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

>>> 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.
...
> 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.
 
Very good point.
 
Though I must confess to quite regularly missuse TortoiseMerge as a text editor. :-)
 
> Anything else is just confusing for beginners.

Then I would like to re-state my point about being able to edit temporary files. It's IMHO absolutely no biggie, and maybe even not worth the effort, but could prevent beginners in the habit of editing files in TortoiseMerge from accidently loosing work by making changes to and save a temporary file:
 
>> 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

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Received on 2010-01-26 08:21:50 CET