When using git-review-rebase to review an update from a patch-queue, it is often needed to look-up at newly added commits, and more importantly comparing them with the upstream version to make sure they look sane or that the conflict resolution, if any, was good.
Right now this is a manual process, as shown in this asciinema recorded session:
It would be really handy if we had a shortcut directly from git-review-rebase to find the upstream commit and show a side-by-side diff from the newly added commit to the upstream one.
When using
git-review-rebaseto review an update from a patch-queue, it is often needed to look-up at newly added commits, and more importantly comparing them with the upstream version to make sure they look sane or that the conflict resolution, if any, was good.Right now this is a manual process, as shown in this asciinema recorded session:
It would be really handy if we had a shortcut directly from
git-review-rebaseto find the upstream commit and show a side-by-side diff from the newly added commit to the upstream one.