and elide (...) the start of the path.

joyously commented 2 years ago

I agree! (it's a great tool and the name is often cut off)

Perhaps it would help to omit the parts of the path that match. I often have the same named file in two different folders and can't tell them apart.

MightyCreak commented 2 years ago

Hi @blackboxlogic ! Thanks for opening an issue!

I agree that this is not great, I'll see what I can do.

I see also that you are using Windows. Which version of Diffuse are you using right now? (I wonder because since I can't maintain the Windows version anymore, it's possible that you are running an old version)

blackboxlogic commented 2 years ago

I'm on version 0.4.8. I didn't realize the Windows version was EOL but I just found https://github.com/MightyCreak/diffuse/issues/144.