Release Notes

macOS - Plastic: To make the mac GUI Branch Explorer more usable we have added a date filter and an "Only relevant" toggle button. Now you can more easily configure your Branch Explorer view to show only the information you want.

The date filter works as follows: only changesets created after the date chosen will be displayed on the canvas. This can reduce clutter in the view, and aid performance.

The "Only relevant " toggle button also reduces clutter in the view, by only showing initial and final changesets on branches.

Here is a look at the new Branch Explorer:

Create workspace: If you have a Plastic SCM workspace in your filesystem but it got removed from the list for some reason (the list is stored in the file plastic.workspaces, in your config directory) you can now safely add it back using the CLI or any Create Workspace GUI dialog. We changed the behavior to avoid overwriting the workspace name and repository.

Plastic, Gluon - macOS: We finally have auto-refresh in Plastic Pending Changes and Gluon Checkin views.

Now, when the Plastic/Gluon window becomes the key window, the Pending Changes view is auto-refreshed if there are new changes in the workspace since the last time it was refreshed.

This was one of the top usability missing features in macOS! :-)

macOS - Plastic: Conflict resolution is now incredibly faster!

This is because our merge tool is now launched within the same process instead of spawning a new one, which makes it start up super fast.

For automatic file conflicts, the resolution is practically immediate. Before it used to be as slow as 4 seconds per file.

For file conflicts that require human intervention, the merge window appears also in 0 secs.

Windows - Plastic: We have updated the column ordering for the Workspace Explorer, Pending changes, Changesets and Labels views to make the more logical, and present the more useful information first. They are also consistent across all 3 platforms now.

We also updated the default column widths, so, out of the box, users should no longer need to resize columns to see the full content.

Pending Changes:

Workspace Explorer:

Changesets:

Labels:

Visual Studio Integration - Windows: The Visual Studio integration was only compatible with some Visual Studio 2019 versions (v16.0 - Preview). Now, we extended the compatibility to support all Visual Studio 2019 versions.

As a side effect, the code base is not compatible with Visual Studio 2010 anymore. If you need support for Visual Studio 2010, please contact support@codicesoftware.com and we'll help you get it going.

Linux - Plastic: Conflict resolution is now incredibly faster!

This is because our merge tool is now launched within the same process instead of spawning a new one, which makes it start up super fast.

For automatic file conflicts, the resolution is immediate. Before this improvement, the conflict resolution speed is normal but now it flies!

For file conflicts that require human intervention, the merge window appears also in 0 secs.

macOS - Plastic: We added a small panel under the Workspace Window toolbar to show you the branch/changeset /label (and its repository) of the current workspace, the current workspace name and path and the current user's name. This info previously appeared next to the "Switch workspace" button and was hard to see sometimes. Enjoy!

Plastic, Gluon - macOS: Added a new option in the pending changes/checkin view, to enable or disable the auto-refresh feature.

Windows - Plastic: concerned about wasting mouse clicks? We've got your back. Now, when you push a branch to a remote repository, and everything goes fine, we don't pop up an additional dialog to tell you this. Of course, we still let you know if anything goes wrong during the replication.

Say goodbye to this:

Linux - Gluon: We have improved the default column widths for the "Explore workspace" view, and made the "Details" pane of the "Checkin" view a bit smaller, so it doesn't hide so much of the changelists table.

Existing users can reset their view configuration, and enjoy all our recent changes to column order and widths, by deleting the following configuration file:

/home/your_username/.plastic4/gluon.conf

Here's how the GUI looks now: