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Version 3.2 of Syncro SVN Client adds a set of improvements to the previous version: filtering the content of the History view based on revision number and commit date, computation of the SVN annotations on a limited range of revisions, modification of the attributes of a revision in history, configurable shortcut keys for actions, editing a conflict with an external diff application, editing of global SVN configuration files and some new comparison actions.

The content of the History view can be filtered now also by revision number and commit date. In previous versions it was filtered only by author name and commit message. A Search button was added and the string entered in the search field is applied only when the button is pressed. This improves the performance of previous versions in which the filter was applied for every character entered in the search field.

When the history of a file is very long getting the annotations of a file (the author name and revision number that edited the last time each line of the file) can take a lot of time. If you need only the annotations created by a specific range of revisions you can specify the a start and end revision and get only the annotations of that range.

When the commit message of a revision is not clear or it does not cover exactly the purpose of a committed revision this message can be modified directly in the SVN repository. Also the SVN user name that committed a revision can be modified.

Now it is possible to review directly from the Commit dialog the modifications that are about to be committed on a file. Just double click on a file in the list of files presented in the Commit dialog for reviewing the differences between the local version and the latest version from the repository with the file diff tool.

Now it is possible to set and change shortcut keys for a large set of user actions available in the views and dialogs of the application. The configurable actions are listed in the Menu Shortcut Keys panel from the Preferences dialog.

The external diff application that is configured for viewing the differences between two revisions of a file is used now also for editing a SVN conflict generated in a local file by updating the file from the SVN repository.

Usually the two trees of SVN resources are merged only if they have a common ancestry. Now the case of merging two trees that are not related by a common ancestry is also supported. This is useful for example if one of the trees was imported in the SVN repository so the common ancestry is not available.

The SVN client tool can be configured also with the parameters set in the global SVN files called 'config' and 'servers'. These parameters are applied to all the SVN client tools that are used by the same user. These two files can be opened for editing with two edit actions available on the Options menu.

The external diff tool configured for two-way diff actions is applied now also in three-way diff actions: edit a conflict, compare the local version of a file with the latest version from the repository HEAD.

The differences between two files selected in the Working Copy view can be displayed with the action Compare with Each Other available on the right click menu in this view.

The Affected Paths area of the History view displays both files that were only modified and files that were added together with the currently selected revision of the history. Now a compare action is available in the Affected Paths area also for added files.

When selecting the revision of a SVN branch that will be merged with the SVN trunk or with other SVN branch it is useful to review the differences between a revision of a file displayed in the Affected Paths area of the History dialog and the previous revision of the same file. A compare action is now available in the Affected Paths area for displaying these differences.

What was new in Syncro SVN Client 3.1

Version 3.1 of Syncro SVN Client introduces two new presentation modes in the Synchronize view (the compressed mode and the flat mode), new actions in the Working Copy view, in the History view and in the Synchronize view and a compare folders action on the revision graph of a folder.

The compressed mode presents the SVN resources in the Synchronize view as a tree with two levels, grouping the resources by their parent folder. The flat mode presents the SVN resources as a list. These modes are useful when you want to update or commit to the SVN repository the content of a folder without going recursively into its subfolders or for obtaining the complete list of the SVN resources that need to be synchronized.

In the History view it is possible to revert the changes made by a revision to a resource by selecting the revision and locating the resource in the affected paths panel and using the "Revert changes from this revision" action from the contextual menu. The changes are reverted in the current version of the file in the working copy. If the change was in fact a SVN delete operation the result will be the restoring of the deleted file in the working copy.

A new action was added in the contextual menu of the History view for replacing the content of a file from the working copy with the content of a revision of that file from the history.

This action compares the working copy version of a file with a revision from a SVN branch or tag. The branch or the tag can be easily selected using a repository browser dialog.

A new external folder can be created quickly by entering the folder name and the target in a dialog that sets them in svn:externals property.

The set of changes that were committed between two revisions of a folder can be computed with an action executed directly from the revision graph of the folder. The result of this compare action is displayed in the Directory Change Set view.

The command line for calling an external SSH client can specify any parameter accepted by the external SSH client. The SVN username can be other than the SSH username. The SVN username can be specified separately in an authentication dialog or Syncro SVN Client will use the default SVN username set on the server for the SSH user.

What is new in Syncro SVN Client 3.0

Version 3.0 of Syncro SVN Client introduces visual editing of SVN conflicts, a view with all the changes between two revisions of a SVN folder, setting a reference revision number to the SVN repository browser.

An update operation may bring the local copy of a file in a conflict state. The conflict state can be resolved more quickly if the conflicts are edited visually in a compare view which presents the two conflicting versions side by side like a Diff application. In the compare view the user decides for each conflict the variant which will remain and will be finally committed to the repository: the local one, the repository one or a manually edited combination of the two variants.

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Sometimes a set with all the changes committed on any resource of a folder and its subfolders is needed. The user just selects a start revision number and an end one from the history of the folder and runs an action which gathers the set of all these changes. The Directory Change Set view presents the set of changes in a tree format. The revisions corresponding to a resource from the tree are grouped in a separate list.

