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NAME
QuickRev version 2025.17
Copyright (C) 2008 - 2025 Tom Seidel
QuickRev is an open source project which is distributed under the terms
of the GNU General Public License.
See the LICENSE section, below, for more details.
It is hosted at http://sourceforge.net/.
For detailed information visit http://quickRev.sourceforge.net/
DESCRIPTION
QuickRev is a code review tool which supports formal code review processes
for Subversion, GIT and ClearCase controlled files.
It implements a Complete Review Cycle, allows reviews between different versions and
shows the differences between the files. It can be configured easily to be adapted to
the established review process. Produces readable xml-output to be archived for later
inspection respectively verification and to be formatted via stylesheets or parsed for
further evaluation in any intended way.
REQUIREMENTS
QuickRev requires java version 17 or higher.
The Subversion support is tested with SVN version 1.5.x,
but some users do work with older clients.
The GIT support is tested with GIT version 1.7.11,
but maybe an older one will do it too (please let me know).
The ClearCase support is tested with a ClearCase client version 7.0.x,
but maybe an older one will do it too (please let me know).
LICENSE
QuickRev is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
QuickRev is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with QuickRev. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
THIRD PARTY
QuickRev uses the following third party software.
- for choosing the date from the date dialog:
JCalendar
web : https://toedter.com/jcalendar/
license : see jcalendar-LICENSE.txt
libs : jcalendar-1.4.jar
- for sending email notifications:
JavaMail 1.4.2
web : http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/
license : see javamail-LICENSE.txt
libs : mailapi.jar, smtp.jar
- ... and
Javax - Activation
license : javax.activation-LICENSE.txt
libs : javax.activation-1.2.0.jar
- for displaying the help:
JavaHelp 2.0
web : http://javahelp.java.net
license : see jh-LICENSE.html
libs : jh.jar
- to store the review history:
H2 2.2.224
web : http://www.h2database.com
license : see h2-LICENSE.txt
libs : h2-2.2.224.jar
- for dark mode support
FlatLaf
web : https://www.formdev.com/flatlaf/
license : see flatlaf-LICENSE.txt
libs: : flatlaf-3.4.1.jar
- to get rid of java's boilerplate code:
Lombok 1.18.30
web : http://projectlombok.org
license : see lombok-LICENSE.txt
libs : lombok.jar
- to execute Java code in email templates
Java-Scriptengine
web : https://github.com/eobermuhlner/java-scriptengine
license : java-scriptengine-LICENSE.txt
libs : java-scriptengine-2.0.0.jar
- for the QuickRevBoard's front-end:
jQuery EasyUI 1.4.3
web : http://www.jeasyui.com
license : see jquery-easyui-LICENSE.txt
- and:
D3 3.4.11
web : http://d3js.org/
license : see d3-LICENSE.txt
- and:
jQuery 1.11.1
web : http://jquery.com/
license : MIT license
USAGE
java -jar QuickRev.jar [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS
[-h|--help]
Shows this help.
[-v|--version]
Shows the current version.
[--history]
Creates / updates the QuickRev-History.
Use 'QuickRev.jar --history --help' to show all options.
[--board]
Creates the QuickRevBoard which shows open tasks and the review history of all files.
Use 'QuickRev.jar --board --help' to show all options.
[<file...>]
Loads the given project-, review- or export- files.
QuickRev determines automatically which type of file was given.
To specify the file types explicitly use the options below.
[-c|--config <config-file...>]
Start with configuration files.
The config-files can be given as local or remote (http://) files.
[-d|--diff]
Start in diff mode. The diff mode is just to perform file diffs without saving/loading of projects.
In difference to normal mode, files which are not under version control as well as local working
copies can be loaded into QuickRev and compared, which is not possible in review mode.
[-f|--file <review-file...>]
Loads the given review files.
If given as first arguments the option can be omitted.
[-p|--project <project-file...>]
Loads the given project- or export- files.
If given as first arguments the option can be omitted.
[-find|--find-project <path>]
Searches for project files which are not finished for the current user starting from the given path.
If projects are found a list will be shown to select the project which has to be loaded.
[-cs|--changeset [<rev|from-rev:to-rev|HEAD>]]
Opens the 'Add Files From Changesets' dialog and loads the given changesets (for SVN and GIT only).
Either use a single revision number to load this changeset (e.g. -cs 123) or specify a range of changesets
in the format '<from-revision>:<to-revision>' (e.g. -cs 123:126), including the given revision numbers.
Use '<from-revision>:HEAD' to load all changesets from the given revision number up to the HEAD revision.
To load the latest changesets either use 'HEAD' or no revision number at all.
The repository url will be determined from the current working directory.
Loading a range of revision numbers ('<from-revision>:<to-revision>') is not available for GIT.
Note: When loading projects or review files at the same time this option will be ignored.
[-cl|--checklist <checklist-file...>]
Loads the given checklist files.
The checklist-files can be given as local or remote (http://) files.
[--git-log-follow]
Uses 'git log --follow' for determination of file history (this is the default).
[--git-log-follow-m]
Uses 'git log --follow -m' for determination of file history.
[--git-log-m]
Uses 'git log -m' for determination of file history.
[--git-log=<options>]
Uses 'git log' with the given options.
Multiple space separated commands must either be quoted or can be concatenated with a '+' instead of the space.
Example: --git-log="--full-history --simplify-merges" or --git-log=--full-history+--simplify-merges
[--auto-gen-reviews]
Depending on the used git log options (default '--follow') the history of a file after renaming the file is shown or not.
This can lead to situations, where a review made for a file before renaming the file cannot be assigned to the file anymore.
If, for showing the review history (or generation of the QuickRevBoard), a review was found, where the latest known commit
of a file is part of the file history, but the base version is not part of the file history anymore, QuickRev searches for
other reviews where the SHA1 hash of the latest review version is the same as the former base version, this is done until
a 'full' review was found - so the initial review version can be marked as 'completely' reviewed.
[--db-dir <db-dir>]
Defines the directory where the history-DB is stored.
If this option is omitted the database will be stored in '~/.quickRev/history'.
[--plugin <plugin-path...>]
Specifies the plugins to be loaded.
The given paths can be either plugin jar-files or directories.
If a directory was given it will be searched for jar-files (non-recursive).
The plugin-paths can be given as local or remote (http://) once.
If plugins from remote are specified the plugins have to be listed explicitly (no directories).
[--style=<default|dark>]
Defines which style to be used as look and feel.
[--server[:<port>]]
Starts the HTTP server during startup with default port 8000
listening at http://localhost:8000/quickrev.
To change the port add a different port number like this "--server:3000".
Open the link in a browser when server is running to get help about the REST API.
[--debug[:<WARNING|INFO|CONFIG|FINE|FINER|FINEST|ALL>]]
This option is useful in case of errors to get additional information.
Assign a log-level in the form "--debug:ALL" to print logging information of the
given level to standard error. The following log-levels are available:
SEVERE (highest value), WARNING, INFO, CONFIG, FINE, FINER, FINEST (lowest value), ALL.
(See java.util.logging.Level for more information)
NOTE (1):
During loading and comparing of large files it can be necessary to increase the
size of the heap space. This can be done with the following arguments:
java -Xms<initial heap size> -Xmx<maximum heap size>
Example:
java -Xms64m -Xmx1024m -jar QuickRev.jar [OPTIONS]
NOTE (2):
Review files loaded from any version control system will be read with the systems default encoding which may
differ from the encoding used to store these files. Since QuickRev cannot know the encoding used for the files
you have to specify this different encoding with the following arguments:
java -Dfile.encoding=<your encoding>
Example:
java -Dfile.encoding=utf-8 -jar QuickRev.jar [OPTIONS]
AUTHOR
Tom Seidel
www: http://quickRev.sourceforge.net/
RELEASE NOTES
Version 2025.17 (2025-01-01)
* Java 17 migration
* Replaced JavaScript support in email template with Java support
(JavaScript engine is no longer part of the JVM)
* Added storage of current session time when storing a session.
