On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Baruch Burstein <bmburst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > The idea of just clicking on 2 revisions in the timeline to get a diff is > very convenient, but I would like to suggest a small improvement: No matter > what order I click the boxes in, it should display the diff from the older > to the newer. > I think this is a very bad idea. I often use the 2-click feature to look at diffs between trunk and some branch. I want to know what changes would occur on trunk if I merged the branch into trunk. To do this, I click on the trunk node first, then the branch node. This gives me the correct diff *even if the trunk happens to have the more recent commit*. Your approach would give the wrong diff in that case. Order is important. The standard command-line unix "diff" command also considers the order of the arguments to be important. It would not be a "feature" to have unix diff order the difference such that the file with the oldest mtime came first. That would likely drive experienced unix users to violence. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org
_______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
