simm (a new changeset visualisation tool)

[qbolec]

Hi,

I've implemented a proof of concept tool called "simm", which as opposed to diff, is focused on showing similarities between two files, instead of exposing differences.

You can see a web demo at http://vanisoft.pl/~lopuszanski/public/simm/ (it simply runs simm and diff -y on the two text snippets).

Currently the algorithm is exponential, so please test it only on the short examples provided by the website.

I'd like to integrate it with trac, which we use in both companies I work for. As a software architect, which performs many code reviews daily I am notoriously frustrated by the way diff compares files.

Could someone point me to some appropriate places in trac's documentation/source code, or otherwise guide me where should I start to plug my code to trac?

[Olemis Lang]

On 4/7/13, qbolec <qbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>

Interesting

> I've implemented a proof of concept tool called "simm", which as opposed to
>
> diff, is focused on showing similarities between two files, instead of
> exposing differences.

[...]
> Currently the algorithm is exponential
>
[...]

I look forward to any performance improvements to try it in production
(if released under the terms of an open source license ?) .

[...]

>
> I'd like to integrate it with trac, which we use in both companies I work
> for.

[...]

> Could someone point me to some appropriate places in trac's
> documentation/source code, or otherwise guide me where should I start to
> plug my code to trac?
>

AFAICT you'll need request handlers + VCS API

Links to API docs by version may be found here

http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDev

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Regards,

Olemis.

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