Revision range in log dialog

I'm a bit mystified by some behaviour of the log dialog.

If I open the log for a folder, select revision 123 and then click 'show log' for one of the files modified in that revision, I get a log dialog for the file. This dialog does not show revisions after 123.

Minor point 1. I'm not entirely sure that it's best to show the log only up to revision 123 -- my thoughts were 'ok, this file was modified here, let's see what other revisions we've modified it in'. However, this may just be my preference.

I then try to get it to show the later revisions. First, I try to change the filter To: date to today. But the date cannot be moved to later. (Neither is it possible to show revisions earlier than the first shown by changing the From: date to earlier.)

Minor point 2. This is perhaps understandable from an implementation point of view, if the dates just act as a filter on the already loaded revisions, but it's not necessarily intuitive.

Ok, let's try the Show All button. Nope, no revisions after 123. I have to click Show Range... and select HEAD to see them. And then, if I click Show All, it goes back to clipping at 123.

Main point. Show All should always go all the way to HEAD.

... and then by accident I clicked Refresh and got the log to HEAD. That was unexpected...

Another thought: How about some visual sign when the revision range shown is restriced. For example an extra revision line at the top or bottom showing '...' as Revision and otherwise blank?

Regards,
Oddvar

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Received on 2009-02-04 17:02:04 CET