Re: Easier access to diffs, etc.

[Warren Kumari <[e-mail]>]

On Mar 13, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Paul Kyzivat wrote:

> On a related note, I've been wishing that the I-D Action announcement messages provided more convenient access to info about the draft.
> A link to the diff with the previous version would be nice,
> as would a link to the html version of the document in the tools area (which in turn has links to all sorts of renditions of the doc.)
> 
> I find that the link that is currently provided is rarely the one I want, so I'm always having to copy the name, and then search for the form I want. Its easier to just click. :-)
> 

It you use Chrome, I have written an extension that does jus this… 
It is linked to from the Tools page (http://tools.ietf.org/), or a direct link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aiccdpabeagpjcebilebhlifplfkinao

This simply watches for a URL of the form http://www.ietf.org/id/foo-04.txt and replaces it with http://tools.ietf/org/html/foo (or, if you change the default in the options page, datatracker.ietf.org).


W





> 	Thanks,
> 	Paul
> 
> On 3/13/12 1:08 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 11:08 +0100, Benoit Claise wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> I'm wondering how to do, with the IETF tools, a diff between a WG
>>> document "RFC bis" and the "RFC" in the following example:
>>> 
>>>      1. RFC 5101 was published
>>>      2. And individual draft was published to update it
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-claise-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-02
>>>      3.
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-01 was
>>> accepted as a WG document
>>> 
>>> The tools
>>> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-01)
>>> allows the diffs between the 2. and 3.. And I would like the automatic
>>> diff between 1. and .3
>>> 
>>> Any other ways than loading the different versions in
>>> http://www.ietf.org/tools/rfcdiff/?
>> 
>> As you probably know, the tools page for an internet-draft, like
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-01
>> includes links for jumping from one version to the next, and for showing
>> the differences between the version you're viewing and the previous
>> version.  When one document succeeds another, such as a WG document
>> replacing an individual one or, in this case, the individual document
>> being the start of a revision of RFC5101, those links inlcude the
>> ability to jump from one document to the next, and to compare the first
>> version of one document with the last version of the document before it.
>> 
>> So, if you go to the page for draft-claise-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-00
>> and click the "Diff1" link, you'll see differences in that document
>> since RFC5101.
>> 
>> As far as I know, there is no "friendly" way to click on something and
>> see differences between two documents that are not immediately adjacent
>> versions.  However, you can fairly easily edit the URL to get what you
>> want.  Simply bring up the diff page for the later document, and add
>> "&url1=XXX" to the end of the URL, where XXX is the document you want to
>> compare against.  Acceptable forms include draft-foo-bar-00 and rfcXXXX.
>> 
>> So, to see the differences between the most recent rfc5101bis and the
>> original rfc5101, try this:
>> 
>> 
>> http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-01.txt&url1=rfc5101
>> 
>> -- Jeff
>> 
>> 
> 

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