ANN/RFC: extension that shows evolution of a range of lines in a file

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:13:11PM -0400, Benjamin Pollack wrote:
> 
> On Apr 14, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm. Maybe if we made this thing interactive, we could get closer to
> > your dream. At least if your favourite editor can launch an external
> > tool with the required line numbers / file offsets for the current
> > selection. This might also solve the problem of which parent to follow
> > as you'd simply choose that interactively.
> > 
> > And integrations like MercurialEclipse could do it directly in the
> > IDE, of course.
> 
> I'd also point out that Kiln has a very similar feature already: when
> viewing a file or diff, if you click the disclosure triangle next to
> the line you're interested in, it will show you the history of that
> line back in time, tracking its movement around the file.  It's not
> perfect, but it ends up working pretty well most of the time.  The
> logic's quite similar to your patch, though simpler, since we're only
> doing one line, not a range.

Do you have an URL to demo it?

thanks!

Benoit

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