Version 2024.1 (2024-10-28)
* Dark Theme Support!
Make use of 'Project / Preferences ... / Appearance' to change the themes.
Or start QuickRev with ' --style=dark' to use the dark theme.
(Experimental style options from version 2022.2 are removed.)
* Restore Review Sessions
When closing a review (or QuickRev) while an review is still ongoing QuickRev remembers the open files and
comments. When reopening the same review QuickRev will ask whether it shall restore the session and if so
will open the same files and comments to continue the review.
Logic for individual comment references changed, now the checked ones are visible and un-checked are hidden.
* GIT performance improvements for worktrees.
When staring QuickRev in a GIT worktree only the review directories of the current worktree will be updated in
the history-DB. Furthermore only history information from reviews stored in the GIT-worktree will be fetched
from the history-DB and shown in the file history.
* Change font in code window.
Use 'Project / Preferences... / General' to change the font settings for the code window.
* Enhanced C++ Syntax Highlighting
Doxygen comments will be colored like JavaDoc comments.
The following are supported:
/// ...
//! ...
/*! ... */
* Simplified Tool Bar Configuration Dialog
Selecting menu items and changing the appearance can be done easier now without switching between different tabs.
* Search history is shared between all code windows now, so that a search string
defined in one window can be re-used in the other code windows as well.
* Upgraded H2 database version to 2.2.224
* Select 'Information' tab when opening a review as reviewer for the first time.
* fix: Added 'Creator Conclusion For <user>' button at the 'Conclusion Tab' for optional reviewers in case they
don't have review comments and just want to finish the review.
* fix: Rewrote external tool execution handling in order to get rid of 'null' results when executing commands via
the 'Tools' menu.
* fix: Reset to default font style when changing between 'code' (Monospaced) and back to the original font.
* fix: don't react on global keystrokes in code search field
* fix: allow file version selection via 'Review History' dialog in 'ALL' mode
Version 2023.1 (2023-10-26)
* Added REST API and HTTP server functionality, accessible via menu 'Extras / Remote Control (HTTP Server Mode)...',
to access information and add/modify/delete commments via HTTP requests.
The HTTP server can be started via command line options as well using '--server' (for the default port) or
'--server:<port-number>' for a different port.
* Store GIT Log Option
The used GIT-log option will now be stored in the project file.
When loading the project file the same GIT-log options are used.
Closing the project restores the default settings.
* Extended "send-email" command tool with the possibility to add an attachment.
Example: <send-email attachmentPath="%fileDir%/myAttachment.txt">
* Added evaluation of shebang of a file (e.g. #!/usr/bin/lua) to apply syntax highlighting to files without
a file extension.
* QuickRevBoard: Changed all POST requests into GET requests which does not require a base authentication.
* fix: suppressed error message when loading export file (*.qrx) and no local git repository exists
* fix: state of compare button in UML diagram view if the file selection changes between delta and full review
Version 2022.2 (2022-09-11)
* Navigation bar switches to next / previous file automatically.
When using the navigation bar to jump between diff, comments or both by either using the mouse or the hotkeys
for [N]ext and [P]revious the next / previous file will be selected automatically and the search continues
in this file when the end respectively begin of the file was reached.
* Added --db-dir option to specify where the history database has to be stored.
(For the QuickRevBoard this option was available already.)
* The 'History Dialog' now shows a git log graph with the branch structure.
* Added '--git-log=<options>' option to use 'git log' with arbitrary commands.
Multiple space separated commands must either be quoted or can be concatenated with a '+' instead of the space.
Example: --git-log="--full-history --simplify-merges" or --git-log=--full-history+--simplify-merges
* Added --style and --style-dump options to change the look and feel of QuickRev.
--style=<style-name[;options]>
Defines which style to be used as look and feel.
style-name: the name of the style to use followed by optional settings of style flags.
To see all available look and feels make use of the --style-dump option.
To use the built-in dark style use --style=dark (see EXPERIMENTAL below)
Examples:
--style=dark # use dark style
--style=dark;text:#ff0000;QuickRev.base.color.green:#00fe00 # use dark style with some special color settings
EXPERIMENTAL:
The 'dark' style mode is in an experimental state so not all colors have been configured sufficiently.
For full support of the 'dark' style you can define your own color schema via the style options.
If there are fields which cannot be styled individually don't hesitate to contact me, furthermore,
if you have a completely styled dark mode schema, you can sent it to me to integrate it into QuickRev if you like.
--style-dump[=<L&F-name>]
Prints all available look and feel names if used without L&F-name.
Prints all available color settings of the given look and feel when a L&F-name is given
* Extended context menu for 'Information/Description' and 'Information/Notes' text fields with new menu items to
insert the file version description (commit messages) of follow-up review cycles.
* fix: problems with '[[' or ']]' in commit messages when loading changesets
* fix: IndexOutOfBoundsException when determining the file history
Version 2022.1 (2022-02-13)
* Support for Optional Reviewers.
Optional reviewers will receive all email notifications sent by the initiator.
They can start the review at any time, but finally there has to be at least one none-optional reviewer
to finish a review.
* Multiple roles and review phases can be selected for the user defined tools.
* Added review cycle to the notes which can be created on the 'Information' tab.
* Simplified assignment of email recipents in email notification dialog.
* QuickRevBoard: New option --stylesheet copies the given stylesheet to the QuickRevBoard and adds it to
the generated 'no-latest' project files, so the stylesheet can be resolved in the browser to prevent CORS problems.
* Integrated options for UML diagram handling into tool bar.
* Added simple syntax highlighting for Lua.
* Extended syntax highlighting for C++ with new keywords.
* fix: a removed reviewer was added again if he/she has made review comments in the former review cycle
* fix: Escaping of URLs in QuickRevBoard to be able to load files with special characters (like %) in the path.
* fix: Loading of files with spaces in the file name or path.
* fix: Special cases of review history determination with renamed files and option --auto-gen-reviews
* fix: Display of names with umlaut when sending email notifications.
Version 2021.1 (2021-05-30)
* Different Reviewer(s) / Initiator In Each Review Cycle.
You can now change the reviewer and/or initiator in each review cycle.
It is even possible to reduce or extend the number of reviewers in a review cycle to e.g. let just one
reviewer verify all changes or replace a reviewer if he/she will not continue the review.
If you will open an ongoing review where you are neither the initiator nor a reviewer QuickRev will
ask what you want to do. If different initators are assigned to a review QuickRev will save additionally
who has solved which review comments.
* Add additional Notes on Information Tab.
On the Information tab additional notes can be assigned to the review, these notes store the
user who added the note.
* Extended File Browser Capabilities.
The file browsers have been extended to show files by there review state properties like:
'has comments / added in verification cycle / deleted / etc.'
The file browsers will now be opened by default after staring QuickRev.
This behaviour can be configured via the 'Preferences' dialog.
* Add Hyperlinks to Descriptions / Comments / Emails and Default-Comments and -Solutions
The context menu of all relevant text fields has been extended by a new menu item 'Insert Hyperlink'
to insert hyperlinks and open them in an external browser.
* Added possibility to execute JavaScript code in email notification templates.
Syntax: ${javascript:[ ... javascript code ... ]}
Example:
${javascript:[
// create a link and add the user name as parameter
// with spaces replaced with underscores
var userName = "%username%".replaceAll(" ", "_")
var link =
"<a href="http://www.git-repository.somewhere?user="
userName +
"">Link to GIT repo</a>"
// link is the result
link
]}
* Made comment-links in comment tool tips clickable.
* Updated lombok version to 1.18.16
* Updated jcalendar version to 1.4
* fix: default start location of some dialogs to be on center of QuickRev instead of
center on screen (which might be on the wrong screen when working with multiple displays)
* fix: In case neither the commit hash not the file hash can be found in the GIT history of the file
the history dialog will show an error message instead of the GIT file history.
