Hello!
I want to integrate a custom diffing mechanism for particular file formats. Ideally there would be a link in the merge request view ( Changes ) at the top of some files (see lettering Custom Diff in the following screenshot):
When the user clicks on the link, they are directed to another web application which gets the URLs of the 2 file versions (from the parent branch and the feature branch), and displays the differences visually.
Right now I see following options:
- Changing GitLab’s code itself.
- Creating a GitLab plugin.
- Somehow use Gitaly to modify the way the diffs are presented.
How can I do it? What approach is the best? Is there, maybe, a standardized way to integrate custom differs into the merge request view (apart from this open issue)?
Thanks in advance
Dmitrii Pisarenko