Re: [PATCH] TortoiseMerge: report if files are identical and optionally exit

Stefan Küng wrote:
> Flavio Stanchina wrote:
>> We've migrated to Subversion+TortoiseSVN from Visual SourceSafe; one of
>> my boss' complaints was that the VSS "diff" command would report if the
>> files are identical and just exit, so I implemented it in TortoiseMerge.
>
> I'm not sure if that 'feature' is really something useful. I always
> thought it annoying having a dialog box popping up to tell me that the
> files are identical. Even if they are, I still like to sometimes browse
> through the files - that spares me from opening the file(s) again in a
> text editor.

[snip]

> What do others think about such a feature?

Personally I would find this dialog annoying as well - message boxes
interrupt workflow. If this does get implemented as an option, I would
like to see it disabled by default.

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Received on Wed Mar 21 18:41:10 2007