We have recently updated to v1.14.5 and this is working perfectly.

Thank you.

On Sunday, 5 June 2022 at 22:04:31 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:

> onsdag 1 juni 2022 kl. 19:13:18 UTC+2 skrev Chris Watson:
>
>> I disagree, I would find this a useful feature. However, perhaps my 
>> example was reductive.
>>
>> The use case I have in mind is deleting feature branches. In our 
>> organisation, branch names follow a standard pattern of ACME_0000_FeatName, 
>> where 0000 is an issue number, and FeatName is a brief description; for 
>> example ACME_1234_SomeFeat.
>>
>> When deleting these feature branches, a more accurate example of the log 
>> message entered may be:
>>
>> "Deleted the ACME_1234_SomeFeat branch. Merged to trunk in r5679. (Acme 
>> #1234)"
>>
>> As I hope this example demonstrates, the why is included in the message.
>>
>> The reason for the request is that ACME_1234_SomeFeat doesn't really flow 
>> off the keyboard, so I usually copy/paste it from the "Remove 
>> ACME_1234_SomeFeat" textbox.
>>
>> This is really the only scenario where I routinely find myself deleting 
>> folders using the repository browser. If I were to delete this folder from, 
>> say, a working copy of the branches parent folder, the log message textbox 
>> would suggest the name of the folder, as it would the name, or path, for 
>> any affected files, or folders. However, this behaviour, and the "Paste 
>> filename list" context menu item, to which Kalen refers, does not appear to 
>> be present on the commit dialog within the repository browser, being 
>> limited only to the commit dialog for a working copy.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 at 17:22:09 UTC+1 Kalen Brown wrote:
>>
>>> I completely agree with Stefan. And to give Stefan/TortoiseSVN a little 
>>> more credit, there is a feature that if you right click in the commit 
>>> message window pane, there is a paste file name option. HOWEVER, only use 
>>> this to add descriptions of why each file was changed and DO NOT just 
>>> commit the list. The list is what is shown with the commit in the log entry 
>>> after commit anyway. Don’t betray me by committing only the list like the 
>>> last person I told this to. 
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 12:52:53 PM UTC-5 Stefan wrote:
>>>
>>>> that would of course be possible, but honestly completely useless.
>>>> You should not describe in the commit message something that is obvious 
>>>> from the log itself. In this case, the log will clearly show that the 
>>>> file/folder was deleted, so why describe the very same in the commit 
>>>> message? Make zero sense.
>>>> Instead, you should describe in the commit message *why *you deleted 
>>>> the file/folder.
>>>>
>>>
> A little late to the party...
>
> While I agree with Kalen's and Stefan's opinion, there may be project 
> specific requirements. One is described by Chris, above, and another 
> example is Subversion project[1] specifying that file names and function 
> names should be spelled out in the log message for searchability reasons. 
> (TortoiseSVN has the ability to search for file names in the Show Log 
> dialog, but the command line client doesn't have this.) Another argument is 
> that this feature is available in the normal commit dialog.
>
> I have created a branch /branches/autocomplete_in_repobrowser_logdlg where 
> the autocomplete feature is implemented also in the log dialog used by 
> Repobrowser. I have created a thread[2] in the dev group where we can 
> discuss the implementation details to see if this could/should be merged to 
> trunk and be included in a future version of TSVN. Interested parties, 
> please consider building your own version of TSVN and take it for a spin!
>
> Kind regards,
> Daniel
>
>
>
> [1] 
> https://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/conventions.html#log-messages
> [2] https://groups.google.com/g/tortoisesvn-dev/c/yP0Xq3h0VPo
>

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