1848: Long lines without whitespaces makes diff hardly readable

sergey.*******@gmai***** (Google Code) (Is this you? Claim this profile.)
Nov. 6, 2010
What version are you running?
1.5

What's the URL of the page containing the problem?
http://demo.reviewboard.org/r/4224/diff/#index_header

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create review request from a diff with a very long line without whitespaces
2. Click "View Diff"
3. Observer diff view with one very small column and one too width.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect similar sized columns with long line being split at any places.

What operating system are you using? What browser?
doesn't matter

Please provide any additional information below.
Although in the demo I've create line has no meaning the problem came from real life example. In our company we ofter provides diffs of makefiles and shell scrips which has environment of classpaths setting lines which happens to be *that* long...
david
#1 david
The browser will split lines as it deems appropriate, and we're happy to let it. Splitting lines is a pretty difficult problem =/
  • +WontFix