Wish List - Toggle Show as checked out

Dr Caroline Wilkins caroline at ib2bsystems.com
Tue Oct 22 22:26:09 UTC 2024


I don't know if this feature has made it into the most recent version, 
but something that I find irritating and potentially harmful to code is 
that you can't tell the difference between a class that has been checked 
out of the VCS and one that has been "Toggle Show as checked out" from 
the library class list.

When working with a team using the VCS, it often happens that certain 
important classes are checked out by another developer. In an ideal 
world, we wait for it to become available. But sometimes we have to just 
get on with things! So I copy the class out of VCS to make sure I am 
working on the most recent available version, toggle the class out, work 
and test with that toggled out version (documenting the changes I am 
making heavily!) and then, when the class becomes available for check 
out from the VCS, I check it out and make the changes and check in again.

But the problem with all that is that it is easy to forget what has been 
toggled out and you can't tell the difference by just looking at the 
library. You have to go into the VCS to see if you have it really 
checked out or not. If it were to appear in a different colour or with a 
little icon to indicate that it is toggled rather than checked out, it 
would be easier and safer.

So that's my wish list item! Would that make anyone else happy too?!

Caroline





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