Sorry for a delay -- I was overloaded at work.
Now that I have actually installed recent nightly at work and tried to use it
for several days, I have more comments.
Good news: it is actually tolerable to work with, just slightly worse
then before
(for me, that is, I am sure novice users will find it much easier).
To improve it, I suggest:
1) Put 'Merge' button at the bottom of the dialog, disable it on the
first page --
this will allow skipping the last page which contains rarely modified settings.
2) Create a (hidden?) option to start merge wizard from the second page
(because 99% of time users would select first radio button on the first page).
This will reduce common case back to a single dialog, while retaining
interface simplifications.
Anyway, even if you reject my suggestions,
the current wizard is quite usable, just inconvenient.
Other good news: Revision range list and 'merge all' features look powerful.
Bad news: these features do not (yet) work ;-)
My most common use case is to merge all revisions from topic branch into
either a review branch or trunk.
1) When merging a range of revisions from branch to trunk, only
globally consecutive
revision numbers gets translated into ranges. Correct behavior would be
to make ranges from all revisions which are consecutive on the selected branch.
This is a serious regression, as it essentially forces me to enter
revision ranges by hand.
I could take a look at fixing this, but not very soon, I am afraid.
2) Although 'merge all revisions' does what it is intended to do,
it is not what users expect -- I already asked three developers at my company,
and not one of them intuited it correctly.
What I (and them) want it to do is to take all revision from
selected branch not yet merged into the branch of the working copy.
--
Alexander S. Klenin
Insight Experts Ltd.
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Received on Tue Nov 6 05:40:20 2007