Mark Phippard wrote:
>>>2) I think we should consider exposing svn diff as an option in the UI,
>>>although now that I write it down, I suppose Create Patch is the same
>>>thing.
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>>would you display it as a compare editor or just the diff file?
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>Just the diff. I would rather show the compare editor, but that would
>really require the next item. I think the main thing would be to just
>expose the efficiency of svn diff. I wouldn't replace the existing compare
>options, just maybe add one. Like I said, Create Patch is basically the
>same thing unless we allowed you to do more advanced diffs, like from the
>History Viewer.
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Showing the diff file would be quite easy. Cedric did something similar
with his external merge editor.
Some of the code in the PatchWizard looks interesting . It seems to be
able to compare a file directly to a patch. Perhaps we could make use
Patcher and PatchPreviewPage? (they are not API at the moment)
>This is the existing bug report in Eclipse. I suspect that someone who
>knew the code could do it reasonably easily. Well not easy, but probably
>no more difficult than what they have already.
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>https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=74393
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Nicely worded :)
>Mark
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Received on Sun Feb 6 12:06:57 2005