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If one or multiple files are different, the CVS Compare [HEAD] view is opened. But you have to double-click a file in this view to open the Java Structure Compare for example. It would be useful, if the Java Structure Compare of the first file would be opened automatically.
This works as designed. We strive to not hit the server unless requested by the user. Automatically selecting the first file would need to contact the server to fetch the contents of the file. Therefore, we don't do this for free. We do, however, provide easy navigator keystrokes. Use CTRL-. (or CTRL- period) to move to the next change and CTRL-, (or CTRL-comma) to move to the previous change.
Actually, I agree with this enhancement request and actually consider it a bug. Since the user has already asked to compare it should show the first file. But is is even more obvious when comparing an individual file via either the history view or using Team > Compare With. The compare editor is shown but the structure pane shows the full path to the file in the tree and doesn't select the file by default. In my opinion, this requires too many mouse clicks when the user has already said that they wanted to compare the file.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4931 ***
