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Re: Suggestion for "select all" functionality in Commit dialog

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:29:34 +0200

Lübbe Onken wrote:
> Hans-Emil Skogh wrote:
>> [Link color]
>>>> Black would be my initial choice as well, but I'll give it a couple of
>>>> weeks and we'll see.
>>> I've changed the color now back to black, but the font is now bold so
>>> the links should be more distinguishable from normal labels.
>> I think this looks slightly better. Lübbe, any thoughts? Does it look
>> good to you?
>
> Looks good to me. I have to admit that this is the first nightly that I
> have installed for > two weeks, so I have neither checked the feature
> nor participated in the discussion (a "bit" much work to do currently :/).
>
> So if this has been mentioned before and discarded, please disregard my
> comment below.
>
> It feels unnatural to me that the selections are no toggles. E.g. if I
> click on "Files" once, all files are checked, if I click on files again
> nothing happens. I have to select "None" to deselect everything and
> start over. If I wanted to select all modified files (but not the
> directories) quickly, my action sequence would be:
> - Click modified, (all modified objects are selected)
> - Click directories once, (all directories are selected)
> - Click directories again, (all directories are unselected)
>
> Maybe that doesn't make sense, but that was my first impression without
> deeper thought.
>
> One thing that I noticed while playing around with the selections. What
> happens if I do the following:
> - select a single changed file for commit
> - "Show unversioned" (status tells me 12345 total 1 selected)
> - select "all" (status tells me 12345 total 12345 selected)
> - deselect "Show unversioned" (status tells me 1 total 1 selected)
> - "OK" (I didn't dare :))
>
> Will the 12345, currently not visible, unversioned objects that I
> selected, be added to the repository without further warning or will it
> only the single changed file I selected in the beginning be committed?

Only the items you see and that are checked will be committed. Why do
you think it would commit the unversioned items that you checked first
but then hid? That wouldn't make sense and IMHO is not logic.

Stefan

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Received on 2009-06-04 17:30:34 CEST

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