When a user submits a new word or edits an existing word in the dictionary, the system should check if the branch already exists before attempting to create a new branch. Currently, if a branch with the same name already exists, the submission process fails without providing a clear error message to the user.
Add a check in the submission process to verify if the branch already exists. (but this will assume that a fork has already been created before-hand)
If the branch exists, display a user-friendly error message indicating that the word already exists in the dictionary.
Provide guidance on how to proceed, such as editing the existing word instead of creating a new one.
Additional Notes:
Important to state that the proposed solution is pretty much me thinking out loud, I have some thought which really looks like it will change how/when we fork in order to address this in the way I am thinking about
Its also important to know how/when we fork too, I can shed more lights on this
When a user submits a new word or edits an existing word in the dictionary, the system should check if the branch already exists before attempting to create a new branch. Currently, if a branch with the same name already exists, the submission process fails without providing a clear error message to the user.
https://github.com/babblebey/jargons.dev/blob/0eeb366b4346c28a400586082fadb331c0ee342f/src/lib/branch.js#L10
Proposed Solution:
Additional Notes: