Filter files in the TortoiseSVN Revision Log Dialog?

Question

Is it possible to filter the displayed changed files list for a selected revision? In the repository are stored hundreds of generated files that are commited from time to time. Now it is hard to find a out what's a real change if you have 500 changed files in the commit.

I know it's more or less a usage issue. But if it would help me a lot to filter the files list. Are there any other tools that can do this if it's not possible with TortoiseSVN?

Answer 1

The ideal case would be of course to not version files that can be generated automatically ;)
But if you must , then I don't know of a "filename filter" on Tortoise. Except maybe, marking those generated files with a special property, in which case you can sort the diff output in Tortoise based on the property column .

Note: In a command-line session, a simple " grep -v generated " would be enough to filter out any file in a "generated" directory.

Answer 2

You might want to try looking at the Revision Log. You can get to it by selecting "Show Log" from the Tortoise SVN context menu. It has a way of filtering the commit list by file path using a regular expression. For example, if you enter

.java -.jsp

it will filter display commits that have modified .java files but do not have modified .jsp files. So if you know that your generated files are in a particular directory path or have a specific extension, then you can exclude commits that only have those. If every commit has generated files, then you could try exporting the modified files to a different directory and look through them to see what was changed. The export feature maintains the directory hierarchy.