On 5/9/2016 7:28 PM, Stefan Küng wrote:
> On 09.05.2016 19:21, Ben Fritz wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Stefan Hett <stefan_at_egosoft.com
>> <mailto:stefan_at_egosoft.com>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> simple suggestion:
>>> When doing a checkout, allow specifying the origin of the repository
>> also directly in the Windows path format.
>>> Assuming that you created a repository on C:\MyRepo and want to check
>> it out, the checkout dialog should accept C:\MyRepo (in addition to
>> file:///C:/MyRepo).
>>> Reasoning: Reduce the hurde for new users to get started with SVN.
>>>
>>> Would that suggestion make sense?
>>>
>> I think it would encourage the use of repositories on simple Windows
>> share-drive paths. Since use of such repositories is known to cause data
>> corruption I think this would actually be a bad idea.
> Agreed.
> But: you can specify "C:\MyRepo" and then click the "..." button to
> browse the repo. Then you can select e.g. 'trunk' from there, click OK
> and you have the correct file:/// url.
>
> I think it's bad to check out from a repo root, so having to click the
> browse button to first select a subfolder is good enough.
Thanks for your rationals on the design decision.
While I obviously fully agree with it not being good practice to create
repositories on shared network drives, I wouldn't quite agree that this
should be the reason for not simplifying the usage of these "edge" cases
(including using repositories on local drives).
Nevertheless, it's just a personal opinion and it's certainly not worth
discussing it further (since it's really just a minor suggestion of an
edge case).
--
Regards,
Stefan Hett
------------------------------------------------------
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4061&dsMessageId=3171823
To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [users-unsubscribe_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org].
Received on 2016-05-10 11:40:21 CEST