[Engine-devel] Gerrit NEW Change Screen

[Itamar Heim]

On 01/16/2014 12:08 AM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> with gerrit 2.8, there is a new change screen.
> its not enabled by default (yet), please use and see what you think.
>
> to enable, go to settings (click the top-right arrow next to your name,
> and choose settings).
> select preferences and set "Change View:" to "New Screen".
>
> Thanks,
>     Itamar

more details on the new change screen:
https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/intro-change-screen.html

> The main highlights are under the hood:
>
>     Old style RPC calls are replaced by the REST API
>     The prettify syntax highlighting library was replaced by Codemirror
>     Automatic refresh of open changes
>     Support to download a patch direct in browser: no local repo is needed
>     JS API integration: it was never so easy to add change/revision actions to the UI from a plugin.

and:

>
> Included in
> To see the branches a specific change was merged into and the list of the tags a change was tagged with, use the Included In drop down on the change header, to the left of the Revisions drop down.
> Note that this list is only visible on merged changes.

and
> "Related changes
>     Conflicts With Changes
> Changes that are conflicting with the current change are listed on this tab. Only the changes that are mergeable are currently shown. Non mergeable changes are filtered out.
> This tab is only visible if there are conflicting changes with the current change.