RE: File filters for version control view?

[Ben Ross <Ben Ross scisys co uk>]

> From: meld-list [mailto:meld-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Kai Willadsen

> Meld's version control view always tries to show you whatever your version control is going to show you on 
> the command line, and I personally consider that to be a good design choice. Having said that, several 
> people have wanted this so... even though I disagree, I'm open to the notion that I just don't get it.

> On a technical/UI level, it's a reasonable amount of work to do this.
> The main thing is that it should be *really obvious* that this was happening, and it should probably be 
> untied from the current global on/off setting of the filter. In other words, just because I filter out 
> comment changes in my file comparison doesn't mean that I want to blanket commit files that have 
> comment-only changes when in version control view.

> In short, feel free to file an issue! However, I can't even picture how the user interaction would work at 
> the moment, which means that in my mind, it's a long way off.

The principle that Meld's version control view shows you what your version control shows on the command line 
is good. However considering subversion (which I know best) it does categorise non-version controlled files 
into 2 categories, unversioned and ignored (and recent contact with git suggests to me it might do the same). 
Rather than using melds filtering a better option may be displaying files according to these 2 statuses which 
would continue the principle of showing what the version control shows while allowing viewing of unversioned 
files. Other graphical version control display programs often allow the option to show or not show files in 
either of these 2 statuses.

I am not sure how easy a job it would be to get these 2 statuses across all the version control systems meld 
supports but it seems to me that this would best maintain the original principle.

Ben Ross



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