Re: [Subclipse-users] How to comment a commit while comparing differences ?

        For what it's worth:

        I find the commit interface kinda clunky for my tastes. I normally commit
changes to a lot of different files, and generally document each change
individually when it comes to libraries, for the sake of progeny (and
sanity).

        Double-clicking to see the differences is neat, but it doesn't help when I
can't type into the commit window with the compare window open. For some of
the commits I've done, I'd literally have to open & close the compare editor
50-100 times before I got the commit message right. And since I have a habit
of saving immediately after changing something, it leads to committing with a
partial message.

        To get around the whole deal, I open a text editor, type all my stuff into
there while looking at the differences of each file individually. That
allows me to save the message as I work on it (in case I get pulled away).
When it's done, I open the commit dialog, copy from text editor to the commit
box, and go. Anytime I've tried just using Eclipse/Subclipse for the entire
process of writing the commit log, I ended up red-faced and generally
unpleasant to work with. ;)

On Thursday 12 July 2007 12:37, CARASSO Felipe wrote:
> It's cleaner but not always that simple, because sometimes you just have
> too many changes to remember when typing the message.
>
> It could look cleaner, though, if the message was kept in the edit field
> instead of the drop-down, just until you really press "Commit" instead of
> "Cancel". After all, keeping an incomplete and unused message in the
> drop-down doesn't make that much sense to me. But I'm glad it's there
> anyway.
>
> Best regards,
> Felipe
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Phippard [mailto:markphip@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:37 AM
> > To: users@subclipse.tigris.org
> > Subject: Re: [Subclipse-users] How to comment a commit while
> > comparing differences ?
> >
> > On 7/12/07, CARASSO Felipe <Felipe.CARASSO@gemalto.com> wrote:
> > > There's something that could be a workaround for you.
> > >
> > > If you type a partial message in the Commit dialog and you
> > > press Cancel, that partial message will be stored in the
> >
> > messages drop-down and you can get back to it from there next
> > time you open the Commit dialog.
> >
> > > So if you do your commits from the Synchronize
> >
> > view, you can
> >
> > > use the Compare from there and play with that Commit dialog
> >
> > feature to add the differences to your commit message.
> >
> > This is all true, but isn't it somewhat cleaner to just
> > double-click on the items in the Commit Dialog to open a
> > compare window? Look at the changes, close the window and
> > type commit message. Then repeat etc...
> >
> > --
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mark Phippard
> > http://markphip.blogspot.com/
> >
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