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Bug 57468 - [Sync View] Show author, date and comment next in Text Compare
Summary: [Sync View] Show author, date and comment next in Text Compare
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Team (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.1 M2   Edit
Assignee: Michael Valenta CLA
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: 72827 74929 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 241211
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Reported: 2004-04-05 11:46 EDT by Jörg von Frantzius CLA
Modified: 2008-07-17 05:20 EDT (History)
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Description Jörg von Frantzius CLA 2004-04-05 11:46:28 EDT 
It would be nice if the Text Compare (View? Editor?) would not only show the
revision numbers, but also author, date and comment of the compared revisions. I
frequently find myself wanting to know who did that new revision in the CVS and
what for, but then being to lazy to look it up in the Resource History.
Comment 1 Andre Weinand CLA 2004-06-02 19:16:19 EDT 
Moving to Team
Comment 2 Jean-Michel Lemieux CLA 2004-06-03 09:30:13 EDT 
We don't have the APIs to show more details in the compare viewer, also the
viewer doesn't have much screen space. But the good news is that there are
alternatives:

1. open history view and click the link to editor button. When you open a
compare editor the history will be fetched in the background and you can see all
the gritty details.

2. (even better) switch to the Commit Set layout in the synchronize view (e.g.
view drop down Layout > Commit Set. This will allow you to see all incoming
changes grouped by commit comment, user, and date.
Comment 3 Jörg von Frantzius CLA 2004-06-03 09:41:05 EDT 
Thanks for the hints, the "Link with Editor" button is very useful. 

Hm. If you have the revision number of the remote file at hand to display on the
right side of the compare viewer, you really can't easily also get the author of
that revision?
Comment 4 Michael Valenta CLA 2004-06-03 09:47:39 EDT 
We may be able to get the author in the same round trip as the revision but it 
would involve changing our low-level sync to use log instead of status and it 
is to late in 3.0 to consider such a change.
Comment 5 Jörg von Frantzius CLA 2004-06-03 09:58:08 EDT 
OK I understand. So at least with 3.0, I will need another click to see the
author... I hope you don't mind me setting this to target milestone 3.1 :-)
Comment 6 Michael Valenta CLA 2004-08-27 13:13:35 EDT 
I have added a Team>CVS>Compare preference page with the option to show the 
author in the compare editor. The option is off by default since there is an 
overhead associated with fetching the author. Also, the date and commit 
comment are not shown becuase of the lack of space where the information is 
displayed.

Fix released to HEAD.
Comment 7 Michael Valenta CLA 2004-08-30 08:52:06 EDT 
*** Bug 72827 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Jean-Michel Lemieux CLA 2004-09-22 14:36:38 EDT 
verified
Comment 9 Michael Valenta CLA 2004-09-24 09:11:15 EDT 
*** Bug 74929 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***