Version 3.4.2 (2020-11-10)
* fix: NullPointerException when loading syntax highlighting via config file for unknown 'category'
Version 3.4.1 (2020-10-24)
* fix: comparison of user for VCS is done case insensitive now to select the last modified version of the current user
* fix: NullPointerException when saving preferences
Version 3.4.0 (2020-10-04)
* Added possibility for syntax highlighting via configuration files.
See "examples/configuration/syntax_highlighting.xml" for more information.
* Added syntax highlighting for JSON files.
* Added syntax highlighting for CHILL programming language.
* The "review" and "base" version of a file can now even be selected via the "Review History" dialog of a
file (accessible via the "History" button on the "File References" tab).
* Show file history dialog even if review history is disabled.
* fix: NullPointerException in case an UML file is marked as 'deleted' for a follow-up review cycle.
* fix: splitting of text to a defined width with spaces leads to duplicated text parts (visible in UML diagrams)
* fix: base file version selection if loaded file is a GIT controlled file and the review to be compared with
does not contain SHA1 hashes of the file in question.
Version 3.3.2 (2020-03-28)
* QuickRevBoard: New option '--replace-path-ext' for an extended replacement of the paths
to the project files or even the files to be reviewed. In difference to the '--replace-path'
option the 'replace-to' string will not be escaped, so it becomes possible to make use of
capturing groups. Take a look at the help for examples.
* When merging project files in GIT to a different branch the commit hashes referenced in the review sheet
might not be available on the new branch, in this case QuickRev tries to find the files by their file hash
(SHA1) in the history of the file and uses the found commit hash instead.
If the file content cannot be loaded via the commit hash the SHA1 of the file will be used instead.
* Updated version of H2-DB to H2 1.4.199.
* fix: When loading a changeset in GIT for a concrete commit hash the changeset was not loaded in case an
invalid default GIT repository was assigned in the preferences.
* fix: When starting QuickRev for GIT with '--git-log-m' or '--git-log-follow-m' and either a concrete
changeset was loaded or a range of changesets the changesets which are merge commits have not been
visible. It now works even when starting QuickRev with the options '-cs <commit-hash>'.
* fix: When loading changesets the latest version of a file was loaded instead of the version defined by
the changeset itself.
* fix: NullPointerException during edition of path in 'Changeset Selection' dialog
* fix: When loading files which are not under version control in diff-mode a
"MalformedInputException: Input length = 1" occurred in case the file had no valid UTF-8 encoding.
Version 3.3.1 (2019-04-19)
* fix: Selection of base version did not work properly anymore in case the review was saved already.
Version 3.3.0 (2019-04-17)
* Configure 'git log'.
Added possibility to change the GIT-log command for determination of the file history.
The options can be used for generation of QuickRevBoard and for normal QuickRev usage.
Possible options are:
'--git-log-follow' - for usage of 'git log --follow' (default)
'--git-log-follow-m' - for usage of 'git log --follow -m'
'--git-log-m' - for usage 'git log -m'
When using options '-m' merge commits are included in the history (see git help for more information).
Merge commits which do not contain relevant file changes will be marked as unchanged.
Commits with the same commit hash will be removed.
* Added '--auto-gen-reviews' option.
Depending on the used git log options (default '--follow') the history of a file after renaming the file
is shown or not. This can lead to situations, where a review made for a file before renaming the file
cannot be assigned to the file anymore. If, for showing the review history (or generation of the QuickRevBoard),
a review was found, where the latest known commit of a file is part of the file history, but the base version
is not part of the file history anymore, QuickRev searches for other reviews where the SHA1 hash of the latest
review version is the same as the former base version, this is done until a 'full' review was found -
so the initial review version can be marked as 'completely' reviewed.
* Added possibility to define a different email notification template for the 'FollowUp' review cycles.
(feature request #9 EmailNotification should be 'Cycle' dependant)
* When starting QuickRev with --diff it is now possible to compare the locally changed working copy of GIT
files with another version of the file.
* Added possibility to define a default receiver of an email via the email notification template.
* During generation of QuickRevBoard and Task list users with the same email-address but different names
will be considered as the same person now.
* For generation of the review history the SHA1 of a file will be taken into account (for GIT).
So even if the commit hash in the review is not part of the file history the file will be recognised by its
SHA1. This affects the review history in QuickRev itself and in the QuickRevBoard.
* Filter for 'Author' for changeset selection is editable now to be able to define filters for different authors
even if they are not part of the changeset. Useful when e.g. working with svn and git in parallel and the
user names are different.
* Increased performance for replacement of placeholders in tools and for email notifications.
* Updated lombok version to 1.18.4
* fix: QuickRevBoard: When creating new reviews via the web front end for git controlled files the replaced
path was used in the reviews sheets.
* fix: The SHA1 for git controlled files was not written to the project file in case a reviewer opened a
review and performed a fast verification which was finished before the file history of the files
in the review (and their SHA1) was loaded. Now the SHA1 saved in the project file will be read and
written back, so it's available even if the history of the files is not yet available.
* fix: In case a review is loaded to get the history of file-1 and there is another file (file-2) in this review,
which is as well part of the current review, it can happen that the history for file-2 is not complete.
Version 3.2.0 (2018-12-18)
* Added syntax highlighting for B-Method.
* QuickRevBoard: Added option '--exact-baseline'
Add this parameter to apply the baseline settings to a file only, if the latest known version
is covered by the baseline. In case there are already newer versions ignore the baseline for this file.
* Added branch name to email notification when using placeholder %filename% and the project file is
under GIT control.
* Made evaluation of the used GIT repository more intelligent. In case the project file is under
GIT control as well the used GIT repository will be derived from the project file. So projects
from different GIT repositories can be loaded even if a different default GIT repository is configured.
* If a command is configured in the 'Tools' menu which uses the placeholder %git% and the repository is
configured in the preferences dialog the repository information will be added to the execution of the GIT
command (--git-dir, --work-tree).
* QuickRevBoard: Added option '--title' to add a title to the generated QuickRevBoard.
* Added branch-name placeholder %git:branchName% for git in tools and email notifications.
* VCS specific parts can be enclosed in %vcs:start% ... %vcs:end% tags with the VCS of the project file
(svn/cc/git) instead of 'vcs' for email notification configurations.
* fix: loading of GIT file history failed if QuickRev was started in a sub-directory of the repository
* fix: when selecting files from GIT changesets which appear in multiple selected changesets not always
the latest version was selected afterwards
* fix: selection of "my latest version" for GIT files where the user name matching did not work correctly
* fix: load export file (.qrx) in GIT even if no repository root is configured
* fix: QuickRevBoard: replace multiple slashes in paths with single slashes (which sometimes leads to
problems when resolving the URL in browser)
* fix: IndexOutOfBoundsException when generating QuickRevBoard because of unversioned files
* fix: Some VCS commands did not return a useful return code, so if a command has written to std-err this
was interpreted as error as well. For GIT this did not work, because GIT writes progress information
to std-err by default. Now for GIT the exit code will be evaluated only.
* fix: Removed superfluous xml escaping of GIT log messages.
* fix: Changing the user name in 'Preferences' dialog did not work if the email-address was not changed as well.
* fix: NullPointerException when double click on a comment in "Comments Overview" dialog which is assigned to a
file without a line number
Version 3.1.0 (2017-01-27)
* Changed git log call to be able to detect unchanged files as well.
* Added sha1 for git files to review files.
* QuickRevBoard: Added new option '--baseline-time' to set a time points which is used as baseline.
I.e. all file versions which are older or equal to the given time point will be regarded as 'reviewed'.
This option is available for all version control systems.
* Added %fileCount% as placeholder for email notification to show the number of review files.
(fixes #14 "Number of files for notification mail")
* When a 'Path Mapping' is used for ClearCase %filePath% and %fileDir% will be replaced
with the mapped path as well for sending email notifications.
* QuickRevBoard: The old version of the 'QuickRevBoard' (--board-old) is not supported anymore.
* fix: When disabling diff via menu 'Show Diff' in code view comments from the former review cycle
have been shown even if they had to disappear, which could lead to 'IndexOutOfBoundException'
sometimes.
