389859 - Need to be able to view Mercurial bundles when they are attachments

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Attachments & Requests, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

Mercurial bundles are a binary format for distributing a collection of changesets (not just a single diff.) All that's needed for this bug is for bugzilla to be able to detect this type of attachment, give it the right mime type (and have that mime type in the menu on the attachment page,) and for bugzilla to feed the bundles through a python script that reuses the existing code in the Mercurial libraries to generate an html view of the contents of the patch. As such, it should be pretty simple, even if it will be an oddball python script amongst all that perl.

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Would PatchViewer need to be patched for this? It would also be nice to have Bugzilla --> Hg support (as we have CVS support currently).

Comment 2

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

I don't know. I would just avoid PatchViewer altogether, since it looks like the (Python) Mercurial libraries already implement this.

Comment 3

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Git is widely used nowadays, so I’d close this as WONTFIX.