BUG REPORT: gitk displays diffs with angle brackets incorrectly

2015-08-19 Thread Yojem Mejoy
Summary: Certain diffs containing angle brackets ('<' or '>' characters) are displayed incorrectly in gitk's "markup words" and "color words" modes. The bug is caused by a feature that isn't aware of the formatting difference for the word diff modes. How to reproduce the bug:   Create a file wi

[gitk] display error for angle brackets in diff

2015-08-07 Thread Yojem
I'm trying to report a bug that I've know about for a year and half. I first tried to report it to this mailing list a year ago, but the message was lost. Here's a post I made on reddit 6 months ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/2twvsz/please_help_me_report_this_gitk_bug_to_the_git/ The p