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Re: [Subclipse-users] How to comment a commit while comparing differences ?

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-07-09 13:51:39 CEST

On 7/9/07, Maxim Doucet <maxim@alamaison.fr> wrote:
> Mark Phippard a écrit :
> > On 7/6/07, Maxim Doucet <maxim@alamaison.fr> wrote:
> >> When using the Commit dialog box, a list of files to commit is
> >> displayed. I often use this list to compare my local files with their
> >> base revisions to help me filling the "Comment" field.
> >>
> >> The Compare dialog box appear when double-clicking on the files. Though,
> >> when the Compare dialog appears, the focus is locked on it and thus it
> >> is impossible to write the comment while seeing the differences.
> >>
> >> So I wonder if there is a way to comment a commit while checking the
> >> differences.
> >>
> >> For information, I am using eclipse 3.3 with subclipse 1.2.3 under
> >> linux.
> >
> > There really isn't. Because the commit dialog is modal, the compare
> > dialog also has to be.
> >
> > Some people use the Synch view and do the compares there, possibly in
> > combination with the Change Set feature. But I do not think that
> > completely resolves the issue as the comment dialog is still modal.
> Yes, and finally the only fix that I found was to open an external text
> editor to write my comments while comparing files, then copy-paste them
> to the comment dialog...
>
> Maybe I could enter a new "enhancement" in the issue tracker
> (http://subclipse.tigris.org/project_issues.html)? It would be a place
> to precise the usability of the commit/compare dialogs.
>
> Any thoughts?

If you want to enter an issue that is fine, but if we could have made
it work differently we would have already done so.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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