Re: [msysGit] Re: [PATCH] git-gui: offer a list of recent repositories on startup

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> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
>> Shawn,
>> I attached two patches. They should eventually be both squashed into
>> one.
>
> Thanks.  I'm applying the patch below over both of yours, and
> then squashing them all together and keeping you as the author.
>
> I did not like how the listbox looked (or worked!) on Mac OS X.
> Clicking on the item was at first a very non-obvious action, and
> then when I did do it I was very shocked to see the repository open
> immediately.  My brain knew the action was wired to the selection
> event (I obviously read the two patches before applying them),
> but it didn't expect that behavior.  Clearly the wrong UI model.
>
> The patch below uses a text widget instead and renders each of
> the repositories as a blue underlined link.  Users will generally
> assume that clicking on such links will take them immediately to
> that repository (much as it would take them to another webpage if
> this was a web browser)

> The "Open Recent Repositories" is not even shown in the UI if there
> aren't any to offer to the user.  Showing them this area just looks
> silly if they haven't opened or cloned anything yet.
>
> We now add freshly created or cloned repositories to the list of
> recently opened repositories.  These are just as fair game for
> being recently accessed as any others.  Perhaps even more so as
> users may wonder where they cloned that repository to the last time
> they started git-gui.
>
> We always store the absolute path of a repository into the config.
> This avoids the mess of opening a repository twice using say a
> relative path entered into the text entry field and then opening
> it later via a file browser, only to find out you now have the same
> repository in the recent list twice.
>
> I fixed the --unset-all bug and also avoided the --unset-all/--add
> loop you were using.  We convert the value into a "safe" expression
> and then try to match on it.