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2007-03-12git-gui: Allow 'git gui version' outside of a repositorygitgui-0.6.4Shawn O. Pearce
I got a little surprise one day when I tried to run 'git gui version' outside of a Git repository to determine what version of git-gui was installed on that system. Turns out we were doing the repository check long before we got around to command line argument handling. We now look to see if the only argument we have been given is 'version' or '--version', and if so, print out the version and exit immediately; long before we consider looking at the Git version or working directory. This way users can still get to the git-gui version number even if Git's version cannot be read. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-03-12git-gui: Revert "git-gui: Display all authors of git-gui."Shawn O. Pearce
This reverts commit 871f4c97ad7e021d1a0a98c80c5da77fcf70e4af. Too many users have complained about the credits generator in git-gui, so I'm backing the entire thing out. This revert will finish that series. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-03-12git-gui: Allow committing empty mergesShawn O. Pearce
Johannes Sixt noticed that git-gui would not let the user commit a merge created by `git merge -s ours` as the ours strategy does not alter the tree (that is HEAD^1^{tree} = HEAD^{tree} after the merge). The same issue arises from amending such a merge commit. We now permit an empty commit (no changed files) if we are doing a merge commit. Core Git does this with its command line based git-commit tool, so it makes sense for the GUI to do the same. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-03-01git-gui: Remove unnecessary /dev/null redirection.Shawn O. Pearce
Git 1.5.0 and later no longer output useless messages to standard error when making the initial (or what looks to be) commit of a repository. Since /dev/null does not exist on Windows in the MinGW environment we can't redirect there anyway. Since Git does not output anymore, I'm removing the redirection. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-26git-gui: Don't create empty (same tree as parent) commits.gitgui-0.6.2Shawn O. Pearce
Mark Levedahl noticed that git-gui will let you create an empty normal (non-merge) commit if the file state in the index is out of whack. The case Mark was looking at was with the new autoCRLF feature in git enabled and is actually somewhat difficult to create. I found a different way to create an empty commit: turn on the Trust File Modifications flag, touch a file, rescan, then move the file into the "Changes To Be Committed" list without looking at the file's diff. This makes git-gui think there are files staged for commit, yet the update-index call did nothing other than refresh the stat information for the affected file. In this case git-gui allowed the user to make a commit that did not actually change anything in the repository. Creating empty commits is usually a pointless operation; rarely does it record useful information. More often than not an empty commit is actually an indication that the user did not properly update their index prior to commit. We should help the user out by detecting this possible mistake and guiding them through it, rather than blindly recording it. After we get the new tree name back from write-tree we compare it to the parent commit's tree; if they are the same string and this is a normal (non-merge, non-amend) commit then something fishy is going on. The user is making an empty commit, but they most likely don't want to do that. We now pop an informational dialog and start a rescan, aborting the commit. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-26git-gui: Add Reset to the Branch menu.Shawn O. Pearce
cehteh on #git noticed that there was no way to perform a reset --hard from within git-gui. When I pointed out this was Merge->Abort Merge cehteh said this is not very understandable, and that most users would never guess to try that option unless they were actually in a merge. So Branch->Reset is now also a way to cause a reset --hard from within the UI. Right now the confirmation dialog is the same as the one used in Merge->Abort Merge. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-26git-gui: Relocate the menu/transport menu code.Shawn O. Pearce
This code doesn't belong down in the main window UI creation, its really part of the menu system and probably should be located with it. I'm moving it because I could not find the code when I was looking for it earlier today, as it was not where I expected it to be found. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-21git-gui: Don't crash in citool mode on initial commit.gitgui-0.6.1Shawn O. Pearce
Attempting to use `git citool` to create an initial commit caused git-gui to crash with a Tcl error as it tried to add the newly born branch to the non-existant branch menu. Moving this code to after the normal commit cleanup logic resolves the issue, as we only have a branch menu if we are not in singlecommit mode. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-21git-gui: Include browser in our usage message.Shawn O. Pearce
Now that the 'browser' subcommand can be used to startup the tree browser, it should be listed as a possible subcommand option in our usage message. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-21git-gui: Change summary of git-gui.Shawn O. Pearce
Since git-gui does more than create commits, it is unfair to call it "a commit creation tool". Instead lets just call it a graphical user interface. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-21git-gui: Display all authors of git-gui.Shawn O. Pearce
