Re: [Subclipse-users] 0.9.106: File lost after update

> When I do a synchronize view, I get a list of incoming changes. I expect
> these to reflect HEAD

Correct.

> The notion of Synchronize View is much like doing a "Check for
> Modifications" in TortoiseSVN. It is only meaningful at the moment it
> was run and after that its meaningfulness decreases.

Yes and No. It is true you can use and think of the Synchronize view this
way, but it is meant to be much more than that.

> I expect to see the
> difference between what my working copy has and what HEAD currently is.

No, it diffs the specific revision shown in the view.

> And when I update these, I expect to get HEAD.

That is not how it currently works, but is basically what I am proposing.
Obviously if everyone expected it to work in one specific way there would
be no issue. Unfortunately I think most people would expect to get what
they see in the view.

> I also expect that I get nothing else.

That is how it works today. If I change it to update to HEAD and you
select a folder, then there is a good chance you will get some additional
files.

> Because my expectation does not meet reality, I specifically select the
> files I want to update and update only those.

If I change it to update to HEAD, but you only select specific files, then
you would only get those files. I was proposing that we not use HEAD in
this case, but instead use the revision shown in the view.

> In practice, I find it is better to use Synchronize merely as a "Check
> for Modifications" unless I am the only one working against an isolated
> section of the repository and use Update from the Team menu to get all
> changes.

If that is how you use it, then you probably will not get any problems, but
there are people that rightfully want to use it for more than that, and we
need to make it work correctly for them too.

Mark

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Received on Sun Feb 26 16:07:19 2006