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Re: [TSVN] Creating branches/tags from older revisions?

From: Simon Large <slarge_at_slarge.plus.com>
Date: 2005-02-25 18:31:51 CET

SteveKing wrote:
> Simon Large wrote:
>> For the branch/tag dialog, I think it would be useful to add a text
>> field reminding you where the tag is being taken from (path@HEAD or
>> WC with local mods).
>
> The checkbox already indicates this. Maybe we can change the text of
> the checkbox, but an additional text is too much IMHO.

What it doesn't tell you is that the server copy is always from HEAD,
regardless of the revision you switched your WC to. We can document it
in the manual, but it is not obvious that the WC rev will be ignored.

>> It could be useful to add a 'revision:' editbox for the server copy
>> (and a showlog button to pick the rev). But maybe this is just
>> unnecessary work when there are other ways of doing the same thing.
>
> Too much options in one dialog... We should keep it as simple as
> possible.

Yes, fair comment.

Simon

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