improving the cvs UI

Am 05.02.2004 um 13:12 schrieb Oliver Giesen on the cvsgui list:

> There once existed a patched WinCvs 1.3b5 under the name of MGMAddon
> (http://mgmaddon.sf.net) which implemented a feature called "command
> output visualizing" (http://mgmaddon.sf.net/cvs_output.htm) which, when
> combined with Query Update or Status could be used as a kind of "update
> preview". It basically presented the result of certain commands
> (checkout, export, update and status) in a new _static_ file view
> window. I think that was a nice idea.

Wow, I didn't know this exists...
Jerzy, what are your thoughts about leveraging this approach to provide 
a more GUI like output? One of the things I'm sorely missing in MacCvs 
is the ability to e.g. select a conflicting/locally modified/updated 
etc. file directly from the cvs output and do a diff, or open it in my 
editor to fix the conflict.
Right now, one would need to go to the browser, either turn on flat 
mode with the appropriate filters, or browse to the file location and 
then one can perform operations on the file. While this is not _all_ 
that much work, it's enough to wish I could directly interact with the 
cvs output.

This approach seems to provide a good basis for improving the display 
of the cvs output...

I could imagine a window being created for each cvs operation you do 
(unless there just is no output at all). Of course, this might be an 
option, so if you happen to like the console output for some reason or 
other, you could keep it with plain console output...
The advantage of having one output window per operation is that you 
could easily keep parts of the output for a while, but discard others 
that are not interesting, you'd have a quick overview of which command 
caused which output, etc.
Not that you couldn't get all this information from the console, too, 
but as the web page above mentions, the console style output lacks a 
lot of the direct interoperability and organization of a 'modern' UI 
output...

</jum>

P.S.: it's okay if we implement this only after you're finished with 
your release ;-)


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