Hi Steve, and thanks for your response.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:40:15PM +0200, SteveKing wrote:
> Francis Irving wrote:
> >- If I have shortcut to a folder, and right click on it, I don't get the
> >TortoiseSVN options. For example, I have a shortcut to my project
> >directory on the quicklaunch bar. I'd like to be able to right click on
> >it and do SVN Update or SVN Commit.
>
> In the very early days of TSVN, that was implemented. But then we got
> all kinds of problems with those shortcuts, so I dropped them.
> - The overlays aren't shown on those shortcuts
That's true, but not a big problem.
> - Different windows versions treat shortcuts not always the same, which
> lead to some very strange crashes
I've never seen this with TortoiseCVS, it's a shame if it does happen
> - Shortcuts are _files_, which when treated as shortcuts can't be
> versioned anymore (and that's what some people really want to do).
Yes, that's true. The solution is to treat them as files if they are
in a directory under subversion control (i.e. with a .svn folder), and
treat them as shortcuts (act on the target) when they are not.
> >- The context menu when right clicking on a file which could be added to
> >subversion, could contain the Add option on the top level menu (where
> >update and commit go), rather than the TortoiseSVN submenu.
> > - Similarly, when right clicking on a changed file, the Diff option
> > would be better on the top level menu.
>
> Settings dialog, look&feel tab. You can there define yourself which menu
> entries should show up on the top menu or the submenu.
Yes, but I'm suggesting the default should be different.
> >- When I click "Get All" in the log messages dialog, I find the dialog
> >"Shall the log stop on a copy" very confusing, and an unnecessary
> >interupting modal dialog. It would be better to either 1) Always get
> >everything, but mark with a line in the dialog where the first copy was,
> >so people can see where a branch started. 2) Have two buttons on the
> >log messages dialog "Get to Branch Start", "Get All History", which
> >appropriately ghost themselves out.
>
> I guess the second option here is better. But should I add another
> button as you suggested or add a checkbox with "stop on copy"?
Yes, that sounds good.
> >- I expect the message log to have everything in straight away, and find
> >it confusing that it doesn't. Possible solutions: 1. Couldn't you run a
> >"Get All" in a background thread automatically? 2. Could make it
> >clearer at the top of the dialog that the log is incomplete, perhaps by
> >putting the Get All button inside the top list box (appearing at the
> >end, and saying something like "Get more..."), or if it is hard to make
> >the buttons just add a row saying "To get the rest of the history click
> >Get All".
>
> I don't like (1) at all. You see, if you get the logs for example for
> the subversion repository (try an 'svn log -v' > testfile) you download
> around 7Megs of text data! That's really a lot, and can bring down a
> server really quickly if all people would do that often. Sure, for
> smaller projects or new projects the data amount will be much much
> smaller, but there are even bigger projects around than Subversion itself.
Ah, I'm confused here. I'm doing the log on just one file, which is
unlikely to have 7Mb of history. Are you talking about cases of
recursively logging the entire repository?
> I think it should be clear without adding additional hints: the "Get
> All" button is only visible if you don't have the full log fetched the
> first time.
> Stefan
>
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Francis
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Received on Tue Oct 26 20:40:01 2004