More appropriate defaults

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Dino
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More appropriate defaults

Post by Dino » Fri May 26, 2006 5:23 am

In some dialogs, like the "Check Out" dialog for Renegade files, it defaults to "Attempt Automatic Merge" which is good. However, for Get Latest of Old files, it also defaults to "Attempt Automatic Merge" where I feel this option should almost not even be available - if your local copy is simply old, the only option on get latest should really be overwrite - or at the very least, that should be the pre-selected default.

GregM
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Post by GregM » Fri May 26, 2006 6:12 am

That option is for "modified files" only, so it already doesn't apply to "Old" files. Having the default change based on the status of the selected files, especially ones to which it doesn't apply, would be confusing at best.

Dino
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Post by Dino » Fri May 26, 2006 6:19 am

Having the default change based on the status of the selected files would actually be smart in my opinion, and not confusing in the slightest - would *clearly* indicate that the files should be overwritten, not merged. Obviously, for files of differing statuses, no default should be selected at all.

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Post by GregM » Fri May 26, 2006 8:36 am

But in your example, only old files, there are no modified files, so this section doesn't apply at all.

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