Source control - pending changes - Included / excluded changes - Could it be higher?

Question

I am ready to dodge when the tomatoes are thrown, because it seems so simple. However ... In Visual Studio 2013, when considering pending changes, is there a way to vertically expand the included changes and exclude change segments?

For example, this morning I have a large set of changes (about 1200 of the files shown below are T4s automatically generated, but it’s still difficult for him to view so much data in 300 pixels.

Answer 1

I came across the same behavior in VS2015.

You can avoid the tiny box by folding parts of the tree; it appears only if the displayed list is too long.

Answer 2

I needed to choose View Options> Show Decision Changes, then the entire list was visible without scrolling.

Answer 3

UPDATE
In VS 2015 / Update 2, the behavior is that two scrollable sections appear when the expanded height exceeds a certain limit. In order for these sections to disappear / merge into one, it seems enough to just collapse some of the tree nodes, so that the height falls below this magic limit.

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Was there the same problem (I am running VS 2013 Pro update 4)

No user interface parameters were found that would fix it. So I decided to just “learn how to live with him” and started making actual changes (ie include / exclude elements, “Undo, compare, etc.”), and suddenly noticed that he was back to this “high representation” by itself! And it is still in "Tree View" mode:

I assume that this was a transition of some elements to the Excluded Changes section (which for some reason became empty - it was not earlier). I didn’t understand that I actually did the trick, but this seems to be the most likely reason.

Answer 4

You can change the look of the list, which will give you all the vertical space that you might want, but obviously you will lose the folder hierarchy, so it is not ideal :(

Alternatively, you can use TFS Power Tools to enable integration with Windows Explorer, which uses an old style dialog that resizes completely.

EDIT : Added list view image.

Answer 5

I just tested this in Visual Studio Update 4 and 5, and it seems that the current behavior is that if there are more than 99 items in the Included Changes list or the Excluded Changes list, then both lists are limited to 300 pixels.

This makes sense to me, since it would be too difficult to switch between “Included Changes” and “Excluded Changes,” otherwise you have to scroll back and forth (although making creative use of collapse would be easier).

It would be nice that when one of them closes the panel of pending changes as a document, the included and excluded changes will be displayed as 2 columns with infinite scrolling, but, alas, this is not so.

In some cases, switching to a list view deletes some of the tree nodes if you have folders in your change set. This may cause the panel to crash with fewer changes.