Option to change diff context size

[cweiske]

Sometimes the context given by the string diff output is not enough to detect where exactly the difference is. Some more lines of context would help then.

PHPUnit should have a way (CLI or phpunit.xml or from within the test) to increase the size of the context.

Related: sebastianbergmann/diff#7

[relaxnow]

+1
Workaround: Simply write $a and $b to files and use vimdiff (which has a default context of 5 and side-by-side comparison).

[sebastianbergmann]

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