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Re: Feature request - Log dialog

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:39:33 +0100

On 19.12.2009 22:37, Simon Large wrote:
> 2009/12/19 Stefan Küng<tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>:
>> On 18.12.2009 09:23, Lübbe Onken wrote:
>>> Hans-Emil wrote:
>>>> Maybe the wording on the option could be clearer? Unrelated to what?
>>>
>>> I think one of the problem lies in the double negation. We programmers
>>> tend to use boolean logic even when we write text :)
>>>
>>> If we changed "Hide unrelated changed paths" into "Show only changed
>>> paths" or "Show only affected paths", we have a positive option instead
>>> of double negative.
>
> Should this be "Show only selected paths"? That's what we are talking
> about - the paths you had selected in Explorer when the dialog was
> invoked.

Not really. Because "selected" could be misinterpreted as the selected
revision, and then users would wonder about which paths are in the
selected revision.

Stefan

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