Show history on a folder
Accepted answer
The short answer is that, because of the RTC storage model, the actual history of a folder is not that interesting and calculating the history of all files contained in that folder is not trivial. You can follow these issues by subscribing to the following work items:
https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/100645
https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/66832
Future Update:
The following work item has been delivered in RTC 6.0.5:
Allow viewing of subset of component history based on directory/subdirectories (66832)
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Is that mean we will enhance the showing history feature on next version?
Hope we can show the folder's history soon, because we want to show the history of the folder's files once, we do not want to show history one by one for several files.
As you know, SVN implements this feature, I think it is better to study the good point from svn, they are useful!
Please take a look at the two work items that Michael mentioned, and add
a comment indicating which approach you'd prefer. (And for those
interested in SCM history, SVN just got the feature from ClearCase :-).
Cheers,
Geoff
The fact that SVN has a folder history is also tied to the way data is modeled in SVN. In SVN it is easy to get the history of a folder but it is complex to merge and track changes between branches. In RTC, due to the RTC data model, is is easy to flow and merge changes between workspaces and streams but hard to get the history of a folder.
Thank you for the explaination.
In fact, we never or seldom do merge between branches, but the history of folder is used frequently I think.
Anyway, RTC's data model is a new model I never heard before, I think it is powerful but need long time to get close to it.
That would be a nice feature for me too.
One other answer
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Note that in RTC, the deletion of a file from a folder is stored in the
history of that file, not in the history of that folder.
Cheers,
Geoff
On 11/21/2011 6:38 PM, mumbobme wrote:
Saphen, I agree with you, history of folders is very important. Often,
I must be able to show which work item id# authorized the deletion of
a configuration file from a folder.