Re: Patch committers

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 02:08, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 13:35, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>>>>> How about we add specific feature(s) about tihs to the commitfest
>>>>> management tool? Like the possibility to directly link a git
>>>>> repo/branch with the patch?
>>>> So two fields, one for the repo URL and one for the branch name?
>>> Yeah, I think that's it. It might actually be interesting to pull the
>>> latest version date and make a note in the cf management stuff
>>> automagically in case there the git repo has a more updated version
>>> than the one that was submitted. I think that could be quite useful -
>>> shouldn't be too hard to do, I think. Probably just a cron job that
>>> updates a third col in the db?
>> Can you get git to dynamically generate a tree diff via a URL?  That
>> would be nice.  Extra points for a context diff.  ;-)
> 
> yes, easily. Just pass it the commit id. And unlike cvs, there is one
> diff for the patch, not one for every file ;)
> For example:
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=d3359020ef7e0fba02ac552d88ede0c3ce5128cc
> 
> turning it into context-diff style will require patching gitweb
> though, it doesn't do that by default.

Any idea how the get the equivalent of "git diff <branch A> <branch B>"
through the web interface?

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