Show branch name in Commit menu item, Check for Modifications and/or Log dialogs

[Tony Rietwyk]

I've been using TortoiseGit much more lately, and I notice that many of its dialogs show the current branch - and even allow easy browsing of other branches.  Even just right-clicking on the folder will show 'Git Commit -> branchName'.  When I swap back to my TortoiseSVN projects, I miss not having that quick confirmation of which branch is in my working copy. 

• Doing an update always shows it, but can take time to do the network thing.
• Right-click the folder / Properties / Subversion tab works as well, but Windows also runs off calculating the total size of the sub folders.
  

If it is not too much trouble, it would be great if Check Mods showed the branch name, as that dialog is fairly quick.  Having it is the Log as well would be much appreciated.  Especially when you are under the pump and rushing to get fixes out, with switching and merging. 

I realise that not everyone follows the guidelines, so extracting from the path is tricky, but for those who do - showing just the last part in the Commit menu item like TortoiseGit would be heaven!

Thanks,

[Stefan]

while in a git repo the information about branches is readily available locally, this isn't the case for svn: to figure out what other branches are available you need to connect to the remote repository.

Also: while the dir structure trunk/tags/branches is well established in svn, it is by no means fixed. Users can choose whatever names they like. So it's simply not possible to "get a list of branches" in svn...