On Tuesday 09 November 2004 09:45, Mark Phippard wrote:
> 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?
Perhaps, but then If the patch is larger than then display, I still can't
scroll it. And that would be a very cumbsome process.
Received on Wed Nov 10 02:13:23 2004