Daniel Wilhelm wrote:
> Hi Tortoise SVN Team,
>
> I igot a small feature idea - I dont't know wether this is feasible or useful
> for the rest of you, so I'm interested in your opinion:
>
> Our developers in our team generally check out the latest revision in the
> morning and start their feature and bug adding/removing. At the end of the day
> the commit their whole work to svn. Now - especially when doing a lot of minor
> changes - it is difficult to remember all those little changes, but it would be
> nice to have a detailed change list at the end of the day in the SVN
> description. Therefore, I would find it useful to be able to already record
> notes in a small notes window of Tortoise which will be able to insert into the
> commit description at the end of the day. So each developer can instantly make
> small notes about their changes and so have their commit discription ready at
> the end of their day. To make this process easy a small note popup with a simple
> textfield would be great which can be shown with a windows wide shortcut (e.g.
> WINDOWS + T) (or with a command line so that I can use windows to assign a
> shortcut would also be fine).
>
> What do you think?
>
> Dan
Dan, I'm the guy to ask if you ever want to find "cool utilities" that
meet specialized needs and the TSVN developer team says it doesn't
really belong in TSVN. I call myself the "Ultimate Product Finder and
Tester" and I find all products worth finding. I recently ran across a
freeware utility that might be sufficient for your developer's needs:
http://www.iwonderdesigns.com/stick/index.php
I found Stick lacking for my needs but it might be the perfect solution
for your needs. The "Explorer" tabs was what I was after and I have a
5-button mouse and the back and forward buttons don't work. I also
didn't like the "note taking tab" because it didn't feel like Notepad
and felt more like a weak WordPad with a simple embedded RTF control
(after a quick check, it _IS_ a simple embedded RTF control). For your
needs, though, it may be worth a try (use the 2.4 Beta 11 build - 2.3
lacks some features). Stick is slightly better than keeping a Notepad
window open all day.
I've contacted the author to see if they have a SDK (there is a partial
plugin architecture but half of the exports are name-mangled, meaning
the author botched up what it means to say something is a plugin).
AFAIK, there is no other product even close to what Stick does (free or
otherwise). Feel free to find something else, but if I didn't find it
during my quest a few weeks ago, it probably doesn't exist.
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Received on Fri Aug 25 23:27:24 2006