Now that git-gui has been released to the public as part of Git 1.5.0 I am starting to see some work from other people beyond myself and Paul. Consequently the copyright for git-gui is not strictly the two of us anymore, and these others deserve to have some credit given to them. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-21git-gui: Use mixed path for docs on Cygwin.Shawn O. Pearce
The Firefox browser requires that a URL use / to delimit directories. This is instead of \, as \ gets escaped by the browser into its hex escape code and then relative URLs are incorrectly resolved, Firefox no longer sees the directories for what they are. Since we are handing the browser a true URL, we better use the standard / for directories. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-18git-gui: Correct crash when saving options in blame mode.Shawn O. Pearce
Martin Waitz noticed that git-gui crashed while saving the user's options out if the application was started in blame mode. This was caused by the do_save_config procedure invoking reshow_diff incase the number of context lines was modified by the user. Because we bypassed main window UI setup to enter blame mode we did not set many of the globals which were accessed by reshow_diff, and reading unset variables is an error in Tcl. Aside from moving the globals to be set earlier, I also modified reshow_diff to not invoke clear_diff if there is no path currently in the diff viewer. This way reshow_diff does not crash when in blame mode due to the $ui_diff command not being defined. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-16git-gui: Expose the browser as a subcommand.Shawn O. Pearce
Some users may find being able to browse around an arbitrary branch to be handy, so we now expose our graphical browser through `git gui browse <committish>`. Yes, I'm being somewhat lazy and making the user give us the name of the branch to browse. They can always enter HEAD. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-15git-gui: Create new branches from a tag.Martin Koegler
I'm missing the possibility to base a new branch on a tag. The following adds a tag drop down to the new branch dialog. Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-14git-gui: Print version on the console.Shawn O. Pearce
Like `git version`, `git gui version` (or `git gui --version`) shows the version of git-gui, in case the user needs to know this, without looking at it in the GUI about dialog. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-14git-gui: More consistently display the application name.Shawn O. Pearce
I started to find it confusing that git-gui would refer to itself as git-citool when it was started through the citool hardlink, or with the citool subcommand. What was especially confusing was the options dialog and the about dialog, as both seemed to imply they were somehow different from the git-gui versions. In actuality there is no difference at all. Now we just call our options menu item 'Options...' (skipping the application name) and our About dialog now always shows git-gui within the short description (above the copyleft notice) and in the version field. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-14git-gui: Permit merging tags into the current branch.Shawn O. Pearce
It was pointed out on the git mailing list by Martin Koegler that we did not show tags as possible things to merge into the current branch. They actually are, and core Git's Grand Unified Merge Driver will accept them just like any other commit. So our merge dialog now requests all refs/heads, refs/remotes and refs/tags named refs and attempts to match them against the commits not in HEAD. One complicating factor here is that we must use the %(*objectname) field when talking about an annotated tag, as they will not appear in the output of rev-list. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-14git-gui: Basic version check to ensure git 1.5.0 or later is used.Shawn O. Pearce
This is a very crude (but hopefully effective) check against the `git` executable found in our PATH. Some of the subcommands and options that git-gui requires to be present to operate were created during the 1.5.0 development cycle, so 1.5 is the minimum version of git that we can expect to support. There actually are early releases of 1.5 (e.g. 1.5.0-rc0) that don't have everything we expect (like `blame --incremental`) but these are purely academic at this point. 1.5.0 final was tagged and released just a few hours ago. The release candidates will (hopefully) fade into the dark quickly. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-14git-gui: Refactor 'exec git subcmd' idiom.Shawn O. Pearce
As we frequently need to execute a Git subcommand and obtain its returned output we are making heavy use of [exec git foo] to run foo. As I'm concerned about possibly needing to carry environment data through a shell on Cygwin for at least some subcommands, I'm migrating all current calls to a new git proc. This actually makes the code look cleaner too, as we aren't saying 'exec git' everywhere. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-12git-gui: Rename GIT_VERSION to GITGUI_VERSION.Shawn O. Pearce
Now that the decision has been made to treat git-gui as a subproject, rather than merging it directly into git, we should use a different substitution for our version value to avoid any possible confusion. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-11git-gui: Stop deleting gitk preferences.Shawn O. Pearce
