1282329 - DXR should provide hg.m.o permalinks

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1007293

(Webtools Graveyard :: DXR, enhancement)

Description

[Gerald Squelart (he/him) (not at Mozilla since 2022-09-15)]

A lot of links have been made to MXR (e.g. in Bugzilla comments), which are now in jeopardy because MXR has been violently retired.

To avoid a similar fate if/when DXR is retired, or just for when DXR is offline, there should be an option to provide permalinks directly into official Mercurial repositories.

An easy solution might be to improve the 'blame' link to include the selected line (if any), and make it more obvious that it should be used for external linking.

E.g.:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/media/platforms/PDMFactory.cpp#126
Today permalinks to:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c2da34d96746288b5fee27bf6542a12c9f410988/dom/media/platforms/PDMFactory.cpp#126
Instead the recommended external permalink could/should be:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/c2da34d96746288b5fee27bf6542a12c9f410988/dom/media/platforms/PDMFactory.cpp#l126

Comment 1

[Peter Elmers [:new_one]]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1007293 already asks for the blame link to include the selected line, with a patch proposed in https://github.com/mozilla/dxr/pull/563.

Comment 2

[Gerald Squelart (he/him) (not at Mozilla since 2022-09-15)]

Thank you Peter.