List the changes made in each commited file

[squareclouds]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Not problem related, new feature

Solution you'd like

it would be perfect if the user could see what the actual changes were, much like in github/gitlab, etc commits where you can see the previous and new versions side by side

Potential alternatives

otherwise showing only the new changes might be enough

Additional context

in a multi-user setup and automatic backups this would be incredibly useful since the title/labels would not be descriptive enough and people wouldnt know exactly what to revert.

[lukasbestle]

It would be doable to display the list of changes (list of changed files and their status, e.g. added, deleted, renamed, modified) in a dialog that can be accessed from the options dropdown of each version.

[squareclouds]

that would be a great start! in that case, since a list of the files changed would be available, do you think it would be possible to revert individual files as well and not the whole commit as a more advanced feature?

and the more complex would be adding the side-by-side comparison for each file so the editors can see the lines that were changed and decide based on that if they want to revert a file.

reverting the whole commit should of course still be available, just how you have it right now.

i would be willing to fund this features a bit in case you think they are quite difficult to implement.

[lukasbestle]

These features are both quite difficult to implement to be honest. The backend code would be doable but needs testing. But the user interface changes require a rewrite of the frontend code.

At the moment I'm quite booked out. How urgently do you need the features?

[squareclouds]

oh ok. well the most important part in my opinion would be the ability to see the list of changed files in each commit. that was not so complicated if i understood correctly, right?

to see the actual changes inside a file would be the next important milestone i think (just realized it does not need to be the side by side view between the version i am inspecting and the previous one. i guess highlighting the changed lines in the version i am inspecting is more than enough to be able to see what parts of the content changed)

and the deluxe version would be with the ability to only revert a single file and not the whole commit.

for the last 2 features, do you think you would have time in the next 4-5 weeks?

[lukasbestle]

For the next 3 weeks I'm fully booked out. I'll get back to you. :)

[squareclouds]

perfect, thank you!