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A revision number can be set to the SVN repository browser as the reference revision for all operations like browsing, checkout, compare, etc.

What was new in Syncro SVN Client 2.6

Version 2.6 of Syncro SVN Client introduces a filter option in the History view, drag and drop operations in the Working Copy view, better indentation of text in the compare panel and in the editor panel with the option to configure the size of the tab character.

When a SVN resource had a long history of modifications it was difficult to locate the revisions with a commit message or author name matching a specified string. By entering this string in a filter text field the list of history entries is restricted on the fly to the set of matching entries.

Files and folders can be dragged from other applications and dropped in the Syncro SVN Client's Working Copy view as unversioned resources. The structure of the file tree can be changed in the Working Copy view by drag and drop operations inside this view.

An option for specifying the number of spaces for the tab character allows you to configure the text indentation.

In previous versions the password stored in the local user preferences for accessing a SVN repository was invalidated when the computer received a new IP address, for example when it was connected to a different network.

What was new in Syncro SVN Client 2.5

Version 2.5 of Syncro SVN Client introduces the options of associating a file type with an editor and of specifying an external application for diff operations and fixes various bugs.

For each file type the associated editor which opens files of that type can be specified by choosing one of three options: the default external application installed in the operating system, a particular external application specified by the path to its executable launcher or one of the built-in editors.

If an external application is specified for diff operations in the SVN user preferences this application is preferred for all the compare operations instead of the internal diff tool.

A SSL certificate is correctly asked when a SVN server accessed by the HTTPS protocol requires such a certificate. The correct encoding is used when a file is asked directly from the SVN repository in compare operations.

What was new in Syncro SVN Client 2.4

Version 2.4 of Syncro SVN Client allows to see the history of a resource as a history graph in which every revision of the resource is represented with a node.

The history of a resource can be viewed as a graph in which a node represents a revision of the resource. The icon and the background color of a node represent the operation that generated a revision. The node contains also the repository path and the revision number. The contextual menu of a graph node contains operations that can be applied directly to the revision represented by that node: open the resource, show the history in History View, compare with the HEAD revision, check out.

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What was new in Syncro SVN Client 2.3

Version 2.3 of Syncro SVN Client allows to quickly find what happened in a project or what a user worked during a given period of time, improves the integration with bug tracking tools, adds application global ignores for unversioned resources displayed in the Working Copy view and more.

Ever wondered what happened today in your project? Or what John worked all last week? You can get this quickly with the new filtering options from the Show History dialog. First you specify a range choosing from either predefined intervals (today, yesterday, last week, etc.), revisions or specific start/end dates and then you can filter by author.

The set of revisions presented in the History view and the History dialog can be extended from an initial number of 50 revisions using two new buttons: get the next 50 revisions and get all revisions.

The bug ID included in the Commit message is presented in the History view as a hyperlink which opens a web browser at the page of the bug when it is clicked. The URL of the web page with the bug must be configured with a SVN property.

The unversioned resources are filtered in the Working Copy view based on ignore filters set in the SVN preferences.

The action Show SVN Properties is also available for repository resources in the Repository View and displays the properties of the selected resource in the Properties view.

The order of the repositories listed in the Repository view can be changed using two arrow buttons on the toolbar of the view.

What was new in Syncro SVN Client 2.2

Version 2.2 of Syncro SVN Client adds support for SVN Annotations, integration with bug tracking tools and operations on a revision from the Affected Paths area of History view.

This view enables you to quickly find the author and the revision number that changed a specific line of a file. The Annotations view is synchronized with the History view and the editor panel: clicking on a line in one of the two views or in the editor panel highlights the corresponding lines in the other two areas.

Users of bug tracking systems can associate the changes they make in the repository resources with a specific ID in their bug tracking system. When the user enters a commit message, the bug ID is added to this message. The format and the location of the ID in the commit message are configured with SVN properties.

In the Affected Paths area of the History view there are available operations for opening, saving, updating, comparing and showing the history of the selected revision.

The Find Next (F3) and Find Previous (Shift + F3) work also in non editable text areas, for example in the Console View, enabling quick searches without invoking the Find/Replace dialog.

This action was added in the Working Copy view for opening the selected resource with the default application associated with that type of resource in the operating system.

What was new in Syncro SVN Client 2.1

Version 2.1 of Syncro SVN Client adds two new actions in the Working Copy view: Relocate working copy and Switch location and also a series of enhancements and fixes.

When the base URL of the repository is changed, for example the repository is moved to other server, the repository path of the working copy can be easily changed with this action. The action is available also for individual resources of the working copy.

This action changes the location of a working copy or only an item of the working copy within the same repository. The item must be versioned in order to allow switching the repository location.

The font family, font size and font style for the editor and the GUI components are configurable. Text antialiasing can be turned on.

File associations can be defined between a file extension and the type of editor that opens the file. If the file extension corresponds to a built-in association, for example .xml, .xsd, .xsl then the user defined association redefines the built-in one.

For XML files there are well-known rules of encoding detection. For other file types if the encoding is not the platform's default one it needs to be specified in order to read the file correctly.

When a working copy in the SVN 1.3 format is loaded in the Working Copy view it can optionally be upgraded to the SVN 1.4 format.