Re: Allura at SF is ready

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote Saturday, August 29, 2015 10:34 AM
>
>
>> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> What doesn't work is a link to a specific comment.  They take you
>>> back to the start of the issue, not the comment.  But as the old
>>> comments are all linear it is possible to count down to find the
>>> specific comment.  This could be corrected manually, but it
>>> hardly seems to be worth the effort.
>>
>> Sounds more like a job for a script.
>
> It would be tricky.  The script would need to find all
> issues with a GC reference by a search, look in each
> one to find the GC reference, check if this ended in a
> #c; if it did, it would need to open the referenced
> issue, count down to the appropriate comment, copy out
> the link field, go back to the original issue, edit it
> to paste in the link field and save.
>
> There are only 60 GC refs in the DB, and only some fraction
> of them would have a comment-specific ref.  I haven't
> found a search that would extract just these (yet).  But
> even so, I'd find doing it manually would be quicker.
> Script experts might differ!

Most comment-specific refs were done automatically by Google code (which
creates a link from #4 and similar in a comment text).

-- 
David Kastrup