Reading the diff

The Live Diff answers one question: what did this task change.

Where to find it

On a running task the Live Workspace card carries a summary. On a finished task, open Diff on the card. Both show the first file line by line, with the rest listed below.

Attribution

The file list is not “everything that is different from the last commit”. Two kinds of change are deliberately excluded:

• Files already modified before the task started and untouched since.
• Files changed by another process during the run.

Both are counted separately and shown as their own lines, so you can see they exist without them being blamed on the task.

Partially-edited files

If you had already edited a file and the task edits it too, the diff shows only the part the task added — not your work plus its work.

Outside the workspace

If a task touches a file outside its workspace directory, that file is listed with a note saying which repository it is relative to. It is not hidden, and it is not silently folded into the workspace's numbers.

Build output

Running a build produces files under directories like build/. Those appear in the change list. Your source edit is ordered first, but on a task that ran a full build the list can be long.