Description Tomasz Zarna 2007-08-21 06:41:00 EDT

Created attachment 76525 [details]
Next Pair/Revision icon

Build ID: I20070814-1100

Suppose we are viewing history of a file with 5 remote revisions (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, where 1.5 is the current revision). I would like to be able to select multiple revisions in the History View and compare them with each other. I can think of two scenarios here:

1) "Compare following pairs" (working title): After selecting all revisions and choosing the new action we would open the Compare Editor for 1.5 and 1.4. I would also add two extra actions (i.e. Previous Pair and Next Pair, these are also working titles) on the Compare Editor's tool bar next to the ones that are already there (i.e. Prev/Next Change/Diff). Click on the Prev Pair would open the Compare Editor for 1.4 and 1.3 revisions. Please see the attached file for the icon proposition.

2) "Compare with current/latest" (working title): After selecting all revisions and choosing the new action there would be the Compare Editor opened for 1.5 and 1.4. I would also add similar actions to the ones mentioned above, the only difference is that when clicked they would open the Compare Editor for 1.5 and 1.3, 1.5 and 1.2 and so on. An other approach would be to open multiple compare editors for all these pairs.

Also, I was thinking about adding a drag'n'drop capability for the History View and Compare Editor so one could pick a revision and drop it on either left or right side of the editor. But I believe this can be a story for a separate bug. 

What's your opinion?