Re: commit messages from gforge -> pgsql-committers

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>Why would the URL only be temporarily valid?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >If Marc needed to save disk space or something. If we could
> >auto-generate on the fly via a URL, even better.
> >
>
> That's what cvsweb does ... it will generate a diff between any 2
> arbitrary versions of a file on the fly. All you need to know are the
> revision numbers - e.g.
> http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/configure.diff?r1=1.365&r2=1.366

My point is that for any non-trivial patch, you need to see all the
files modified in a single view, rather than poke around to see
different changes made to different files.

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