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2007-09-02Mark strings for translation.Libravatar Christian Stimming1-132/+133
The procedure [mc ...] will translate the strings through msgcat. Strings must be enclosed in quotes, not in braces, because otherwise xgettext cannot extract them properly, although on the Tcl side both delimiters would work fine. [jes: I merged the later patches to that end.] Signed-off-by: Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2007-09-01git-gui: Initialize Tcl's msgcat library for internationalizationLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+14
Tcl's msgcat library and corresponding mc procedure can locate a translated string for any user message, provided that it is first given a directory where the *.msg files are located containing the translations. During installation we will place the translations in lib/msgs/, so we need to inform msgcat of this location once we determine it during startup. Our source code tree however will store all of the translations within the po/ directory, so we need to special case this variant. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-09-01git-gui: Locate the library directory early during startupLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-10/+15
To support a localized version of git-gui we need to locate the library directory early so we can initialize Tcl's msgcat package to load translated messages from. This needs to occur before we declare our git-version proc so that errors related to locating git or assessing its version can be reported to the end-user in their preferred language. However we have to keep the library loading until after git-version has been declared, otherwise we will fail to start git-gui if we are using a fake tclIndex that was generated by our Makefile. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-08-24git-gui: Correct 'git gui blame' in a subdirectoryLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+9
David Kastrup pointed out that the following sequence was not working as we had intended: $ cd lib $ git gui blame console.tcl fatal: cannot stat path lib/console.tcl: No such file or directory The problem here was we disabled the chdir to the root of the working tree when we are running with a "bare allowed" feature such as blame or browser, but we still kept the prefix we found via `git rev-parse --show-prefix`. This caused us to try and look for the file "console.tcl" within the subdirectory but also include the subdirectory's own path from the root of the working tree. This is unlikely to succeed, unless the user just happened to have a "lib/lib/console.tcl" file in the repository, in which case we would produce the wrong result. In the case of a bare repository we shouldn't get back a value from `rev-parse --show-prefix`, so really $_prefix should only be set to the non-empty string if we are in a working tree and we are in a subdirectory of that working tree. If this is true we really want to always be at the top level of the working tree, as all paths are accessed as though they were relative to the top of the working tree. Converting $_prefix to a ../ sequence is a fairly simple approach to moving up the requisite levels. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-08-23git-gui: Do not offer to stage three-way diff hunks into the indexLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+4
git-apply does not accept a patch that was generated as a three-way combined diff format such as we see during merge conflicts. If we get such a diff in our diff viewer and try to send it to git-apply it just errors out and the user is left confused wondering why they cannot stage that hunk. Instead of feeding a known to be unacceptable hunk to git-apply we now just disable the stage/unstage context menu option if the hunk came from a three way diff. The user may still be confused about why they cannot work with a combined diff, but at least they are only confused as to why git-gui is not offering them the action. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-08-23git-gui: Refactor diff pane popup support for future improvementsLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-12/+11
The current popup_diff_menu procedure is somewhat messy as it has a few duplications of the same logic in each of the different legs of the routine. We can simplify these by setting a few state variables in the different legs. No functional change, just a cleanup to make it easier to implement future functional changes within this block. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-08-22git-gui: Fix "unoptimized loading" to not cause git-gui to crashLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-51/+63
If the tclsh command was not available to us at the time we were "built" our lib/tclIndex just lists all of our library files and we source all of them at once during startup, rather than trying to lazily load only the procedures we need. This is a problem as some of our library code now depends upon the git-version proc, and that proc is not defined until after the library was fully loaded. I'm moving the library loading until after we have determined the version of git we are talking to, as this ensures that the required git-reversion procedure is defined before any library code can be loaded. Since error_popup is defined in the library we instead use tk_messageBox directly for errors found during the version detection. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-08-21git-gui: Paper bag fix "Stage Hunk For Commit" in diff context menuLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-3/+4
In a13ee29b975d3a9a012983309e842d942b2bbd44 I totally broke the "Stage Hunk For Commit" feature by making this menu item always appear in a disabled state, so it was never invokable. A "teaser feature", just sitting there taunting the poor user who has become used to having it available. The issue caused by a13ee was I added a test to look at the data in $file_states, but I didn't do that test correctly as it was always looking at a procedure local $file_states array, which is not defined, so the test was always true and we always disabled the menu entry. Instead we only want to disable the menu entry if the current file we are looking at has no file state information (git-gui is just a very confused little process) or it is an untracked file (and we cannot stage individual hunks). Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-08-20git-gui: Fix window manager problems on ion3Libravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+6
