(I think this revision can be closed now? I still don’t understand Differential.)

I’ve merged this into master now (with my minor fixups squashed into the original commit). Thanks for contributing!

Thanks! (And sorry again for the delay.) I’ve added some fixups in R2422:941b7584a0c3 and deployed the results to Toolforge – is it okay for you if I squash that commit into yours and then push the result to the master branch?

(replying from my private account since this is only a private project so far, though who knows what will happen in the future)

I’m afraid you’re missing something, yes :) the edit appears on your watchlist because it could have affected this page. Specifically:

Thanks for the extra context! I’d definitely be interested to merge this when your new version of the patch is ready (and sorry for the late reply).

Okay, let’s see if I can figure out how code review on Differential works, I don’t think I’ve ever done this before :)

Is this also the task for requesting that the timestamp of a topic should link to the topic page, or should that be a separate task? If I understand correctly, this task as currently phrased is about the timestamps of individual posts within a topic.

I recently fixed the technical limitation that prevented concurrent jobs, so now the tool is limited artificially to no more than two concurrent jobs, as requested. (It’s also not being used very much right now anyways.)

FYI, since it seems there are no open issues with the tool, I’m going to announce it to the community today. Let me know if there are any problems or other questions.

It’s also possible to read the file in reverse, using tac (which uses a bunch of seeks under the hood). For example, I used this successfully to get the submission, start and end time of a recently terminated job: