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

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Dienstag, 27. März 2007, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> 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
>
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Ok, I'll have a look at it.

Detlev
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