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Re: Feature Idea: Note Taker

From: Johan Appelgren <johan.appelgren_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-08-25 08:51:45 CEST

On 8/25/06, Daniel Wilhelm <dawilhelm@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Tortoise SVN Team,
>
> I igot a small feature idea - I dont't know wether this is feasible or useful
> for the rest of you, so I'm interested in your opinion:
>
> Our developers in our team generally check out the latest revision in the
> morning and start their feature and bug adding/removing. At the end of the day
> the commit their whole work to svn. Now - especially when doing a lot of minor
> changes - it is difficult to remember all those little changes, but it would be
> nice to have a detailed change list at the end of the day in the SVN
> description. Therefore, I would find it useful to be able to already record
> notes in a small notes window of Tortoise which will be able to insert into the
> commit description at the end of the day. So each developer can instantly make
> small notes about their changes and so have their commit discription ready at
> the end of their day. To make this process easy a small note popup with a simple
> textfield would be great which can be shown with a windows wide shortcut (e.g.
> WINDOWS + T) (or with a command line so that I can use windows to assign a
> shortcut would also be fine).
>
> What do you think?

This is just my personal opinion, but it doesn't sound very usefull to
me. You can follow a workflow like that right now, just keep an
instance of notepad open and write your comments there, then when you
commit you copy paste the text to the TSVN commit dialog.

Anyways, why not commit after each change? That way if you use blame
you could find out why a line was changed, and not a whole list of
possible reasons. It's also easier to undo changes, merge specific
changes between branches and so on.

/Johan

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