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Re: Feature request - custom commands in context menu.

From: Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 13:12:57 +0000

On 3 November 2011 11:38, Arwin Arni <arwin_at_collab.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's a short description of the motivation for this feature and the
> feature itself.
>
> Using the svn command-line client, it is possible to pass various extra
> flags to any of the commands being executed. E.g. - svn add --no-auto-props
>
> The only way one can achieve this in tsvn is by manually editing the
> config to disable auto-props. The problem with this approach is that the
> change becomes 'sticky' and all further 'svn add' operations will not
> use auto-props.
>
> This is only one use-case that I can think of for now. I'm sure there
> are several other perfectly valid scenarios.
>
>
> The feature that I'm proposing is simply this - I should be able to
> create a custom command (like 'svn add --no-auto-props') and add that to
> my context menu with a suitably descriptive name. This way, I won't have
> to edit the config every time I need to 'add' without auto-props.
>
> I'd be glad to help with the implementation of this if the community
> feels that this idea holds water.

How would you implement this? Remember that TSVN is not just a wrapper
round the command line client, so any custom command would have to
know about all possible subversion APIs. I imagine it would be a *lot*
easier to add a 'no auto props' checkbox to the Add dialog.

Simon

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