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[PATCH 0/5] git-gui: Support for "Locators" - address templates

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pasky@suse.cz <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Sep 24, 2008, 22:12 UTC
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This patch allows "locators" to be configured and used in the GUI, basically as URL templates the input string is subsituted into. The default operation of git-gui is not much affected (only some labels change to be less confusing).

This is aimed mainly at corporate Git deployments - the integrator might want to configure the central corporate repository store as the default locator so that people do not need to type the same URL over and over but can instead just type the repository name on the server. Or avid repo.or.cz users might set up a 'repo' locator pointing at 'git://repo.or.cz/%s'.

In practice, this seems to be a more significant usability improvement than it might seem. Less technical users appear to be less daunted to type in just the project name instead of dealing with long URLs.

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Message 1 of 9 in “git-gui: Support for "Locators" - address templates”
  1. 0/5 git-gui: Support for "Locators" - address templatespasky@suse.cz, Sep 24, 2008
  2. 1/5 git-gui: Avoid using the term URL when specifying repositoriespasky@suse.cz, Sep 24, 2008
  3. 2/5 git-gui: Make input boxes in init/clone/open dialogs consistentpasky@suse.cz, Sep 24, 2008
  4. 3/5 git-gui: Squash populate_{push,fetch}_menu to populate_remotes_menupasky@suse.cz, Sep 24, 2008
  5. Petr BaudisSep 24, 2008
  6. 4/5 git-gui: Factor out URL inputbox construction to location_inputpasky@suse.cz, Sep 24, 2008
  7. 5/5 git-gui: Support for user-provided locator templatespasky@suse.cz, Sep 24, 2008
  8. Daniel BarkalowSep 25, 2008
  9. Shawn O. PearceSep 26, 2008

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