Bug 550673 - Compare branches versus compare commits
Summary: Compare branches versus compare commits
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 5.5   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 10
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 5.7   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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: 388817 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2019-09-03 02:39 EDT by Michael Keppler CLA
Modified: 2021-06-08 18:13 EDT (History)
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Description Michael Keppler CLA 2019-09-03 02:39:51 EDT
I'm confused about comparing branches. When selecting 2 branches, I only have "Synchronize with each other" (where I still don't know what it does exactly). However, when selecting the 2 top commits of the branches in the history view, I have Compare and Compare in tree. Shouldn't we have the same menu items in both cases, since in all cases we are just doing a comparison based on 2 nodes in the history graph?

And if comparing should be possible for branches and commits generally, shouldn't we have a "Compare with..." menu item also on both of them, to simplify that workflow by avoiding the otherwise necessary multi selection?
Comment 1 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-02-19 05:00:01 EST
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/157968
Comment 2 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-02-25 08:24:07 EST
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/157968 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/egit/egit.git/commit/?id=9680c04610188d9210e0df5056803cec452ac4f3
Comment 3 Thomas Wolf CLA 2020-02-25 08:24:48 EST
Thanks, Alexander!
Comment 4 Thomas Wolf CLA 2021-06-08 18:13:22 EDT
*** Bug 388817 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***