Re: "Retrieve Revision as..." default file name

Oliver,

> The way I use it, the only semantical difference to "View Revision" 
> really is that I want to keep the file for a (little) bit longer, 
> so I would also appreciate the "View revision"-style naming. 

OK, it seems like I'm in the minority here ;)

Since the user has to choose/approve the name any convention is 
acceptable. 

IMHO the suggested name should at least contain the revision in the 
name and look *somehow* different than the real file. To help out the 
Mac users to find the file it will not start with .#. I am not sure 
whether it should have the same extention as original file - it really 
seems like a good idea to append ".bak" to the name which then could 
be removed by the user. E.g.:

foo.cpp.#1.3.45.bak

The view uses:
foo_view_1.1_2

I am open for other proposals though... 

We could even keep the retrieve revision and suggest the selection of 
names discussed in this thread for the users choise (and the Save As 
button), and add the checkbox to skip the dialog and used the 
convention selected by the user as default next time. That way the 
"Retrieve As" becomes a sub-option of retrieve revision (and we could 
even remove it from the menu but that's up for discussion...

Best Regards,
Jerzy



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