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Re: How do I update to latest after "Revert to this revision"?

From: Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:14:08 +0000

2009/2/5 Hugh Gibson <hgibson_at_cix.co.uk>:
>> Yes. TortoiseSVN->Revert.
>
> Great, that did the job.
>
> I had tried SVN cleanup which picked up a few things; and then some files
> were marked with the "conflicted" icon so I deleted those and did an
> "update" to get the latest version, but it had still failed to get the
> most recent.
>
>> The terminology is confusing.
>> ... snip ...
>> Maybe we should change the term used in the log dialog. 'Revert'
>> seems the most natural one, but it does conflict with the existing
>> subversion term.
>
> I've reviewed section 5.9 of the help and have some suggestions:
>
> 1. The menu is shown as an image above the descriptive text for each
> bullet item. Given that there are so many items, it's difficult to match
> up the menu items to the bullets. In fact, it appears that the
> descriptive text for "Revert to this revision" and "Revert changes from
> this revision" have been swapped. Please could the menu text be placed
> above each bullet point?

Good idea. Will do.

> 2. "Update item to revision" appears to selectively obtain updates from
> the repository, for the item on which the log dialog is invoked. The
> descriptive text in the help is confusing in the text "Useful if you want
> to have your working copy reflect a time in the past." Actually, it would
> be useful when you want to apply updates carefully to check the effect.

OK, I'll review this description.

> 3. I suggest that "Revert to this revision" be changed to "Return working
> copy to this revision". It would also include the sentence "To return to
> the latest revision, use "Revert"."

I'm not sure that is any clearer. Certainly I can clarify it in the
docs, but finding a short an unambiguous phrase for the context menu
is not at all easy.

> 4. Then "Revert changes from this revision" could be changed to "Return
> working copy to this revision only". That's a bit wordy, but consistent.
> Again, the descriptive text in the help would include the sentence "To
> return to the latest revision, use "Revert".".

That's not an accurate description. The wordy version would be 'undo
the effects of this revision in your working copy'. Again docs are
easy to improve, but if you need a 30" monitor to display the context
menu ...

> In addition, the message box displayed when the last two items are
> selected could include an extra line saying "To return to the latest
> revision, use "Revert".".

You mean the progress dialog? I guess we could put something there,
like we do when a branch is created using Branch/Tag.

Simon

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