Re: "Is a date" checkbox in diff dialog
"kaczoroj" <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:31:38 -0000
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--r6qBFuUa78S7NYAhbrzgJ5jttiORb1tY1pprSZi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kirill, It seems that you can't specify both date and revision for a diff=20 command. I like the idea of automatic detection of date being entered but=20 without disabling the checkbox. Just ticking it is enougth - user=20 must be able to uncheck it because we can never be 100% sure what is=20 a date and what isn't. Best Regards, Jerzy --- In [email protected], "kirillmueller" <mail@...> wrote: > > Hi all, >=20 > I did a few diffs against previous dates recently, and I almost=20 always > forgot checking the corresponding "Is a date" checkbox. Which=20 resulted > in cvs telling me something like "Numeric tag 12:00 contains > characters other than digits and '.'". >=20 > WinCvs could check if the text field contains invalid characters and > tick (and disable) the checkbox automatically in this case.=20 Entering a > valid tag string would re-enable the checkbox, restoring its=20 original > value. Something stupid like checking if the string contains only > digits, colons, dashes, dots and spaces would do as a primer. Or do=20 we > already have portable code that tells if a given string forms a=20 valid > date (especially for Windows)? (Note that "yesterday" and "1 hour=20 ago" > is considered a valid date.) >=20 > Related to this is the following question: Is it possible to diff a > file against a specific time of a specific branch? If so, it would=20 be > an option to re-design the dialog similar to the update dialog. >=20 >=20 > Regards, >=20 > Kirill > --r6qBFuUa78S7NYAhbrzgJ5jttiORb1tY1pprSZi Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> </head> <!-- Network content --> <body style="background-color: #ffffff;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStartT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width:655px; position:relative;"> <div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 490px; padding: 0 15px 0 0; float:left; z-index:1;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEndT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-text"> <p>Kirill,<br> <br> It seems that you can't specify both date and revision for a diff <br> command.<br> <br> I like the idea of automatic detection of date being entered but <br> without disabling the checkbox. Just ticking it is enougth - user <br> must be able to uncheck it because we can never be 100% sure what is <br> a date and what isn't.<br> <br> Best Regards,<br> Jerzy<br> <br> --- In <a href="mailto:cvsgui-dev%40yahoogroups.com">cvsgui-dev@yahoogro<wbr>ups.com</a>, "kirillmueller" <mail@...> wrote:<br> ><br> > Hi all,<br> > <br> > I did a few diffs against previous dates recently, and I almost <br> always<br> > forgot checking the corresponding "Is a date" checkbox. Which <br> resulted<br> > in cvs telling me something like "Numeric tag 12:00 contains<br> > characters other than digits and '.'".<br> > <br> > WinCvs could check if the text field contains invalid characters and<br> > tick (and disable) the checkbox automatically in this case. <br> Entering a<br> > valid tag string would re-enable the checkbox, restoring its <br> original<br> > value. Something stupid like checking if the string contains only<br> > digits, colons, dashes, dots and spaces would do as a primer. Or do <br> we<br> > already have portable code that tells if a given string forms a <br> valid<br> > date (especially for Windows)? (Note that "yesterday" and "1 hour <br> ago"<br> > is considered a valid date.)<br> > <br> > Related to this is the following question: Is it possible to diff a<br> > file against a specific time of a specific branch? If so, it would <br> be<br> > an option to re-design the dialog similar to the update dialog.<br> > <br> > <br> > Regards,<br> > <br> > Kirill<br> ><br> <br> </p> </div> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStart|**|-~--> <span width="1" style="color: white;">__._,_.___</span> <!-- Start the section with Message In topic --> <div id="ygrp-actbar"> <span class="left"> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cvsgui-dev/message/1468;_ylc=X3oDMTM0OTRlNnBrBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0OTMyNDUEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDA3MTgxBG1zZ0lkAzE0NjkEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDdnRwYwRzdGltZQMxMTY1ODgwNDI0BHRwY0lkAzE0Njg-"> Messages in this topic </a> (<span class="bld">2</span>) </span> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cvsgui-dev/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJwdHY3dGRuBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0OTMyNDUEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDA3MTgxBG1zZ0lkAzE0NjkEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDcnBseQRzdGltZQMxMTY1ODgwNDI0?act=reply&messageNum=1469"> <span class="bld"> Reply </span> (via web post) </a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cvsgui-dev/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJlYTdrb2o0BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0OTMyNDUEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDA3MTgxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA250cGMEc3RpbWUDMTE2NTg4MDQyNA--" class="bld"> Start a new topic </a> </div> <!------- Start Nav Bar ------> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <div id="ygrp-vitnav"> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cvsgui-dev/messages;_ylc=X3oDMTJlZGNuMjE1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0OTMyNDUEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDA3MTgxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA21zZ3MEc3RpbWUDMTE2NTg4MDQyNA--">Messages</a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cvsgui-dev/files;_ylc=X3oDMTJmNzI3MzdnBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0OTMyNDUEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDA3MTgxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2ZpbGVzBHN0aW1lAzExNjU4ODA0MjQ-">Files</a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cvsgui-dev/photos;_ylc=X3oDMTJlZDRwcWF0BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0OTMyNDUEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDA3MTgxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3Bob3QEc3RpbWUDMTE2NTg4MDQyNA--">Photos</a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cvsgui-dev/links;_ylc=X3oDMTJmajA1aW9kBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0OTMyNDUEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDA3MTgxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2xpbmtzBHN0aW1lAzExNjU4ODA0MjQ-">Links</a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cvsgui-dev/database;_ylc=X3oDMTJjOTZwdmY2BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0OTMyNDUEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDA3MTgxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2RiBHN0aW1lAzExNjU4ODA0MjQ-">Database</a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cvsgui-dev/polls;_ylc=X3oDMTJmcG42dWZnBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0OTMyNDUEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDA3MTgxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3BvbGxzBHN0aW1lAzExNjU4ODA0MjQ-">Polls</a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cvsgui-dev/members;_ylc=X3oDMTJldmw0ZHNkBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0OTMyNDUEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDA3MTgxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA21icnMEc3RpbWUDMTE2NTg4MDQyNA--">Members</a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cvsgui-dev/calendar;_ylc=X3oDMTJkOHFlZGduBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0OTMyNDUEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDA3MTgxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2NhbARzdGltZQMxMTY1ODgwNDI0">Calendar</a> </div> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- Do not have place to put it yet --> <div id="ygrp-grft"> </div> <!-- yahoo logo --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <div id="ygrp-ft"> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJkOWh2cGlvBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI0OTMyNDUEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDA3MTgxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2dmcARzdGltZQMxMTY1ODgwNDI0"> <img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/yg/img/logo/ma_grp_160.gif" height="15" width="106" border="0" alt="Yahoo! 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