Re: way to make merge URL default to same file/folder in repo

Stephen Dewey wrote:
> This might be a feature request...
>
> When you do a revision range merge, you need to specify a URL to merge
> from. Right now, the default is the URL you used last time. I think it
> should be the URL that is your current Explorer context instead (e.g.
> what you right-clicked on, or your current folder).
>
> The reason is:
> You need to do a reverse merge to undo erroneous commits. But when you
> undo those commits, you are always doing a reverse merge only on the
> affected file itself, so you want to do the merge only from that URL.
> Otherwise, if you have to undo 25 files that were committed incorrectly,
> you may have to type the URL for each individually.
>
> (You could reverse merge an entire folder, but you might reverse merge
> some files/folders that you don't want to unless they were all in a
> single revision.)

To undo changes (i.e., do a reverse merge) the easiest way is to use the
log dialog, not the merge dialog. So your request to change the default
url is not really appropriate: most uses of the merge dialog would *not*
require the url of the selected item.

To revert changes from a specific revision, show the log for the
file/folder, select the revision you want to revert, right-click, then
choose "revert changes from this revision".

Stefan

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