cehteh on #git noticed that secondary windows such as console windows from push/fetch/merge or the blame browser failed on ion when we tried to open them a second time. The issue turned out to be the fact that on ion [winfo ismapped .] returns false if . is not visible right now because it has been obscured by another window in the same panel. So we need to keep track of whether or not the root window has been displayed for this application, and once it has been we cannot ever assume that ismapped is going to return true. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-08-04git-gui: Added support for OS X right clickLibravatar Väinö Järvelä1-0/+3
OS X sends Button-2 on a "real" right click, such as with a three button mouse, or by using the two-finger trackpad click. Signed-off-by: Väinö Järvelä <v@pp.inet.fi> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-08-02git-gui: Avoid Tcl error in popup menu on diff viewerLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+3
If there is no path currently shown in the diff viewer then we were getting Tcl errors anytime the user right-clicked on the diff viewer to bring up its popup menu. The bug here is caused by trying to get the file_state for the empty string; this path is never seen so we never have file_state for it. In such cases we now disable the Stage Hunk For Commit option. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-07-29git-gui: Use more modern looking icons in the tree browserLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-26/+0
This is a replacement of all of the icons in our tree browser window, as the prior icons just looked too 1980s Tk-ish. The icons used here are actually from a KDE themed look, so they might actually be familiar to some users of git-gui. Aside from using more modern looking icons we now have a special icon for executable blobs, to make them stand out from the normal non-executable blobs. We also denote symlinks now with a different icon, so they stand out from the other types of objects in the tree. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-07-29git-gui: Don't offer to stage hunks from untracked filesLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+6
If the user looks at an untracked file in our diff pane we used to offer "Stage Hunk For Commit" in the context menu when they right-clicked in that pane. The problem is we don't actually have any diff hunks in untracked files, so there is nothing to really select for staging. So we now grey out the menu item, so the user cannot invoke it and think its broken when it does not perform any useful action. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-07-29git-gui: Honor core.excludesfile when listing extra filesLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+4
Recent git versions have a git-status that honors the core.excludesfile configuration option when it reports on untracked files. Unfortunately I missed the introduction of this configuration option in the core porcelain implementation, so it was not reflected here in git-gui. Found and reported by Lars Noschinski <lars@public.noschinski.de>. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-07-29git-gui: Unify wording to say "to stage" instead of "to add"Libravatar Christian Stimming1-3/+3
Also, the warning message when clicking "Reset" is adapted to the wording "Reset" rather than a confusion "Cancel commit?". Signed-off-by: Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-07-27git-gui: Don't kill modified commit message buffer with merge templatesLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-2/+3
If the user is in the middle of a merge and has already started to modify their commit message we were losing the user's changes when they pressed 'Rescan' after resolving issues or making changes in the working directory. The problem here was our background timer that saves the commit message buffer. It marks the commit message buffer as not being modified when it writes it out to disk, so during the rescan we assumed the buffer should be replaced with what we read from the MERGE_MSG file. So we now only read these files from .git if we have a valid backup file. Since we clear it on commit this will only have an impact while the user is actively editing the current commit. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-07-23git-gui: Refactor current branch menu items to make i18n easierLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-2/+11
The i18n team has also identified a rather ugly block of code in git-gui that is used to make a pair of Repository menu items show the current branch name. This code is difficult to convert to use [mc ...] to lookup the translation, so I'm refactoring it into a procedure. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-07-23git-gui: Refactor diff popup into a procedure to ease i18n workLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-9/+11
The folks working on the i18n version of git-gui have had some trouble trying to convert these English strings into [mc] calls due to the double evaluation. Moving this block into a standard procedure eliminates the double evaluation, making their work easier. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-07-23git-gui: Clarify meaning of add tracked menu optionLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-2/+2
Junio recently pointed out on the mailing list that our "Add Existing" feature is a lot like `git add -u`, which is generally described as "(Re)Add Tracked Files". This came up during discussion of how to translate "Add Existing" into Japanese, as the individual working on the translation was not quite sure what the option meant and therefore had some trouble selecting the best translation. I'm changing the menu option to "Add Tracked Files To Commit" and the button to "Add Tracked". This should help new users to better understand the actions behind those GUI widgets. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-07-22git-gui: Completely remove my Tools/Migrate hackLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-29/+0
