[WikiEN-l] Download history tool?

[Ilmari Karonen]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> Hi again,
>   Ok I had my own attempt at adding "group edits". It works, but has
> the obvious limitation that displaying the diff across a group of
> collapsed diffs shows not quite what you're expecting. In other words:
> 
> Time t0  User A comment1
> Time t1  User A
> Time t2  User A comment2
> Time t3  User B comment 3
> 
> It shows this as
> Time t0 User A comment1//---//comment2
> Time t3 User B
> 
> So if you attempt to compare between t0 and t3, you of course get all
> the changes made in t1, t2 and t3, whereas you probably just wanted
> t3. Not sure how to deal with that one.

It's probably better to give diffs against the *last* edit in each 
group.  Doing so not only solves this particular case, but is probably 
more meaningful in general.

I haven't taken a look at the code yet; if I get around to it, I may 
post a patch for this.

-- 
Ilmari Karonen