From: Paul V. <pau...@gm...> - 2008-11-27 06:42:32
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Julian Rendell wrote: > Hi there- > hope you developers don't mind a (potential) end-users question: > just discovered gitstat, and am really interested in the diff > viewing/reporting feature. Hi Julian, I think this is the first ever email I saw coming from a non developer. (Judging by the number of downloads gitstat is gaining popularity). I don't mind to have the occasional end user question just to keep us aware that people are actually using it (and care). > > I do QA on code releases, and am looking for a tool that will highlight > what's changed at a directory/file level, and then let me see the > individual changes. GitStat is the first tool I've found that shows > differences at the file hierarchy level. I'm thinking I could create a > git repo, and check in each release, so that I can use gitstat. There > are likely to be large changes between checkins. > > Everything looks good until (using > http://mirror.celinuxforum.org/gitstat/diff-index.php as a reference) I > choose two points that would have a big delta- e.g. two releases of the > linux kernel (e.g. v2.6.27 to v2.6.26)- then I get nothing. I just checked on mirror.celinuxform.org and see your problem. Could you, in the meanwhile, open a bug report for this ? (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=202992&atid=983802) > > If I try to compare to rc's, it looks pretty good. > Arg, think I just found a bug- if a directory has a single file change, > you get the diff but not the filename itself. If a directory has > multiple files with changes, you get the filenames, which you can then > click on to see the diff. I will check this on my own system and see where the potential problem is. Do you use the CVS version of gitstat or a regular release? > > Are these bugs? > > Is this an abuse of gitstat? :-) If so, can anyone suggest an alternate > tool? > > Thanks in advance, > > Julian > > Cheers, Paul. |