Re: [RFC/PATCH] gitweb: Create special from-file/to-file header for combined diff

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 28 May 2007, Petr Baudis wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:50:51AM CEST, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Instead of using default, diff(1) like from-file/to-file header for
>>>> combined diff (for a merge commit), which looks like:
>>>>
>>>>   --- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh
>>>>   +++ b/_git-gui/git-gui.sh_
>>>>
>>>> (where _link_ denotes [hidden] hyperlink), create from-file(n)/to-file
>>>> header, using n/file for each or parents, e.g.:
>>>>
>>>>   --- 1/_git-gui/git-gui.sh_
>>>>   --- 2/_git-gui.sh_
>>>>   +++ b/_git-gui/git-gui.sh_
>>> 
>>> Sounds quite straightforward to implement, and diff with 1/
>>> would be useful to recreate what the person who did the merge
>>> pulled in, for most of the time.  I suspect diff with 2/ is
>>> almost always uninteresting, though.
> 
> I like it too.
> 
>> Errr... it _is_ implemented in this patch, although code is not perfect
>> and has some unnecessary repetitions.
> 
> It just shows links to older versions of the blob, doesn't it? Links to
> diffs themselves would be useful too.

For me most important were those from names (or /dev/null) in the case
of rename or copying (or file which was not present in some branches).

The link is to older version of blob; the links to appropriate blobdiffs
(and with earlier PATCH/RFC "gitweb: Provide links to individual
commitdiffs in difftree for merges" also to appropriate commitdiffs)
are in the difftree / whatchanged table.


Where to put link to diff? Should name be link to diff instead of
link to blob (to version at parent)?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland