Hughes, Bill wrote:
> What I have often seen (I nearly said 'is usually done') is to have
> the line numbers more obvious is to give them a different background
> colour.
That is harder, and I think Nathan's rev/author/line layout will make it
clear enough.
> As an option possibly - and it would be nice to have some control
> over the formatting,
> thanks to many years on mainframes I actually prefer my date/times to
> look like this:
> 041102 16:58:35, or even 041102:16:35 to save even more space - with
> an option to show the seconds too if desired. I'm even tempted to go
> as far as 041102:1658 personally.
That level of customization doesn't appear anywhere else in SVN or TSVN,
so I am not very tempted to add it here ;-)
> Also if one were to move the date and time into the log message
> pop-up then why not the author also?
Because Blame does its colourizing based on rev and author, so I would
not want to take those 2 primary fields out of the display.
> For those who prefer it all they would need would be the revision and
> line numbers.
>
>> To avoid revision number vs. line number confusion, why not
>> keep the revision number on the left, but put the line number
>> after the username, right next to the actual lines?
> This makes sense to me. This is how some of my editors work and is
> fairly obvious.
That seems sensible to me too.
> Ideally it would be nice to be able to control the format of the
> date/time displays and the order (and presence) of the columns.
> More practically it may be the best compromise to move the date, time
> and id fields into the log pop-up and only show the revision and line
> numbers. Line number display should be optional as well.
I'm keeping this simple. If you would like to supply a patch ...
> Another idea is a second window that contains only a list of the
> revision numbers in the file being examined and their associated date
> time and id fields. This could be 'summoned' by a button if that is
> practicable.
As I said before, changing existing text format easy, adding windows
hard.
I may have time to look at this tonight.
Simon
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Received on Thu Nov 4 09:58:24 2004