[webkit-dev] WebKit Transition to Git

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 9:52 pm, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> 
wrote:
> If I understand correctly, there is no way in GitHub UI to see a 
> difference between
> patches submitted at step 1 and step 3. It's still possible to see 
> old version of patches
> if you navigate to old commit hash, but that's not for long as they 
> can be garbage
> collected by GitHub because they don't belong to git branch anymore.

If we are really seriously concerned about this... it's not a problem 
with GitLab. At least, I can still view diffs between different 
revisions of merge requests from two years ago, and the changes seem to 
be stored forever. At least I still can view diffs from years ago. E.g.:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/merge_requests/62/diffs?diff_id=27669&start_sha=0c020384b602c9e1f0e8ec9e491d1951e8feadf7

Unfortunately it's sometimes less useful than I might have hoped, 
because rebases bring in a bunch of totally unrelated changes, e.g.:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/merge_requests/62/diffs?diff_id=28036&start_sha=043b5fc32f4f9263d393c9de83e1b331000023c5