Description James Howe 2003-04-08 11:28:10 EDT

I use the CVS decorator feature to help me visually keep track of places in the 
code where I've made changes.  I use the Java Browser perspective and I view 
packages as a list, not a hierarchy.  If I have a package named com.foobar.stuff 
and com.foobar.stuff.tests, when I make a change to a class in com.foobar.stuff.
tests, both the com.foobar.stuff.tests and com.foobar.stuff packages get marked 
as having changes.  I realize why this occurs since Java stores packages as a 
directory structure, but it is misleading to mark the 'parent' project as having 
been modified when it hasn't really been changed.  It would be acceptable if 
there was some way to have different decorators to show that 'something in a 
subcomponent has change' versus 'something directly below me has changed'.  
Ideally no decorator would appear on a 'parent' package, particularly if the 
packages are displayed in a list rather than a tree.