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Re: Feature request for checkout dialog

From: Udo Eberhardt <Udo.Eberhardt_at_thesycon.de>
Date: 2007-01-04 21:51:29 CET

Peter Mounce wrote:
> Hi all
>
> When I do a checkout, it's almost always of the trunk. Because I (and
> so many other people that use svn) follow the manual's best-practise
> repo structure, this means the url is something like
> http://server/...../reponame/trunk .
>
> I would like the checkout directory textbox to auto-fill (perhaps by a
> guess, from a button that I hit, or on its own as I type) the name of
> the checkout directory (since it populates it with the directory I've
> right-clicked in, and usually I don't create a directory, I let the
> checkout do it for me when it asks whether I want to create the
> directory) to save me typing it, since it's almost _always_ going to be
> the same as the repo-name.
>
> Road-bumps:
> * People that create an empty directory and right-click on/in it to
> check out - the feature should notice, and not try to append to this
> path. Perhaps the feature could scan the directory being checked out
> into to see whether there are other working copies, and if there are,
> assume it should guess a name from the repo-URL; if not, assume it
> shouldn't?
> * Whether or not to append the repo path, to call the WC something
> related to its path within the repo?
>
> Yeah, I know. Slow day at work... ;-)
>

I do also find the fact that I have to type the checkout directory every
time very annoying. Some months ago I suggested that TSVN could deduce a
checkout directory path by combining a parent path (a setting made by
the user per repository) with the current relative path in the
repository. The edit box in the checkout (and export) dialog should be
filled with that deduced path by default.

See also my previous post:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.tortoisesvn.devel/26728

Udo

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