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[PATCH] git-gui: gui.autoexplore makes explorer to pop up automatically after picking

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Sep 24, 2008, 22:07 UTC
Message-ID
<1222294022-14632-1-git-send-email-pasky@suse.cz>

Especially for Windows users used to work with the Windows Explorer, it is very useful when after picking a repository (either opening a local one or initializing/cloning a new one) in the "intro" window, the explorer view of the working copy pops up along the standard Git GUI window, so that the users can, well, actually work with the repository.

This patch has been sponsored by Novartis.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
---
 Documentation/config.txt |    4 ++++
 git-gui/git-gui.sh       |    6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index bea867d..4f53584 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -767,6 +767,10 @@ All gitcvs variables except for 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' and
 is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given
 access method.
 
+gui.autoexplore::
+	Whether to automatically open explorer window when a repository
+	is picked within linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default value is "false".
+
 gui.commitmsgwidth::
 	Defines how wide the commit message window is in the
 	linkgit:git-gui[1]. "75" is the default.
diff --git a/git-gui/git-gui.sh b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
index a64d34d..668aa49 100755
--- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
@@ -959,6 +959,7 @@ citool {
 ##
 ## repository setup
 
+set picked 0
 if {[catch {
 		set _gitdir $env(GIT_DIR)
 		set _prefix {}
@@ -970,6 +971,7 @@ if {[catch {
 	load_config 1
 	apply_config
 	choose_repository::pick
+	set picked 1
 }
 if {![file isdirectory $_gitdir] && [is_Cygwin]} {
 	catch {set _gitdir [exec cygpath --windows $_gitdir]}
@@ -3213,3 +3215,7 @@ after 1 do_rescan
 if {[is_enabled multicommit]} {
 	after 1000 hint_gc
 }
+
+if {$picked && [is_config_true gui.autoexplore]} {
+	do_explore
+}
-- 
tg: (be2e370..) t/git-gui/autoexplore (depends on: t/git-gui/explore)
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