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I would like to see more fields (columns) added to the Versioning window that appears after a Show Changes or Show All Changes command. In particular, I would find the following fields to be valuable: most recent commit message and most recent RCS revision number. Perhaps commit date/time and user would be valuable. I realize that this information is available in the Search History output, but that requires another step and opens another tab in the main viewing area. Having additional columns in the Versioning window would be more useful. Perhaps the columns to be shown in the Versioning window should be configurable via either an Advanced Options GUI or property settings in netbeans.conf.
I can imagine having revision number there but recent commit message seems a bit strange to me. What decisions do you make that are based on the previous commit message?
Hmmm... Well, as someone who routinely uses (short) CVS commit messages, I find them valuable to me to remind me what changes were made in the previous version. That way I know what changes have already been checked in and am not tempted to comment about those same changes again in the next commit. Maybe this is not a change that everyone would find useful, but it would be useful for the way I work. It just would be much easier to see them in the versioning window instead of having to open up a Search History report which inconveniently appears as another editor tab and takes additional steps to see and then close. Since some people may not use commit messages at all, and since some may create really long commit messages, perhaps the presence of absence of a column showing the commit messages would best be configurable somehow. Thanks for listening.