Re: Feature Request

Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
> Stefan Küng wrote:
>> Gre7g wrote:
>>> I'm the only programmer developing one of the projects I'm on, but
>>> quite often I'll attempt a commit and TSVN will spit back a "working
>>> directory is out of date, please do an update first" sort of message.
>>> This seems kind of silly to me as I know that no one has made changes
>>> to the files involved, but oh well. I do an update and then a
>>> recommit.
>>>
>>> Yes, it's not a big deal to do an update and recommit (especially
>>> since TSVN saves log messages), but considering how often this
>>> happens, wouldn't it be a good idea for TSVN to actually look for this
>>> error specifically? Instead of just returning the error and dumping it
>>> all back on me, TSVN could just pop up a dialog saying "TSVN needs to
>>> do an update first. Update now?" The user could click OK or Cancel. On
>>> OK, TSVN would do an update of the appropriate directory and then if
>>> no new conflicts were found, pop up a second dialog saying, "Update
>>> complete... Try the commit again?"
>>>
>>> Or, hell, just assume "yes" at that point and do the commit again with
>>> the log message the user already entered. If conflicts were found,
>>> just pop up an informational dialog so the user knows why the commit
>>> wasn't retried.
>>
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#wc-out-of-date
>
> That information is great, but I don't think the OP is talking about
> being confused - they're talking about a way in which the software could
> make life easier without any real likelihood of causing problems. If the
> error in question is detected, just provide an "easy option" to
> immediately do an update followed by a retry of the commit (if the
> update is flawless). Don't do it without asking, but offer to. I'd find
> it useful.
>

Settings dialog->General->Dialogs2, "Reopen commit and branch/tag dialog
after a commit failed"

Stefan

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