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Bug 179604

Summary: Ability to right-click in Package Explorer and select Show Changes
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Marc Eaddy <marc.eaddy>
Component: MylynAssignee: Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status: CLOSED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 Keywords: helpwanted
Version: 1.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Marc Eaddy CLA 2007-03-27 15:52:45 EDT 
When filtering the Package Explorer view using the context for the currently active task, I'd like to be able to right-click on an element and select "Show Changes."  Mylar would find the CVS version corresponding to the task id, and open a Compare Version window that compares that version with the previous one.  This would allow the user to quickly go through the context to see exactly what was changed.
Comment 1 Mik Kersten CLA 2007-03-29 11:38:18 EDT 
Nice idea.  Would need contributions to get this into 2.0.  

The current manual work-around would be to open the History view on the element and scan for comments matching the active task ID.  I don't find myself doing that much so it would be helpful if you could list some use cases, but I'm CC'ing Eugene since he might like this too.
Comment 2 Eugene Kuleshov CLA 2007-03-29 11:55:22 EDT 
Generally it sounds like an attempt to work around CVS limitations. In subversion you can see all resources changed within same commit. There is a half-dead plugin for CVS that reads cvs log to show similar history.

Anyways, the current CVS workflow is like this: show cvs history / open corresponding task / then look at the Context tab in task editor. But the problem is that context tab only show context for the active task.

Another issue is that you can't actually see what exactly changed. I.e. need to open comparison editor or provide some kind of linking between context browser and History view. I think preselecting resource in History view should be easy, but we won't be able to match/preselect revisions.
Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST 
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