Feature Idea: Ghosted 'local files'

jfaulken · Post by **jfaulken** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:08 pm

Something I've seen in other heavy iron systems. If there's a local working directory mapped for where you're at in the GUI, show the files that are not in source control in the list in dimmed out text. If you right click on a file the only option in the context menu is "Add to source control." This would alleviate having to go out of your workflow to get files into source control, and save some of my more non-technical users a lot of headaches.

Any chance that you would release the source to the 2.x GUI so that I could add the feature myself? I see that the source to the commant line client comes in the SDK. Just dreamin'.

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:18 pm

Something like CVS's Tortoise but only for adding files?

We have had requests for an integrated shell, and I'll add your comments to the feature request.

Making the 2.x source code available? Probably not, but I'll leave that to one of our managers.

jfaulken · Post by **jfaulken** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:23 pm

Almost... in the normal Vault GUI client you would see the files in the file list that were NOT in source control but WERE in the local directory. They would show up in the list with all the other files, but would be visually differentiated (my suggestion was to make them a light gray) and the only operation possible on those items is to add them to source control.

This way when you're looking at the normal file view in the client you can see files that you need to remember to add to Vault without having to go to a separate dialog box to see them.

We work with a lot of binary art resources, and sometimes there are subtle things that my art team forgets to check in.

This is a feature that's in Alienbrain and it's one of those tiny little features that just made my head spin with how much easier the workflow became, and how many mistakes and looping between people ("I have no idea, I just loaded it and it didn't work... says it needs the .bss file"... "Oh yeah, dammit, forgot to add that to source control") get cut completely to zero.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:21 am

Any word on the release of the source code for the deprecated GUI?

jfaulken · Post by **jfaulken** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:22 am

Arrrrgggghh. Forgot to log in. That was me.

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:04 am

You could do this now with the code for the Command Line Client. It has all the commands that the GUI Client has.

jfaulken · Post by **jfaulken** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:06 am

Riiiiight... but I would have to write a GUI from scratch, duplicating all of the features that are already in the GUI client that SourceGear has written, and then add that one feature. Hardly seems worth it at that point.