Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 20:57, Richard Garand wrote:
>
>
>>When a commit fails for some reason, subversion prints an error like this:
>>
>>svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
>>svn: '/home/richard/projects/cms1/svn-commit.tmp'
>>
>>Doesn't it make sense to load that message during the next commit attempt
>>instead of making the user to abort the commit, open the file, copy the
>>message, start a new commit, and paste the message? As of version 1.0.1, I
>>have never seen subversion do this.
>>
>>
>
>Why are you aborting the commit and copying/pasting?
>
>If, in your 2nd commit, your $EDITOR comes up blank, why not just insert
>the contents of the 'svn-commit.tmp' file into the current buffer? In
>emacs, it's a simple "C-X, i". I'm sure it's just as easy to do that in
>vi or any other editor.
>
>
>
I think the point is that it doesn't really make sense to have this
extra step. I've certainly aborted a commit a few times, only to
recommit, retype my log, then realize there was a .tmp file already
there. I can't say for certain that now that I know it's there, that I
would even remember the next time.
Dare I say it, but reading in the tmp file log message would be a great
UI improvement, just enough to add some nice polish.
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Brian Mathis
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Received on Tue Apr 20 19:02:01 2004