Uploading diffs for files which are not in any VCS

2012-10-26 Thread coys
Hello, I'd like to upload diffs for files which are currently not stored in any VCS. I've tried creating a unified_diff between my files and manually uploading them to reviewboard but the upload fails. Also, faking the headers on the diff does not work for me either? Is there a header fake I can

Re: Uploading diffs for files which are not in any VCS

2012-10-26 Thread Christian Hammond
Hi, Review Board today does not provide this ability. We only show diffs backed by files in a repository. You'll need some form of SCMTool. Our headers are generated by our diff generator. We basically don't use any of the information in the diff for rendering. Rather, we just apply the diff

Re: Uploading diffs for files which are not in any VCS

2012-10-26 Thread coys
Thanks for the reply Chris. Btw, is this something we'd expect to see later down the line? For e.g. for code reviews, I can understand why one would expect to see reviewboard bound tighly with a VCS. However, this feature looks like it'd be useful, especially exploring using it for applications

Re: Uploading diffs for files which are not in any VCS

2012-10-26 Thread Christian Hammond
There are higher priorities, but it's something I would like to add for certain reasons down the line. Christian -- Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com Review Board - http://www.reviewboard.org VMware, Inc. - http://www.vmware.com On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:53 PM, coys gautam...@gmail.com