Re: Feature Idea - Add to explorer context menu - diff working copy with older revisions

Estelle Winterflood wrote:

> TortoiseSVN is absolutely fantastic. There's only one thing that I
> have to do repetitively, and it becomes very time consuming. I
> regularly want to compare my working copy with a slighly older
> revision than the latest. This is because multiple checkins are
> involved with the same change, and I often need to view all the
> related changes in the same diff.

Multiple commits for the same change?
Please read the Subversion book and our docs. Subversion is not VSS or
CVS. You don't commit every file separately but *all* files and changes.

> At the moment, in order to do this I need to use the Show Log option,
> click on a revision, and then select "Compare with working copy".
> This action becomes rather tiresome when its performed over and over
> for different files.

Have you tried showing the log for the parent folder of those files? You
can choose "diff" then there too.

> If anyone can suggest a quick & easy way to quickly compare a working
> copy with a recent (but not the latest) revision... please suggest it!
>
> Otherwise, my feature idea is to have more diff options under the
> windows explorer context sensitive menu, perhaps in a submenu.
>
> E.g.
>
> (main menu)
> Diff
> More Diff Options...
> Show Log
> Repo-browser
>
> (submenu)
> Diff with revision 29
> Diff with revision 28
> Diff with revision 27

Won't do that. The shell extension is kept small, with no
network/repository support at all. To do what you want, we'd have to
contact the repository _just to show the context menu_!!

Stefan

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