* fix: The file type was wrong when creation a 'QuickRev' project via the 'QuickRevBoard'.
(fixes #10 "Wrong file type in review invitation created by QuickRevBoard (with ClearCase)")
* fix: Optional '--debug' without an additional flag did not work anymore.
* fix: Display of html-tags as part of the commnet in 'Add To Comment Selection' dialog.
* fix: Syntax highlighting was not shown in case two identical files are compared.
* fix: Fixed StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when generating the QuickRevBoard for git with files
in the git root directory.
Version 3.0.1 (2016-11-05)
* QuickRevBoard: Added possibility to select file versions for a review and create
a new project in the QuickRevBoard front end.
* Changed assigned reviewers to a required field which will be shown in red now as long as no
reviewer is assigned to the review and will let the input validation fail in this case.
* 'Information', 'Conclusion' and 'File References' tab will be displayed in red now if there
are input fields which are required but do not have a value yet.
(feature request #3 "Tabs with not filled mandatory fields should be also displayed in red")
* QuickRevBoard: Added check whether the given vcs command exists for better error reporting.
* fix: NullPointerException and ConcurrentModificationException when generating the QuickRevBoard
* fix: In phase 'ALL' it was not possible to add a new reviewer via the 'Conclusion' tab if the
reviewer was not added on the 'Information' tab before.
* fix: Removed wait-cursor from green screen when waiting for reload files, because that's just
waiting for a user action and may be misleading.
* fix: NullPointerException when loading invalid xml config files.
Version 3.0.0 (2016-08-22)
* QuickRev goes GIT - this is the very first version with GIT support!
(feature request #2 "Git support")
* Added 'File Browser' (available via the tool bar) to select, show or hide files on the
'Files' tab or file references on the 'File References' tab easily by using either the
tree view or list view.
* Extended 'unique short names' by adding same directories as used for other files already.
Example: when reviewing '/dir1/dir2/File.hpp', '/dir1/dir2/File.cpp' and '/dir1/dir3/File.hpp'
the former 'unique short names' where 'dir2/File.hpp', 'File.cpp' and 'dir3/File.hpp'
which makes it hard to see here 'File.cpp' depends to, with the extended version this has
changed to 'dir2/File.hpp', 'dir2/File.cpp' and 'dir3/File.hpp', 'dir2' already used for
'File.hpp' will be added to all files in the same directory as well.
* QuickRevBoard: Added exit code which indicates the current review history state.
(feature request #10 "Return value of QuickRev Board")
* Added mouse click action to load the file content of a file with recently changed file versions,
i.e. a click on the green screen in 'Files' view loads the content of this file directly.
* Made tool bar available even in '--diff' mode.
* fix: Review file state in case the determined baseline review state equals the review state without
baseline.
Version 2.0.1 (2016-04-26)
* fix: Comment marker in code view not shown in follow-up review cycle for unchanged review files.
Version 2.0.0 (2016-03-06)
* This is the first version which uses java version 8 (JDK 8), starting with an older version
will not work anymore.
* Increased performance when loading or creating new projects. The file history and content
will be loaded separately for each file component without blocking all inputs. So e.g. new
files can be added even if loading of other files is not yet finished. Furthermore depending
on the review phase file content or history will be loaded first, so e.g. during a verification
the file content will be loaded first so the verification can be started even if the file
history has not been loaded yet.
* The 'File References' tab has a new menu 'History State' which allows to show the history
state of each file as additional icon on the 'History' button either by selecting the sub
menu 'Show History States' or 'Show History States, Reload File History If Necessary'.
* Via menu 'History State / Change Baseline Settings...' at the 'File References' tab a
baseline can be set for each version control system. This baseline will be considered when
determining the review state of a file, i.e. all versions of a file up to (including) the
baseline version will be regarded as 'reviewed'.
* Added check whether the loaded project file has changed by another program during saving
to avoid overwriting an updated project file. Instead the user will be informed and can cancel
the task to perform a reload (hence join) of the updated project.
* Added '--version' option to print the current version and build information.
* Changed error messages when trying to add files which are already part of the project by not
displaying one dialog for each file instead one dialog with all affected files will be shown.
* The scroll width in the code view window is configurable via menu
'Project / Preferences / General / Scroll Width' now.
* Added help text to text fields.
* QuickRevBoard: Added '--baseline' option which allows to create the board by considering a
baseline, so each file version older or equal to the given baseline will be regarded as
'reviewed'.
* QuickRevBoard: Added possibility to define multiple user names in QuickRevBoard front-end which
is useful e.g. if the reviewer name differs from the subversion user-name. Furthermore the current
user will be marked in review history if he/she has 'no-latest' files or has a review task to perform.
* QuickRevBoard: Changed QuickRevBoard front-end by adding more information to tool tips for file
versions and review and on-click action to open the files directly.
* Updated lombok version to 1.16.4
* fix: When opening a project via the 'Task List' dialog the filter options have not been saved.
* fix: When starting QuickRev in diff mode (--diff) the 'Recent Projects' menu has been cleared.
* fix: When loading the review history of a file the email address found in the history has overridden
the configured email address if the name of the user remained unchanged, so that the old email
address was used in project file and during sending of email notifications.
By now email addresses read from history will not overrule the configured once.
* fix: When QuickRevBoard was generated with option --no-tasks the option --db-dir was ignored.
* fix: The search field for search in code view did not react on [RETURN] key anymore to go to the
next match.
* fix: Review history dialog has shown 'not all versions loaded' instead of 'review gaps found' even
if it was clear already, that loading all version would not lead to a different result.
* fix: Shortcuts when changing between [D]iff, [C]omments and [B]oth selection did not work correctly
in code window.
* fix: Added 'Remove Diff Item' in UML diagram view to 'Base Diagram' and 'Layered Diff' view like
already available for 'Review Diagram' view.
* fix: When sorting files 'By File Extension' the option will not be stored correctly and the
following option was selected instead.
Version 1.15.0 (2015-02-27)
* Added 'Go To Line...' menu item to context menu of code view.
* Change search field for search in code view to combo box to select former search strings.
* Excludes defined for QuickRevHistory will be taken into account now even for adding of loaded
projects to history-DB automatically. So different paths can be excluded even if reviews will be
performed in this directories.
* Include paths can be defined for history-DB now, so if the history-DB is configured to add opened
projects automatically to the history-DB this can be restricted to different paths.
So it is e.g. possible to ignore reviews from other branches in the history-DB.
* Extended option '--changeset' to be able to load the latest changesets automatically.
Either use 'HEAD' or no argument at all to load the latest changesets.
* Changed selection of review phase when changing the review cycles or reopening a project.
Instead of 'Finished' for reviewers 'Review' will be selected to allow further changes without
changing the review phase via the menu. When switching back to a former review cycle as initiator
'Correction' instead of 'Finished' will be selected.
* Added possibility to assign multiple reviewers at once to a project and allow selection of favourite
users to be placed at the top of the list for easier selection.
* Added possibility to add comments via the context menu of the links shown during comparing different
diagram versions in the compare diagram tool window and via the links shown in the find tool window
when searching in diagrams.
* Added possibility to remove diff items and search result items in diagram view when comparing diagrams
or searching in diagrams via the new context menus 'Remove Diff Item' and 'Remove Search Result'.
* Extended diagram view by showing not only the description of an element in the info message pane but
the complete text (e.g. if it is an UML-note) as well.
* Enhanced output of diagram compare functionality to see differences easier, additionally the diff
will be shown in the info message pane.
* Enhanced find function for diagrams which now shows the reference and text of the selected UML element
in the info message pane.
* Added possibility to use QuickRev --history --tasks option without arguments to print the tasks for
all users. (Alternatively 'ALL' can be used as already possible before.)
* Added check that all modified comments are accepted before executing a tool via the 'Tools' menu to
avoid loose of these changes.
* fix: if an invalid changeset was given via command line options '--changeset' the error message was
shown every time when opening the changeset selection dialog.
