[vtk-developers] Gitlab and interdiffs

[David Gobbi]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
wrote:
>
>
> Basically the problem is that the 'compare' page always does 'git diff
> a...b' which shows the commits in b not in a. What we need is a way to
> do arbitrary diffs. A quick look at the gitlab code, it appears changes
> will be necessary to:
>
>
> https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab_git/blob/master/lib/gitlab_git/diff.rb#L14-25
>
> to offer a "straight diff" mode.
>

A straight diff will be an improvement (and it's too bad that gitlab's
compare tool
doesn't provide it as an option).  But that still won't give nice results
if the branch
is rebased.

 - David
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