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Suggestions and Requests / Comparing Versions

« on: December 06, 2006, 05:14:09 am »

What we know:
- EA allows us to compare the in-memory-version to the version-on-disk.
- Through the file history we can retrieve a previous version to disk.

Unless we haven't found the other version related operations, we can't compare two previous versions.

It seems to us that this is rather a big need when working with versions of models, to be able to compare and find out in which commit a certain change has occured.

Is this something that's on the roadmap ?
Tnx!
Christophe VG

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Suggestions and Requests / check in branch checks in each package seperately

« on: September 08, 2006, 06:00:30 am »

In the General Board no real feedback was given, so I consider this to be a nice request:

Using version control (subversion) I have a package which contains a few other packages. The latter are controlled. If I issue a "Check in Branch" on the top-level package, I nicely get a dialog to select which of the underlying version controlled packages I want to check in. Exactly as described in the user guide: http://www.sparxsystems.com/EAUserGuide/index.html?checkinginandchecking outp.htm. All very nice, except ...

that the "check in branch" option just seems to be a loop over the "check in" (1 package) functionality, because checking in a branch with 3 packages will cause 3 seperate commits to the repository, which is ... rather pity.

I doubt this to be a bug ;-) But is there a way this could be turned into an option? The difference cannot be that hard to implement. In stead of providing one package filename to the commandline interface, the list of filenames just needs to be passed.  

Thanks for your feedback in advance,
Christophe VG

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General Board / Re: SQL Server Repository and Subversion?

« on: September 08, 2006, 05:53:48 am »

The datastore (e.g. SQL Server, EAP file,...) is used to actualy work on. This can be shared among different designers.

Next to that you can configure packages and have them _also_ committed to version control (e.g. subversion) when requested.

Think of the datastore as your working/local copy.

-- xtof

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General Board / check in branch checks in each package seperately

« on: August 31, 2006, 02:43:37 pm »

Using version control (subversion) I have a package which contains a few other packages. The latter are controlled. If I issue a "Check in Branch" on the top-level package, I nicely get a dialog to select which of the underlying version controlled packages I want to check in. Exactly as described in the user guide: http://www.sparxsystems.com/EAUserGuide/index.html?checkinginandcheckingoutp.htm. All very nice, except ...

that the "check in branch" option just seems to be a loop over the "check in" (1 package) functionality, because checking in a branch with 3 packages will cause 3 seperate commits to the repository, which is ... rather pity.

I doubt this to be a bug ;-) But is there a way this could be turned into an option? The difference cannot be that hard to implement. In stead of providing one package filename to the commandline interface, the list of filenames just needs to be passed.

But before I post this as a feature request I'm interested in others' opinions on this, because right now, I don't see the reason behind the intended behaviour and maybe I just need to be enlightened on this.

Thanks for your feedback in advance,
Christophe VG