Subclipse Changelog

This file documents all of the changes that have been made to Subclipse since release 0.9.27. Please visit http://subclipse.tigris.org/ for the latest information on Subclipse.

The latest version of this file can be viewed directly from our Subversion repository at http://svn.collab.net/repos/subclipse/trunk/subclipse/feature-plugin/html/changes.html. Please note that the file in the repository may contain information about changes that have not yet been made available in a release. Generally, these changes will be available in the next release but it is also possible that a change will be pulled out due to testing problems.

Version 0.9.32
8 July 2005

from: /trunk/subclipse
http://svn.collab.net/repos/subclipse/tags/subclipse/0.9.32

****** IMPORTANT NOTE ******
This release of Subclipse requires Subversion 1.2 (JavaHL or CLI) on the client. It will not work with Subversion 1.1 on the client. As always, the JavaHL binaries for Windows are included. On other platforms, you should obtain the correct binaries before you install this release.

NOTE to JavaSVN Users: If you want to continue to use JavaSVN you should wait until a corresponding update to JavaSVN has been made available. Then install this update first, followed by the update to JavaSVN.
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• Updated Win32 JavaHL binaries to Subversion 1.2.1
• Eclipse 3.1 GA supported
• Added an HTML changelog to the project and link to it in the online help.
• Added a new preference to enable serializing the status cache to/from disk. The preference is on by default.

  This has the potential to vastly speedup the time from starting Eclipse to having your decorators appear. This is especially true on Windows where the svn status command is much slower than on *nix and OS X.

  You will not see the effect of this change until the second time you start Eclipse after loading this release.

• Several Synchronize improvements. Overall, better refreshing of info in the Synch view, such as when new files/folders are available in repository as well as after performing commit/update locally.
• Added decorator for deleted folders (previously showed modified decorator).
• Make the Checkout progress info more verbose so that you can see stuff is happening even if you do not show the console view.
• Log message and author can now be edited from the Show in Resource History view.
• Enable drag and drop from the Repositories view to the History view. (318)
• Added a new variable "label" to the project decorators. This will use the label you assigned to the repository as the decorator. (309)
• New icon for SVN Repositories view to distinguish it from the icon that CVS uses. (290)
• More help updates
• Modified the Repository Properties dialog so that the repository URL is always shown. It is now shown just above where you set the root URL.
• When the case of Eclipse workspace path does not match the case of the actual filesystem path, we will now issue a warning dialog alerting the user to the problem so they can fix it. There is also a bug filed with Eclipse.org to fix this problem in Eclipse so that it cannot happen. (285)
• Error in Eclipse 3.1 in the Choose Root Url Dialog (307)
• isManaged was not checking that the resource is actually managed by Subclipse. (301)
• Fixed a NPE in the Pending Operations view (302)
• Removed dependency on commons-logging from svnClientAdapter. This could prevent the Subclipse plugin from loading on systems where another copy of the JAR file was located in the JDK extensions folder. svnClientAdapter now use the logging facilities provided in Java 1.4. (267)
• Removed almost all usage of Eclipse "internal" classes. This should make it easier to support future versions of Eclipse since we no longer have to worry about changes to internal classes.
• Fixed bug retrieving property value with cmdline client adapter
• Fixed bug in cmdline client adapter introduced when the "Fetch paths on demand feature was added.
• If no root URL is specified for a repository, we will use the repository URL as entered, instead of returning a null.
• Fixed problem in code that identifies bug ID's in log messages to handle bug ID's that have embedded spaces in them.
• TortoiseMerge changed one of its parameter names. Fixed sample parameters as shown in preference dialog.
• Fixed encoding of command line output when using the cmdline client adapter. This specifically applies to commands where we use outputted XML, such as svn log. (326)
• Commented out some seemingly unnecessary but very performance damaging code at the end of the commit process.

Version 0.9.31
23 May 2005

from: /trunk/subclipse
http://svn.collab.net/repos/subclipse/tags/subclipse/0.9.31

****** IMPORTANT NOTE ******
This release of Subclipse requires Subversion 1.2 (JavaHL or CLI) on the client. It will not work with Subversion 1.1 on the client. As always, the JavaHL binaries for Windows are included. On other platforms, you should obtain the correct binaries before you install this release.

NOTE to JavaSVN Users: If you want to continue to use JavaSVN you should wait until a corresponding update to JavaSVN has been made available. Then install this update first, followed by the update to JavaSVN.
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Subversion 1.2 Support

• Updated JavaHL support to new 1.2 framework, such as Notify2
• Support for new Lock/Unlock commands
  • Added decorators to show files that are locked (not modified) and read-only (needs-lock).
  • Added information to properties page about local lock information.
  • CommitDialog has option to keep Locks on commit
  • Added locking support to validateEdit() method of team provider. This means if you are editing or refactoring resources that require locks, you will be prompted to acquire locks and must get them before you can continue.
• Resolved problems when taking any action that needs to retrieve the contents of a file that has been moved.
• Support --dry-run option on merge from JavaHL adapter

UI Refinements

• New/updated icons
• Fixed location of annotate icon for Log Entries. It was pointing to a resource that didn't exist.
• Resolve action should apply to folders as well as files. Moved ResolveAction from File to Resource contribution (280)
• Removed border from log entry comment field to match other components in the view
• Wrote more HTML help, improved CSS look-and-feel, added images, fixed HTML warning. Updated help index/TOCs

Other Issues

• Copied message keys from Team and CVS plugins. The API of the internal Policy classes has changed in Eclipse 3.1 (283)
• Change the way that the conflict problem markers are created to avoid creating a loop scenario with the decorators.
• Modified update, merge and switch via JavaHL to output "statistics" in the console such as the number of files updated, added, conflicted etc...

