(Before opening this issue I've crawled through existing issues and even invested time in triage suggestions for some of them.)

Context

In the history view, the double-click behavior on files defaults to Open Current Version, perhaps for simplicity (it's the one which is usually available).

In the other hand, I've always found a bit odd – due to being the behavior of a History view where past version should mainly be the ones of interest (in my opinion, of course).

Proposal

Therefore the proposal is that an additional option was added (likely in General tab, as this is not technology-specific) that would customize what happens on double-click:

• Open Current Version (default, for historical reasons)
• Open Selected Version
  • due to the possibility of item not being available (see somehow related SRCTREEWIN-7399), a message box would state something like "Item (branch) not available: Cannot open selected version."

To be highlighted that there is no fallback proposal ("3rd" option: try selected, fallback to current) as it would make the behavior unclear and lead to errors. So a clear message box, while not being very user-friendly, prevents confusion/mistakes.

Extra

This feature request would be convenient to implemented together with SRCTREEWIN-14154 by simply adding yet another option, next to this one, stating what would be done (Open with default editor or Open width)... Just a suggestion for issue relationship and/or for combining effort. Thanks! 🙂