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Pretty much a plug for Subclipse. No vote.

Just for the record, you can do exactly the same thing he's doing with Mylar and Subversive and you'll get (IMHO) a better UI experience.

Wow, I would not have expected a response like that. You can fight the Subclipse vs. Subversive battle if you want to. I was just writing an article on how this feature works because it is not documented very well anywhere and it comes up a lot on the mailing lists.

If you do not think it is a useful article that is your opinion and you are entitled to it but a lot of TortoiseSVN users and issue trackers use this feature.

:-) I don't mean to be antagonistic about it. Subversive and subclipse are startlingly close now both in features and in look (though, subversive still has better icons). The subversive plug was pretty much because I thought it was interesting to note.

All I did was withhold my vote and comment as to why I did so. I didn't complain on the link or tell people to bury it. Honestly, I do think it's pretty much a plug for subclipse. For one thing, the way you posted it makes it sound like using Subclipse is the *only* way to do this (another reason for my Subversive plug). If this were qualified as Subclipse how-to info I probably would have voted for it (as it was, I considered it).

Maybe you can send me some wording suggestions off line. I do not see how you can say this portrays Subclipse as the only way. I mention TortoiseSVN throughout the article as well as how you could use client that do not support this feature. I mention and link to Mylar and I mention that this is supported by several tools. I think that Subversive might support it in latest RC. I saw a post on their mailing lists saying it was coming. If I knew a list of other tools that supported these, I'd have listed them at the end.

I agree that Mylar integration is nice, but your hook scripts might not support it and you might be using non-Eclipse clients too. Plus this feature is a couple of years old now so has a lot of users built up around it.

Finally, a few releases back we added "Icon Sets" to Subclipse. We include 3 named: Eclipse (which is like CVS), TortoiseSVN (old Subclipse icons) and Subversive.

Just to add a bit of trivia, the feature described in this article is what got me started with Subclipse. I had co-developed this spec with the TortoiseSVN developers and I wanted it supported in Subclipse. So first I re-did the commit dialog to be more like the one in TortoiseSVN, and then I contributed this feature. Those were the first things I did with the Subclipse project and soon after became a full committer.