* fix: added error handling in case the start directory to create the history-DB does not exist,
which let to a corrupted database
* fix: storage of excludes defined to find new projects and for history-DB which did not allow to override
generic excludes loaded via config files
Version 1.14.2 (2015-01-30)
* QuickRevBoard option '--replace-svnsync-path' can now be used for ClearCase as well and therefore has been
renamed to '--replace-vcs-path'.
* QuickRevBoard option '--replace-path' can be given more than once now to use different replacements.
* QuickRevHistory loads configuration files given via option '--config' now as well.
* fix: fixed path replacement for QuickRevBoard option '--replace-svnsync-path' which will replace wrongly in
case the remote path is part of the path to be adapted already
Version 1.14.1 (2015-01-14)
* Added possibility to configure the front end of the QuickRevBoard in web browser.
* Added creation of projects containing all files where the latest versions are not reviewed to 'QuickRevBoard'.
* Changed evaluation of '--exclude' and '--include' from generation of 'QuickRevBoard' and history to exclude the
given start directory from search. So the start directory itself cannot be excluded.
* Removed JavaBeans Activation Framework which is part of the JRE already.
* fix: fixed evaluation of review state if the only reviewed version of a file is unchanged
Version 1.14.0 (2014-11-16)
* The QuickRevBoard has been redesigned and extended by showing not even a task list for all open reviews but also
the review history of all files.
Use 'java -jar QuickRev.jar --board --help' for all options available to generate the QuickRevBoard.
(The old (deprecated) QuickRevBoard can be generated via the '--board-old' option.)
* Changed evaluation of subversion history to detect versions where the file has been moved only as 'unchanged'.
* Added '--tasks' option to 'QuickRev --history' to print all open tasks for the given users.
* Added icon to 'Task List' dialog and for creation of new review cycle.
* Updated version of history database 'H2' from 1.3.175 to 1.3.176
* fix: Fixed syntax highlighting for c++ preprocessor directives with spaces between # and the identifier.
* fix: Fixed option '--db-dir' which did not work when running 'QuickRev --history' from console to create review history.
Version 1.13.0 (2014-04-02)
* Added possibility to insert links to other comments into the 'Comment' and 'Solution' field of the 'Comment' dialog.
The referenced comment has to be selected via the context menu of the 'Comment' or 'Solution' field.
* Added 'Comment Overview' dialog which shows all comments in a table regardless of the selected review cycle.
The dialog can be accessed via the menu 'Comments / Show Comments Overview ...'.
* Extended 'Add Files From Changesets' dialog (SVN only) by adding possibility to load a concrete changeset or to load
a range of changesets.
Furthermore a changeset can be loaded during startup of QuickRev via the new option '--changeset | -cs' with a given
revision number (e.g. '-cs 123') or with a range of revision numbers (e.g. '-cs 123:125' or '-cs 123:HEAD').
* Added an indicator whether the content of a file has changed for a file version. This information is available for
subversion only starting with version 1.7. The information have been added to the file versions at the 'File References'
tab and to the file versions of the 'Review History' dialog. Unchanged file versions will implicitly regarded as
covered by a review (because there is nothing to review) for review history.
Furthermore unchanged file versions will be shown in the 'Add Files From Changeset' dialog and can be used as filter
rule to show or hide all unchanged file versions from a changeset.
* Added sub-menu 'Select Comment ...' to 'Add To Comment' menu item in context menu to be able to select a comment where
a new file reference has to be added to.
* Added possibility to search in UML diagrams.
* Made VCS user name VCS specific instead of defining one for all VCSs.
* Increased performance for displaying comment tables.
* Updated version of history database 'H2' from 1.3.169 to 1.3.175
* fix: File load errors when loading subversion files where the file itself and the directory path has been renamed in
the same checkin.
* fix: File load errors when loading moved files via the 'Add Files From Changesets' dialog (SVN only) now they will be
loaded by their peg-revision.
* fix: When changing the order or review files this is recognised as change now, so the 'Save' button will be enabled.
* fix: Adding files from changesets with subversion 1.5
Version 1.12.0 (2013-11-24)
* Changed file based history database to a 'real' database, which can be configured
either on the command line (java -jar QuickRev.jar --history --help) or via the menu
'Project / Review History / Configure History ...'. The history-DB stores references
to the locally stored review projects to be able to show the review history of a
file and select the last reviewed version as base for a review automatically.
If the history-DB is configured correctly new reviews will be updated within the
history-DB during start-up of QuickRev automatically as background task.
* A 'Task List' is available, which shows all open reviews for the current user.
The task list is based on the history database and can be shown via menu
'Extras / Task List ...'.
* Added 'Compare Diagrams' option to 'Tools' panel in diagram view, which compares
the models of the base and review version of a diagram and lists all found changes
with the possibility to select these changes in the different diagram views.
* Extended 'Sort Files' dialog by allowing to sort the files alphabetically in ascending
or descending order or to sort the files by file extensions to e.g. show hpp's before
cpp's in c++. Furthermore drag and drop support is added to sort the files with help
of the mouse easily. The settings in the 'Sort Files' dialog can be applied
automatically to files which are added to a review.
* Added menu 'Files / Sort ...' to sort the files which are visible at the 'Files' tab
individually with the same options as sorting of files at the 'File References' tab.
The same dialog can be launched via the 'Define Sort Order ...' menu from the 'Files'
tab context menu.
* Added '[TAB]' button to code view to show / hide white spaces and tabs.
Whether white spaces have to be shown by default can be configured via the 'Preferences'
dialog.
* Added possibility to define default exclude patterns in config files when searching
for open projects via the 'Find Open Projects ...' menu and for configuration of the
history-DB.
* Saved email address of initiator and reviewers to project files, so the reviewer can
send back emails without configuring the email addresses of the users. Furthermore
reviewers with a different user name than the configured one can be identified as the
same person without asking whether the reviewer is one of the assigned once with a
different name.
* Changed behaviour when reading configuration files which define components with the
same name for 'Information' and 'Conclusion' tabs by replacing the already defined
components instead of ignoring the new defined once. Furthermore the boolean
attribute 'remove="true"' can be defined to remove a former loaded component.
* fix: NullPointerException when adding lines of a file to a comment via the
'Add To Selected Comment' menu and selecting this comment in the code view without
accepting the comment in the Comments dialog before
* fix: fatal error detected by the JRE which occurs sometimes when directories are
selected via the directory chooser dialog
Version 1.11.0 (2013-07-28)
* Added 'Path Mapping' for ClearCase controlled files to review files which are located
in directories mounted to different locations (drives).
* Added possibility to hide individual file references of a comment and not the whole comment always.
* Added drop down menu to session timer to start, stop, reset and modify the session time.
* Extended files and comments filters by adding negotiated filters to string matching filters.
* Renamed review cycles from 'Review / Verification / FollowUp(1) / ...' to
'Initial / Verification / FollowUp(1) / ...' to avoid confusions with the review phase 'Review'.
* Removed 'Save Preferences' button from 'Preferences' dialog, the preferences will be saved automatically
now when clicking the 'OK' button now.
* Added more situations for automatically (re-)starting the session timer, e.g. when hiding comment references.
* Added icon to configuration menus.
* fix: do not save email notification preferences to local config file if nothing has changed
(because of non-html newlines and trailing spaces)
(fixes #9 "Wrong behavior of the "Save preferences" functionality")
* fix: added error message when loading config files with duplicated component names
(fixes #8 "duplicate fields from config file")
* fix: clear entries of 'AddToComment' menu when closing a project
* fix: made display of 'CHECKEDOUT' version string in diff mode (--diff) for ClearCase OS specific,
i.e. '/main/CHECKEDOUT' vs. 'mainCHECKEDOUT'
Version 1.10.2 (2013-05-24)
* fix: changed encoding when sending emails to UTF-8, which is necessary to send e.g. chinese characters.
Version 1.10.1 (2013-05-13)
* fix: When saving the preferences in the 'Preferences' dialog the changes of 'Email Client Settings' have been discarded -
this is fixed now.
