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Re: TortoiseMerge / TortoiseIDiff am I missing something?

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-06-17 13:48:53 CEST

Simon Large wrote:

>> 3) Display only file name and revision in the diff pane caption
>> instead of
>> the full URL. The important part of the information is at the right end,
>> where it hidden from the eye. If the Image info including full URL
>> becomes a
>> hint text, the information is still available.
>
> The filename is not always the most important.
> http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/.../trunk/.../TortoiseMerge.png
> http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/.../tags/1.4.99/.../TortoiseMerge.png
>
> A neat solution might be to reuse the inline diff logic in TMerge to
> display only the sections that differ, plus the filename, and have the
> rest as ellipsis. But I'm sure there would be a lot of edge cases that
> fall through.

That inline diff logic might not work so good here. There might be too
many diff chunks - and we'd have to show '...' instead of those chunks
for every one of them. This could lead to very ugly urls.

Stefan

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