This menu option of Tools/Migrate has been living inside of git-gui as a local hack to support some coworkers of mine. It has no value to anyone outside of my day-job team and never really should have been in a release version of git-gui. So I'm pulling it out, so that nobody else has to deal with this garbage. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-07-21git-gui: Automatically backup the user's commit bufferLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-11/+77
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>
2007-07-19git-gui: Avoid unnecessary global statements when possibleLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-7/+4
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>
2007-07-19git-gui: Bind Ctrl/Cmd-M to merge actionLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-2/+4
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>
2007-07-18Don't offer my special Tools/Migrate hack unless in multicommitLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+3
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>
2007-07-18git-gui: Clarify the visualize history menu optionsLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-3/+3
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>
2007-07-18git-gui: Allow users to browse any branch, not just the current oneLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-2/+5
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>
2007-07-18git-gui: Allow browser subcommand to start in subdirectoryLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-26/+20
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>
2007-07-17git-gui: Allow blame/browser subcommands on bare repositoriesLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-13/+32
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>
2007-07-17git-gui: Move feature option selection before GIT_DIR initLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-37/+37
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>
2007-07-17git-gui: Delay the GC hint until after we are runningLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-28/+3
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>
2007-07-17git-gui: Let the user continue even if we cannot understand git versionLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+27
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>
2007-07-17git-gui: Change our initial GC hint to be an estimateLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-5/+14
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>
2007-07-17git-gui: Delay searching for 'nice' until its really asked forLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-13/+15
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>
2007-07-17git-gui: Handle git versions of the form n.n.n.GITLibravatar Julian Phillips1-0/+1
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>
2007-07-17git-gui: Always disable the Tcl EOF character when readingLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+2
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>
2007-07-16git-gui: Brown paper bag "dirty git version fix"Libravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+1
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>
2007-07-16git-gui: Skip -dirty suffix on core git versionsLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+1
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>
2007-07-09git-gui: Improve the Windows and Mac OS X shortcut creatorsLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+5
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>
2007-07-09git-gui: Teach console widget to use git_readLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-22/+24
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>
2007-07-09git-gui: Perform our own magic shbang detection on WindowsLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-13/+24
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>
2007-07-09git-gui: Treat `git version` as `git --version`Libravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+1
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>
2007-07-09git-gui: Assume unfound commands are known by git wrapperLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+4
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 $gitexecdir go away in future versions of git. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-07-09git-gui: Correct gitk installation locationLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-12/+4
The master Makefile in git.git installs gitk into bindir, not gitexecdir, which means gitk is located as a sibling of the git wrapper and not as though it were a git helper tool. We can also avoid some Tcl concat operations by letting eval do all of the heavy lifting; we have two proper Tcl lists ($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>
2007-07-09git-gui: Always use absolute path to all git executablesLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-16/+201
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>
2007-07-08git-gui: Change the main window progress bar to use status_barLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-10/+4
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>
2007-07-08git-gui: Unabbreviate commit SHA-1s prior to displayLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+20
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>
2007-07-08git-gui: Refactor branch switch to support detached headLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-13/+19
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>
2007-07-08git-gui: Refactor our ui_status_value update techniqueLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-15/+21
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>
2007-07-08git-gui: Better handling of detached HEADLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-4/+14
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>
2007-07-08git-gui: Option to default new branches to match tracking branchesLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+1
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>