I often use the "svn blame" feature (and therefore, on Windows, TortoiseBlame)
to get an answer to the question "Who the heck wrote that line, and when and
why?". TortoiseBlame nicely provides all that information in its main view and
the commit message tooltips. The next question that usually arises is, "How did
the line look before that change?" To get the answer to that, I need to to a bit
more work (unless I'm missing something): Locate the file in the Explorer again,
choose "Show Log" from the TortoiseSVN menu, scroll to and select the correct
revision, double-click the file in the list of changed files to get a diff. Or,
choose "Blame" again, and this time use the revision number I found minus one
instead of HEAD. Often, I even have to repeat these steps a second or third time
because I find that the latest change to the line in question was merely a
cosmetic one, and the real change I'm interested in happened earlier.
It would be nice if TortoiseBlame could make this a bit easier by providing some
of the following:
- A revision field at the top of the window that allows me to enter a different
"to" revision (maybe also one for the "from" revision, although I seldom use
that). Maybe a menu or something that shows all the revisions in which the
displayed file has changed and allows me to choose one with one click.
- When I right-click on the "Revision" column in a line that was modified in,
say, revision 454, an entry in the context menu "Blame revision 453" (Or "Blame
previous revision" or something). Whether that new blame should replace the one
currently displayed, or open in a new window, is up for discussion.
- An entry "Show diff" in that context menu that opens TortoiseMerge with the
differences between revision 453 and 454 of the file.
Apart from this nitpicking, thanks for an invaluable tool!
-Christian
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Received on Mon Feb 19 09:30:21 2007