[patch][preliminary] hgweb: arbitrary diff support

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Fri May 19 10:38:06 CDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 14:17 +0000, Csaba Henk wrote:

> The attached patch lets you view the diff of arbitrary two revisions via
> the web interface.

I very much like the idea behind this.  Unfortunately, it's extremely
difficult to discover this feature by accident.  It took me several
minutes to figure out that there was a new "diff to ..." link in each
changelog entry, after I had selected one changeset as the reference
changeset.  All the switches of page context (changelog list ->
changeset view -> changelog list -> diff view) make it very confusing,
I'm afraid.

It would be nice to have selecting a reference changeset and the
changeset to diff against be possible in a single window.  How to do
that without putting a radio button and "diff" link next to each entry
in the changelog list, I don't know.  But that would make it much
simpler to discover and use.

Sorry for the mixed feedback.

	<b



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