Description Alexander Gurov 2007-11-29 04:27:17 EST

Dear Developers,
 
One thing I find very helpful in SVN vs CVS is the ability to view a history of the changes over an entire project (rather than just a single file).  It would be great to have an "Export Log" function button from the history view, so that this information could be sent to a file.
 
Subclipse allows good filtering, but no way to get the history list to a file.  TortoiseSVN has even better filtering, but you need to copy to clipboard to get the list and then paste it to a file.  The clipboard is also the extraction method for Subversive, but it lacks date-range or revision-range filtering.  Early CVS eclipse support had a ChangeLog plugin, but it had bugs and lost support in later eclipse versions.
 
A great way to differentiate yourself from other version control clients would be to support a History Report file output feature, combined with better filters than you currently have.  Add date and/or revision range filtering, and a file-export button and I would be very happy.  Add support for configuring which columns from the history to include in the file output, and log entry formatting in general, and I would be even happier.
 
Thanks,
Fred P. Andresen
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Protedyne Corporation