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What's New in SmartCVS 7.1
SmartCVS 7.1 concentrates on improved usability. It is a product-polishing release.
- Detailed Feature List with all available features
Commit: Show Changes
While writing the commit message, it often helps to see the local changes. If you haven't already open a Change Report before opening the Commit dialog, you now can show the local changes from the commit dialog.
Use Viewer to Compare Files
Usually, projects not only consist of text files, but also binary files, e.g. graphics. Unfortunately, file compare tools for specific binary content are hard to find, but file viewers for these files are often very easy to find.
With SmartCVS you now can configure file viewers as file compare. Of course, there happens no automatic compare, but for a lot of file types, e.g. graphics, seeing both states on screen lets a human see differences easily.
For Mac OS X the system viewer for jpg, png and gif files is used.
If no file comparator is configured for files detected as binary, at least the file lengths and SHA hash codes are shown:
Configurable Toolbar
For the project window you now can configure the shown toolbar buttons.
Built-in File Compare and Conflict Solver Improvements
You now can search and replace texts.
For the file compare, the synchronized scrolling for the left and right file content can be deactivated. There is a new option to ignore case changes.
Transactions
You now can limit the shown transactions to periods defined by date or tags.
The shown transactions can be filtered by branch or author.
Other User-Interface Improvements
We improved SmartCVS at a lot more parts of the user interface like showing dates with "yesterday" or "today" where appropriate. Especially for OS X a lot of improvements were done: added a Reveal in Finder feature, unified toolbar, message and information dialogs.