On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 7:58 PM Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My development environment sometimes makes automatic changes that I don't
> want to keep. In some cases, this involves new files being added that I
> don't want to commit or keep. I have typically had to explicitly delete
> those files externally to Git Gui, and I want to be able to just select
> those newly-created untracked files and "revert" them into oblivion.
>
I have an entry in the 'Tools" menu for this called 'Delete':
[guitool "Delete"]
cmd = rm -f \"$FILENAME\"
noconsole = yes
needsfile = yes
confirm = yes
Best,
Bert
> This change updates the revert_helper function to check for untracked files
> as well as changes, and then any changes to be reverted and untracked files
> are handled by independent blocks of code. The user is prompted
> independently for untracked files, since the underlying action is
> fundamentally different (rm -f). If after deleting untracked files, the
> directory containing them becomes empty, then the directory is removed as
> well.
>
> This introduces new strings in index.tcl. I have been told that there is a
> separate process whereby the translations get updated.
>
> Jonathan Gilbert (1):
> git-gui: Revert untracked files by deleting them
>
> git-gui/lib/index.tcl | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 104 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>
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