Lluis and Joe, I want to give y'all an opportunity to "sell" me on the "branch diff" link that you added to the /ci and /vinfo pages and implemented on the "viric_pbranch" branch of Fossil:
https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?r=viric_pbranch My concern is that when you do a "branch diff" it is not clear what you are diffing against. Take for example, the bug-1224888 branch over on the Tcl project: http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/timeline?r=bug-1224888 Experimentally we see that clicking "branch diff" button on the tip of bug-1224888 does a diff against check-in 690300420f from trunk, not check-in 80c27dee1f from core-8-4-branch. Is that was is intended? What about something like check-in cdaeab4 in SQLite http://www.sqlite.org/src/timeline?p=cdaeab4 In other words, what is the algorithm that you use to determine the start of a branch? As you can see, the 'start of a branch' can sometimes be a confusing concept. Wouldn't it be better and easier for the user to use the click-on-two-graph-nodes technique to select the precise two check-ins he wants to diff, rather than relying on the "branch diff" link to try to figure out a reasonable base version based on heuristics? -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ fossil-dev mailing list fossil-dev@lists.fossil-scm.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-dev