Subclipse Repository Restructuring

The repository has been restructured so that there is now a "Eclipse2.x" branch where the old Subclipse release can be modified. The current release has moved from the "subclipse-3" branch to "trunk". The subclipse-3 branch will hang around for a while in case we need to make an emergency fix of some sort for Subversion 1.1.x users.

Version 0.9.30
8 April 2005

from: /branches/subclipse-3
http://svn.collab.net/repos/subclipse/tags/subclipse/subclipse-3-0.9.30

• Reverting a folder property change reverted changes to files in folder. (272)

  This problem would have existed ever since we added the Revert dialog (0.9.23). Since this bug causes you to lose work we are creating an immediate fix release.

The next two problems were NPE's in the new feature to fetch affected paths on demand in the resource history view. You could work around these problems by just turning off the feature in the Team -> SVN Preferences.

• NPE when Showing Resource History on a specific file. (274)
• NPE when Showing Resource History on a branch and then selecting a revision that occurred prior to branch creation. Basically, anytime a resource has been moved. For this fix to work correctly, you need to have correctly set the Repository Root URL in the SVN Repositories view. (275)

Version 0.9.29
7 April 2005

from: /branches/subclipse-3
http://svn.collab.net/repos/subclipse/tags/subclipse/subclipse-3-0.9.29

• Windows JavaHL updated to Subversion 1.1.4
• Subversion 1.1.4 includes a JavaHL fix that resolves a problem when spaces appeared in path names.
• SVN Conflict changes:
  • new decorator used which to distinguish an SVN conflict from an Eclipse Synchronize conflict.
  • Problem marker is now added for an SVN Conflict. This causes the warning symbol to appear, and also "ripple" up the hierarchy. Also it will show in the Problems view.
  • Several "Quick Fix" resolutions are attached to the Problem Marker to assist in resolving the conflict.
• Show in Resource History improvement "Fetch Affected Paths on Demand". There is a new preference to control this feature and it is on by default. This feature greatly reduces the memory usage of this feature, and it also improves performance since a lot less information passes from the server to the client.
• SVN Property management improvements. When adding properties, the list of known properties appear in a drop-down with tool-tip help. The list can be extended by 3rd party plugins.
• Commit Dialog now has a preference that controls whether unversioned resources are selected by default. This preference is off by default, meaning unversioned resources will not be selected.
• Branch/Tag dialog now lets you create branch at a specific revision.
• Added support for auto sharing imported projects (Eclipse 3.1). Added support for auto-adding new projects to version control.

  In Eclipse 3.1 the team plugin allows team providers to be notified when projects with meta files are imported or created in the workspace. When this happens the project is marked as shared and the project's files are marked them as team private.

• svn:ignore action modified to run as an operation.
• More help updates.
• Repository items are now sorted by name.
• Removed some usage of Internal Eclipse API's.
• NPE in username/password dialog when the username is null. Also, null passwords are now allowed. (120, 248)
• When committing just a prop change to a folder, items below the folder are no longer committed. (190)
• NPE from Repository View when it is closed after adding a repository. (242)
• Added some missing message properties. (243)
• Remove calls to getProviderMapping(void) for Eclipse 3.1 M6 compatability.

svnClientAdapter Fixes

• Fixed NPE when the only common item between two paths was the '/' base directory. This caused an NPE at the end of the commit operation. This fix closes several issues and was a very commonly reported problem.
• Enhanced JavaHL console output when copying URL to URL. It now includes the revision being copied.
• Updated DateSpec#toString to return an SVN compatible date string
• Command line client did not support a recursive 'ls' command
• Operations fail when no commit message given (256)
• Added -force-log option for all commands that take a commit message (255)

Version 0.9.28
2 March 2005

from: /branches/subclipse-3
http://svn.collab.net/repos/subclipse/tags/subclipse/subclipse-3-0.9.28

