[webkit-dev] Trouble reviewing patches since the experimental commenting support went into bugs.webkit.org's action=review page

Adam Barth abarth at webkit.org
Thu Apr 22 13:12:53 PDT 2010


One of the other demos put together at the hackathon let you drag on
the patch to select how much context you wanted when making your
comment.  I can try to make that work.

Adam


On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
> How would you like me to address this issue?
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> Adam
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> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
>> I’m having trouble reviewing patches with the action=review patch since the experimental commenting support was added. I now have to do a lot of editing and copying and pasting when reviewing that was not necessary before.
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>> - The action=review JavaScript code now deletes the copy of the patch, so I can't cite things by hand. Before I would never need to copy and paste when reviewing, just delete things, but now if I do want to cite more than one line I need to open another window.
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>> - The comments all cite only a single line of the patch and I almost never have a comment that's for a single line. So I have to do a lot of editing, pretending to comment on multiple lines.
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>> (The action=review JavaScript  page still includes an entire copy of the patch, and then the script code deletes it. Inelegant, and easy to fix!)
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>>    -- Darin
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