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I20050201-0800 When I open the CVS Resource History view (or use linking) it show the current file with * in fron and bold but I cannot see which version of the file is actually checked out into my workspace (or if it even is in my workspace). We could indicate the selected file in bold and the checked out one with a *.
The resource history view does show the checked out version of a file in bold and with an asterix (or at least it is supposed to). Are you not seeing this? If so, you will need to provide the steps to reproduce, because this works for me (or perhaps I am misunderstaning what you are saying, in which case, please clearify).
1. open the resource history for a file 2. enable linking 3. double-click on a different revision ==> the resource history updates and marks the opened bold with *
Unfortunately, there are a coupld of things that make this impractical: 1) There can be multiple local copies of a file 2) If the history view is opened on a remote file, finding the local one would require a complete traversal of al projects mapped to that repository as it is possible to configure local workspaces to be rearrangements of the remote structure.
Of course I agree with scenario 1) but for me the 80% use case where I'm interested in that info is either having a local file open (==> info is known) or looking at an outgoing/incoming change (==> local info is know too). In comment 1 you wrote: The resource history view does show the checked out version of a file in bold and with an asterix (or at least it is supposed to). ;-) Please reconsider.
Here's a simpler solution that would fit most needs: what selecting the revision that was selected to feed the view (i.e. the input)?
OK, that makes sense to me. Just to summarize: - if a local file is used to populate the history view, it should remain highlighted with the * indicating that it is the local copy in you workspace - as other versions are opened, the bolded revision would indicate the version that is in the active editor An additional behavior could be that the asterix only appears when the view is seeded by a local file or if a local file is contained in the active editor (to cover the case where the file may be in twp projects).
Just to clarify whether I understood it correctly: - currently * and bold always denote the same entry, right? This would be changed so that * would mark the local file if it was used to seed the view. I like the additional behavior mentioned in comment 6. >- as other versions are opened, the bolded revision would indicate the version >that is in the active editor Yes if opened from the CVS History view; the * remains with the local file. In addition, if editor tracking is enabled, it should be smart enough to handle switching between local file and versions of that same local file i.e. not start to seed the input from scratch.
In 3.2, the * now tracks the last local copy that was used to populate the view and uses selection to idnciate the revision for the active editor or selection.
It now fits most of my needs. The only scenario that's a bit strange is when the input itself is a revision and then this revision gets a (*). Maybe we could put the (*) only if the input is in the workspace.
Makes sense. Could you open a new enhancement request for that?
Sure, it's bug 147857.
