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  MacCVSClient Change Log
21 Mar 2004 Version 1.8.1
 

Important:

  • In MacCVSClient 1.8.1 the preferences file format has changed. Before using MacCVSClient 1.8.1 you might want to save away a copy of your existing preferences file so you can downgrade, if necessary.

What's new:

  • Preferences now have a tabbed interface.
  • Changed all occurrences of the term "Module" to "Sandbox" wherever it had been used in the sandbox context. To clarify: a sandbox is a checked out working copy of a module. A module itself exists only in the repository.
  • "Repository" menu items are now always enabled.
  • Increased folder item indentation from 10 to 20 pixels in sandbox windows.
  • Optional different repository side text encodings for Add/Import/Commit log messages (comments).
  • Classic PPC and 68K versions: send all files to the server with executable access privileges.
  • COMMAND-SCROLLWHEEL jumps from diff to diff; conflict to conflict; revision to revision; highlit annotation to highlit annotation in diff, conflict, annotation and log views.
  • COMMAND-SHIFT-SCROLLWHEEL jumps from full line to full line in diff, confilct and annotation views.
  • Preferences: Translators/Ignore Filters
    • Combined import and export translators into one. Should be more intuitive this way.
    • Multiple selection (also for Ignore Filters panel).
    • Copy-and-paste in translators list (also for Ignore Filters panel): enabled "Edit" menu commands for this.
    • Drag-and-drop out of translators list (also for Ignore Filters). Text clipping files are supported as well. — This and the above two features can be used to exchange translators and ignore filters among team members. The format is plain text based. So you can easily store them and email them around. Or put them on a web page where they can be copied from the browser window and then pasted into the MacCVSClient preferences.
    • When opening Translator and Ignore Filter settings dialog from an Add/Import preview window which has a selected item, select all Translators or Ignore Filters which match the selected item in the preview window.
  • Login Profiles
    • Login profile list (and selection popup menu) now always alphabetically sorted by login profile description field.
    • "New" button behaviour has changed.
      Before:
      pressing the "New" button would apply already made changes to the currently selected login profile and then create a copy — altogether rather weird.
      Now:
      when the "New" button is pressed a new login profile is created using the current values of the input fields and then that new login profile is selected in the login profile list popup. To me this seems much clearer. Also if you start changing a login profile and then realize you want to make a new one out of it, you just hit the "New" button and presto!
  • FIX: Mac OS X version: handle POSIX file access privileges correctly.
  • FIX: when MacCVSClient resumes after being clicked into the background while in the Add/Import preview dialog, the preview is now automatically aborted and the user asked to start it again. This is necessary because files or folders might have been renamed, moved or deleted while MacCVSClient was in the background. This also fixes a crash-bug in CVS Add.
  • FIX: a selected 'unknown' folder in a sandbox view would become unselected when switching away from and back to MacCVSClient; now such folders retain their selected-status. And this as well fixes a crash-bug in CVS Add.
  • FIX: custom ports for SSH1/2 now work.
  • FIX: hitting ENTER in the "Add Check" dialog now always triggers the "Add" button; before this would only work, if an entry in the add file check list was selected.
  • FIX: splashscreen in Panther now draws with Panther style pinstripe.
  • FIX: login profiles of type "local" now work correctly in case the user name and host name fields are left empty.
  • FIX: error condition display in console fixed for multiple simultaneous CVS operations; before it could happen that a failing CVS operation could cause a "Failure" message not only for itself but also for other CVS operations which were running at the same time.
  • FIX: when a malformed commit log message was detected in the commit log dialog, the commit would automatically be aborted after a warning was displayed. Then the commit command would have to be started all over (and the commit log message would have to be entered again). Now the commit dialog handler loops until the problem in the message is fixed or the user cancels.
  • FIX: adjusted scroll wheel speed.
  • FIX: when receiving an AppleSingle file with unknown or irrelevant AppleSingle components, issue a log message instead of an error message.
  • FIX: CVS import only ignores what's specified in MacCVSClient's ignore preferences. The default CVS server ignore patterns (Cederqvist: import option "-I !") are disabled now.
  • FIX: better (more explanatory) error dialog when the user tries to open a sandbox folder that has not been checked out with MacCVSClient.
  • FIX: COMMAND-[ and COMMAND-] did not work in log window; it now does and jumps from revision to revision in the log list.
  • FIX: SSH timeout handling; also kill bogus SSH processes. Those were sometimes left hogging the CPU after unsuccessful SSH login attempts.
  • FIX: typo in password menu in login profile.
  • FIX: tab width preference value changes are not ignored any longer.
  • FIX: run "List Modules" command with desktop folder as current directory. Before some folder inside the MacCVSClient application bundle was used.
  • FIX: "Check conflict" command was broken in 1.8.
24 Nov 2003 Doc Version 1.8a
 
