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* git-gui: Automatically backup the user's commit bufferShawn O. Pearce2007-07-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A few users have been seeing crashes in Tk when using the undo key binding to undo the last few keystroke events in the commit buffer. Unfortunately that means the user loses their commit message and must start over from scratch when the user restarts the process. git-gui now saves the user's commit message buffer every couple of seconds to a temporary file under .git (specifically .git/GITGUI_BCK). At exit time we rename this file to .git/GITGUI_MSG if there is a message, the file exists, and it is currently synchronized with the Tk buffer. Otherwise we do our usual routine of saving the Tk buffer to .git/GITGUI_MSG and delete .git/GITGUI_BCK, if it exists. During startup we favor .git/GITGUI_BCK over .git/GITGUI_MSG. This way a crash doesn't take out the user's message buffer but instead will cause the user to lose only a few keystrokes. Most people do not type more than 200 WPM, and with 30 possible saves per minute we are unlikely to lose more than 7 words. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Completely remove support for creating octopus mergesShawn O. Pearce2007-07-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I'm working on refactoring the UI of the merge dialog, because as it currently stands the dialog is absolutely horrible, especially when you have 200+ branches available from a single remote system. In that refactoring I plan on using the choose_rev widget to allow the user to select exactly which branch/commit they want to merge. However since that only selects a single commit I'm first removing the code that supports octopus merges. A brief consultation on #git tonight seemed to indicate that the octopus merge strategy is not as useful as originally thought when it was invented, and that most people don't commonly use them. So making users fall back to the command line to create an octopus is actually maybe a good idea here, as they might think twice before they use it. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Don't show blame tooltips that we have no data forShawn O. Pearce2007-07-19
| | | | | | | If we haven't yet loaded any commit information for a given line but our tooltip timer fired and tried to draw the tooltip we shouldn't; there is nothing to show. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Translate standard encoding names to Tcl onesShawn O. Pearce2007-07-19
| | | | | | | | This is a essentially a copy of Paul Mackerras encoding support from gitk. I stole the code from gitk commit fd8ccbec4f0161, as Paul has already done all of the hard work setting up this translation table. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Avoid unnecessary global statements when possibleShawn O. Pearce2007-07-19
| | | | | | | | Running global takes slightly longer than just accessing the variable via its package name, especially if the variable is just only once in the procedure, or isn't even used at all in the procedure. So this is a minor cleanup for some of our commonly invoked procedures. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Bind Ctrl/Cmd-M to merge actionShawn O. Pearce2007-07-19
| | | | | | Users who merge often may want to access the merge action quickly, so we now bind M to the merge action. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* Don't offer my special Tools/Migrate hack unless in multicommitShawn O. Pearce2007-07-18
| | | | | | | | Users shouldn't see this menu option if they startup a browser or blame from the command line, especially if they are doing so on a bare repository. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Convert merge dialog to use class systemShawn O. Pearce2007-07-18
| | | | | | | | I've found that the class code makes it a whole lot easier to create more complex GUI code, especially the dialogs. So before I make any major improvements to the merge dialog's interface I'm going to first switch it to use the class system, so the code is slightly cleaner. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Increase the default height of the revision pickerShawn O. Pearce2007-07-18
| | | | | | | | | | Showing only five lines of heads/tags is not very useful to a user when they have about 10 branches that match the filter expression. The list is just too short to really be able to read easily, at least not without scrolling up and down. Expanding the list out to 10 really makes the revision picker easier to read and access, as you can read the matching branches much more quickly. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Clarify the visualize history menu optionsShawn O. Pearce2007-07-18
| | | | | | | | Users who are new to Git may not realize that visualizing things in a repository involves looking at history. Adding in a small amount of text to the menu items really helps to understand what the action might do, before you invoke it. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Allow users to browse any branch, not just the current oneShawn O. Pearce2007-07-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | We now allow users to pick which commit they want to browse through our revision picking mega-widget. This opens up in a dialog first, and then opens a tree browser for that selected commit. It is a very simple approach and requires minimal code changes. I also clarified the language a bit in the Repository menu, to show that these actions will access files. Just in case a user is not quite sure what specific action they are looking for, but they know they want some sort of file thing. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Allow browser subcommand to start in subdirectoryShawn O. Pearce2007-07-18
