Re: Suggestion: Enable editing for both views when TMerge is invoked for diffing two files

On 25.01.2010 08:27, Hans-Emil Skogh wrote:
> > When I select "diff" for two files in Explorer TMerge is spawned. The
> > file which goes into the right view can be edited, but the one going into
> > the left view cannot. It makes no sense. Why not enable editing for both
> > views in this case?
> I guess it is due to the added complexity of having to be able to select
> what file to save and such. But such practicalities aside I agree with
> you. It doesn't make a lot of sense.
> A semi-reason for not allowing to edit the left file is that it's often
> a temporary file. But sometimes the right one is a temporary as well,
> and sometimes you do like to edit temporary files...
> To make it a litle bit more smooth, maybe TSVN could tell TMerge if a
> file is a temporary one (by a command line argument for example) that
> could disable the "Save" option, but still keep the "Save as". Editing
> temporary files may make sense, but saving them without specifying a new
> filename doesn't.
> Hans-Emil

TortoiseMerge is not a text editor but a merge tool. And only one file
needs editing: the target file, i.e. the one which is the result of the
merge.
Anything else is just confusing for beginners.

Stefan

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