Yuya Nishihara <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:16:17 -0500, John J Foerch wrote: >> Because of the shared account and shared repos arrangement, we have >> configured TortoiseHg to not have a default user, so that if someone >> tries to make a commit without signing it, TortoiseHg will bark at them. >> Often what happens though is that someone will go into the "Options" >> dialog, enter (or select) their name in the user field, and despite my >> instructions, proceed to hit either the "Save in Repo" or "Save >> Globally" button because they have forgotten what those buttons do, >> which then messes it up for the next person who forgets to sign their >> commit and we end up with commits signed with the wrong name. >> >> Another undesired consequence of this way that we use TortoiseHg is that >> if the user closes the Commit or Workbench window, they must repeat the >> signing process the next time they want to commit. > > For now, you can write a front-end script by PowerShell or something, that > will do > > 1. show list of user names > 2. run thg --config "ui.username=<selected user>" > (requires TortoiseHg 3.2 or later) >
Alright, I'll look into that. >> My feature request is for a global option that would enable a more >> "dummy-proof" commit signing interface. When this option was enabled, >> any time someone hit the "Commit" button, they would be presented with a >> dialog prompting them for the name to use to sign the commit. Its >> default value would come from the repo's default user name or the global >> default user name, but whether or not such defaults existed, the dialog >> would always appear. > > Not bad idea. Maybe it can have a username dialog that will be displayed > if no username is set or "dummy-proof" option is enabled. > > Regards, > I like the sound of that. I hope it can make it into the program some time. Thank you, John Foerch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
