git/git-gui.sh, branch gitgui-0.8.0

git-gui: Use more modern looking icons in the tree browser

2007-07-30T03:44:52Z

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

git-gui: Don't offer to stage hunks from untracked files

2007-07-30T03:44:51Z

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

git-gui: Honor core.excludesfile when listing extra files

2007-07-29T07:22:27Z

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 . Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce

git-gui: Unify wording to say "to stage" instead of "to add"

2007-07-29T07:09:07Z

Also, the warning message when clicking "Reset" is adapted to the wording "Reset" rather than a confusion "Cancel commit?". Signed-off-by: Christian Stimming Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce

git-gui: Don't kill modified commit message buffer with merge templates

2007-07-27T06:30:15Z

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

git-gui: Refactor current branch menu items to make i18n easier

2007-07-23T05:11:08Z

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

git-gui: Refactor diff popup into a procedure to ease i18n work

2007-07-23T04:36:39Z

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

git-gui: Clarify meaning of add tracked menu option

2007-07-23T04:12:30Z

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

git-gui: Completely remove my Tools/Migrate hack

2007-07-22T07:08:34Z

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

git-gui: Automatically backup the user's commit buffer

2007-07-21T08:57:57Z

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