[Codestriker-user] display of entire file contents with diffs highlighted

[Rob R. <c_...@ky...>]

In Section 3.5.3 (Viewing Complete old/new Files) of the Codestriker =
Guide (accessed on the web as =
http://codestriker.sourceforge.net/x458.html#VIEW-FILE), the following =
sentence appears:

  "The review has to be linked to a SCM repository, so that it can fetch =
parts of the file which aren't a part of the review text."
This seems to mean that, in order to show side-by-side the entire =
contents of a file's "original" and "changed" versions (with differences =
highlighted), one must provide some kind of "link" to the source control =
system through which Codestriker can obtain the non-changed lines.  It =
already has the changed lines, as they came to Codestriker in the diff =
output.

I do not understand what it actually means to provide this "link to a =
SCM repository".  In our current setup, Codestriker shows the window as =
if the entire file contents were available (that is, all the line =
numbers are present and all the lines from the diff are present), *but* =
the rest of the lines (those which were not different, so were not in =
the diff output) are empty.  The line numbers appear, but not the lines =
themselves.  I imagine this is because Codestriker does not have the =
needed "link to a SCM repository", and so it just leaves the lines in =
its display empty.

What, *exactly*, is the method by which we make the "review linked to a =
SCM repository"?  Our SCM system is Perforce (and we've gotten most of =
that integration to work just fine).

Please forgive my probably-foolish question, and thank you very much for =
your time and help.


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