I disagree, I would find this a useful feature. However, perhaps my example was reductive.
The use case I have in mind is deleting feature branches. In our organisation, branch names follow a standard pattern of ACME_0000_FeatName, where 0000 is an issue number, and FeatName is a brief description; for example ACME_1234_SomeFeat. When deleting these feature branches, a more accurate example of the log message entered may be: "Deleted the ACME_1234_SomeFeat branch. Merged to trunk in r5679. (Acme #1234)" As I hope this example demonstrates, the why is included in the message. The reason for the request is that ACME_1234_SomeFeat doesn't really flow off the keyboard, so I usually copy/paste it from the "Remove ACME_1234_SomeFeat" textbox. This is really the only scenario where I routinely find myself deleting folders using the repository browser. If I were to delete this folder from, say, a working copy of the branches parent folder, the log message textbox would suggest the name of the folder, as it would the name, or path, for any affected files, or folders. However, this behaviour, and the "Paste filename list" context menu item, to which Kalen refers, does not appear to be present on the commit dialog within the repository browser, being limited only to the commit dialog for a working copy. Thanks, Chris On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 at 17:22:09 UTC+1 Kalen Brown wrote: > I completely agree with Stefan. And to give Stefan/TortoiseSVN a little > more credit, there is a feature that if you right click in the commit > message window pane, there is a paste file name option. HOWEVER, only use > this to add descriptions of why each file was changed and DO NOT just > commit the list. The list is what is shown with the commit in the log entry > after commit anyway. Don’t betray me by committing only the list like the > last person I told this to. > > On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 12:52:53 PM UTC-5 Stefan wrote: > >> that would of course be possible, but honestly completely useless. >> You should not describe in the commit message something that is obvious >> from the log itself. In this case, the log will clearly show that the >> file/folder was deleted, so why describe the very same in the commit >> message? Make zero sense. >> Instead, you should describe in the commit message *why *you deleted the >> file/folder. >> > -- 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 tortoisesvn+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn/30d68eef-6edf-4459-9a7f-852b145c0c90n%40googlegroups.com.