Now that git 1.5.0 and later contains a version of gitk that uses correct geometry on Windows platforms, even if ~/.gitk exists, we should not delete the user's ~/.gitk to work around the bug. It is downright mean to remove a user's preferences for another app. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-09git-gui: Focus into blame panels on Mac OS.Shawn O. Pearce
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-09git-gui: Improve annotated file display.Shawn O. Pearce
Rather than trying to mark the background color of the line numbers to show which lines have annotated data loaded, we now show a ruler between the line numbers and the file data. This ruler is just 1 character wide and its background color is set to grey to denote which lines have annotation ready. I had to make this change as I kept loosing the annotation marker when a line was no longer colored as part of the current selection. We now color the lines blamed on the current commit in yellow, the lines in the commit which came after (descendant) in red (hotter, less tested) and the lines in the commit before (ancestor) in blue (cooler, better tested). Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-09git-gui: Jump to the first annotation block as soon as its available.Shawn O. Pearce
To help clue users into the fact that annotation data arrives incrementally, and that they should try to locate the region they want while the tool is running, we jump to the first line of the first annotation if the user has not already clicked on a line they are interested in and if the window is still looking at the very top of the file. Since it takes a second (at least on my PowerBook) to even generate the first annotation for git-gui.sh, the user should have plenty of time to adjust the scrollbar or click on a line even before we get that first annotation record in, which allows the user to bypass our automatic jumping. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-09git-gui: Redesign the display of annotated files.Shawn O. Pearce
Using 180 columns worth of screen space to display just 20 columns of file data and 160 columns worth of annotation information is not practically useful. Users need/want to see the file data, and have the anotation associated with it displayed in a detail pane only when they have focused on a particular region of the file. Now our file viewer has a small 10-line high pane below the file which shows the commit message for the commit this line was blamed on. The columns have all been removed, except the current line number column as that has some real value when trying to locate an interesting block. To keep the user entertained we have a progress meter in the status bar of the viewer which lets them know how many lines have been annotated, and how much has been completed. We use a grey background on the line numbers for lines which we have obtained annotation from, and we color all lines in the current commit with a yellow background, so they stand out when scanning through the file. All other lines are kept with a white background, making the yellow really pop. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-09git-gui: Use git-config now over git-repo-config.Shawn O. Pearce
Now that core Git has "renamed" git-repo-config to git-config, we should do the same. I don't know how long core Git will keep the repo-config command, and since git-gui's userbase is so small and almost entirely on some flavor of 1.5.0-rc2 or later, where the rename has already taken place, it should be OK to rename now. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-09git-gui: Relabel the Add All action.Shawn O. Pearce
One user that I spoke with recently was confused why the 'Add All' button did not add all of his 'Changed But Not Updated' files. The particular files in question were new, and thus not known to Git. Since the 'Add All' routine only updates files which are already tracked, they were not added automatically. I suspect that calling this action 'Add Existing' would be less confusing, so I'm renaming it. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-09git-gui: Select subcommands like git does.Shawn O. Pearce
If we are invoked as `git-foo`, then we should run the `foo` subcommand, as the user has made some sort of link from `git-foo` to our actual program code. So we should honor their request. If we are invoked as `git-gui foo`, the user has not made a link (or did, but is not using it right now) so we should execute the `foo` subcommand. We now can start the single commit UI mode via `git-citool` and also through `git gui citool`. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-09git-gui: View blame from the command line.Shawn O. Pearce
Viewing annotated files is one of those tasks that is relatively difficult to do in a simple vt100 terminal emulator. The user really wants to be able to browse through a lot of information, and to interact with it by navigating through revisions. Now users can start our file viewer with annotations by running 'git gui blame commit path', thereby seeing the contents of the given file at the given commit. Right now I am being lazy by not allowing the user to omit the commit name (and have us thus assume HEAD). Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-08git-gui: Optionally save commit buffer on exit.Shawn O. Pearce
If the commit area does not exist, don't save the commit message to a file, or the window geometry. The reason I'm doing this is I want to make the main window entirely optional, such as if the user has asked us to show a blame from the command line. In such cases the commit area won't exist and trying to get its text would cause an error. If we are running without the commit message area, we cannot save our window geometry either, as the root window '.' won't be a normal commit window. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-08git-gui: Separate transport/branch menus from multicommit.Shawn O. Pearce
