Diff between repositories

[anonymous]

Trac allows to see the files of the project (in any Versioning system) but it were nice if trac allows to:

1. commit on-line files and directories,
2. comment the files, directories and changes of these,
3. see diffs between two repositories, etc.

Probably it's a long term enhancement (version 0.20...)

Thank you very much

[cboos]

Sure, those are all good ideas.

description edited to make it possible to identify the differnt points

[cboos]

1. was already requested (see #2956)
2. is indeed something that I have in mind. Changeset commenting was already requested in #2035, but doing the same for paths is also an idea. Actually I'd like to have the same sort of commenting (with threading et al) than for the tickets, possibly in a Discussion tab (see my comments on TracProject/UiGuidelines). But for being able to generalize the comments (which are currently done in a way a bit "hackish"), we would first need to have a more generic data model (see TracDev/Proposals/DataModel)
3. Seeing diffs between repositories would be possible, once support for multiple repositories is in place (#2086). Doing it for files in different repositories would be trivial, but doing diffs between folders in different repositories will be a bit more involved, but possibly not that much with the new cache.

So many good things, so little time, so yes, probably 0.20 ;)

[cboos]

As request 1. corresponds to #2956 and request 2. corresponds to #2035, refocusing this ticket to request 3: see diffs between two repositories, etc., which is possible to do on the basis of the MultiRepos branch but currently raises a "Can't compare across different repositories" error...

[Carsten Klein <carsten.klein@…>]

note: subversion does not permit diffs between to distinct repositories.
and implementing such is not trivial, otherwise the folks over at subversion would have already done that, IMO.

[cboos]

Milestone 1.0 deleted

[rblank]

I'll give this a shot (diff between repositories).