Merge tool: go to the first 'pending non-automatic' section on startup
When user intervention is needed during a merge, the merge tool opens. If there are multiple changes in the file being merged, the first operation you need to do then is jump to the first section that needs user intervention (a 'pending non-automatic' one).
Because the program does not do it automatically, I tend to forget to jump to that section, thinking that the currently displayed one is the one that I have to correct. If the tool needs my intervention, and that's the reason it is started, why does it bother me with a correct section on startup? :-)
Please go to the first change that needs user intervention automatically after the tool starts.
Thanks.
Mariusz Schimke
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Mariusz Schimke
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Do you still remember about this suggestion? :-)
When the manual merge window opens, it is obvious that this happens because user intervention is necessary. Because of that, my first reaction is to concentrate on the immediate content it shows me, which I always (not sometimes, always) intuitively interprete as the section that needs my intervention. But I'm always mislead, because the window shows the first change in that file, not necessarily the one that needs intervention. I noticed that my colleagues' reactions are similar to mine.
That's why I think the manual merge operation would more intuitive if the immediate section displayed by the window was the one that needs user intervention.
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Yes, good point. We'll implement it.