On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 23:17:18 +0530, Pratyush Yadav <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Merijn, > > On 20/12/19 10:42AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > • Right click context menu on file-entry in Unstaged Changes list > > It is something on my TODO list. \o/ > > - Reset changes → git checkout this file > > I see the current changes need to be reversed, are bogus or > > invalid > > I'm not sure what this means. When you hit Ctrl-J or choose it from > the menu bar, current changes can be reverted by checking the file > out from the index. I always interpreted Ctrl-J as to mean revert *all* changes. Now I know better. Thanks. If you add it to a context menu, I'd like to have an option in setting not to get a dialog, as choosing it for a single file is (at least to me) obvious enough not to need a dialog to confirm my choice. > > - Restore this file → git checkout this file > > it was accidentally removed. Like the first option > > What constitutes as "accidentally removed", and where do we restore > the file from? If it needs to be restored from the index, then Ctrl-J > should do the trick. If it needs to be restored from an older > revision, well as of now git-gui doesn't have many features that deal > with things like this. But maybe something like this can be added. In my mind there is a difference between a changed file and a deleted file. Ctrl-J restores the previous state, which in effect is the same for both options. > > - Remove this file from disk > > Somehow an invalid restore, a misplaced output or other reason > > (core dump, debug output from other tools) made this file appear > > and I don't want to add it to .gitignore > > This feature was recently added in fa38ab6 (git-gui: revert untracked > files by deleting them, 2019-12-01). You can hit Ctrl-J on the > untracked file to delete it. Yeah! > > - Add to .gitignore > > Like above, but this file will re-appear more often > > A naive implementation of this shouldn't be too difficult. I'll see > if I can find some time to do it. Yeah! (again :) > > Does this sound reasonable enough to make it a ticket/issue? Thanks for the feedback -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.31 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and Linux https://useplaintext.email https://tux.nl http://www.test-smoke.org http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
Attachment:
pgpS1a8GhBa8V.pgp
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