| | | | | | | Like our blame subcommand the browser subcommand now accepts both a revision and a path, just a revision or just a path. This way the user can start the subcommand on any branch, or on any subtree. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Allow blame/browser subcommands on bare repositoriesShawn O. Pearce2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A long time ago Linus Torvalds tried to run git-gui on a bare repository to look at the blame viewer, but it failed to start because we required that the user run us only from within a working directory that had a normal git repository associated with it. This change relaxes that requirement so that you can start the tree browser or the blame viewer against a bare repository. In the latter case we do require that you provide a revision and a pathname if we cannot find the pathname in the current working directory. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Move feature option selection before GIT_DIR initShawn O. Pearce2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | By moving our feature option determination up before we look for GIT_DIR we can make a decision about whether or not we need a working tree up front, before we look for GIT_DIR. A future change could then allow us to start in a bare Git repository if we only need access to the ODB. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Delay the GC hint until after we are runningShawn O. Pearce2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I'm moving the code related to looking to see if we should GC now into a procedure closer to where it belongs, the database module. This reduces our script by a few lines for the single commit case (aka citool). But really it just is to help organize the code. We now perform the check after we have been running for at least 1 second. This way the main window has time to open up and our dialog (if we open it) will attach to the main window, instead of floating out in no-mans-land like it did before on Mac OS X. I had to use a wait of a full second here as a wait of 1 millisecond made our console install itself into the main window. Apparently we had a race condition with the console code where both the console and the main window thought they were the main window. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Let the user continue even if we cannot understand git versionShawn O. Pearce2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some users may do odd things, like tag their own private version of Git with an annotated tag such as 'testver', then compile that git and try to use it with git-gui. In such a case `git --version` will give us 'git version testver', which is not a numeric argument that we can pass off to our version comparsion routine. We now check that the cleaned up git version is a going to pass the version comparsion routine without failure. If it has a non-numeric component, or lacks at least a minor revision then we ask the user to confirm they really want to use this version of git within git-gui. If they do we shall assume it is git 1.5.0 and run with only the code that will support. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Change our initial GC hint to be an estimateShawn O. Pearce2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of running a full git-count-objects to count all of the loose objects we can get a reasonably close approximation by counting the number of files in the .git/objects/42 subdirectory. This works out reasonably well because the SHA-1 hash has a fairly even distribution, so every .git/objects/?? subdirectory should get a relatively equal number of files. If we have at least 8 files in .git/objects/42 than it is very likely there is about 8 files in every other directory, leaving us with around 2048 loose objects. This check is much faster, as we need to only perform a readdir of a single directory, and we can do it directly from Tcl and avoid the costly fork+exec. All of the credit on how clever this is goes to Linus Torvalds; he suggested using this trick in a post commit hook to repack every so often. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Don't crash in ask_popup if we haven't mapped main window yetShawn O. Pearce2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | If we have more than our desired number of objects and we try to open the "Do you want to repack now?" dialog we cannot include a -parent . argument if the main window has not been mapped yet. On Mac OS X it appears this window isn't mapped right away, so we had better hang avoid including it. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Delay searching for 'nice' until its really asked forShawn O. Pearce2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | Not every caller of 'git' or 'git_pipe' wants to use nice to lower the priority of the process its executing. In many cases we may never use the nice process to launch git. So we can avoid searching our $PATH to locate a suitable nice if we'll never actually use it. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Handle git versions of the form n.n.n.GITJulian Phillips2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | The git-gui version check doesn't handle versions of the form n.n.n.GIT which you can get by installing from an tarball produced by git-archive. Without this change you get an error of the form: 'Error in startup script: expected version number but got "1.5.3.GIT"' Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Always disable the Tcl EOF character when readingShawn O. Pearce2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | On Windows (which includes Cygwin) Tcl defaults to leaving the EOF character of input file streams set to the ASCII EOF character, but if that character were to appear in the data stream then Tcl will close the channel early. So we have to disable eofchar on Windows. Since the default is disabled on all platforms except Windows, we can just disable it everywhere to prevent any sort of read problem. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Brown paper bag "dirty git version fix"Shawn O. Pearce2007-07-16