These are now controlled by the transport and branch options, rather than the multicommit option. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-08git-gui: Refactor single_commit to a proc.Shawn O. Pearce
This is a minor code cleanup to make working with what used to be the $single_commit flag easier. Its also to better handle various UI configurations, depending on command line parameters given by the user, or perhaps user preferences. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-08git-gui: Replace \ with \\ when showing paths.Shawn O. Pearce
We already replace \n with \\n so that Tk widgets don't start a new display line with part of a file path which is just unlucky enough to contain an LF. But then its confusing to read a path whose name actually contains \n as literal characters. Escaping \ to \\ would make that case display as \\n, clarifying the output. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-08git-gui: Support keyboard traversal in browser.Shawn O. Pearce
Users want to navigate the file list shown in our branch browser windows using the keyboard. So we now support basic traversal with the arrow keys: Up/Down: Move the "selection bar" to focus on a different name. Return: Move into the subtree, or open the annotated file. M1-Right: Ditto. M1-Up: Move to the parent tree. M1-Left: Ditto. Probably the only feature missing from this is to key a leading part of the file name and jump directly to that file (or subtree). This change did require a bit of refactoring, to pull the navigation logic out of the mouse click procedure and into more generic routines which can also be used in bindings. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-02-08git-gui: Update known branches during rescan.Shawn O. Pearce
If the user has created (or deleted) a branch through an external tool, and uses Rescan, they probably are trying to make git-gui update to show their newly created branch. So now we load all known heads and update the branch menu during any rescan operation, just in-case the set of known branches was modified. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-29git-gui: Assign background colors to each blame hunk.Shawn O. Pearce
To help the user visually see which lines are associated with each other in the file we attempt to sign a unique background color to each commit and then render all text associated with that commit using that color. This works out OK for a file which has very few commits in it; but most files don't have that property. What we really need to do is look at what colors are used by our neighboring commits (if known yet) and pick a color which does not conflict with our neighbor. If we have run out of colors then we should force our neighbor to recolor too. Yes, its the graph coloring problem. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-29git-gui: Use a grid layout for the blame viewer.Shawn O. Pearce
Using a panedwindow to display the blame viewer's individual columns just doesn't make sense. Most of the important data fits within the columns we have allocated, and those that don't the leading part fits and that's good enough. There are just too many columns within this viewer to let the user sanely control individual column widths. This change shouldn't really be an issue for most git-gui users as their displays should be large enough to accept this massive dump of data. We now also have a properly working horizontal scrollbar for the current file data area. This makes it easier to get away with a narrow window when screen space is limited, as you can still scroll around within the file content. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-29git-gui: Install column headers in blame viewer.Shawn O. Pearce
I started to get confused about what each column meant in the blame viewer, and I'm the guy who wrote the code! So now git-gui hints to the user about what each column is by drawing headers at the top. Unfortunately this meant I had to use those dreaded frame objects which seem to cause so much pain on Windows. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-29git-gui: Display original filename and line number in blame.Shawn O. Pearce
When we annotate a file and show its line data, we're already asking for copy and movement detection (-M -C). This costs extra time, but gives extra data. Since we are asking for the extra data we really should show it to the user. Now the blame UI has two additional columns, one for the original filename (in the case of a move/copy between files) and one for the original line number of the current line of code. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-29git-gui: Correctly handle spaces in filepaths.Shawn O. Pearce
Anytime are about to open a pipe on what may be user data we need to make sure the value is escaped correctly into a Tcl list, so that the executed subprocess will receive the right arguments. For the most part we were already doing this correctly, but a handful of locations did not. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-29git-gui: Use -M and -C when running blame.Shawn O. Pearce
Since we run blame incrementally in the background we might as well get as much data as we can from the file. Adding -M and -C definately makes it take longer to compute the revision annotations, but since they are streamed in and updated as they are discovered we'll get recent data almost immediately anyway. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-29git-gui: Allow users to edit user.name, user.email from options.Shawn O. Pearce
