Hi Lucinda,

We are considering to add this functionality in a future release.

Regarding 1. Diffing from the commit window:  I think that would be a
nice feature to have, something I'd find quite handy myself too.

Re. 2. 'Enabling/disabling' items in the commit dialog:  I'm
personally less certain about that, since I'm worried it would make
the commit dialog a bit busy.  The current way of committing
selectively is to use multiple selection in the browser; adding this
feature would blur the line somewhat between what the browser's for
and what the commit dialog is for, but that's true for both topics.

There's something to say for a more powerful commit dialog, my main
concern is losing some of the clarity of Versions' interface by
providing too much overlap between browser and commit dialog.  Once we
have disabling/enabling of items, it'd be just one step further to
allow adding unversioned files from the commit dialog, and so on with
the next extra feature.

These are just some of my personal off-the-bat opinions on where we
could/should take the commit dialog.  We will have to work out some
prototypes of a more powerful commit dialog and see how they work and
feel.  And maybe if we're lucky, we'll come up with an even better way
to make pre-commit reviews more fluid.

So definitely under consideration, but not yet decided exactly what,
how and when.

I hope I've answered your question a bit.  I'd love to say "Yes, we're
building that", but until we have a prototype that 'feels right' we're
not ready to commit – pun not intended – on shipping an update with
these features.

Thanks,
- Dirk

the Versions team

On Dec 30 2008, 6:39 pm, lucinda <[email protected]> wrote:
> My development group relies heavily on code reviews, including self-
> reviewing all changes before they are committed. The following
> improvements to the Commit window would make self-reviews much easier
> for us:
>
> 1. Provide the ability to diff the working copy of a file with the
> base from the Commit window.
>
> 2. Provide the ability to add and remove files from the commit set by
> using checkboxes in the Commit window.
>
> I see that these features have been requested already. Are they being
> considered for a release anytime soon? Thanks.
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