On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Scott Robison <sc...@casaderobison.com> wrote:
> I don't think this is currently possible, but I've been wrong before, so > let me ask: I know it is possible to link to individual artifacts by ID > which displays the source, but is it possible to link to a given line > number (range) within a given artifact, perhaps highlighting it in the > process? > You mean like this: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/6eb26bb7a6?ln=1755-1759 (Note that the highlighted code is in fact the code that implements the "ln=" query parameter that does the range highlighting. A kind of semantic recursion.) > > My reason for asking: I've been given a new assignment by my employer to > learn / understand some relatively obscure source code written by a former > employee. This is proprietary code that can't be shared outside the > company, but it is not documented (by which I mean there are comments > through the code, but no real design or high level understanding of *why* > it does *what* it does). > > My thoughts on how to handle this task (where code is currently stored in > an svn repo and will be migrated in the not too distant future to git) is > to take the current code and import it into a fossil repo, then use the > wiki / inline documentation features to describe it in detail. Part of what > I would like to do in the documentation is link to individual lines or > blocks in the individual source files so that the reference is internally > complete so that I don't have to keep separate source & documentation files > in sync. > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > -- > Scott Robison > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org
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