see/download a diff of individual files within a changeset

[xris]

Sometimes you just want to apply part of a changeset to your local branch (like if there's a conflict). It'd be really nice to be able to have that diff available in trac, rather than have to sort through the whole changeset.

[Christian Boos]

With the current status of TracDiff, it's already possible to view a restricted changeset, i.e. a subset of a changeset containing the changes below a given path.

Would that be enough?

OTOH, I had the idea of adding a possibility to filter out changes from a given diff view (be it a changeset or a more general diff), by the way of an Exclude checkbox on each diff, but then I was not sure if it was really worth it…

Thoughts?

[xris]

Well, it'd be nice to at least have a link next to each file in the list at the top of the page going to TracDiff that would show only those changes…

[anonymous]

Another think that would be nice is to see a history of a single file, ie show incremental differences between successive revisions of a file.

It would look just like the current multi-file changeset diff, but instead of showing the differences in all files between changeset n and changeset n-1, it would diff a single file between muliple changesets.

I'll discuss this more on the mailing list and depending on the outcome of this may expand further.

[Matthew Good]

I believe that the previous comment is actually asking for blame support as in #629.

[Christian Boos]

That's now possible using the restricted changeset view: from the TracBrowser, simply click on the Last Change navigation link, and you go to a changeset page showing only the changes for the current path.

From there, the diff format link will produce the diff that you're looking for.