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Bug 332254

Summary:	provide a 'compare with' action for tasks
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	David Green <greensopinion>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	doug.janzen, milesparker, steffen.pingel
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	198501
Bug Blocks:

Description David Green

2010-12-09 16:56:59 EST

It would be great to be able to compare tasks with the incoming differences.  Currently when a task has incoming, the task editor shows changed fields with blue highlighting.  It would be great if these changes were also available in a change editor, such that the old values were visible and changes to large values (such as descriptions) were visible with side-by-side comparison.  The UI could be provided by the platform compare editor.

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2010-12-09 17:56:03 EST

+1 As far as I know this existed in the past along with support for the History view to show old "revisions" of a task. 

My sense is that the Task Editor would benefit from an EMF based model which would enable this type of functionality for free.

Comment 2 Miles Parker

2012-11-22 16:22:33 EST

+1 I like the EMF compare idea (naturally), however I would probably be happy with a simple dialog, e.g.:

Product: SWT -> JFace
Priority P2 -> P3

But a compare dialog would be better for descriptive text.

It's also possible that the change editor is over-weight for this, unless the point is actually to be able to select some values to be reset. But most of my use cases involve just a simple decision -- "do I really want to submit these changes, or are they now obsolete?" Based on that use case, it would be nice to have a "Clear" for outgoing changes esp. if we go with a simpler dialog.

Comment 3 Miles Parker

2012-11-22 16:24:50 EST

*** Bug 394920 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Doug Janzen

2012-11-22 19:17:27 EST

+1.  It would be great to see _how_ the task has changed.

Comment 5 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

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