Make diff paths available in the UI.

[wrinkledcheese@…]

In regards to this ticket:

​http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/9824

If I want to compare a branch vs trunk. Eg Observing a junior/new hire's work. I have to go into the HTML - using a DOM inspector - and manually change the "old path" hidden form field to trunk.

This could easily be made available in the interface for users. It would also make my life easier.

I could probably contribute this change if it is seen as a valuable enhancement by others.

When comparing trunk(old path) against a branch(new path) the revision must be set to the latest revision of the branch.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Sounds reasonable. I've felt that the diff module was not visible enough. I used Trac for years before discovering it. What if we just linked to the diff page and populated some of the inputs? For example, if you are on branches/0.11-stable​ where the HEAD revision is [10236], we could have a link that jumps to diff (/diff?new_path=%2Fbranches%2F&new=10236).

[Jun Omae]

We could use "View changes…" button at the bottom of browser view​ to compare two branches. Clicking button shows the diff page with branch and revision in the browser view.

[Ryan J Ollos]

For years I didn't know about the View changes… button and even forgot about it again while writing my comment. It feels misplaced, in a location that content modification buttons are usually positioned. Perhaps it would be better located near the #diffrev, or in the contextual navigation.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Keeping ticket open to consider relocating the View changes… button.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Narrowing focus for milestone:1.2. Please move ticket to milestone:1.2 if you intend to fix it.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Milestone renamed