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[TSVN] Useability Request

From: Huston, Robert _at_ AS <_at_>
Date: 2005-05-04 18:37:38 CEST

Hello,

Thank you for such a great product. We've moved away from Merant PVCS to
Subversion/TortoiseSVN in February and our productivity has just soared.
We've also been very impressed as to how well though-out the TortoiseSVN
extensions are. Just when we think somebody forgot a feature, we find it in
what appears to be (after some thought) in the best spot after all.

I have a request to enhance useability that hopefully could make it in the
upcoming SVN 1.2 release coordination. In the Repo-Browser, the pop-up menu
has "Delete", "Rename/Move", and "Copy To" right next to one another. It's
too easy to mis-select one choice for the other. There are times where a
user had intended to copy something and has mistakenly moved it instead. The
comment dialog that pops up for either choice is similar enough such that
the mistake is not discovered until someone else finds it later. Yes, the
damage is not permanent, but on a repository with a large number of
developers (>50) it can be a big jolt.

Could you add spacer lines in your menu so that it isolates the "Delete",
"Rename/Move", and "Copy To" items from all the other choices and from one
another? For example:

Show Log
Refresh
----------
Create Folder ...
Add File ...
Add Folder ...
----------
Delete
----------
Rename/Move ...
----------
Copy To ...
----------
Show Properties

Thank you for a great version control tool. Keep up the good work.

-Rob Huston

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Robert S. Huston
Principal Engineer
L-3 Communications Avionics Systems
1105 Schrock Road, Suite 800
Columbus, OH 43229
robert.huston@L-3com.com
Ph: (614) 825-2215
Fx: (614) 825-2037
www.l-3com.com/as <www.l-3com.com/as>
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Received on Wed May 4 18:45:29 2005

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