Improve Code Review "Changes" Tab
Problem to solve
As a developer I also use gitlab excessively to review other devs´ code. During the review process there usually is a ping-pong where the developer addresses the issues from the reviewer and either discusses about it or fixes the raised concerns. When the dev fixed the issue, the reviewer wants to assure that the fix itself is fine and thereby needs to have a clear diff between the reviewed code and the new-commited code. At the moment there are only 2 ways to see changes:
- use the overall changes-tab, where you have to figure out the version that you reviewed by analysing the commit history etc
- look in the discussion thread for the "changed this line in ..." part, where only the direct change in that section is shown, but the change might include further changes not shown here
Intended users
User experience goal
The goal would be to have a simple button in the changes compare-view where I can set the compare-version directly to my last reviewed version to easily see what the dev changed since my last review.
Links / references
Previous discussion in private gitlab ticket with number 156926