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Re: Revision range in log dialog

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:31:47 +0100

Oddvar Kloster wrote:
> 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.

If you use the log dialog and start another log dialog from that, it's
usually because you *want* to show the log for a specific revision -
maybe the file/folder doesn't even exist anymore in HEAD. So we can not
show the full log because we would get an error if the file/folder
doesn't exist anymore in HEAD.

> 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.)

The date controls work as a *filter* for already shown log entries.

> 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...

That's all by design. I explained why above...

> 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?

Could be done, yes. I'll keep a note...

Stefan

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