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

From: Jonathan Gilbert <logic@deltaq.org>
Date: Oct 29, 2019, 20:33 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPSOpYs1zqbbbsAD=cNvQ6M_4EvziBaf6B=-BfS7XoZhU5cD_Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPSOpYsA9n6Y1vH1_+vRTCV7Mrvox4L2LpQmpXBnpH8ke0yDhQ@mail.gmail.com>

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

> That's kind of neat, I wasn't aware of that facet of Git Gui :-) But,
> it isn't quite the same feature:

Oops, double gaffe. I accidentally forgot to "Reply All", so this was a re-send of the message. And when I re-sent it, I didn't notice that the e-mail client hid the quoted line from me and accidentally sent it without quoting Bert's line. I wasn't sure whether to write this follow-up but the longer I stared at it, the more sure I was that somebody would call me out on it so I decided to be pre-emptive. My apologies if it would have been better to just let it slide.

Jonathan Gilbert

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 3:25 PM Jonathan Gilbert <logic@deltaq.org> wrote:

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>
> That's kind of neat, I wasn't aware of that facet of Git Gui :-) But,
> it isn't quite the same feature:
>
> * It has to be manually set up on each installation.
> * It invokes an external process, I don't know if it's safe to assume
> that "rm" will work on all platforms (though I just tested it on my
> Windows installation and it worked).
> * It doesn't remove directories that it makes empty.
> * I don't see a way to bind it to a keyboard shortcut. That could just
> be me not knowing enough about custom tools, though. :-)
> * It only processes the first file selected.
> * If I select a tracked file, it will still delete it, and the feature
> I'm looking for is more of a "return repository to clean state" type
> function, like "revert" already is but extended to handle files that
> you can't actually "git revert".
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan Gilbert
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 9:32 AM Bert Wesarg
> bert.wesarg-at-googlemail.com |GitHub Public/Example Allow|
> <xlwsizdz58ciy7t@sneakemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 7:58 PM Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
> > <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> > > 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(-)
> > >
> > >