Re: [RFC] qgit with tabs

From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: May 13, 2006, 11:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20060513070726.qa5ssccws80go044@webmail.spamcop.net>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550605130344n75e3e55eq533c49fc2a4f5483@mail.gmail.com>

Hello, Marco!

Quoting Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>:

>    I have pushed some patches that add tabs to qgit UI.

That's _really_ appreciated.

> I don't expect a new release any time soon, but I am interested to
> hear comments, especially on the usability front, so to be able to
> steer new development in advance.

Just one thing for now. Double click on a file on the "rev list" tab should show the patch (what Ctrl-P would do), not the whole file. That would be more compatible with gitk, and it's what I normally need if I just browse the latest changes in the rev list.

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> With new UI I found myself more and more using keyboard bindings
> instead of mouse:
>
> - r, p, f to switch to revisions list, patch and file views respectively
>
> - t to toggle tree view
>
> - s to toggle split view (very useful IMHO)

The later is very useful, but a bit hard to discover without checking the menu. Maybe it should be a button in the toolbar.

> NOTE:
> Due to some repacking on a dumb host probably you need to re-clone:

I don't think re-clone should be needed.  I didn't re-clone, yet I could update.

On the other hand, that host sometimes returns something that crashes git-http-fetch. Sorry, no time to debug it right now. I guess it returns error messages in HTML without reporting error 404, but git-http-fetch should be more robust anyway.

-- Regards, Pavel Roskin