  • Doc and FAQ updated.
17 Jun 2003 Version 1.8 [Change log of older versions]
 
  • OS X version only:
    • UI tuneup: more of an Aqua look.
    • Mach-O binary.
    • "Coo" icons for the app and CVS control files! To see these icons, you might have to rebuild the finder's association cache.
    • SSH1 and SSH2 including MacCVSClient built in password/passphrase handling. You still can use SSHPassKey to enter your passphrase. To do this, select "No Password" in the login profile. MacCVSClient will then fall back to use SSHPassKey, if this one has been installed and configured.
    • Support for local repositories. No need to install a CVS pserver if you only want to use a local repository. Just create the repository from a terminal and then use the path to it in the login profile preferences as CVS root.
    • Support for RSH should work again.
  • All versions:
    • CVS Annotate [doc and screenshot]
    • Split menu "CVS" into "Sandbox" and "Repository"
    • Major rework of log and diff parsing and storage.
    • Keychain support (not in 68K).
    • Proper visual feedback during resize of table headers in module window.
    • Keyboard shortcuts: CMD-+ = CVS Add, CMD-- = CVS Remove. In Classic PPC and 68K versions the '+' above '=' doesn't work. You have to use the '+' on the number keypad. In the OS X version, CMD-+ seems to be handled correctly as SHIFT-CMD-= in the system.
    • Rearranged "File/View", "File/Discard", and navigation commands in the "Special" menu into the new "Info" menu.
    • Changed "Sandbox" command key shortcuts: OPTION key now brings up dialog box for commands which have a dialog-less alternative. Before, OPTION would skip the dialog. So, the OPTION key behaviour has been inverted in this context now. I think this is more intuitive. Sorry for the change, you'll get used to it quickly.
    • Improved file filtering: AND and OR modes; show matches and hide matches modes; new criteria keyword subst option, storage format, added files, removed files. Also, if a filter setting results in no file to be shown in the module window, there will be a line of text stating that everything is filtered out (instead of a strangely empty screen as before); changed filtering command shortcuts: CMD-F = Filter (show), CMD-SHIFT-F = Filter (hide), CMD-OPTION-F = Filter Settings.
    • Preference to disable CVS control file locking. This way, it is not such a hassle to move an old sandbox into the trash can and then empty it.
    • Mouse wheel scrolling: now one scroll wheel tick scrolls as much as three arrow button ticks. This seems to be roughly the value used by other apps such as Mail.app, Chimera and CodeWarrior.
    • Upon application startup, Console and Scrapbook window now remember whether they had previously been hidden and don't show up, if not wanted.
    • In Preferences/Export Translators you now can set type and creator to '*' and MacCVSClient will not assign a type and a creator code.
    • FIX: "prune empty folders" option in CVS Checkout and CVS Update now works
    • FIX: enabled "prune empty folders" and "get new folders" preferences.
    • FIX: When importing and repeatedly opening the import dialog, sometimes the folder to be imported would not be shown correctly in the final import confirmation dialog (there would be an empty folder name instead).
    • FIX: log and annotation information for a lost file in the module window would not be retained when switching away from and back to MacCVSClient.
    • FIX: opening an annotation or log window for a lost file would not work (you'd see some error dialogs).
    • FIX: file path name calculation could fail in certain circumstances such as checking out a module directly into a remotely mounted volume (as opposed to a folder inside a remotely mounted volume).
    • FIX: CVS log parser had a few bugs. It now works well.
    • FIX: MacCVSClient was not able to handle conflicts of non-mergeable files properly and would under certain circumstances overwrite working copies of binary (-kb) files. This is fixed here.
    • FIX: drag-n-drop from module window could cause signals if the module window was not full and items were dragged over the empty area of the window.
Rev. 1.77  Copyright © 2003 Jörg Bullmann