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Re: Show file sizes in "Show Log" window and similar

From: Bjørnar Skinnes <bskinnes_at_broadpark.no>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:46:01 +0200

Den 14.07.2010 11:49, skrev Stefan Wild:
> Am 13.07.2010 15:13, schrieb Felix Saphir:
>> Stefan Wild schrieb:
>>> Am 13.07.2010 13:23, schrieb Felix Saphir:
>>>> Stefan Wild schrieb:
>>>>> As Ralf said, it's sometimes useful to know if and how much size
>>>>> differs between revisions. So you can easily find out if it's a
>>>>> big or small change without having to use the diff tool.
>>>>> Unfortunately, some of my coworkers did *not* use the svn comment
>>>>> feature, so it's impossible to find out information that way.
>>>>> Besides, you can't even use the diff tool for binary data, which
>>>>> was the main reason for Ralf to submit this request.
>>>> Sorry, but I still don't understand how this information could be
>>>> useful. What exactly do you gain from knowing that the difference
>>>> is 12.34 kB big? Why should your coworkers put that information in
>>>> a comment?
>>> they shouldn't ^^' if every commit was made with a detailed and
>>> easy-to-understand comment, you would know exactly what was changed
>>> in every revision. But because rather to find such, you could either
>>> search through every diff to find out if this was just a fixed line
>>> ending or a great change - or you could look at the sizes. I think
>>> that's as important to know as the timestamp of the file.
>> So you want to "know exactly what was changed" from the size of the
>> diff? I don't think that's what you meant to say. Wouldn't it be better
>> to "educate" your coworkers to write better commit messages?
>>
>> Felix
> that wasn't really what I meant to say. But as some of you probably know, the size is an important attribute for a file - such as time and file name.
> You surely know how software engineers are... @Konstantin: you can also write "too much" or "something" as a comment if you are forced to.
>
> After all, me and surely some others would benefit from this feature, and it seems that adding this feature would cost less time than to discuss if it's really necassary and why and for whom.
>
> Again, it's at last your choice.
>

Consider using the bugtrac:xxx properties as explained in the tsvn help
file to couple the commit to the bug tracking system by ids. This will
give you an extra box in the commit ui to input that id.

For the the discussion: even though it might be easy to implement, it is
not a good feature to have tsvn show *a lot* of file sizes, in that I
mean that you would get too much information, that would waste my time
when my brain needs to ignore that unuseful info.

Ohh, a big change is not neccesarily an important change.

Bjørnar

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