| | | | | | | | | My prior change to allow git-gui to run with a version of Git that was built from a working directory that had uncommitted changes didn't account for the pattern starting with -, and that confused Tcl. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Skip -dirty suffix on core git versionsShawn O. Pearce2007-07-16
| | | | | | | | | If the user is running a 'dirty' version of git (one compiled in a working directory with modified files) we want to just assume it was a committed version, as we really only look at the part that came from a real annotated tag anyway. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gui: Change prior tree SHA-1 verification to use git_readShawn O. Pearce2007-07-12
| | | | | | | This cat-file was done on maint, where we did not have git_read available to us. But here on master we do, so we should make use of it. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* Merge branch 'maint'Shawn O. Pearce2007-07-12
|\ | | | | | | | | * maint: git-gui: Work around bad interaction between Tcl and cmd.exe on ^{tree}
| * git-gui: Work around bad interaction between Tcl and cmd.exe on ^{tree}gitgui-0.7.5Shawn O. Pearce2007-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>: > It seems that MSYS's wish does some quoting for Bourne shells, > in particular, escape the first '{' of the "^{tree}" suffix, but > then it uses cmd.exe to run "git rev-parse". However, cmd.exe does > not remove the backslash, so that the resulting rev expression > ends up in git's guts as unrecognizable garbage: rev-parse fails, > and git-gui hickups in a way that it must be restarted. Johannes originally submitted a patch to this section of commit.tcl to use `git rev-parse $PARENT:`, but not all versions of Git will accept that format. So I'm just taking the really simple approach here of scanning the first line of the commit to grab its tree. About the same cost, but works everywhere. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Include a space in Cygwin shortcut command linesShawn O. Pearce2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Use sh.exe in Cygwin shortcutsShawn O. Pearce2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because we are trying to execute /bin/sh we know it must be a real Windows executable and thus ends with the standard .exe suffix. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Paper bag fix for Cygwin shortcut creationShawn O. Pearce2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We cannot execute the git directory, it is not a valid Tcl command name. Instead we just want to pass it as an argument to our sq proc. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | Merge branch 'maint'Shawn O. Pearce2007-07-09
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | * maint: git-gui: Don't linewrap within console windows git-gui: Correct ls-tree buffering problem in browser
| * git-gui: Don't linewrap within console windowsShawn O. Pearce2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we get more than 80 characters of text in a single line odds are it is output from git-fetch or git-push and its showing a lot of detail off to the right edge that is not so important to the average user. We still want to make sure we show everything we need, but we can get away with that information being off to the side with a horizontal scrollbar. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
| * git-gui: Correct ls-tree buffering problem in browserShawn O. Pearce2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Our file browser was showing bad output as it did not properly buffer a partial record when read from `ls-tree -z`. This did not show up on my Mac OS X system as most trees are small, the pipe buffers generally big and `ls-tree -z` was generally fast enough that all data was ready before Tcl started to read. However on my Cygwin system one of my production repositories had a large enough tree and packfile that it took a couple of pipe buffers for `ls-tree -z` to complete its dump. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Improve the Windows and Mac OS X shortcut creatorsShawn O. Pearce2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We now embed any GIT_* and SSH_* environment variables as well as the path to the git wrapper executable into the Mac OS X .app file. This should allow us to restore the environment properly when we restart. We also try to use proper Bourne shell single quoting when we can, as this avoids any sort of problems that might occur due to a path containing shell metacharacters. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Teach console widget to use git_readShawn O. Pearce2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we are pretty strict about setting up own absolute paths to any git helper (saving a marginal runtime cost to resolve the tool) we can do the same in our console widget by making sure all console execs go through git_read if they are a git subcommand, and if not make sure they at least try to use the Tcl 2>@1 IO redirection if possible, as it should be faster than |& cat. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Perform our own magic shbang detection on WindowsShawn O. Pearce2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we cannot locate a .exe for a git tool that we want to run than it may just be a Bourne shell script as these are popular in Git. In such a case the first line of the file will say "#!/bin/sh" so a UNIX kernel knows what program to start to parse and run that. But Windows doesn't support shbang lines, and neither does the Tcl that comes with Cygwin. We can pass control off to the git wrapper as that is a real Cygwin program and can therefore start the Bourne shell script, but that is at least two fork+exec calls to get the program running. One to do the fork+exec of the git wrapper and another to start the Bourne shell script. If the program is run multiple times it is rather expensive as the magic shbang detection won't be cached across executions. On MinGW/MSYS we don't have the luxury of such magic detection. The MSYS team has taught some of this magic to the git wrapper, but again its slower than it needs to be as the git wrapper must still go and run the Bourne shell after it is called. We now attempt to guess the shbang line on Windows by reading the first line of the file and building our own command line path from it. Currently we support Bourne shell (sh), Perl and Python. That is the entire set of shbang lines that appear in git.git today. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Treat `git version` as `git --version`Shawn O. Pearce2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We know that the version subcommand of git is special. It does not currently have an executable link installed into $gitexecdir and we therefore would never match it with one of our file exists tests. So we forward any invocations to it directly to the git wrapper, as it is a builtin within that executable. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Assume unfound commands are known by git wrapperShawn O. Pearce2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we cannot locate a command in $gitexecdir on our own then it may just be because we are supposed to run it by `git $name` rather than by `git-$name`. Many commands are now builtins, more are likely to go in that direction, and we may see the hardlinks in $gitexecdir go away in future versions of git. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Correct gitk installation locationShawn O. Pearce2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The master Makefile in git.git installs gitk into bindir, not gitexecdir, which means gitk is located as a sibling of the git wrapper and not as though it were a git helper tool. We can also avoid some Tcl concat operations by letting eval do all of the heavy lifting; we have two proper Tcl lists ($cmd and $revs) that we are joining together and $revs is currently never an empty list. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Always use absolute path to all git executablesShawn O. Pearce2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rather than making the C library search for git every time we want to execute it we now search for the main git wrapper at startup, do symlink resolution, and then always use the absolute path that we found to execute the binary later on. This should save us some cycles, especially on stat challenged systems like Cygwin/Win32. While I was working on this change I also converted all of our existing pipes ([open "| git ..."]) to use two new pipe wrapper functions. These functions take additional options like --nice and --stderr which instructs Tcl to take special action, like running the underlying git program through `nice` (if available) or redirect stderr to stdout for capture in Tcl. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Show a progress meter for checking out filesShawn O. Pearce2007-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sometimes switching between branches can take more than a second or two, in which case `git checkout` would normally have shown a small progress meter to the user on the terminal to let them know that we are in fact working, and give them a reasonable idea of when we may finish. We now do obtain that progress meter from read-tree -v and include it in our main window's status bar. This allows users to see how many files we have checked out, how many remain, and what percentage of the operation is completed. It should help to keep users from getting bored during a large checkout operation. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Change the main window progress bar to use status_barShawn O. Pearce2007-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we have a fancy status bar mega-widget we can reuse that within our main window. This opens the door for implementating future improvements like a progress bar. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Extract blame viewer status bar into mega-widgetShawn O. Pearce2007-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Our blame viewer has had a very fancy progress bar at the bottom of the window that shows the current status of the blame engine, which includes the number of lines completed as both a text and a graphical meter. I want to reuse this meter system in other places, such as during a branch switch where read-tree -v can give us a progress meter for any long-running operation. This change extracts the code and refactors it as a widget that we can take advantage of in locations other than in the blame viewer. