[SonicHg Update] - Full side-by-side diffs, new file log page, regex filter, commit syntax warning, and more!

[Akshay Dayal]

Hey Dirkjan,

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll be happy to streamline it! It'll be 
great if some of the functionality can be included with the mercurial 
distributions, features like side-by-side diff would be wanted by many I 
suppose - and would be a bonus to Hg in general. I'll send another 
response in more detail once I have time.

Best,
Akshay

Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> Hey Akshay,
>
> Some of this stuff looks really good. The packaging (an extension full
> of different sets of feature) is at least a little unhelpful though,
> in my opinion. Would you be interested in repackaging as separate
> extensions for different functionality? Or, even better, in
> streamlining some of the functionality for inclusion in Mercurial?
> Here's some remarks on your features.
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:20, Akshay Dayal <Akshay.Dayal at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> 1. Pushlog - Log pushes made over SSH
>>    -Enable capturing of data on incoming pushes to show what group of
>> commits were made for the push, ssh username, etc
>>    -Added a pushlog page in the web UI, can use slider or textbox to
>> browse through push history
>>    -Advanced search available in the web UI for finding pushes -
>> including finding by date
>>    -Can configure how many pushes to show per page in the HGRC file
>>     
>
> I'd like to have a general-purpose pushlog extension. Mozilla already
> has its own version of this, apparently people really like having the
> ability to get a straight line through history. Maybe if this was in a
> separate extension we could put that in hgext and distribute it with
> hg.
>
>   
>> 2. Modified web UI shortlog page
>>    -Can use slider or textbox to browse through commit history
>>     
>
> The textbox might be interesting to have in hg, though I think the
> slider is a little more eccentric.
>
>   
>> 3. Modified web UI File log page (which shows the file history)
>>    -Shows more info now, including author of each change
>>     
>
> Well, that's a simple template change; the paper style (new default in
> hg 1.1) has it, too.
>
>   
>>    -Also can select any 2 file versions and show the diff between them
>>     
>
> That's something I'd like to have in hg as well. Should be pretty easy
> to do from a backend point of view, but getting good UI for it (not
> just in file logs, but also in shortlog) is a little more work. Would
> you like to help contribute that?
>
>   
>> 4. Added web UI full side-by-side differ
>>    -Can see side-by-side diff page for changes
>>     
>
> I think having the option of presenting side-by-side diffing in hgweb
> would be nice. Maybe you can help us add that in?
>
>   
>> 5. Regex Filter available for web UI
>>     
>
> Why is this better than the interhg extension distributed with Mercurial?
>
>   
>> 6. Added ability specify a commit format standard and where the commit
>> format doc URL is
>>    -Users making pushes whose commit messages are out of standard will
>> get a warning message with the link to the commit format doc URL
>>     
>
> Well, I think that's more custom and isn't necessarily interesting to
> a larger public (although publishing it as a separate hook may make
> sense).
>
>   
>> 7. Other changes
>>    -Descriptions of merge commits will be in red in web UI (a commit
>> with 2 parents)
>>     
>
> I wonder if this can be done through our templater. If not, it would
> be nice if we can enable that (by setting a class on a relevant HTML
> element, for example).
>
>   
>>    -Where-ever possible the links in web UI will use revision numbers
>> instead of short node ids
>>     
>
> That doesn't seem particularly useful. Are you aware the revision
> numbers aren't the same in every clone?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dirkjan
>