A new commit tool

[Steve Borho]

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 08:12, Joe Bruce wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> First, it looks like a good start, and your goals obviously sound good.
> Though I wouldn't want to filter on the different file types, there is one
> feature I would like to see...

Thanks for the feedback.

> The File List should be a list box that includes a check box for each file.
> I personally end up committing a few separate, but sort of related changes,
> fairly close together. For example, fileA and fileB were changed to add
> some feature to "platform code", while fileC was changed to make use of the
> new platform feature. If I can choose which files to commit, I would be
> more likely to use such a tool -- it would beat specifying the file paths
> on the command line!

That is the intent.  Unfortunately the list box code wasn't far enough along 
to show up in the snapshot.

Having a decent commit tool should facilitate better changesets, as you say.

-- 
Steve Borho (steve at borho.org)