What does e-diff display option do?

[Stacey Nelson]

When viewing a pull request, I can choose the option to "Hide e-diff". What is an "e-diff"?

[Manuel Bastardo Castellano]

When creating a Pull Request, the Diff view in Bitbucket Server compares the changes between branches with the ultimate goal of providing an overview of which changes will be merged when a merge is performed.

In other words, the git diff starts at the common ancestor.

This also applies to the following use cases:

• Comparing branches
• Comparing tags

More information: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserverkb/understanding-diff-view-in-bitbucket-server-859450562.html

[Stacey Nelson]

The question was about e-diff specifically. (Not about diff in general). I think I may have figured this out. It seems as though e-diff option further highlights the exact characters in a line that have changed.