[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Re: [TSVN] suggestion: repo-browser dialog starts empty,but it oughtto be initialized with file-path to selected file repository

From: Simon Large <slarge_at_slarge.plus.com>
Date: 2005-05-28 23:03:58 CEST

SteveKing wrote:
> Simon Large wrote:
>> h.larsen@risoe.dk wrote:
>>
>>> When starting repo-browser (right-click->TortoiseSVN->repo-browser),
>>> the path in the dialog is initially empty. Recent repositories are
>>> in the combo-stack ready for selection.
>>>
>>> This could with advantages be changed to..
>>>
>>> IF ( a single folder is selected at the moment of right-click )
>>> THEN the path is filled in with the full file-path to that folder.
>>
>>
>> Not quite. Repo browser needs a URL not a file path. However, I was
>> thinking about something similar. If you right click on a folder and
>> it contains a subversion repository, convert that path to a file://
>> URL and initialise the URL box with that.
>
> As of revision 3536, if you right-click on a local repository, the
> repobrowser directly browses that repo. No need to first enter that
> URL anymore.

Even better :-)

>>> Functionality could probably be augmented to also cover server based
>>> repository-paths:
>>> a) Have a shortcut to your server or file repository.
>>> b) Select it.
>>> c) Right-click->TortoiseSVN->repo-browser
>>> =>
>>> The path to the repository on the server (or file, whichever
>>> applies) is extracted from the short-cut and pasted into the
>>> repo-dialog. Similarly to what is described below with file
>>> repositories.
>>> In case you have many repositories (file or server based), this
>>> could definitely be handy,,, I imagine.
>>
>> That might be useful. If you start repo browser from a working copy
>> it already goes straight there, but this could be useful for
>> repositories that you want to browse often without having them
>> checked out.
>
> TSVN ignores shortcuts completely. We once (very, very early in the
> project) also used shortcuts and showed the context menu for them. But
> that turned out to be a nightmare (users wanted to have the shortcuts
> versioned too, and that's not possible if you follow the shortcuts).
> But, you can create a shortcut to TortoiseProc.exe for each repository
> you browse often, and just add '/command:repobrowser
> /path:"url/to/repository" /notempfile' to the shortcut command line
> (I'm having three such shortcuts on my desktop too...)

Maybe I should add this to the HowTo.

Simon

-- 
       ___
  oo  // \\      "De Chelonian Mobile"
 (_,\/ \_/ \     TortoiseSVN
   \ \_/_\_/>    The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control
   /_/   \_\     http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Received on Sat May 28 23:06:57 2005

This is an archived mail posted to the TortoiseSVN Dev mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.