Shipping GitHub’s split diffsGitHub has been around for over six years, and in all that time there’s only been one mode for diffing code—the unified diff. Until yesterday, that is, when we shipped split diffs. Here’s how they look: Similar to my post on shipping the new GitHub issues, I wanted to give some background on the how and why of shipping what until this week was our most requested feature. Timing For as long as I’ve
