Allow reviewing an entire feature branch in the git diff multibuffer view

[schpet]

right now you can get a nice diff view of Uncommitted Changes where you can make edits in the multi buffer view and see added and removed lines.

this is a request to expose that git diff view for an entire branch or ref comparison, e.g. main..HEAD. this would be a nice way to review and update a pull request on github, or to review branches locally generally.

[jlavasyou]

This is a vscode extension that does a pretty good job managing a lot of the PR/code review process, would be great to see it in Zed.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.vscode-pull-request-github

also lets you interact with comments (view, reply, create) which is nice

[thorbenk]

Yes, I've been missing this to touch up a merge requests by going through the combined diff and making small edits or reverting unrelated changes to keep the diff to main small.

Would it make sense to convert this request into an issue?

[schpet]

i think any pull-request stuff is separate than what i'm asking for here. i only want to see the git diff type of info in zed, i would consider github pull request management (comments, reviews, assignment, etc) to be separate from this

[thorbenk]

I agree, I was talking about locally preparing the diff of your branch against main to be in a presentable state, and leveraging multibuffers for that.

Of course, that diff is what I usually also view in the browser for my merge requests, so I got that mixed up with what I actually meant.

[schpet]

yeah sorry i should have been more clear that i was referring to the comment this thread is on- what you're describing is exactly what i'm after