> -----Original Message-----
> From: pdavis152@attbi.com [mailto:pdavis152@attbi.com] On Behalf Of
Peter
> Davis
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:16 PM
> To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: rapidsvn feedback
>
> On Monday 29 July 2002 21:54, Peter Johnson wrote:
> > > This would be less than true. You can update to something other
than HEAD.
> >
> > In that case may be an interface is needed to select the revision or
> > branch?
>
> That's an extremely attractive idea. However, it is important to
avoid
> requiring more clicks than necessary. Just as a suggestion to Paul,
I'm
> envisioning a button like this in the toolbar:
>
> _________ __
> | || |
> | |\ || | << this is the "update" button, in case you can't
tell
> ----- \ ||__|
> ----- / ||\/| << below is the drop-down menu from clicking on
the arrow
> | |/ || | << "Latest" is the default
> |_________||__|________
> | REVISION: |
> |-----------|
> | Latest | << corresponds to "HEAD"
> | Previous | << corresponds to "PREV"
> | Choose... | << pops up a dialog where you enter a
number*
> |___________|
>
> *) It would be really uber-cool to have the dialog be able to browse
the
> revisions (in reverse-chronological order), and let you also see the
log
> messages.
That would be cool.
ClearCase does this with the tree view, which is a wicked interface to
the branches and labels on each version of a file.
> [Whoohoo! I love ASCII art!]
>
> Hopefully this is implementable in wxWindows (WRT the toolbar with the
arrow,
> ala Your-Generic-Internet-Browser's "Back" button).
>
>
> RapidSVN is already very cool. To be able to access the
advanced/edge-case
> uses of all the SVN commands in a non-obtrusive (as in, *not*
WinCVS-style)
> way would be even cooler. BTW I think selection of revisions and
ranges of
> revisions should be allowed for all the buttons.
>
> > > >Commit -> Check in
> > > >Revert -> Check out
> > >
> > > Revert does not mean the same as check out. In fact it means
something
> > > quite different.
> >
> > Please can you be more specific? I'm still learning Subversion.
> > Thanks.
>
> Commit does pretty much mean "check in", I'll give you that. But
"check out"
> is equivilant to, well, the "svn checkout" command, which retrieves a
copy of
> the code into a working directory. There needs to be/remain a
separate
> button for that. Revert means "remove/delete/forget all local
changes",
> which is very different.
>
Thanks for clearing that up, but why is there a way of just getting the
files without checking them out, i.e. leaving them read-only?
Cheers
Peter
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Received on Tue Jul 30 07:16:30 2002