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Re: Showing repository URL in context menu

From: Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 22:00:34 +0100

On 9 April 2010 20:07, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09.04.2010 16:11, almirb wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I work in a company that uses SVN, and we are implementing trunk/tag/
>> branch concepts.
>>
>> I think that can be a constant risk switching between trunk and
>> branches...  my fear is the users are comitting in wrong places!
>> (wrong branch or tag).
>>
>> Can I show de current repository URL in context menu, to avoid a
>> erroneous commit?
>>
>> I will give a example.
>>
>> The current text menu:
>>
>> ____________________
>> ...... windows options...
>> ____________________
>> SVN Update
>> SVN Commit....
>> SVN Revert...
>> TortoiseSVN ->
>> ____________________
>> ...... windows options...
>> ____________________
>>
>> I would like something:
>>
>> ____________________
>> ...... windows options...
>> ____________________
>> SVN Update
>> SVN Commit http://whebd12/svn/projects/desenv
>> SVN Revert...
>> TortoiseSVN ->
>> ____________________
>> ...... windows options...
>> ____________________
>>
>> OR:
>>
>> ____________________
>> ...... windows options...
>> ____________________
>> SVN Update
>> SVN Commit http://whebd12/svn/version/2.2.508
>> SVN Revert...
>> TortoiseSVN ->
>> ____________________
>> ...... windows options...
>> ____________________
>>
>> That can save a lot of time (and problems).
>>
>> Any ideas about that?
>
> Yikes, sorry.
> Think about what you're asking here. Imagine users who have a long url
> to their repositories:
>
> SVN Update
> SVN Commit https://tortoisesvn.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
> SVN Revert...
> TortoiseSVN ->
>
> And that's just the url we use for TSVN. There are much longer urls out
> there.
> Users would kill us for messing with the context menu that much and make
> it unusable because it takes up half the width of the monitor.

But on TSVN trunk build I think the URL is now shown in bold in the
commit dialog to make it more visible.

Simon

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