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

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Akshay Dayal <Akshay.Dayal at sun.com> wrote:
> 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.

Oh yes!
-parren

>
> 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
>>
>
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