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Show current changeset in "selector bar" (below workspace tab)

When starting the Plastic GUI (on Windows), the tab for the active workspace tab is selected. Below that is a "selector bar" indicating what's currently loaded (switched to) in this workspace.

If the workspace is switched to a Branch/Label, there is no immediate way to find out which changeset number is actually loaded right now.

Example: When switched to a branch, if the workspace has not been Updated recently we may not be at the latest changeset on that branch.

I propose displaying the actually loaded changeset number in this "selector bar", to have this crucial information readily available regardless of view!

(If switched to a Changeset, this means the same number will be displayed twice but that should not be a problem as long as it's obvious which number is from the selector and which is the actually loaded one. Alternatively, the actually loaded number could be omitted in this case.)

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  • Göran Wallgren commented  ·   ·  Report

    My request is that I'd like to see at-a-glance:
    (1) which changeset I'm currently at.
    (2) which branch I'm currently switched to.

    The GUI always shows (2) but not as readily (1), while the "cm status" CLI command always shows (1) and only shows (2) if requested via a special option.

    Thus, you are not consistent in showing this info between your GUI and CLI... IMHO, both (1) and (2) should be shown by default in both GUI and CLI.

  • AdminCodice Software (CEO / Founder, plasticscm) commented  ·   ·  Report

    Interesting. Not hard to add.

    I really never miss this personally, because I don't really care in which cset I am provided I know the branch I'm working on.

    Why do you actually need to know the changeset?? I mean, a number "per se" won't tell you much, but the Branch Explorer will, correct?? I always look the branch explorer to get this info.

    Cheers,

    pablo

  • Göran Wallgren commented  ·   ·  Report

    Additional note: It would also be very useful to see here the latest changeset number on the switched branch, if it differs from the one loaded!

    BTW, to show this updated info we might have to press the Reload icon in the "selector bar". (Strangely enough, that icon is located at the far right while in all other views the Reload icon is located immediately to the left...)