Users may need to be able to alter their user.name or user.email configuration settings. If they are mostly a git-gui user they should be able to view/set these important values from within the git-gui environment, rather than needing to edit a raw text file on their local filesystem. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-29git-gui: Display the current branch name in browsers.Shawn O. Pearce
Rather than using HEAD for the current branch, use the actual name of the current branch in the browser. This way the user knows what a browser is browsing if they open up different browsers while on different branches. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-29git-gui: Improve the icons used in the browser display.Shawn O. Pearce
Real icons which seem to indicate going up to the parent (an up arrow) and a subdirectory (an open folder). Files are now drawn with the file_mod icon, like a modified file is. This just looks better as it is more consistent with the rest of our UI. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-29git-gui: Implemented file browser and incremental blame.Shawn O. Pearce
This rather huge change provides a browser for the current branch. The browser simply shows the contents of tree HEAD, and lets the user drill down through the tree. The icons used really stink, as I just copied in icon which we already had. I really need to replace the file_dir and file_uplevel icons with something more useful. If the user double clicks on a file within the browser we open it in a blame viewer. This makes use of the new incremental blame feature that Linus just added yesterday to core Git. Fortunately the feature will be in 1.5.0 final so we can rely on having it available here. Since the blame engine is incremental the user will get blame data for groups which can be determined early. Git will slowly fill in the remaining lines as it goes. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-29git-gui: Test for Cygwin differently than from Windows.Shawn O. Pearce
Running on Cygwin is different than if we were running through MinGW. In the Cygwin case we have cygpath available to us, we need to perform UNIX<->Windows path translation sometimes, and we need to perform odd things like spawning our own login shells to perform network operations. But in the MinGW case these don't occur. Git knows native Windows file paths, and login shells may not even exist. Now git-gui will avoid running cygpath unless it knows its on Cygwin. It also uses a different shortcut type when Cygwin is not present, and it avoids invoking /bin/sh to execute hooks if Cygwin is not present. This latter part probably needs more testing in the MinGW case. This change also improves how we start gitk. If the user is on any type of Windows system its known that gitk won't start right if ~/.gitk exists. So we delete it before starting if we are running on any type of Windows operating system. We always use the same wish executable which launched git-gui to start gitk; this way on Windows we don't have to jump back to /bin/sh just to go into the first wish found in the user's PATH. This should help on MinGW when we probably don't want to spawn a shell just to start gitk. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-29git-gui: Offer quick access to the HTML formatted documentation.Shawn O. Pearce
Users may want to be able to read Git documentation, even if they are not command line users. There are many important concepts and terms covered within the standard Git documentation which would be useful to even non command line using people. We now try to offer an 'Online Documentation' menu option within the Help menu. First we try to guess to see what browser the user has setup. We default to instaweb.browser, if set, as this is probably accurate for the user's configuration. If not then we try to guess based on the operating system and the available browsers for each. We prefer documentation which is installed parallel to Git's own executables, e.g. `git --exec-path`/../Documentation/index.html, as that is how I typically install the HTML docs. If those are not found then we open the documentation published on kernel.org. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-27git-gui: Reword meaning of merge.summary.Shawn O. Pearce
OK, its official, I'm not reading documentation as well as I should be. Core Git's merge.summary configuration option is used to control the generation of the text appearing within the merge commit itself. It is not (and never has been) used to default the --no-summary command line option, which disables the diffstat at the end of the merge. I completely blame Git for naming two unrelated options almost the exact same thing. But its my own fault for allowing git-gui to confuse the two. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-26git-gui: Support merge.summary, merge.verbosity.Shawn O. Pearce
Changed our private merge summary config option to be the same as the merge.summary option supported by core Git. This means setting the "Show Merge Summary" flag in git-gui will have the same effect on the command line. In the same vein I've also added merge.verbosity to the gui options, allowing the user to adjust the verbosity level of the recursive merge strategy. I happen to like level 1 and suggest that other users use that, but level 2 is the core Git default right now so we'll use the same default in git-gui. Unfortunately it appears as though core Git has broken support for the merge.summary option, even though its still in the documentation For the time being we should pass along --no-summary to git-merge if merge.summary is false. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>