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Build ID: I20090313-0100 It would be useful to provide a list of recent comparisons and enable comparing them. The list would be available in a dedicated view. There is a lot of cases potentially handled by a proposed feature. One of them is comparing patches. The case: 1. An external contribution is available as a patch A 2. A committer suggests to update javadocs 3. A new patch B is presented, not only javadocs are added but also hunk's offsets are updated because HEAD changed in the meantime 4. Committer wants to find out if the the patch B adds only javadoc update when comparing to the original patch A Current solution: 5A. Apply patch A, create a patch AA from the result 6A. Replace with HEAD 7A. Apply patch B, create a patch BB from the result 8A. Compare patches AA and BB in the compare editor 9A. Even if the result is the same patches differ with timestamps Alternative solution: 5B. Check out HEAD to another project B 5B. Apply patch A on project A that contains the HEAD 6B. Apply patch B on project B that contains the same HEAD 7B. Compare projects A and B Solution with a proposed feature: 5C. Compare the result of applying patches A and B
Another case is parallel development of the same code base in two different projects. When migrating the changes it's impossible to create a patch for some comparisons. CCing Szymon because I know he has situation of this kind when dealing with resources in both 3.5 and e4 streams.
Also CCing Tomasz and Michael as they could add value to the discussion.
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