Bug 323801

Description Markus Keller 2010-08-27 06:19:35 EDT

I20100824-1210

I often have a cursory look at incoming changes in the Synchronize view. When I see bugs in a change, I'd like to fix them right away. Unfortunately, Eclipse has no good story for this.

When I open an incoming change in a compare editor, I cannot edit the new (remote) version. To get a compare editor where I can edit the latest version, I have to perform these manual steps:

- remember the line number of the first problem I want to fix
- remember the base revision (from my workspace)
- update the file
- open history of the file
- find the base revision
- compare base revision with current
- find the first line that needs to be changed

That's too many steps for a common workflow.

Solution proposal:

When updating a file, check if there's already an open compare editor for that change (Local File on the left, Remote File on the right). That editor will be useless after the update, since both sides show the same content. The right side of the editor should be replaced with the original base version (which is also the Common Ancestor). Thus, the Update operation basically exchanges the left and the right side of the compare editor.