Author Archives: Sid

v0.6 Release – Fixing Annotate for the Paper Theme

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Sid

In my last release I had put out an hg annotate fix for the gitweb_mozilla theme. Dirkjan Ochtman, a Mercurial Project developer, noticed my release and asked me to come up with a similar fix for the Mercurial Project’s paper … Continue reading →

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v0.6 Release – Minor fix for bug 445560

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Sid

All the way back in November 2008 I had put out a patch to implement expand and collapse functionality (for merge changesets) for the pushlog. I had gotten an r+ review but I just needed to make some minor adjustments to … Continue reading →

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v0.6 Release Goals

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Sid

It’s time to start working on my 3rd release for this semester. My goal is to put out 3 patches this time around: A patch for the Mercurial Project‘s Paper theme (fix for hg annotate, similar to what I did … Continue reading →

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v0.5 Release Complete

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Sid

I’ve finally completed my 0.5 release. This release I tackled an interesting problem with hg annotate. Trying to improve efficiency and loading time of an application isn’t something I had tackled before. It was a good experience trying to figure … Continue reading →

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v0.5 Release – Running an Experiment

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Sid

In my last post I revealed my fix for the hg annotate loading issues. My fix reduced the loading time to a relatively reasonable ~8sec considering the fact that currently the loading time is ~20sec. However, it was still bugging … Continue reading →

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v0.5 Release – My Fix for the hg Annotate Problem

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Sid

In my last post I had examined a couple of patches that other people had posted for bug 459823. This time I wrote my own code to see if I could make an improvement on what others have done. I … Continue reading →

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v0.5 Release – Examining Two Patches Regarding the Hg Annotate Problem

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Sid

In my previous blog post I had a look at the default and coal templates for hgweb in order to find a fix to the hg annotate problem. Neither of those templates presented a viable solution so the next step … Continue reading →

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v0.5 Release – Examining How Other Templates Implement Hg Annotate

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Sid

In order to complete the goals for my v0.5 release I examined how other templates implement hg annotate. I wanted to find out whether these other implementations had the ability to load 10,000 line cpp files quickly or not. Default … Continue reading →

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v0.5 Release – Understanding the Problem with hg Annotate

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Sid

The last couple of days I’ve been examining the problem with hg annotate in order to complete the goals for my v0.5 release. The issue is with the template Mozilla is using for hgweb. The problem has already been worked … Continue reading →

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v0.5 Release Goals

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Sid

My v0.4 release is over and done with. In that release I mainly focused on bug 459727 but for my v0.5 release I’ll be taking a look at a problem with hg annotate, bug 459823. The problem here is that … Continue reading →

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