Matt Doran wrote:
> A bit of background .... I recently wanted to revert part of a change to
> a particular file in a previous commit. Because I didn't want to revert
> all of the changes in the given file I could not use the built-in revert
> functionality. So what I needed to do was diff a file between the
> revision prior to the change and the working copy. Then I could use
> Beyond Compare (the excellent diff tool) to assist reverting the changes.
>
> I initially looked at the changes made in that revision, and without
> thinking I started reverting changes ... but all I was doing was editing
> the "svnXXX.tmp" files ... and I didn't realise until I'd already closed
> the application. Maybe I should pay more attention!! :( .... which
> leads to the first feature request ...
>
> FR1: Make the temp files generated for the diffs read-only. I
> don't think there's ever a reason to edit these files. If the user
> really want to edit them, they can modify the read-only flag. This
> way you can't accidently waste your time editing the files.
Filed as issue #156:
http://tortoisesvn.berlios.de/issues/index.php?do=details&id=156
> After I realised my mistake, I wanted to do a diff between my working
> copy and the revision prior to the change, but found that there was no
> menu option to diff a single file from a previous rev with the WC
>
> FR2: In the log window when you right-click on a file in a modified
> file from a previous revision, it would be good if you could diff
> this against the working copy. I guess in my case, I'd really want
> to diff the WC against the version of the file prior to the change
> (i.e REV-1) ... and I think this would be the common case.
We once had the "show differences" command do the diff from rev-1 to the
wc, but that was not what people expected (they clicked on rev, not rev-1).
> Because I didn't have FR2, I tried to right-click the revision in
> question and select "Compare with Working Copy". This opened the
> multi-file diff tool which *almost* did what I required. But I'd like
> to use Beyond Compare instead of the built-in diff tool. I have my
> external diff tool set to Beyond Compare, but it still used the built-in
> tool.
>
> FR3: Would it be possible to make the revision diff functionality
> use the external diff tool? It would mean still popping up the list
> of changed files, but when double-clicking the file, it would use
> the external diff tool. This would be great.
Can you please try a nightly build? I can't reproduce this with HEAD.
Stefan
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Received on Thu Aug 11 19:48:11 2005