Thanks for the quick response. So it will always be either null or an integer value?
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com>wrote: > An interdiff is a diff between diffs. > > Imagine that you've worked on a large change touching 20 files, and someone > reviews it. You make the changes and upload a new diff. Instead of reviewers > having to look at the full new diff, they can look at an interdiff, which > will only show what changed since the last diff. This makes life much easier > for reviewers, as they can focus on how you changed things and comment > directly on those changes. > > Now, the interfilediff field in the JSON result for a comment specifies the > file ID in that interdiff. If you were to comment on an interdiff between a > revision 4 diff and a revision 5 diff, then the 'filediff' field would be > the ID of the file in the revision 4 diff, while the 'interfilediff' would > be the ID of the file in the revision 5 diff. If it's null, it just means > that this wasn't a comment on an interdiff. > > Christian > > -- > Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com > Review Board - http://www.reviewboard.org > VMware, Inc. - http://www.vmware.com > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Hovanes Manucharyan > <cybro...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> What is interfilediff? >> >> This is part of the "Comments" JSON string returned by the API. (seems to >> be <null> in most cases) >> >> I'd like to understand what it is to see what I need to do with it when I >> parse the response from the API. Additionally, I have heard the term >> mentioned a few times in the past, so I'm curious. >> >> Thanks, >> >> H.M. >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<reviewboard%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en >> -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- >> >> > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<reviewboard%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
