It's something I'd like to add, but I know it won't happen for 2.0. I do plan to add full file view/download in a 2.x. For now, you can get it through the API at least.
Christian -- Christian Hammond - [email protected] Review Board - http://www.reviewboard.org Beanbag, Inc. - http://www.beanbaginc.com On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>wrote: > On 2014-01-09 08:24, Sven Sandberg wrote: > >> When the coder receives a review, there are two ways to view the review: >> >> 1. 'view review' >> 2. 'view diff' >> >> In the first view, you only get to see the lines that the reviewer >> commented on, which is usually not enough context to understand the >> problem. So you often need the second view. >> >> However, in the second view, you cannot write a reply. If you try to >> write a reply, it becomes an entirely new draft review with a new review >> comment instead of a reply. >> >> It would be much more efficient if you could write a reply while looking >> at the full diff (or even the full file, as is possible in the 'diff' >> view). You can work around this by switching back and forth between the >> views, but that is distracting. >> > > There is a (very old) bug report¹ about this already. That said... > > > I think a very good way to fix this would be if you could expand hidden >> rows in the 'review' view, similar to how you can expand hidden rows in the >> 'diff' view. Would this be possible to add in a future version of >> ReviewBoard? >> > > ...this also sounds like an interesting idea. > > (¹ http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/issues/detail?id=1426) > > -- > Matthew > > > -- > Get the Review Board Power Pack at http://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ > --- > Sign up for Review Board hosting at RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ > --- > Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "reviewboard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Get the Review Board Power Pack at http://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ --- Sign up for Review Board hosting at RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ --- Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
