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How can I change the default diff format of Gitweb to `--color-words`?

I want gitweb to output the same diff format as git diff --color-words

. Does anyone know how I can do this? I looked at HTML :: FromANSI but couldn't get it to work with git diff --color-words

from the command line.

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How did you use HTML :: FromANSI ? As it works for me using the following command working as intended

git diff --color-words HEAD^ HEAD |
perl -wle '
use HTML::FromANSI; 
my @lines = <STDIN>; 
foreach my $line (@lines) {
    chomp $line;
    print ansi2html($line); 
}' > tmp.html

Although, if you want to use useful output rather than subtle white text on a black background, you probably need to customize HTML :: FromANSI. The above scriptlet is just a proof of concept (not in the best style).



BTW I'm not sure about the quality of the HTML :: FromANSI module; it didn't install (using cpan

) for me effortlessly (but it might be an issue with Term :: VT102 :: Boundless this module requires).

ansi2html

have problems with some lines (I think lines with embedded / trailing end-of-line and empty line / line) generating a warning Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at .../HTML/FromANSI.pm line 353, <STDIN> line NN.

. This is why I had to chomp

strings (and this may be the problem you are having with HTML :: FromANSI working).

Also the HTML generated by this module is pretty awful, using a legacy and deprecated tag <font face='...' style ='...'>

along with a modern tag <span style='...'>

; also I see no way to use CSS instead of inline style.

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