feature requests for loggerhead

[Aaron Bentley]

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Michael Hudson wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> Michael Hudson wrote:
> That would be nice, yes.  difflib has code for this, I think, does
> bzrlib have it somewhere too already?

bzr reimplements difflib.SequenceMatcher in patiencediff.  I also did
something similar in BzrInspect:
http://panoramicfeedback.com/opensource/bzr/repo/BzrInspect/

(see controllers.py:176)

>> It would be nice to provide "bzr viz"-style output.  I understand the
>> mercurial guys ported bzr viz to their web interface.
> 
> Using dot or similar?  That occurred to me to.

No, I mean much more like viz.  Dot output is really messy.

> Browsing around the one mecurial repo I know the URL of didn't turn up
> anything like what you describe though, can you provide a link?

Sorry, no.  I've heard about this, but don't remember where.

>> In fact, the loggerhead output doesn't provide an easy way to see what
>> revisions were merged, and I think it would be great if it did.
> 
> It's in the stuff that drops down when you click the arrow between the
> revno and the commit message, or are you talking about something else?

I'm talking about something more like the log --long output.

>> Scanning the text of changes for TODOS, FIXMEs and NEWS entries could
>> also provide interesting results.
> 
> Yes, but for now that seems a bit DWIMish for me.

Certainly you can't do that as default behavior, but hooks for
per-project file scrapers would be nice.

Aaron
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