Just wanted to tag on to Alexander's thread below, and ask some basic questions about changelists. I know that Perforce uses them and I hear about other users such as Alexander who swear by them, but I've not used them and am curious as to why they are so appealing.
Can someone give me a good overview?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Klenin [mailto:klenin@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:06 AM
> To: dev@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Changelists testing
>
>
> On 1/23/07, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/23/07, Alexander Klenin <klenin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Sorry, here is what I did (with TortoiseSVN 1.4.1, Build 8533):
> 1) Open commit dialog with some files to commit.
> 2) On one of files, select 'Create and add to changelist', enter any
> changelist name, e.g. 'test'
>
> What happens:
> File list displays only newly created changelist with one file in it.
>
> What I expected:
> File list displays all the files and changelists it contained after
> opening dialog, with the selected file in its own changelist. This is
> exactly what is displayed if you hit F5 on the incorrect one-file
> list.
>
>
> > > 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?
> Sorry, maybe it is my imagination or the fact that my native language
> is Russian, where such a construct would be grammatically incorrect.
> It seems ambiguous between
>
> "Create [something] and add [it] to changelist" and
> "Create [changelist] and add [something] to [that] changelist".
>
> Perhaps 'Create changelist and add to it' or 'Add to new changelist'
> would be better. Anyway, I prefer <new changelist> submenu item I
> described below, so if you agree, this discussion is moot.
>
> > > 3) 'Add to changelist %s' context menu does not do anything
> [skip]
> > 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.
> Ok, but I think this would be much better handled with a simple
> drag-and-drop between changelists. Even dragging groups of files can
> be implemented, if you deem this feature worthy ;-)
>
> --
> Alexander S. Klenin
> Insight Experts Ltd.
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