- Please make the "show changes" scale to large code changes.
I've been bitten by hanging browsers a few times while trying to review pull requests in which many files were changed significantly or added. One (simple) way would be to show just the changed files, in collapsed form, which can be expanded.
- Add a way to increase the size of the diff context
Sometimes the given context is not large enough, especially if a file has many similar functions. For example in vimdiff you can "expand the hidden lines" in this case.
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of a company that has been working on solving the problems that you have described for the last year.
Having developed internal tools for large enterprise environments with over 50,000 developers with massive code bases (think linux kernel times 10), it has always baffled me why GitHub and others seem to think stuffing all the changes on a single page is a good idea.
Sure it's great when the changes are small but having to deal with large changes is not an unusual edge case. Especially in the enterprise environment where process and politics tends to create backlogs in merging which forces us to have to deal with large changes at once.
Below are some sample screen shots with how we deal with changes.
If the changes are really massive, we offer the ability to navigate the changes as a code churn tree. We call this the divide and conquer way of managing large diffs.
We also make it possible for you to break apart the commits that are included in the pull request with our commits browser. Note the revisions tree on the left that shows you all the revisions.
@wladimir Have a look at the Firefox userscript I wrote very recently: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/153049 -- feedback welcome!
Of course it doesn't eliminate the big initial fetch from the served, just collapses it once loaded to have more friendly UI.
- Please make the "show changes" scale to large code changes.
I've been bitten by hanging browsers a few times while trying to review pull requests in which many files were changed significantly or added. One (simple) way would be to show just the changed files, in collapsed form, which can be expanded.
- Add a way to increase the size of the diff context
Sometimes the given context is not large enough, especially if a file has many similar functions. For example in vimdiff you can "expand the hidden lines" in this case.