Re: Few suggestions for TortoiseSVN

On 10/1/07, Joel Chen <whitegust@gmail.com> wrote:

> First, I would like to thank you guys for making such a great front-end for
> Subversion. It has helped my work tremendously! Second, I have few
> suggestions for TortoiseSVN.
>
> I suggest that TortoiseBlame and TortoiseMerge be combined together. This
> way we would have greater sight on overall changes. I had read about the
> Merge Tracking on the upcoming Subversion 1.5. It would be nice when
> TortoiseBlame and TortoiseMerge work together along with Merge Tracking.

What does blame has to do with diff? How would you combine those
completely different and unrelated tools? What would be the connection
between those two?
What would you gain by this feature?

> Further suggestion I have is for TortoiseSVN become more developer-friendly.

Great! In case you haven't noticed: we're developers too.

> Currently in TortoiseMerge I can only copy text from the left pane to the
> right pane. It would be more developer-friendly when it could be done
> vice-versa. A great merge tool for reference is WinMerge, available at
> http://winmerge.org.

There's a button/menu entry which lets you swap the left and the right file.

> Now we can compare revisions with 2 or more revisions apart by selecting 2
> revisions in the Revision Graph, or compare working copy with another
> revision through right-click in the Log Messages, or selecting 2 revisions
> in the Log Messages and compare them. Hence, Log Messages seems to have more
> control in comparing revisions than Revision Graph which is quite ironical.

You're statement is correct. But what's your point?
Keep in mind thought that the revision graph is a *graph* and not a
tool to work with. For most projects, it simply takes too long to even
show the graph - the log dialog is faster and should be used for
anything else than showing a graph.

> I had read that the Repository Browser will become Explorer-like in the
> coming version of TortoiseSVN. For developer-friendliness, I suggest
> changing the Revision Graph to become Explorer-like with full revision
> comparison functionality for better viewing and easy navigation. There would
> be 2 modes of view, mode 1 is files(parent) and revisions(child), mode 2 is
> revisions(parent) and files(child).

As my grand grand father used to say: Hää???

Since when can explorer show a graph?
I'm starting to wonder if you even know how the revision graph is
generated or what it actually shows you? You know that it doesn't show
you the same information as the log dialog?

Stefan

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