[Eric] version control usability (Was: Re: version control problems)

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Am Dienstag, 27. März 2007 08:49 schrieb Vicent Mas:
> El Monday, 26 de March de 2007 18:49 Detlev Offenbach escribió:
> > On Montag, 26. März 2007, Vicent Mas wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'd like to use the version control capabilities of eric4, mainly
> > > diff and commit operations. However they have an unexpected (at
> > > least for me) behavior. First I open the difference window, then I
> > > open the commit one but, once the commit window becomes active, the
> > > difference window (the rest of eric in fact) cannot be activated
> > > again, the only usable window is the commit one. Normally I write
> > > detailed commit logs so I need to read the diffs when I'm writing.
> > > But the current behavior doesn't allow me to do it.
> > >
> > > Is this the expected behavior?
> >
> > Yes, the commit dialog is a modal dialog.
>
> Hi again,
>
> yes, I know that the dialog is modal. But my point wasn't about it being
> modal or not. The subject was usability. Currently the commit dialog
> makes impossible to review the diffs when you are writing the commit
> log. I think that doing this review is something quite common (at least
> for me :-). IMHO the usability of this eric capability would increase a
> lot if diffs could be accessed in the commit dialog (as they can, for
> instance, in the Tortoise SVN gui). Just an opinion. You can
> disagree, of course :-)

Accessing the diffs during commit would raise the quality of [my] commit 
messages heavily, and thus the quality of working with eric and VCSs. 
Therefor I strongly vote for this feature.

Pete