Ideas for improving the changeset view
User Interface
Current Status
The display of the changeset is stable across all Trac releases, for example our changeset:17 in each of the demos: 0.12, 1.0, 1.2, 1.3
Here is how the same changeset looks in github.
Convergence
The links on the file entries at the top currently directly lead to the file browser and only the (diff) links get you to the actual diff. I think we should reconsider this choice as in github the file entries link to the diff instead.
An alternative would be to directly inline the changes below the path, as done in FishEye and Gitorious for example, see #515.
The Redmine/ChiliProject way of showing the tree is also interesting, but having the diffs on a separate page is not.
Related tickets
Most enhancement requests concerning the "version control/changeset view" probably apply:
- #53
- plugin infrastructure for rendering diff HTML previews
- #515
- Collapsible diff display
- #781
- svn:log editing
- #1200
- Provide syntax to link to file-differences from svn log messages
- #2035
- Changeset commenting
- #2465
- Add "custom query" functionality for changesets
- #3694
- Code coloring in diff
- #4080
- [Patch] Detect charset using enca or chardet
- #4887
- Option for changeset viewer to show added and deleted files inline
- #5170
- max_diff_bytes should be honored even if only one file has changed
- #6424
- Next/previous diff support
- #6473
- Negative revisions for changeset
- #6638
- Allow file exclusions in diffs
- #6709
- Extended 'view diff' feature does not update the browsing position
- #6783
- Diff Tabular / Unified switcher highlights the wrong way around?
- #6807
- Option to skip revisions with lots of added files
- #6858
- Improve intra-line diff highlighting
- #9172
- Trac diff highlighting start and end points
- #10531
- Annotate in changeset diff view
- #11439
- Git changeset "Branches" property should link to branch logs
- #11446
- Cummulative diff view for non-contiguous changesets
- #12745
- Changeset view with single revision which has many files is so slow
- #13083
- Unified diff with contextall
- #13101
- Unified diff in git format?
The bugs are more about the generation of the changesets (#4474, #5420, #5515, #5549, #7486, #7975, #8146, #9621, #9946, #10101, #10267, #10812, #10813, #10914, #12484) and are not so relevant for the user interface except:
- #5549
- Improve diff message "no files"
