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Re: "Display 'moved here' and 'moved away' status in working copy status list

From: Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:52:20 +0300

On 28 September 2016 at 12:49, Stefan Hett <stefan_at_egosoft.com> wrote:
> On 9/28/2016 11:34 AM, Ivan Zhakov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Subversion records moves as first-class operation in the working copy
>> since version 1.8 [1]. For example here is how 'svn status' looks for
>> working copy where file 'foo.txt' was renamed to 'bar.txt':
>> [[[
>> A + bar.txt
>> > moved from foo.txt
>> D foo.txt
>> > moved to bar.txt
>> ]]]
>>
>> But TortoiseSVN only displays this information in a tooltip in the
>> status list. I suggest adding 'moved here' and 'moved away' to
>> TortoiseSVN. See the attached patch and screenshot.
>>
>> [1] https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#moves
>>
>>
> Feedback from a user's point of view (if that's helpful):
> How about only displaying a single entry for both operations as in:
>
> Path Extension Status
>
> bar.txt txt moved from foo.txt
>
>
> IMO that would make more sense to the user and simplifies the
> use-case/UI a bit.
> It will also solve the problem with the current approach that if you
> have two renames/moves, you don't really see which entries are related
> to one another.
>
> I certainly can't say whether combining the two entries to a single one
> will break current use-cases and/or require much work to adjust these,
> so it might be out of question and you already considered (and therefore
> rejected) that idea.
>
1. This will require to user to configure Status column to be very
wide. Just imagine something like:

Path
subversion\bindings\javahl\src\org\apache\subversion\javahl\ClientException.java
 moved from subversion\bindings\javahl\src\org\tigris\subversion\javahl\Exception.java

2. This will be be inconsistent with Subversion command line output

3. There will be no options for user to perform operations on deleted
side of move

-- 
Ivan Zhakov
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