Google Summer of Code: Bazaar-Visual Studio integration status update

[Aaron Bentley]

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Klaus Hartke wrote:
> Wouter wrote:
>> * The 'flat view' allows checkmarking which changes you want to
>> commit. If you rename a directory but don't commit the change
>> to one of its childs, you'll get unexpected results: the child
>> is committed as well.  A workaround is to only offer a tree
>> view where all parent directories are automatically also
>> checkmarked.
> 
> The problem here is that the GUI suggests that it's possible to commit
> all combinations of changes separately.
> 
> By default all changes are checkmarked. The user has the option to
> uncheck some changes to indicate he doesn't want to commit them. After
> commit he will expect to find those changes left uncommitted. But in
> the case described changes get committed explicitly unchecked by the
> user!

Bad, I agree.  I think commit ought to support select-by-file-id, rather
than only select-by-path-recursively.

However, as long as the directory is not modified (which is almost all
the time), you can ignore its checkmark, and not commit it.

Aaron
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