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Allow double-click in checkout dialog to start checkoutShawn O. Pearce2007-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the user double clicks a branch in the checkout dialog then they probably want to start the checkout process on that branch. I found myself doing this without realizing it, and of course it did nothing as there was no action bound to the listbox's Double-Button-1 event handler. Since I did it without thinking, others will probably also try, and expect the same behavior. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Default selection to first matching refShawn O. Pearce2007-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we have specifications listed in our revision picker mega-widget then we should default the selection within that widget to the first ref available. This way the user does not need to use the spacebar to activate the selection of a ref within the box; instead they can navigate up/down with the arrow keys and be done with it. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Unabbreviate commit SHA-1s prior to displayShawn O. Pearce2007-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the end-user feeds us an abbreviated SHA-1 on the command line for `git gui browser` or `git gui blame` we now unabbreviate the value through `git rev-parse` so that the title section of the blame or browser window shows the user the complete SHA-1 as Git determined it to be. If the abbreviated value was ambiguous we now complain with the standard error message(s) as reported by git-rev-parse --verify, so that the user can understand what might be wrong and correct their command line. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Refactor branch switch to support detached headShawn O. Pearce2007-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a major rewrite of the way we perform switching between branches and the subsequent update of the working directory. Like core Git we now use a single code path to perform all changes: our new checkout_op class. We also use it for branch creation/update as it integrates the tracking branch fetch process along with a very basic merge (fast-forward and reset only currently). Because some users have literally hundreds of local branches we use the standard revision picker (with its branch filtering tool) to select the local branch, rather than keeping all of the local branches in the Branch menu. The branch menu listing out all of the available branches is simply not sane for those types of huge repositories. Users can now checkout a detached head by ticking off the option in the checkout dialog. This option is off by default for the obvious reason, but it can be easily enabled for any local branch by simply checking it. We also detach the head if any non local branch was selected, or if a revision expression was entered. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Refactor our ui_status_value update techniqueShawn O. Pearce2007-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I'm really starting to dislike global variables. The ui_status_value global varible is just one of those that seems to appear in a lot of code and in many cases we didn't even declare it "global" within the proc that updates it so we haven't always been getting all of the updates we expected to see. This change introduces two new global procs: ui_status $msg; # Sets the status bar to show $msg. ui_ready; # Changes the status bar to show "Ready." The second (special) form is used because we often update the area with this message once we are done processing a block of work and want the user to know we have completed it. I'm not fixing the cases that appear in lib/branch.tcl right now as I'm actually in the middle of a huge refactoring of that code to support making a detached HEAD checkout. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Better handling of detached HEADShawn O. Pearce2007-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the current branch is not a symbolic-ref that points to a name in the refs/heads/ namespace we now just assume that the head is a detached head. In this case we return the special branch name of HEAD rather than empty string, as HEAD is a valid revision specification and the empty string is not. I have also slightly improved the current-branch function by using string functions to parse the symbolic-ref data. This should be slightly faster than using a regsub. I think the code is clearer too. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Automatically refresh tracking branches when neededShawn O. Pearce2007-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the user is creating a new local branch and has selected to use a tracking branch as the starting revision they probably want to make sure they are using the absolute latest version available of that branch. We now offer a checkbox "Fetch Tracking Branch" (on by default) that instructs git-gui to run git-fetch on just that one branch before resolving the branch name into a commit SHA-1 and making (or updating) the local branch. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* | git-gui: Option to default new branches to match tracking branchesShawn O. Pearce2007-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In some workflows users will want to almost always just create a new local branch that matches a remote branch. In this type of workflow it is handy to have the new branch dialog default to "Match Tracking Branch" and "Starting Revision"-Tracking Branch", with the focus in the branch filter field. This can save users working on this type of workflow at least two mouse clicks every time they create a new local branch or switch to one with a fast-forward. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>