On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Doug Philips <[email protected]> wrote: > I just went through a search of 'synch' on the bitbucket bug list and didn't > find this already. > > It seems that the synch dialog's pull down list of paths is a unification of > all paths that it has ever seen. > For example in my "User Config" Path tab I might have paths a, b, and c > defined. > In my "Repo Config" Path tab for repo R1 I might have d, e, and f defined. > So far, so good. > > In my "Repo Config" Path tab for repo R2 I might have g, h and i defined. > So far, not so good. > > When I am working in repo R1, the list of paths in the synch dialog pull down > can contain g, h, and i, -if- I have used the synch dialog from repo R2, but > not if I haven't. > > We're using repos as branches for some of the stuff at work, and we've had a > few accidents with folks pushing to the wrong repo. I've tracked it down to > this synch cache issue, and would like to see the behaviour changed. > > (Note: THg's synch dialog only shows the expanded path value, not the > short-hand alias, which can make it even trickier to easily recognize that > you've picked the wrong path).
Aliases are on the TODO list. > In talking this over with an affected co-worker, we both agreed that while > this super-cache of path names might be useful in some limited circumstances > (which we have not experienced), it has been actually harmful in several > circumstances (that we have actually experienced). > > I was going to open a bug on this, but thought I should ask about it being > "desired" behaviour (versus just being the way things are by historical > accident/guess-at-what-might-be-useful). I can see your point. The total URL history would probably be more useful in, say, the clone tool than here. So do we throw away the total URL history, or does it make sense to further differentiate? Would you rather see: Three-tier drop-down with repo aliases | repo history | all history - or just - Two-tier drop-down with repo aliases | repo history -- Steve PS: Feel free to file a bug for it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
