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Re: Feature Request

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:58:45 +0100

Gre7g wrote:
> I'm the only programmer developing one of the projects I'm on, but
> quite often I'll attempt a commit and TSVN will spit back a "working
> directory is out of date, please do an update first" sort of message.
> This seems kind of silly to me as I know that no one has made changes
> to the files involved, but oh well. I do an update and then a
> recommit.
>
> Yes, it's not a big deal to do an update and recommit (especially
> since TSVN saves log messages), but considering how often this
> happens, wouldn't it be a good idea for TSVN to actually look for this
> error specifically? Instead of just returning the error and dumping it
> all back on me, TSVN could just pop up a dialog saying "TSVN needs to
> do an update first. Update now?" The user could click OK or Cancel. On
> OK, TSVN would do an update of the appropriate directory and then if
> no new conflicts were found, pop up a second dialog saying, "Update
> complete... Try the commit again?"
>
> Or, hell, just assume "yes" at that point and do the commit again with
> the log message the user already entered. If conflicts were found,
> just pop up an informational dialog so the user knows why the commit
> wasn't retried.

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#wc-out-of-date

Stefan

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