-1

Seeing, "Caution, do you really want to...," is kind of annoying because
it's applying the "caution" to the user's intent BEFORE saying why.

The old message applied the caution to the REASON, and THEN asked the user,
"do you really want to...".

>From that aspect, the old message is better.





On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 2:41 PM <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:

> Christoph Thiede uploaded a new version of Monticello to project The Trunk:
> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Monticello-ct.729.mcz
>
> ==================== Summary ====================
>
> Name: Monticello-ct.729
> Author: ct
> Time: 17 September 2020, 7:04:53.385813 pm
> UUID: 5eea47cc-405e-7841-9544-0f57a9b92fa0
> Ancestors: Monticello-cmm.726
>
> Proposal: Enhance truncation of "newer versions avaiable" warning (and
> make it multilingual-ready)
>
> =============== Diff against Monticello-cmm.726 ===============
>
> Item was changed:
>   ----- Method: MCWorkingCopyBrowser>>checkForNewerVersions (in category
> 'actions') -----
>   checkForNewerVersions
> +       "Answer true if there are no newer versions preventing us from
> saving a version."
> +
>         | newer |
>         newer := workingCopy possiblyNewerVersionsIn: self repository.
> +
> +       newer ifEmpty: [^ true].
> +
> +       ^ self confirm: ('CAUTION!! {1}:\{2}\Do you really want to save
> this version?' withCRs translated format: {
> +               newer size = 1
> +                       ifTrue: ['This version in the repository may be
> newer' translated]
> +                       ifFalse: ['These {1} versions in the repository
> may be newer' translated format: {newer size}].
> +               (newer size > 3
> +                       ifFalse: [newer]
> +                       ifTrue: [(newer first: 3) , {'...'} , {newer
> last}]) asCommaString withNoLineLongerThan: 150
> +       })!
> -       ^ newer isEmpty or: [
> -               self confirm: 'CAUTION!! These versions in the repository
> may be newer:',
> -                       String cr, ((newer asCommaString
> withNoLineLongerThan:  150) truncateWithElipsisTo: 5 * 149), String cr,
> -                       'Do you really want to save this version?'].!
>
>
>
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