Re: Changelists testing

On 1/23/07, Alexander Klenin <klenin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand that new 'changelist' feature is not ready yet, but I am
> so excited about it I could not wait ;-) So I downloaded an tested
> last nightly, and below are issues I noticed.
> You probably know some or even all of them, but still perhaps this
> list will be useful to you:
>
> 1) Changelist captions have a context menu with a single item, which
> does nothing.

not yet, but it will soon.

> 2) After using 'Create and add to changelist' on a file, all other
> files disappear from commit dialog list. After pressing F5 everything
> restores files appear again.

more info here please. If I do that, the files don't disappear but are
automatically put into the "(no changelist)" group, but they're still
shown. So you must be doing something different than what I do, and I
need to know what to fix this.

> BTW, the item caption seems awkward to me, I can not think of a better
> one, but see below.

'awkward' is as unspecific as you can get. What exactly don't you like?

> 3) 'Add to changelist %s' context menu does not do anything, because
> it is shown only for files which are already in the mentioned
> changelist. I think this item should actually be submenu 'Add to
> changelist...' with each existing changelist as a separate submenu
> item.

It should only be shown if multiple items are selected with one or
more belonging to an existing changelist. Then those items not
belonging to the same changelist as the others can be added to it.

but the submenu is a good idea.

> Plus, possibly, an item for <new changelist> -- in that case, the
> 'Create and add to changelist' item could be eliminated.

not bad. I'll think about that some more...

> 4) I am sure you already thought of it, but still -- the most
> important thing about changelists is ability to quickly
> select/unselect all its files as a group. The ideal implementation
> would be a checkbox to the left of changelist name. However, it seems
> to me that it will not be easy to implement with the technique you
> used to display changelist captions. Or am I mistaken?

I don't know yet. Have to find out.
I also thought about a combobox with all the changelist names in it to
select the items. But the checkbox would definitely be much better.

> 5) Whether or not the checkbox will not be implemented, a context menu
> for changelists should IMHO contain, besides obvious 'Select /
> unselect all files in changelist' also 'Select only this changelist'
> item. It will make easy to commit changes form one changelist only --
> I think it will be the most often used method, so much so that perhaps
> it deserves 'default' slot.

The default slot for the changelist title at least :)

Stefan

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