Re: [platform-vcm-dev] History view updates

["Jean-Michel Lemieux/OTT/OTI" <Jean-Michel_Lemieux@xxxxxxx>]

I think the text viewer is great for showing the multiline comments - it's actually really useful for non-multiline comments that are too wide to be seen in the comments column! 

Now that we have a CVS history viewer we can take advantage of the information CVS can provide to understand the history of a file (e.g. to see what information is available see the CVS web interface). Alternately to showing the date we can show the age. Tags can be shown as branch points, and tags. Changes between revisions can show the breath of a change.

It could possibly look something like:

Name           Revision Age         Comment     Branch Tags             Branch For Changes w/Previous        
======== ======== ====== =========== ====== ============== ========== ==================
plug.xml 1.5         3 days change some MAIN          v2_0_0, v2_0_1 R3_0            +24 -1 lines

This is not high priority... just some ideas.

Jean-Michel

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New features of the History View:

-Can now open a remote file by double-clicking, or by selecting Open from 
the popup.

-Multi-line comment support! By default there is a small text viewer 
beneath the history view. You can hide it by using the pull-down menu of 
the view if you don't like seeing it. When you select a revision, the 
comment is displayed in the text viewer. I think I'll leave it on by 
default because I'm convinced that we are nearly the only people in the 
world who regularly use single-line comments, all other repos I've seen 
use massively-multi-line release comments. If you don't like it, turn it 
off and your setting will be remembered.


To do:

-Can't Compare with Each Other yet, we have to work out our Sync story 
before I implement this.

-Can't select an IResource and populate the history view. Michael is in 
the middle of writing the supporting core method for me.

-Drag and Drop is implemented but doesn't work yet due to the previous 
point.


With this I think the history view is pretty much at the state that we had 
in the old VCM world, so I think I'll leave it for now.

james
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