Feature request for Bazaar Explorer: Add ability to find the revision where a file was deleted

[taa]

Generating this request from question#123243: https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer/+question/123243

I recently needed to examine a file that was deleted from a revision, and used Bazaar Explorer to manually go back through about two years worth of revision log history, in a project consisting of 3300+ revisions. That was incredibly time consuming.

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

Please, describe the desired interface for this. Do you like to use qlog (Log History) UI for this?

[taa (taa-pobox)]

Sorry for the delay -- the notification email got buried in my inbox.

I don't know enough about Bazaar Explorer (or even the bzr command line interface) to be able to answer your question. If you could provide me with a list of options available for =Bazaar Explorer= I'll try to research what might be the best UI choice.

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

Please, explain your use case and how would you like to have it supported. You don't need to understand bzr internals to explain use case.

[taa (taa-pobox)]

I would envision being able to:

1) Launch Bazaar Explorer

2) From the Welcome screen/tab, Open An Existing Location. Usually I go to the recently opened tab and just double-click on "trunk" for the project I'm researching.

3) Once I have trunk open, I click on Log to browse revision history.

4) Current search options in the dropdown box are Messages, Authors, etc. Most likely there would need to be a new Files choice, or perhaps (in case this is easy!): Files Added, Files Changed, Files Deleted.

I'd be happy if there was just a Files choice, provided that something is written to the revision history log when a file is deleted.

Does this help explain what I'm looking for?

[taa (taa-pobox)]

Actually, if there were Files Added, Files Changed and Files Deleted, there would need to be a way to search all file actions so you don't have to keep changing the dropdown box until you find one. So how about these new search options:

Files
New files only
Changed files only
Deleted files only