On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:14:38PM +0900, Peter Johnson wrote:
>> _______ __
>> | || |
>> | |\ || | << 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*
>> |___________|
[ ... ]
> That would be cool.
Sounds good. But please remember that "svn update" is also used to go
to the HEAD of a different branch. This is different from going to the
_version_ which is on the HEAD of the branch, since the latter will
prevent you from commits. (Could somebody please confirm what I am
writing here? I just deduced from CVS which makes a distinction
between branch-revisions and ordinary revisions.) If it is true what I
wrote so far, then there should be a possibility to make a distinction
between a specified revision and a name of a branch. So I would like
to extend the picture:
_______ __
| || |
| |\ || | << 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"
| Branch... | << pops up a dialog where you enter a number
| Previous | << corresponds to "PREV"
| Revision... | << pops up a dialog where you enter a number
|_____________|
Also note the changed order. I think most of the times you want to
update to HEAD of some branch. Updating to a specific revision is a
pretty rare operation, mainly used when you need to reproduce a bug
which can't be reproduced on HEAD. YMMV!
Further, the dialog that pops up when you choose "Revision..." or
"Branch..." should let you enter a TAG-name respectively a branch-name.
It would be great if this dialog could let you do the browsing in the
revisions tree.
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-- Josef Wolf -- jw@raven.inka.de --
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Received on Wed Jul 31 18:49:52 2002