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Bug 106043

Summary:	No info about the current CVS branch
Product:	versioncontrol	Reporter:	Petr Jiricka <pjiricka>
Component:	CVS	Assignee:	issues@versioncontrol <issues>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P2
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description Petr Jiricka 2007-06-07 17:17:36 UTC

NetBeans gives no information in the UI about the branch I am currently on. I
would expect that some notable places, such as the upper part of the diff window
that contains the list of modified files, and possibly other places in the UI,
would contain information about the branch of the file, so I know what I am
diffing against. E.g. in WinCVS, this is very clearly visible. Thanks.

Comment 1 Peter Pis 2007-06-07 20:03:32 UTC

There is an option in "View | Show Versioning Labels" that shows branch/tag
information next to nodes in the explorers ("Projects", "Files", "Favorites"). 

This information is also visible in "Versioning" view if "Show Changes" action
is invoked on context switched to the branch.

Commit dialog also provides this information.

Comment 2 Petr Jiricka 2007-06-08 09:03:39 UTC

> There is an option in "View | Show Versioning Labels" that shows branch/tag
> information next to nodes in the explorers ("Projects", "Files", "Favorites"). 

Thanks, this is useful to know.

> This information is also visible in "Versioning" view if "Show Changes" action
> is invoked on context switched to the branch.

Now I see - it's in the window title. It took me a while to find it. The
disadvantage of this approach is that it makes the window title too long, so I
would prefer if this information was in the table of modified files as an extra
column. 

> Commit dialog also provides this information.

You are right, but it took me some time to find it too. Again, I would prefer to
see this information in the table of files.

One place where I really did not find this information is the diff window.