display of merged revisions in loggerhead and log
Michael Hudson
michael.hudson at canonical.com
Tue Mar 11 05:05:17 GMT 2008
Martin Pool wrote:
>> So what do you think of the attached then?
>
> I like it.
Yay.
> Displaying the branch nick is very good, though I wonder if the
> particular way it is shown here may be taken to mean that eg 3221.1.13
> of "prepare-1.2" was merged, which will not generally be true.
I don't understand this. In the screenie I posted
(http://people.ubuntu.com/~mwh/hacked_up_changelog_view_3.png) this
revision _is_ merged, surely?
> I dislike the different font sizes, and think that just weight and
> color is enough to distinguish them.
Fair enough.
> At the implementation layer, maybe later on the folding could be done
> by inserting blocks that are sent later in the document, so that the
> initial overview appears more quickly.
Hm... maybe. Let's get a design first, eh? :)
> The 'description' field seems redundant?
Well, the table only contains a short version of the commit message.
bzr.dev and pqm being what they are, the full version is probably the
same as the short version here, but in general it's not.
> The 'files' link over on the right seems unclear in purpose. Does it
> take me to a view of the tree in that revision? In that case 'tree'
> might be a better name.
Hm, I guess that would be clearer, but it might also be a bit jargon-ish
for inexperienced people.
> Also it's unclear what clicking the modified
> files will give.
It takes you to the section of the revision page that contains the diff
to that file -- which seems reasonable to me.
Cheers,
mwh
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