• Added the open and annotate actions to Resource History View (227)
• Improve performance of Compare with Base Revision (165)
• Sort repositories alphabetically (232)
• Fixed error when parsing file:// URL's (222)
• Fixed problem when only the last character of repository names varied. Only one repository would show in view. (234)
• Added support for relative paths in the project set import mechanism. (224)
• Synchronize View - Incoming deletes are now refreshed correctly. Outgoing deletes is now the only problem with refresh.
• Removed logging of command line to console for command like propget and status that are used a lot and have no value in the log.
• When update or merge either produce a conflict, or even when they do a local merge ('G' in the console), the message is now logged as an error so that it gets a different color in the console and also brings the console to the front view.
• Added support in JavaHL Adapter for prompting the user to supply a username/password as well as prompting to accept digital certificate.
• If using the JavaHL Adapter, the best way to configure a repository connection now, is to not supply any username and password. You will then be prompted to supply the password if it is needed, with an option to let Subversion cache it. If server password changes, you just get prompted again and can update the cache.
• Commit Dialog Enhancements
  • A new preference for SVN now exists under Workbench -> Colors and Fonts to specify the font to use for the commit comments. It defaults to Text Font, which should be a monospaced font (which is what we ideally want).
  • Added support for the following SVN properties that can be set on the Project folder (these all come from the same feature in TortoiseSVN):
    • tsvn:logwidthmarker

      If specified, a line will be drawn in the commit comments dialog to show that line number. Many projects like Subversion itself, do not want you to go past 80 lines in a single line of comment. This is an aid to do that properly. You must have a monospaced font for this to be 100% accurate.

    • tsvn:logminsize

      If specified, the OK button will not be enabled until the log comment contains at least this many characters.

    • tsvn:logtemplate

      If specified, the commit comment will be initially filled in with the contents of this property.

• Merge Dialog Enhancements

  Our dialog was modelled on the dialog used in TortoiseSVN. There were some discussions on their mailing lists about improving the UI of this dialog. We are mirroring the changes that they made to their dialog in ours, and added some new options in the process.

  • Layout and terminology was tweaked to reinforce the idea that you a merge is taking the diff between 2 URL/revisions and applying that diff to your WC.
  • A new Show Log button was added that lets you browse the history of the URL and select revisions from that dialog. The "select revision" process tries to figure out what kind of merge you might be doing and act accordingly to help you.
    • If you take Show Log from the WC button, and select a revision, it will apply that revision to the From revision field, provided that it is empty. The idea here is that you are finding the revision for the last time you did a merge and want to use that as the starting point for this merge. This is the "repeated" merge scenario of keeping a branch up to date with trunk or another branch.
    • If the "Use From URL" button is checked and you take the Show Log option from either the From or To revision fields, then the "revision range" you selected will be filled into the two fields. The from revision will be the lowest revision number selected minus one (N -1) and the highest revision will be filled in the To revision. So if you selected just revision 100, then 99 would be the From revision and 100 would be the To revision. This scenario is the "port" revisions from one branch to another scenario.
    • Finally, if the Use From URL button is not checked, then the revision you select is what is filled in to the field, and only that field.
  • In addition to these changes, buttons were added to a Dry run merge and also to produce a Unified Diff file. These two options allow you to "test the merge" settings. As such, both options leave the dialog open so that you can then just press Merge with the same settings.
  • The Dry run option currently only works for the Command Line adapter, but support for this option should make it into JavaHL in svn 1.2 timeframe.

Version 0.9.27
2 February 2005

from: /branches/subclipse-3
http://svn.collab.net/repos/subclipse/tags/subclipse/subclipse-3-0.9.27

• Update JavaHL JAR and library to Subversion 1.1.3.
• Support for LinkedResources
• Added actions to Synchronize view (see NOTE at end of message):
  • commit
  • revert
  • edit conflicts
  • show in resource history
  • mark resolved
  • mark as merged

  This last action is different than Mark Resolved which is for a Subversion conflict.

  Mark as Merged assumes you have manually merged the local copy of the file. What it does is set aside the current file. It then does a revert and an update, followed by a restore of the edited file. This causes the WC to be all set to allow a commit to happen.

• Many help system improvements
• svnClientAdapter fixes
  • NPE when committing on OS X
  • patch to date format parsing in command line adapter
  • improve performance of log with command line adapter
• Fix to properly initialize SVNClientAdapterFactory (206)
• Share Project now launches Synchronize action at finish as dialog states.
• Made Cleanup, Revert and Resolve run as background tasks.
• Updated annotate action to run in the background
• Resolved long standing issue with .svn files showing after checkout and commits of new files.
• Prompted twice when removing a repository root by pressing delete (208)
• NPE choosing no repository root (109)
• Modified Switch/Merge/Branch dialogs to set the text on the radio/check buttons as opposed to using a standard control. (210)
• Improves the UI by making the text clickable.
• UI blocked for several seconds while opening the Resource History view on a resource (213)
• Moved references to internal classes and removed unneeded processing in SVNMoveDeleteHoook.java

NOTE on Synchronize Action: A lot of functionality has been added to Synchronize in this release. The action should be usable now. However, it is important to note that this action is still in development and there are a number of very obvious bugs remaining. The most conspicuous of these are that we have problems correctly refreshing the view after you commit/update. These problems are most obvious when the commit/update involves adds or deletes. In most cases, deleting the synchronization and re-running it will properly refresh everything.