David Corbin <dcorbin@machturtle.com> wrote on 11/09/2004 09:40:31 AM:
> On Monday 08 November 2004 09:21, Mark Phippard wrote:
> > "Ian Brockbank" <Ian.Brockbank@wolfsonmicro.com> wrote on 11/08/2004
> >
> > 05:02:13 AM:
> > > - It would be nice for the commit dialog to be modeless (if Eclipse
> > > allows
> > > this). I frequently want to refer to the changes I made when
writing
> > > the
> > > commit comment.
> >
> > It seems like the Synch view might make this easier? Also, if the
commit
> > dialog contained the list of files being committed, as Tortoise does,
>
> I'd like this too. Listing the files wouldn't help at all (for me). I
want to
> be able to do a "diff" for each file to see what should be said in the
> comment.
I do not know if making the dialog modeless could cause any other
problems. For the sake of discussion, let's just say that it would cause
other problems. Couldn't you use the Create Patch option prior to the
commit, and then have the patch file open in a text editor along side the
commit dialog?
Mark
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Received on Wed Nov 10 01:45:27 2004