* fix: corrected links to external web pages in 'Email Client Settings' preferences
* fix: NullPointerException with windows 7 and java version 7 when trying to show the "What's New (Release Notes)" dialog
* fix: caption for menu 'Create New Review Cycle ...' appears on tool bar when changing the review cycle,
even if the tool bar item is configured to show an icon only
Version 1.10.0 (2013-02-10)
* QuickRev now takes the time elapsed for a review session - the 'Session Time'. This time value can be inserted
into every 'TimeField' (e.g. Effort) via the new 'Session' button, which is added to the time field.
Furthermore this value can be used for the internal command <set-conclusion ARGS>, e.g. <set-conclusion effort=session-time>,
to set the value via configured 'Tools'.
* Added internal command <set-conclusion ARGS> which lets you set the values of the conclusion fields via
the 'Tools' menu. Example <set-conclusion effort=session-time; date=today; finished=true; some_other_value:ask>.
* Added internal command <all-mode ARGS> which lets you select or deselect the ALL-mode and provides the possibility to
add new reviewers.
* Extended internal command <send-email> by allowing an optional argument 'sendCopyToSender' to change the default behaviour
for sending a copy to sender.
* Changed default values for required 'TimeField's (e.g. 'Effort') by allowing '00:00' as valid value.
If no value is assigned the placeholder '--:--' will be shown.
* Changed default values for 'DateField's by showing the placeholder value '--.--.--' for an undefined date
instead of '00.00.2012'.
Configuration changes: To use 'today' as default value for own defined 'DateField's 'today' has to be
defined as default value even for non-required fields (which was the default in former versions).
* Configuration changes: Added possibility to define a default value for own defined 'Choice' fields by
adding the attribute 'default="true"' to the default 'Item' element.
* Added possibility to deselect ALL mode by clicking menu 'View / ALL (4 Eyes Review)' again which automatically selects the
currently relevant review phase.
* Added spinner buttons to 'TimeField' and 'DateField' to increase / decrease the values by one minute respectively one day.
* Added '+' button behind every command of a tool to insert a new command above the selected one.
* Extended tab menu with the possibility to close all tabs to the left/right respectively above/below.
* Added menu 'Copy Element Text' to context menu of UML diagrams and renamed menu 'Copy Info Message To Clipboard' to
'Copy Element Description', to copy either the element's text or the text describing the element in the UML diagram to clipboard.
* When adding a comment with severity 'Spelling' to an element of an UML diagram the text of the selected element will be inserted
as comment text to be modified easily.
* Extended 'Show Message Pane' preferences for UML diagrams with the following options:
'always', 'on errors only', 'on errors and warnings only', 'never'.
* Changed matching of exclude directories for 'Find Open Projects' dialog, by matching a substring instead of the whole
expression, so e.g. 'test' instead of '.*test.*' is enough to exclude every path with 'test' in it.
* menu 'Insert File Version Descriptions' from 'Information / Description' field removes duplicated entries now
* fix: preserve line breaks when comments are inserted into the 'Information / Description' field via the context menu
* fix: deselect removed default tool bar menu in 'Tool Bar Configuration' dialog to be selectable again
* fix: IllegalArgumentException when updating the history index for very old project files (with separate 'Verification' phase)
* fix: IndexOutOfBoundsException when changing the commands of a tool during execution of this tool
* fix: change review phase from 'Creation' to 'Review' if files have been added only and check whether files have been added
during input validation
* fix: when adding new users in the 'Preferences / Users' tab the entry was accepted only when another cell has been clicked or
enter was pressed, this is done automatically now
Version 1.9.0 (2012-09-30)
* joined main tab and information tab to one tab for easier access to the 'Information', 'File References',
'Conclusion' and 'Files' tab
* added menu 'Project / Add Files From Changeset ...' which lets you add files to the project by fetching
the latest changesets from a subversion repository and lets you select several files of these changesets
* added menu 'Project / Find Open Projects ...' which lets you search for open projects starting from a
selected directory. A command line option '-find|--find-project <path>' was added as well to start the
search from command line when opening QuickRev.
* added tool bar which can be configured freely
* added menu 'Files / Filter ...' which opens the 'Files Filter' dialog to filter files by different options
* added menu 'Comments / Filter ...' which opens the 'Comments Filter' dialog to filter comments by different
options
* added menu 'Project / Close' to close the currently loaded project
* split menu 'Project / Load/Add ...' into the two different menus 'Project / Open ...', which opens a
project and closes the currently opened one before, and 'Project / Join ...', which loads a new project
to be joined with the currently opened one
* added internal command '<close-project>' to be used for the 'Tools' menu to close the current project
* added 'Sort Files' menu for file references with the possibility to sort them alphabetically or individual
to bring the files in a recommended reading order
* added menu items 'Sort Alphabetically' and 'Sort By Recommended Reading Order' to the context menu of the
files tab pane to sort the tabs accordingly
* added coloring of code blocks in code window, which marks matching brackets and the range between them
* added menu 'Project / Recent Projects' to open former loaded projects easily
* made the 'Add To Comment' context menu available for UML diagrams
* extended the 'Add To Selected Comment' and the 'Add To Comment' menus for UML diagrams to be able to assign
multiple references, depending to the same file, to one comment, if the referenced elements differ.
I.e. different UML elements from the same diagram can be referenced from one comment.
* changed behaviour of 'Add To Comment' menu, which will not open the 'Comments' dialog anymore and will not
select the comment the reference has to be assigned to
* extended tab panes to be able to close tabs via the new close button or the (now extended) context menu
* renamed menu 'Project / Reload Project' to 'Project / Reload'
* moved file references tool bar to upper layer to avoid scrolling the tool bar out of view
* fix: change font size of author and version annotation when selecting a different size in preferences
* fix: xml parser exception and wrong display of user names which contain non-escaped xml characters like '<'.
Version 1.8.0 (2012-06-01)
* Updated to java JRE 1.6
* added plug-in mechanism to plug-in own file viewers for different file types, so the content of the
files can be shown in a user defined way
* Added file viewer for UML diagrams to show a file describing an UML diagram as graphic,
with the possibility to add comments to the UML elements.
The default UML elements provided with this release contain the elements to show state machine diagrams,
but the elements can be extended for use of other UML elements as well.
To show a file as state machine diagram a plug-in has to be written, which converts the read file into
an UML model.
The provided UML example plug-in (UMLExamplePlugin.jar) serves as an example for a plug-in implementation,
which reads a own UML file format. To check out the example plug-in start QuickRev with the options
--plugin UMLExamplePlugin.jar and load the provided uml example project file (UMLExampleProject.qrx),
which contains an UML state machine diagram in the QuickRev-UML format.
* added syntax highlighting for PHP files
* the complete help is available via the 'Help' menu now
* added possibility to pin the comment tool tips to a fixed location
* added possibility to hide comments via the new '[Hide]' button in comment tool tips
* added context menu to comment tables with the possibility to open a comment in the 'Comments' dialog or hide a comment
* made non-text file extensions and stylesheet path configurable via the 'Preferences' dialog
* changed note about hidden comments in 'Comments' dialog to link which shows all hidden comments
* unified comment colors to the same color in the first review cycle and follow-up review cycles as well
* added documentation for debug options to provide logging information useful in case of errors
* added possibility to add new reviewers via double click into the 'Reviewers' list
* fix: IndexOutOfBoundsException when adding new review files to a former review cycle, which should
not be done normally
* fix: loading of VCS preferences from config files,
i.e. when different values for the same VCS where loaded from multiple configuration files the
previously loaded values where replaced by the default values again which was not intended
* fix: after removing a file with available history and adding the same file again the history was not
available anymore
Version 1.7.0 (2011-11-27)
* added Tools menu with the possibility to define and execute external programs and internal
commands which can be used e.g. to commit the project files directly to the used version
control system
* added 'Review History' dialog which shows the review coverage of each file version
* added possibility to mark files as deleted
* added tool bar for selection of review and base versions for all files by different topics
* added 'Project / Reload Project' menu to reload the current project
* replaced menu 'Extras / Adjust File Path' with a 'Moved' button which is available for every
file at the 'File References' tab to update the file path file specifically
* added undo / redo options to text fields
* added 'What's New' dialog to show the release notes
* extended 'Help' dialog
* added context menu to email notification preferences to select placeholders easily
* added possibility to use the scroll bars in the diff window independently of each other,
the behavior can be changed via the new 'Synchronize Vertical Scrollbars' context menu
* added possibility to select which version has to be selected as default during creation of
new review cycles
* extended review history to recognize file versions even if the file has been moved / renamed
* added request for cycle change when changing to a referenced comment which is
available in a previous review cycle only
* changed version check to check the QuickRev version against the project version before the project
will be loaded to allow the use to abort the operation
* fix: fixed problem when loading the content of a svn file from a local working copy which has been
moved to another directory already, but the working copy has not been updated yet.
