I have a feature request. I like to see a different Icon if a version is
"mixed". I think best is a new icon, but also the "modified" Icon is
better than the green "normal" Icon because mixed versions are not
really clean.
The reason is that there are many developers who think that the green
"normal" Icon from TSVN means that their actual working copy is clean
and that they can very easily reproduce all green directories from the
repository. But in fact the green Icon only means that they successful
push their changes into the repository; an update to this revision
number can push prior changes from other people to their working copy.
In the moment I use SubWcRev to indicate this. This can indicate both:
Modified and Mixed versions:
An example:
Status1) Revision No is 1000 and two users (A and B) updates her source
codes to this version.
Status 2) Both Users make changes: There Icon switches from green
"normal" to "modified".
Status 3) User A commits his change: -> Revision 1001 -> Icon switches
from "modified" to "normal"
Status 4) User B commits his change (Without updating and without
conflicts): -> Revision 1002 -> Icon switches from "modified" to
"normal"
Status 5) User B makes an update: -> He gets the changes from Revision
1001. But Icon is the same green "normal" Icon than before.
SubWcRev gives me the following information for the example:
Status 1) Revision 1000 (not modified and not mixed)
Status 2) Both get Revision 1000 with modified attribute
Status 3) A gets 1001 mixed (even if an "update" only pushes the "mixed"
away without getting updates in the source code at the working
copy)
Status 4) B gets 1002 mixed
Status 5) B gets 1002 (without mixed)
At 3) and 4) SubWcrev gives me the information that I have to make an
Update. So in this case another Icon for the working copy's directory is
better to indicate the mixed-revision situation
Best regards
Hans-Werner
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Received on Mon Oct 15 12:07:12 2007