Source-focused view enhancements about variantsync

[pmbittner]

I dont understand what "changed feature contexts" mean in this context. Also, feature contexts should not be visible when synchronising because at that point, no feature contexts exist.

[tthuem]

The term feature context was more broadly used here. The idea was that only contexts are shown that have associated and not-yet-synchronized changes. Why should users care about contexts for which no changes exist at this point.

In the old implementation, the feature context was the same as the mapping. An open question is whether we want to show feature contexts in this view or mappings or even both. Filtering by means of mappings could mean that we miss relevant edits during synchronization. For example when replacing a line, the removal would have a different mapping than the added line. Synchronizing changes aligned with mappings could lead to more inconsistencies as when using contexts. Also, it feels that context are a higher abstraction at this point.

[pmbittner]

Thanks for clarification. Good questions that I would like to investigate next month. Currently, the idea was to synchronise edit-based and edits are bound to a feature context. So this is in line with your suggestion.