feature requests for loggerhead

[Michael Hudson]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> 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)

Noted.

>>> 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.

I guess I'm a bit biased against viz because when I try it on launchpad
I end up with a window that's about 3000 pixels wide and no useful
information on my screen :)

>> 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.

OK.  Anyone else?

>>> 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.

Oh, some way of seeing all revisions that lie between to revisions of
mainline (for example). Hm.

>>> 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.

One day :)

Cheers,
mwh