Re: [PATCH 0/1] Allow the 'revert' option in Git Gui to operate on untracked files, deleting them

From: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Date: Oct 29, 2019, 14:29 UTC
Message-ID: <CAKPyHN3WEpVLnxYN5FsovW3G_borc+YrF05Npr0Wyvv6YhbcaQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.423.git.1572289087.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 7:58 PM Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:

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> My development environment sometimes makes automatic changes that I don't
> want to keep. In some cases, this involves new files being added that I
> don't want to commit or keep. I have typically had to explicitly delete
> those files externally to Git Gui, and I want to be able to just select
> those newly-created untracked files and "revert" them into oblivion.
>

I have an entry in the 'Tools" menu for this called 'Delete':

[guitool "Delete"]
    cmd = rm -f \"$FILENAME\"
    noconsole = yes
    needsfile = yes
    confirm = yes

Best, Bert

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> This change updates the revert_helper function to check for untracked files
> as well as changes, and then any changes to be reverted and untracked files
> are handled by independent blocks of code. The user is prompted
> independently for untracked files, since the underlying action is
> fundamentally different (rm -f). If after deleting untracked files, the
> directory containing them becomes empty, then the directory is removed as
> well.
>
> This introduces new strings in index.tcl. I have been told that there is a
> separate process whereby the translations get updated.
>
> Jonathan Gilbert (1):
>   git-gui: Revert untracked files by deleting them
>
>  git-gui/lib/index.tcl | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 104 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>
>