VCS Branch View

Hello Jonathan,

The new incoming changes view is great, but why does it not default to
only show changes for the branch that you're working on?

It is possible to filter by the branch manually, but (a) it's annoying
to have to do this, especially since it is lost when you restart the
ide, (b) you then can't filter by user.

Am I missing something here? Does anyone else see this as a problem?

It's not possible to filter by the branch you're working on because different
parts of your CVS working copy can be switched to different branches, and
making the correct analysis covering all cases is quite hard. (For example,
someone could check in several files at a time to some branch, and half of
these files in your WC would be switched to that branch and half would be
not.)

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Ok - I accept that - but how about specifying an optional 'working branch' or something?

I imagine that 99% of developers work on a single branch at a time (per task) - so for this majority they cannot filter by user, and have to keep setting the branch.

Jonathan

+1

OTOH, I often have, in the same IDEA project, several modules each on their own vcs roots (and thus on different branches).

+1

Jonathan Gilbert wrote:

Ok - I accept that - but how about specifying an optional 'working branch' or something?

I imagine that 99% of developers work on a single branch at a time (per task) - so for this majority they cannot filter by user, and have to keep setting the branch.

Jonathan

Well there seems to be at least some agreement with me, so I've filed a low priority usability bug: http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/IDEA-15442