I spoke too soon! I just upgraded to TSVN 1.11 and noticed the checkboxes were still visible but did not try to check them. I am blocked from doing so, thanks to the BlockPeggedExternals setting.
Thanks for adding this feature! On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 2:20:47 PM UTC-7, Jason Sachs wrote: > > I am on a development team with some members who have accidentally > committed changes to svn:externals. Most of our svn:externals are in the > same repo (different projects in a large repo). > > I would like to request a feature to visually distinguish those > svn:externals, and to disable commits to them in the TSVN commit dialog > box. We rarely (if ever!) want to commit svn:externals changes. In other > words, if project A has an svn:externals to project B, then correct way to > do this in our team is to check out project B separately, make the changes > there, and then update the svn:externals in project A to point to the new > version of B. (I understand the convenience factor for some developers, but > we would rather be explicit about committing separately to separate > projects.) > > There *is* a clear visual distinction for files in *other *repositories: > > [image: tsvn-commit-externals.png] > but not for the same repo. I don't like the existing "Show externals from > different repositories" checkbox behavior; I want to see if there are > changes in svn:externals, but I do not want to modify them as part of the > commit. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TortoiseSVN" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn/1b4341fc-ce9e-4e8b-9e22-b5c51b8113f5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
