Making your source code more accessibleFinally a decent source code browser

Source control browser

The one thing Subversion, Git, CVS, Perforce and ClearCase all have in common is the lack of a high-quality web-based source code browser.

FishEye gives you an effective, consistent Web-based interface for all your source control systems.

Awesome Diffs

Version control is all about source code changes, so it's important to be able to view changes easily. FishEye includes the best side-by-side Web-based diff viewer ever shipped for Subversion, Git, Perforce, ClearCase or CVS. Panes scroll synchronously in all directions, and you can adjust context, white space treatment, keyword expansion, and more.

The unified diff view is pretty good too. The enhanced diff (or ediff) feature highlights words that have changed rather than lines or characters, making changes easier to understand.

When searching for anomalies, you can step back through each diff one commit at a time to find the offending changeset (commit). Or view all the diffs for a changeset on a single page.

Hands down the best browser-based side-by-side diff for SVN, Git, CVS, Perforce or ClearCase.

Hands down the best browser-based side-by-side diff for SVN, Git, CVS, Perforce or ClearCase.

  • Hands down the best browser-based side-by-side diff for SVN, Git, CVS, Perforce or ClearCase.
  • FishEye's ediffs (enhanced diffs) show changes at the word level for improved readability.
  • FishEye supports standard diff options like white space treatment and keyword expansion (SCM dependent).
  • Each changeset has a single page view that shows the commits contents in a tree view which includes all its diffs.

Useful Annotations

FishEye annotates each source file with the author, commit, and date of every revision and every line of code. You can choose colour highlighting by age or author to give you more insight into the file. Colour annotations can highlight files with lots of authors, lots of churn, even code within stable files that many developers have touched.

You can step back through each revision or skip directly to the revision when a line was introduced to see its original context.

Various charts give you background information at the file level, like which people have worked on the file over time, how the line count has grown, even how many changes have been made to it.

Age highlighting helps you see recently touched and high churn sections of files.

Age highlighting helps you see recently touched and high churn sections of files.

  • Age highlighting helps you see recently touched and high churn sections of files.
  • Author highlighting gives a rough indication of how many people have been involved in a file.
  • The annotation charts provide a historical context to the file you are viewing.
  • You can go to the full changeset or jump back to the revision a particular line was introduced in.

Fast navigation

Your source tree can quickly become deep, complicated and downright ugly. FishEye has QuickNav (the search box in the top right corner) so you can jump to where you need to go within a few keystrokes. Just start typing and FishEye will suggest a destination.

File names, partial paths, wild cards, and even camel case phrases can take you straight to a directory, file or chart. User names, issue keys or any commit message comment will work too.

FishEye has a built in bookmarking system. Click on the star next to paths you frequent, searches, commits, even charts - anything you want to come back to later.

The QuickNav menu take you deep into your source control system with a minimum of clicks.

The QuickNav menu take you deep into your source control system with a minimum of clicks.

  • The QuickNav menu take you deep into your source control system with a minimum of clicks.
  • QuickNav understands camel case so you can find long file names in a few key strokes.
  • The Favourites menu lists your bookmarked items so you can navigate to a location, search or chart with a single click.