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After some changes, I do a "synchronize with repository". Only outgoing changes. Good. Now I have a last look at my work, before pushing it to CVS, using the view "Synchronize / Outgoing Mode". I have asked Eclipse to allways show me the results of structural compare in my preferences. So what I get is the three subwindows "Structure compare", "Java structure compare", and "Java source compare". And of course, Java source compare shows me my changed file and the repository version. I have two pairs of white "up down" - arrows to choose from to navigate from one change to the next. The "global" one is in the menu bar of the "Sychronize / Outgoing Mode" view. I've come to expect, with F2, that this pair of arrows moves me from one file to the next. The second one is in the "Java structure compare" and should has thus far moved me within that file. It doesn't work that way any more, and it does not work at all any more. Pressing the global arrows sometimes moves me to the next error within the Java file. Until I reach the end of that Java file. At that point, the semantic of the global arrows change. Now, a hit to the "next" arrow moves me to the next source - but only in the plain "structure compare". The Java source compare and the Java structure compare remain on whereever they happened to be. A second hit to the same arrow move me to the next source still - and both Java views remain on the original, first source. I can synchronize those Java by double clicking in the "Structure compare" window. That changes the global arrow semantics back to what I've described first. This worked differently with F2. I'm filing this bug against F3. I'm not sure I liked the F2 behaviour too much. It might be worth a consideration to simply have only one pair of arrows and simply step from difference to difference. But at least, the F2 behaviour was comprehensible and consistent.
Moving to Team for commenting...
The behavior I see in 2.0.1 with multiple outgoing changes to java source is the following: 1) Hitting the down arrow selects the first file in the Structure Compare window and the first change in the Java Source Compare. The Java Structure Compare for the proper file is shown but nothing is selected. 2) Hitting the down arrow again will select the next change in the Java Source Compare for the current file 3) When the last change in the current file is reached, the down arrow then selects the first change in the Java Structure Compare pane and the Java Source Compare shows just the element in question. 4) Hitting the down arrow again will select the next change in the Java Structure Compare for the current file 5) When the last entry in the Java Structure Compare is reached, the next file is the Structure Compare is selected and the cycle repeats itself. It is strange that you would cycle through the same file twice (one in the Java Source Compare and then once in the Java Structure Compare) but other than that the forward and back buttons worked and the panes updated properly.
The 3.0 sync view has changed considerably so this may no longer be valid.