* fix: fixed selection of file path if the file location has been adjusted after
the file was moved, but the selected version does not correspond to the
new file path (use of revision as peg-revision with wrong path)
* fix: open search panel in diff window if CTRL-F is pressed. This did not work in any cases before.
* fix: when loading multiple project files the resulting project has to be marked as unsaved
Version 1.6.0 (2011-04-22)
* added checklist id to checklists in order to make the rule ids unique within one
checklist only
* added reading of user defined attributes from checklists description sub-elements
to be used for additional formatting via 'style' attributes
* added formatting options (bold, italic, etc.) to description field,
text reference comments and user defined 'TextArea' fields
* added formatting options to email notification and corresponding templates
* added possibility to attach a project and/or export file to the email notification
without the need to save or export the project before
* extended search panel in diff window to start search from current cursor position,
search for previous match as well, ignore case and mark all matches
* moved selection of review phase from status bar into separate 'View' menu
* removed necessity to change to user name in 4-eyes mode (ALL mode) to create
comments in the name of this user; furthermore the conclusion can be created for a
new reviewer in 4-eyes mode directly via the conclusion tab
* added dialog for overall review phase with hints what to do next
* added possibility to assign the content of a default comment to an existing one
directly in the comment dialog
* added version check to inform if a project file was created by a newer QuickRev
version than the used QuickRev version
* changed behaviour of 'Incomplete Input' dialog to report only the items of the current
user if requested this way
* fix: null pointer exception when showing file annotations in diff more for files which
are not under version control
* fix: preserve formatting with code-tags when re-editing comments where code tags have
been used
* fix: selection of review phase for initiator in different situations
(i.e. after reopening of project the phase has to be 'Creation' instead of
'Correction' as long as no reviewer has started the review cycle)
* fix: scrolling in prev diff window with enter key
* fix: use conclusion components from initial review cycle if no conclusion components
for a follow up review cycle are defined
* fix: exception when modifying the name of default comments or solutions in the preferences
dialog by pasting a string via mouse only (linux)
Version 1.5.0 (2010-12-05)
* QuickRevBoard - lets you generate a ToDo list
* added loading of annotations (blame) indicating the author / version of every code line
* added version information regarding the selected versions for file references
* fix: assignment of default arguments to vcs-commands, i.e. added additional field for command arguments
* fix: show solution of duplicated comments in comment tool tip and table of non text file comments
* fix: made 'Files' menu scrollable if more files are assigned than can be visible on screen
* fix: exception during export of projects if same file versions are selected
Version 1.4.3 (2010-10-10)
* added possibility to select a duplicated comment during correction phase
* added possibility to extend the context menu to select comments easily to add new file references
* added selection of 'favourite rules' directly from comment dialog
* added dialog to assign comment-comment references easily to the new files
* added menu to load checklists directly from the menu (and not by command line only)
* added possibility to format 'default solutions' (italic, bold, etc.)
* added 'Reload' button to reload the version history of a single file
* added limit of file versions to increase performance during file load
* added separate menu to change the reviewer in 4eyes mode
* added review phase to reviewers in xml-file for overall phase 'Review'
* fix: loading of file versions from ClearCase snapshot views
* fix: read and write xml-files with same encoding as specified in xml declaration
* fix: setting of colors in table for non-text file comments
* fix: null pointer exception when specifying email addresses without a name
(name <x.y@z>) during sending of email notifications
* fix: no null value for print margin column in preferences dialog
* fix: calculation of print margin when changing from single to double diff window
* fix: initialization of config values for general preferences when loading from config file
* fix: do not allow to remove files if comments are assigned to the file
Version 1.4.2 (2010-07-01)
* added navigation bar to jump between comments or changes in diff window
* added author and date to selection of file versions
* added configuration of 'Default Comments' to 'Preferences' dialog
* extended 'Files / Show/Hide' menu to show/hide files by there review state
* extended 'Comments / Show/Hide' menu to show/hide comments by review cycle
* added print margins to diff window
* fix: if 'Auto Hide Completed Comments' is selected during correction phase
comments from previous review cycle will be hidden too
* fix: hide completed comments when loading a project and 'Auto Hide Completed Comments'
in correction phase
Version 1.4.1 (2010-04-21)
* added export of whole project to be loaded without access to any version control system
* added syntax highlighting for Python
* added possibility to change font size in diff window
* added 'Close'/'Cancel' buttons to some dialogs
* added 'Copy' menu to context menu of diff window
* added error messages if no values for placeholders in email notifications could be found
* increased performance during adding of multiple project files into one
* fix (stylesheet): display of effort, which was shown in the wrong column sometimes
Version 1.4.0 (2010-02-26)
* added checklist support
* added possibility to reference comments from previous review cycle in comments of the next cycle
* added menu item "Adjust File Path ..." to adjust the path of review files which have been
moved / renamed during the review
* if a verification version of a file is known via loaded base-project-files the base for the new
review will be selected automatically
* added possibility to additionally save the project if the 'Accept' or 'OK' button in the comment
dialog was pressed
* added buttons to easily add predefined number of minutes to TimeFields
* increased performance by avoiding reload of file content of files with same versions during creation of
new review cycles and switching between different review cycles
* increased performance by not comparing files with identical versions
* fix: some problems with user management regarding case insensitive user names
* fix: switch display of comment tool tips if assigned to same lines of different sides from diff window
* fix: mark verification version only if review state is finished
Version 1.3.4 (2009-12-14)
* comment tool tips and non-text file comments are shown now as formatted text (like in comment dialog)
* made tab width in diff window configurable via preferences dialog
* added separators to distinguish between different consecutive comments in diff window
* fix: loading of base project files with review files added after initial review cycle
* fix: use the same font in all text fields (especially JTextArea)
* fix: prohibit changes in disabled text fields via context menu or shortcuts
* fix: coloring of base file version information even if the version selection box has the focus
* fix: added missing line breaks when showing email notification dialog and 'sendAsHTML' is selected
* fix: user name changed to default user after closing of 'Preferences' dialog
* fix: Visitor cannot add comments in '4eyes review' mode
* fix: tool tip on file tab (showed 'null' in some cases)
Version 1.3.3 (2009-11-22)
* added email notifications to be used for review invitation and review feedback
* added possibility to format comment text (italic, bold, underline, code, strike through)
* introduced '4-eyes' - review mode (menu 'Extra / 4 Eyes Review') to enable all input fields
to be filled out by one person easily without switching the review step
* users can be configured now via preferences dialog (and not only in configuration files)
* added calendar for selection of date in date fields
* added colored markers at 'Project / File References' tab to indicate the state of the file
* fix: file revision of files added after initial review cycle with following cycles
not loaded correctly
* fix: show files with changes for verification (or follow-up) by default
* fix: erroneously shown menu items without caption in context without of diff window
* fix: corrected initialization state of restore defaults button for syntax highlighting
* fix: do not allow adding of general comments from initiator
* fix: enable comment tool tips again if files are identical during file diff
Version 1.3.2 (2009-09-26)
* added possibility to add new files after the initial review cycle
* added syntax highlighting for 'D', 'Ruby' and 'XML/HTML'
* added menu 'Show Diff' to context menu in diff windows to hide / show the differences between
files added for delta review
* added possibility to automatically hide completed comments during correction phase via 'Accept' button
Version 1.3.1 (2009-08-20)
* added syntax highlighting
* added context menu to tabs in comment dialog to hide comments directly
* added possibility to change order of files (in files-tab) and comments (in comment dialog) via drag and drop
* added possibility to disable comment tool tips in diff windows
* fix: ignore non-xml-conform characters in ClearCase history
* fix: duplicate appearance of 'Incomplete Input' dialog via shortcut CTRL+S
Version 1.3.0 (2009-08-01)
* introduced complete review cycle
* even if the content of a file could not be loaded or the file was not found
the comments given in project file will be shown and no file references will be lost
(so even without access to any version control system non-text files can be reviewed)
* added separate menu items to add comments and set severity in one step,
the menu can be configured to use the selected text directly as comment (predefined for severity 'Spelling')
* added possibility to define default solutions for any state to be applied easily via the
state selection in comment dialog
* added context menu to files tabs to hide them via the menu
* added possibility to add new 'non-text' file references to already existing comments
* added file state markers to file tabs and file menu items
* made context menu in diff window available on both sides
* added context menu to 'Description' field to insert the version descriptions of all review files
* right mouse click sets the cursor anew before opening of context menu in diff window,
so assigning comments becomes a bit easier
* added context menu to synchronize horizontal scrolling in diff window
* initiator cannot create comments anymore
* removed superfluous file comparisons for delta-review or verification to increase performance
* increased performance of comment dialog
* fix: use of default date in 'DateField' if 'required' is set to 'false'
* fix: layout bug in comment tool tips with java 6
Version 1.2.2 (2009-06-13)
* show progress during loading of files and load files in separate threads to avoid freezing GUI
* auto append file extension during project saving via menu 'Project / Save As...'
