Re: legend on top-right pane in 'git gui'

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 9, 2009, 03:31 UTC
Message-ID: <slrngtqr13.566.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <slrngt4h04.q0l.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>

Hi guys,

Can someone at least tell me "Sita, you're wrong/this is a stupid question/this is perfectly correct behaviour/whatever"? :-)

I won't even ask why, I promise :-)

Regards,

Sitaram

On 2009-03-31, Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> 'git gui' has a minor issue with the legend on the main code
> panel (yellow bar, top right pane).
>
> When you click on a file in the top left pane, the yellow
> bar becomes "untracked, not staged".  When you click on a
> file in the bottom left pane, it becomes "staged for
> commit".  So far so good.
>
> But when you take a file and (un)stage a part of it, then
> the text on the yellow bar changes to "Portions staged for
> commit", regardless of whether you clicked on the filename
> in the top left (unstaged) or bottom left (staged) pane.
>
> One of the two texts should be different, but what?  I was
> thinking, just add "(partial)" to the normal text, like:
>
>     "untracked, not staged (partial)"
>     "staged for commit (partial)"
>
> I also tried to see if I could patch it, but it's not just a
> matter of changing the text somewhere, and I don't know tcl.
> However, if someone can give me a pointer I could still
> try...
>
> Any thoughts?
>