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Re: Show file sizes in "Show Log" window and similar

From: Felix Saphir <felix.saphir_at_kantarmedia.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:13:30 +0200

Stefan Wild schrieb:
> Am 13.07.2010 13:23, schrieb Felix Saphir:
>> Stefan Wild schrieb:
>>
>>> As Ralf said, it's sometimes useful to know if and how much size
>>> differs between revisions. So you can easily find out if it's a
>>> big or small change without having to use the diff tool.
>>> Unfortunately, some of my coworkers did *not* use the svn comment
>>> feature, so it's impossible to find out information that way.
>>> Besides, you can't even use the diff tool for binary data, which
>>> was the main reason for Ralf to submit this request.
>>
>> Sorry, but I still don't understand how this information could be
>> useful. What exactly do you gain from knowing that the difference
>> is 12.34 kB big? Why should your coworkers put that information in
>> a comment?
>
> they shouldn't ^^' if every commit was made with a detailed and
> easy-to-understand comment, you would know exactly what was changed
> in every revision. But because rather to find such, you could either
> search through every diff to find out if this was just a fixed line
> ending or a great change - or you could look at the sizes. I think
> that's as important to know as the timestamp of the file.

So you want to "know exactly what was changed" from the size of the
diff? I don't think that's what you meant to say. Wouldn't it be better
to "educate" your coworkers to write better commit messages?

Felix

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