Re: Re: [TSVN] Trac/bugtraq - Ticket to Changeset link [was: Re: Trac [was: TortoiseSVN 1.1.1 released]]

Lars Klose <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:37:42 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.trac.general,gmane.mail.eyebrowse.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Christopher Lenz wrote:
> Just a couple of thoughts on this: you often want to refer to multiple 
> tickets in the same changeset, so it wouldn't make sense if TSVN somehow 
> automatically added the ticket selected in the combo-box to the commit 
> message. One possible approach would be that selecting a ticket from the 
> combo-box would insert the ticket number at the current caret position.

I was actually primarily thinking about references to the issue that the 
change _fixes_ .

> A much more elegant approach to this whole story IMHO would be 
> auto-completion. I.e. you type # in the commit message, and after 
> waiting half a second or somehow hitting a trigger such as ctrl+space, a 
> drop-down containing the open tickets is presented to you. Select the 
> one you want and the ticket number is appended to the '#' you already 
> typed. You get the idea :-)

Wow. Indeed _much_ more elegant and more flexible at the same time! 
Forget about the combobox :-)
Though the '#' may already be specific to your issue tracking system and 
thus the prefix would have to be configurable through yet another 
bugtraq property...

Lars.