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When diffing B against A in Differential, files touched in A but not B should be finessed better
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Description

Setup:

  • Make changes to existing file X.
  • Create a revision ("diff A").
  • Revert changes to file X.
  • (Possibly rebase here, see below.)
  • Update the revision ("diff B").
  • Compare B against A in the web UI.

Context:

  • We want to show that the change made to X by diff A was reverted by diff B.
  • We don't have the new, plain text of the file in diff B.
  • We show A's change against A's base as a proxy for reverting the change to A.

Problems:

  • If a rebase occurred where noted above, this change is wrong. We should explain what we're showing more clearly, particularly if we know the diffs have different base revisions.
  • The behavior of "Show Raw File" is wrong; it downloads un-flipped text from diff A. At a minimum, it should be flipped, but this behavior is probably questionable in general.