[Twisted-Python] Usage of diffresource in Twisted's Trac

Christopher Armstrong radix at twistedmatrix.com
Wed Sep 9 12:59:12 MDT 2015


> On Sep 9, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Sep 9, 2015, at 7:51 AM, Adi Roiban <adi at roiban.ro <mailto:adi at roiban.ro>> wrote:
>> 
>> Is there anybody still using the diffresource links in Trac tickets?
>> 
>> If you are still using it, do you think you can use the GitHub diff instead?
>> 
>> Can we remove it from Trac?
>> 
>> I prefer the GitHub diff as I can use side-by-side view and expand the
>> diff or go to full file.
>> 
>> Here is the associated ticket https://github.com/twisted-infra/braid/issues/102 <https://github.com/twisted-infra/braid/issues/102>
> 
> I still use it sometimes to apply the current patch to a working copy: quicker to type the URL.
> 

Not sure if you know this, but if you click the “github” link under the branch name, and then add “.patch” to the end of a URL, you get a patch file that you can apply to a working copy.


> That said I think that removing it is an acceptable regression for the git migration; it should be trivial to re-implement using git if anyone (including me) cares enough, and it should be substantially faster.
> 

-radix
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