I’ve recently decided to start making use of collections on a project with source control enabled and noticed there are three different types. I decided using shared collections would be a good idea as it does what it says, it’s a collection for other participants in project to be able to work with.
Now that’s fine and all but what I didn’t know is that every time something is added to a shared collection, Unreal will automatically commit the change with little warning. I soon found out that the commit log gets flooded with such commits which is not desirable at all.
Is there a way to turn this behavior off while still being able to commit changes manually to source control for collections? I know there are other collection types but they’re not as convenient as shared collections. I just want to turn this auto commit behavior off.
The best way I found was setting the share type to local, editing it and setting it back to shared. This will reduce it to a delete commit and a add commit
I have been looking for this as well, a little while later than the original question I see… Looks like this is not a native option and requires an engine change, which is doable but not desirable. Would have been nice as an Editor Preference
Was also considering Sebulbion’s suggestion, but that doesn’t work when having nested collections since they each have their own permission value. Otherwise that would have been okay as a temporary solution.
So my answer unfortunately is to either check whether UE5 has improvements here or to make an engine change yourself in …\Engine\Source\Developer\CollectionManager\Private\Collection.cpp
I just encounter this today, and after some looking around I found that you can disable the automatic commits with this entry in an EditorSettings config file (e.g. /[GAME]/Config/DefaultEditorSettings.ini ):
