Hi Alex, I have a small proposal to improve WinCVS. I realize WinCVS can keep oen ratehr busy, so I will not bother you too much, in the sense that I will code it myself. However, I will ask of you if you can read through this proposal to let me know if it is acceptable to you. Problem ------- One can not select now in WinCVS files from different directories. This is a problem because I want to be able to check in (at one time) all files relevant to one logical change. Now, I know that CVS loses track of that, but using the commitinfo and accuminfo triggers one can recuperate this information (check out egcs, Wine, etc.). Solution -------- WinCVS should have a mode whereas on the right-hand panel it will display a _recursive_ descent list of files in the directory selected on the left (rather than the immediate content of that directory). Moreover (and this is the interesting part), one should be able to ask WinCVS to display only the modified files. So, one can select to display a recursive list of all modified files, and than select only the relevant ones out of that list to commit Implementation -------------- The implementation of this has two parts: a platform independent part and an MFC part. One problem is that I never programmed MFC; moreover, at home I run only Linux so I can not even compile! If you can give me a hand on this part, great! If not, I'll work something out. Interface: we should add two more buttons on the tool bar (similar to the one that hides/shows the ignored flags). When the recursive mode is selected, the file name on the right should include the path relative to the directory selected on the left. It should be relatively easy to get a recursive list of files and to ignore the nonmodified ones. The other change I was thinking will reside in the MultiFiles class. Right now, we can add files to a directory. The change I propose is when we add a file, we should parse it to see if it contains any relative paths. If so, we append the relative path to the current dir (and create a new dir if necessary). If this seems reasonable, I will start coding and sending in some patches. Thanks, Dimi.
