Investigate feasibility of revision diff fragments specification for SWHID
Current SWHID specification enables to point to a specific fragment inside a source code file, for instance swh:1:cnt:4d99d2d18326621ccdd70f5ea66c2e2ac236ad8b;origin=https://gitorious.org/ocamlp3l/ocamlp3l_cvs.git;visit=swh:1:snp:d7f1b9eb7ccb596c2622c4780febaa02549830f9;anchor=swh:1:rev:2db189928c94d62a3b4757b3eec68f0a4d4113f0;path=/Examples/SimpleFarm/simplefarm.ml;lines=9-15.
In a similar manner, it would be of interest to point through SWHIDs to specific fragments of a source code diff that can be derived from a SWH revision (see example here).
That task is here to investigate if such a specification could be added to revision SWHIDs and if it can be resolved afterwards by the SWH Web application.
After a first discussion on the subject with @rdicosmo, this could be achieved by using the path
and lines
qualifiers on a revision SWHID.
Nervertheless, diffs may be complex and there is plenty of edge cases to handle. So let's see if we can cover all of them using the above qualifiers.
Migrated from T2586 (view on Phabricator)