Add ability to toggle full file contents when in Codex Diff view in VSCode

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
vscode
Domain
developer-experience, tooling

Research direction

Start at the VS Code Extension's review flow and Codex Diff view implementation. Trace how the view currently shows only changed lines, then add a user-controlled toggle for full-file contents while preserving change highlighting. Done means the button switches between collapsed context and the complete file view.

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Description

code-review enhancement extension
What variant of Codex are you using?

VS Code Extension

What feature would you like to see?

When I hit review after a set of changes are made, it opens the Codex Diff view. This view is always collapsed to see just the changes that were made by codex and it hides all the unmodified lines. The problem here is I don't often have context to understand the changes made. I need to see the whole file with the changes highlighted. I'm accustomed to seeing that in order to understand what's being changed. Please add a button to toggle this on or off

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