Re: Low prio: feature requests for git-gui

From: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
Date: Dec 22, 2019, 17:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20191222174718.nb3noztxo64g7jl3@yadavpratyush.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191220104258.1110d00e@pc09.procura.nl>

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.

>   - 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.

>   - 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.

>   - 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.

>   - 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.

> Does this sound reasonable enough to make it a ticket/issue?

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav