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Re: LogDlg - Show changes for multiple selection

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 17:54:42 +0200

On 23.05.2013 19:03, Friedrich Brunzema wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just noticed that the Show Changes command is only available for
> singly selected items in the Changed File List Control. While that
> is great, I have to do the Show Changes for every single file that I
> want to review. :-(
>
> I currently use Beyond Compare as external diff tool - i'm happy with
> it except for its lack of auto line breaking. The beyond compare tool
> has a tabbed MDI interface, allowing one instance to host multiple
> diff windows.
>
> The TortoiseMerge tool (just looked at it again) is better than I
> remember it to be, but the UI looks terribly busy - its bright colors
> remind me of the old WinDiff tool. Take a look at both attached
> screenshots to see what I mean.

You can configure the colors in the settings dialog.
And if you can come up with better default colors, post a screenshot
with your colors and then we can decide whether to make that the default
or not.

> But this post is about possibly adding functionality that would let
> users multiple-select items in the Changed file list control and make
> the Show Changes command work there too. For up to, say 50 selected
> source files, the Show Changes command would launch multiple
> instances of TortoiseMerge windows. If BC3 is configured, it would
> cause the diffs to load into multiple tabs in one instance of the
> Beyond Compare 3 program.
>
> Useful?

Yes, but use the registry value Software\\TortoiseSVN\\NumDiffWarning as
the 'limit' of number of files: that value is used in the status list
control to show a warning if more than that specified number of files
are selected for a diff.

Stefan

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