* ask before overwriting files during project saving via menu 'Project / Save As...'
* installed global keystrokes to save via CTRL+S even if the main dialog does not has the focus
* removed usage of 'HEAD' as peg revision for svn commands since some older svn-clients seem to deal not
correctly with this syntax (problem was reported with svn 1.3.1)
* fix: avoid wrong error message if the same file was selected by clicking the file selection field
Version 1.2.1 (2009-05-14)
* if not in review phase line numbers will be shown as links in comment dialog to jump directly to the
corresponding lines
* added menu 'Project / Reload File Versions' to force a reload of the version history and
possibility to force the reload during creation of verification phase
* extended show/hide menu for comments to select by file reference
* added possibility to suppress 'Incomplete Input' dialog during saving up to exit of QuickRev
* allow selection of multiple files
* made use of resizeable TextArea in comment dialog for non-text file comment
* create conclusion pane for user automatically if he/she is assigned as reviewer
* insert selected text into search field in diff window
* fix: if the IncompleteInput dialog was not shown after check for incomplete input the selection was
not updated for the next time the dialog appears
* fix: java.io.IOException: 'Too many open files'
* fix: layout problems in main tab panes under MacOS/X (thanks to Clemens Hintze)
Version 1.2.0 (2009-04-26)
* added ClearCase support
* added hide / show menus for comments
* added possibility to enlarge or reduce size of text areas
* added separate menu 'Project / Load Base Project File ...' load former project files as base for
the new review (In previous QuickRev version this was only possible via command line)
* allow selection of base versions if it is less than review version only and
selection of verification version if it is higher or equals the review version
* added menu 'Files / Show All Files' and colored menu 'Files / Load Files' if a reload is needed
* made use of different colors in 'Files' menu and 'Files' tab to show whether a file has comments
or changes have been made to be verified in verification phase
* allow multiple rows in all columns of non-text files
* old config file format is not supported anymore (was only used for user config in .quickRev - file)
* fix: IndexOutOfBoundsException during startup of QuickRev with project file in verification phase,
single diff window selected and verification file contains fewer lines than review files and
comments assigned to the end of review file
* fix: calculate number of rows in non-text file comment table and comment tool tip depending on the
used font (not monospaced only)
* fix: comment ids will be updated if one comment is deleted in between and
numbering of comments is done separately for every reviewer
Version 1.1.1 (2009-04-02)
* comments of non-text review files will be shown as table at the corresponding tab
* former project files can be loaded as base (-b/ase <base-filename>) for a new review to have
an overview of old review resp. verification versions during selection of the new ones
* extended search in diff window to search on both sides
* sorted files in menu 'Files' alphabetically
* display 'solution' and 'state' in tool tip dialog for comments and made dialog movable
* added phase dependent layout in CommentDialog
* adding of comments allowed in 'Review' phase only
* added possibility to predefine user names via config files for easy selection of reviewers,
initiator or user
* changed syntax for startup of QuickRev (see USAGE)
* added auto detection, whether files given as arguments during startup are project or review files
* swapped information and files tab
* increased performance in comment dialog
* fix: fixed layout problems with comment tool tip dialog
* fix: position of comment notes during verification phase in single diff window
* fix: update of revision number in non text files panel when changing from review to verification
phase and vice versa
* fix: updated links in comment dialog immediately after changing file reference
* fix: exception if file reference was changed and "OK" or "Accept" was pressed in comment dialog
without reloading the files before
* fix: show 'real' content of file although white spaces are ignored
Version 1.1.0 (2009-03-10)
* added verification phase (can be disabled if not needed)
* added possibility to specify who has to review during creation phase
* added element 'Phase' to xml-output
* added number of lines (total and non-empty) for text files to xml-output
* added menu item 'Verify Input ...' to check whether all fields have been completed
* added 'DateField' to configuration
* removed auto-date element 'QuickRev/Info/Date' from xml-output
(the configured 'DateField' leads to the same xml-output as before, but with a concrete date)
* added menu item 'Hide All Files' and marked hidden files in menu
* do not reload already loaded file content
* changed encoding in xml-output to 'UTF-8'
* fix: use peg-revisions for svn-commands to be able to deal with moved/replaced/deleted files
* fix: on tracking changes for not required components, to ask before exiting
* fix: fixed bug in 'TimeField' which indicates a change on gain focus although nothing has changes
* fix: update of title from non-text file panels by version changes
* fix: do not add already known comments while loading another project file
* fix: added error message for lines given in comment dialog outside line numbers
* fix: link in comment dialog jumped to the wrong position in delta-review mode
* fix: indicate project as changed on deletion of comments
Version 1.0.5 (2009-02-17)
* fix: fixed loading of files with white spaces in filename
* fix: fixed exception during opening context menu for empty files in diff window
Version 1.0.4 (2009-02-11)
* no changes in diff window are possible anymore
* mark tab titles with different colors for different working states in comment dialog
* added possibility to mark required fields in configuration files
* mark caption of required components without input
* save required but unchanged components to xml-output as empty elements
* properties moved to separate dialog
* load only files with already assigned comments during loading of projects
* hide single review files via "Files/.../Hide" menu
* track changes to ask for saving before exit
* added checks, whether all required information have been completed before saving
* added number of files to metrics
* added links to jump from file to comment dialog and vice versa
* added search option to review windows
* added menu item to create general comments directly
* made output format of date/time configurable via config file
* added possibility to add description to user defined components (shown as tool tips)
* added possibility to add TimeField components via config files
* made default components configurable
* prepared interfaces for integration of other version control systems
Version 1.0.3 (2008-12-29)
* extended length of ToolTip display
* added possibility to change/save preferences
* load projects via command line using [-p/roject <project-file>]
* read built-in config files (resources/config.xml) from jar file
* changed layout of comment dialog to expand comment and solution field to maximum size
* increased speed (width) of mouse wheel for scrolling in diff windows
* start Load/Save - Project dialog in current working directory instead of home directory
* added separate tab pane for selection or project or all opened review files
* removed menu item 'Remove' from 'Files' menu
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