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Re: Is it possible to manipulate the windows context-menu for SVN-File ?

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:59:00 +0200

AlWiz wrote:
> Problemdescription:
>
> - files are checked in under SVN
> - users want to copy/move files
> - they right-click on file, select : Cut/Copy, go to destination
> folder and right-click insert. They use the standard windows commands
> and do not use SVN-copy or SVN-cut etc...
> - of course, this leads to problems
>
> idea:
> - manipulate the standard windows conext-menu, so that users are
> forced to use SVN-Copy, SVN-Cut etc instead of the standard windows
> commands
>
>
> is this possible ?

No, it's not possible to interfere with the standard explorer behavior.
But: tell your users to right-drag the files:
http://tortoisesvn.net/most-forgotten-feature

Stefan

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Received on 2008-06-19 16:59:43 CEST

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