Re: [GITK PATCH] gitk: add menuitem for file checkout from selected or parent commit

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Dec 11, 2010, 23:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20101211232324.GB3788@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100928200344.GA12843@book.hvoigt.net>

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:03:45PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote:

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> This is useful if a user wants to checkout a file from a certain
> commit. This is equivalent to
> 
>   git checkout $commit $file
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>

Thanks for the patch. However, the commit message doesn't mention that the patch also adds the 'checkout from parent' menu item or why that's a useful thing to have. I like the 'checkout from this commit' thing but I don't immediately see why checking out from the first parent is so useful that we have to have it as a menu item, but checking out from other parents of a merge isn't.

Also, don't bother updating the po files. The translators generally prefer it if we don't.

Paul.