Reviewing recent Subversion changes

Hello Calum,

A colleague has recently committed code to our Subversion repository.
I want to review the changes. Is there any easy way in IDEA to do
this?

For example, I'd like to bring up a Tool window which showed me the
differences between 2 Subversion revisions, and then I'd be able to
open the code in the editor and do a comparison.

Right-click on a folder containing the changes, select "Subversion | Browse
Changes..." from the context menu.

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Dmitry Jemerov
Software Developer
JetBrains, Inc.
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"Develop with Pleasure!"

Invoke 'Show History' on the file, select the two revisions to compare, then choose 'Compare' (or Ctrl+D).

Hi

Dmitry: the changes I want to review are spread across more than 1 revision. Browse Changes only lets you see the changes in a particular review. I basically want to compare HEAD with an arbitrary revision.
Also, the changes are shown in a dialog; it would be better if they were shown in a Tool window.

Martin: yes - I can do this for an individual file. But I want to see an overview of all the changes in all files between 2 particular revisions, and then I can look at each particular change in detail.

Thanks,
Calum

You can do this with JetBrains plug-in TMate, which I believe you can download a trial version of (although I'm not sure if the project is still alive anymore).

Yes - the status of TMate isn't clear.
If you Google for TMate, it brings up www.jetbrains.com/tmate/.
If you go there, it redirects to www.jetbrains.com/products.html.

Hello Simon,

You can do this with JetBrains plug-in TMate, which I believe you can
download a trial version of (although I'm not sure if the project is
still alive anymore).

TMate has been (more or less officially) discontinued.

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Dmitry Jemerov
Software Developer
JetBrains, Inc.
http://www.jetbrains.com/
"Develop with Pleasure!"

I'm hoping that its functionality is going to be rolled into Selena, because TMate makes reviewing source control check-ins a breeze.

I've discovered that the Changes tool window in Selena has a new tab, "Committed".
This lets me easily view the changeset for a particular revision in Subversion, in either a tree structure or flat, which is pretty close to what I wanted.

I suppose a couple of extensions of this might be:
1) view the differences between any 2 revisions in Subversion
2) view the differences between a Subversion revision and the current working copy.

However, what's in Selena is actually pretty good for me now.
Thanks, JetBrains!
Calum

Hello Calum,

I've discovered that the Changes tool window in Selena has a new tab,
"Committed".

This lets me easily view the changeset for a particular revision in
Subversion, in either a tree structure or flat, which is pretty close
to what I wanted.

I suppose a couple of extensions of this might be:
1) view the differences between any 2 revisions in Subversion
2) view the differences between a Subversion revision and the current
working copy.

If you need this for a single file and not for an entire tree, this has long
been available. For the first one, select "Subversion | Show History", select
the revisions to compare and press the "Diff" button. For the second one,
select one of the "Subversion | Compare With..." items from the context menu
for a file.

--
Dmitry Jemerov
Software Developer
JetBrains, Inc.
http://www.jetbrains.com/
"Develop with Pleasure!"

Hi Dmitry
Yes - I think I was aware of these 2 options.
It's the tree-based option which would now be useful - and is partially there in the "Committed" tab.
Calum