Ideas for improving the changeset view

Current Status

Pretty stable across all Trac releases, for example our changeset:17 in: 0.11, 0.12, 0.13

Here's how the same changeset look in other systems: ​github, ​bitbucket and here are some different changesets in: ​gitorious and ​Redmine / ​ChiliProject, ​GoogleCode, ​FishEye.

Ideas

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 and bitbucket the file entries link to the diff instead.

An alternative would be to directly inline the changes below the path, #515 (as done in FishEye and Gitorious for example).

The Redmine/ChiliProject way of showing the tree is also interesting, but having the diffs on a separate page is not.

Related tickets

Most ERs 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 here except:

#5549

Improve diff message "no files"