Re: Update after failed commit updates each file individually

On 18.05.2011 10:00, Hans-Emil Skogh wrote:
>>> I've just tried choosing "Update" after the "working copy is out
>>> of date - would you like to update?" option during a commit. For
>>> some reason, it shows an "Updating" and "Completed At revision:
>>> x" pair for each file I selected during the commit.
>> I usually get the "out of date" error because of a property change
>> on a folder. Now if TSVN would update the folder you selected for
>> commit, it would update everything. And that might not be what you
>> want. You might want to only update what's preventing the commit -
>> there might be changes in the repository which you're not ready yet
>> to include in your working copy.
>
> Hmm...
>
>> Question is: should I change that? This is of course up for
>> discussion...
>
> I would argue that in most cases you should do the update on the
> entire folder. If you get updates that you are not ready for, your
> changes are probably not ready to be committed either.
>
> To me it feels very unsafe to only update the changed files. It sort
> of bypasses the lovely update-test-commit safety when files that the
> changed files may be dependent on are not updated.
>
> So. I would say: Preferably update the entire folder by default.

Ok, done in r21433.

Stefan

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