On Windows using the native Tcl/Tk the copyright header is
being read from the script using the system encoding, which
may not be utf-8. This causes the multi-byte copyright symbol
(which is actually encoded as utf-8) to read as two characters
and not as a proper copyright symbol. Explicitly asking Tcl
to read this sequence of bytes as utf-8 corrects the issue.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If git-gui is started outside a work tree the repository chooser
will offer a list of recently opened repositories. Clicking on
any list entry directly opens the repository.
The list of recently opened repositories is stored in the config
as the multi-valued option gui.recentrepo. If the list grows beyond
10 entries it will be truncated by removing one of the older entries.
Only repositories that are opened through the repository chooser
will get added to the recent list. Repositories opened from the
shell will not yet be added to the recent list, as users are likely
to have a way to easily return to the same directory via their shell.
[sp: This is actually a combined work from both Steffen and myself.
Most of the ideas are Steffen's, as is the basic outline of
the code, but any outstanding bugs are entirely my fault.]
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Using the new --null option added to git-config in git 1.5.3 we
can safely accept LFs that are embedded in configuration options.
This does require a completely different configuration file parser
then the pre 1.5.3 version as we are splitting on very different
values.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The parsing for the output of `git config --list` is the same for
both the global options and the current repository's options so we
can really just use the same parser between them.
I'm currently just refactoring the parser so we can use a different
one depending on the version of git available to us at runtime. My
next change will add support for 1.5.3's --null option.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To better handle configuration options that contain LFs in their
values we want to use the new -z option available in git-config
version 1.5.3 and later. To configure load_config based upon the
git version we need to move thos below the git-version computation.
No logic changes yet, just a minor reordering of the code.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The layout is changed to have the file lists at the left (Unstaged
Changes at the top, Staged Changes below it) and the diff window
at the right (with the commit area below it).
+----------+---------------------+
| Unstaged | Diff area |
| | |
| | |
| | |
+----------+ |
| Staged | |
| +---------------------+
| | Commit area |
| | |
+----------+---------------------+
The advantages are:
- The height of the file lists can be adjusted independently to
fit the files that they contain.
- The diff viewer is higher.
On wide screens it is ok that the main window is now generally
wider, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This commit modifies PATH to include a good guess where git
could be found. The first location to search for executable is
the directory git-gui is installed in. This is a good guess for
a sane installation.
Even if git is not available in PATH, git-gui is now able
to find it. Hence git-gui can be passed to wish as an absolute
path without caring about the environment.
We must modify PATH to be able to spawn shell based git commands.
For builtins it would be sufficient to located them and execute
them with their absolute path. But for shell based git commmands
PATH needs to be modified.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The titles for the staged and unstaged areas were usually opening
up too narrow by default, causing the text to be clipped by Tcl as
it tried to center the text in the middle of the available area.
This meant that users who were new to git-gui did not get to see
the entire header and may be unclear about what the different lists
are.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
A Mac OS X UI convention is to have Cmd-, be the accelerator key
for the preferences window, which by convention is located in the
apple menu under a separator below the about command. We also now
call this "Preferences..." as that is the conventional term used
in English.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Sometimes the Fetch menu looks really odd, such as if you are in a
repository that has no remotes configured when you start git-gui.
Here we didn't have any items to add to the Fetch menu so it was a
tad confusing for the end-user to see an empty menu on the menu bar.
We now place all of the commands related to fetching and pushing of
changes into a single "Remote" menu. This way we have a better class
of bucket that we can drop additional remote related items into such
as doing a remote merge or editing the remote configuration specs.
The shortcuts to execute fetch/remote prune/push on existing remote
specifications are now actually submenus listing the remotes by name.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This commit teaches git-gui to accept versions with annotations
that start with text and optionally end with a dot followed by
a number.
This is needed by the current versioning scheme of msysgit,
which uses versions like 1.5.3.mingw.1. However, the changes
is not limited to this use case. Any version of the form
<numeric version>.<anytext>.<number> would be parsed and only
the starting <numeric version> used for validation.
[sp: Minor edit to remove unnecessary group matching]
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* maint:
git-gui: Don't crash when starting gitk from a browser session
git-gui: Allow gitk to be started on Cygwin with native Tcl/Tk
Conflicts:
git-gui.sh
If the user has started git-gui from the command line as a browser
we offer the gitk menu options but we didn't create the main status
bar widget in the "." toplevel. Trying to access it while starting
gitk just results in Tcl errors.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
gitk expects $env(GIT_DIR) to be valid as both a path that core Git
and Tcl/Tk can resolve to a valid directory, but it has no special
handling for Cygwin style UNIX paths and Windows style paths. So
we need to do that for gitk and ensure that only relative paths are
fed to it, thus allowing both Cygwin style and UNIX style paths to
be resolved.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
When displaying the name of the application in window titles
and menu options (e.g. "About [appname]") we would prefer to
call ourselves "Git Gui" over "git-gui" as the former name is
now being actively used in the Mac OS X UI strings and just
plain looks better to the reader.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Rather than displaying the stock red "Tk" icon in our window
title bars and on the task bar we now show a Git specific logo.
This is Henrik Nyh's logo that we also use in the startup wizard,
scaled to a 16x16 image for Windows task bar usage with a proper
transparent background.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <shawn.o.pearce@bankofamerica.com>
If we are started outside of a git repository than it is likely
the user started us from some sort of desktop shortcut icon in
the operating system. In such a case the user is expecting us to
prompt them to locate the git repository they want to work on,
or to help them make a new repository, or to clone one from an
existing location. This is a very simple wizard that offers the
user one of these three choices.
When we clone a repository we always use the name `master` in the
local repository, even if the remote side does not appear to point
to that name. I chose this as a policy decision. Much of the Git
documentation talks about `master` being the default branch in a
repository and that's what git-init does too. If the remote side
doesn't call its default branch `master` most users just don't care,
they just want to use Git the way the documentation describes.
Rather than relying on the git-clone Porcelain that ships with
git we build the new repository ourselves and then obtain content
by git-fetch. This technique simplifies the entire clone process
to roughly: `git init && git fetch && git pull`. Today we use
three passes with git-fetch; the first pass gets us the bulk of
the objects and the branches, the second pass gets us the tags,
and the final pass gets us the current value of HEAD to initialize
the default branch.
If the source repository is on the local disk we try to use a
hardlink to connect the objects into the new clone as this can
be many times faster than copying the objects or packing them and
passing the data through a pipe to index-pack. Unlike git-clone
we stick to pure Tcl [file link -hard] operation thus avoiding the
need to fork a cpio process to setup the hardlinks. If hardlinks
do not appear to be supported (e.g. filesystem doesn't allow them or
we are crossing filesystem boundaries) we use file copying instead.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I'm starting to setup a main window that the user can use to
locate an existing repository, clone an existing repository,
or create a new repository from scratch. To help do that I
want most of our common UI support already defined before we
start to look for the Git repository, this way if it was not
found we can open a window to help the user locate it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* maint:
git-gui: Ensure .git/info/exclude is honored in Cygwin workdirs
git-gui: Handle starting on mapped shares under Cygwin
git-gui: Display message box when we cannot find git in $PATH
Conflicts:
git-gui.sh
If we are using Cygwin and the git repository is actually a
workdir (by way of git-new-workdir) but this Tcl process is
a native Tcl/Tk and not the Cygwin Tcl/Tk then we are unable
to traverse the .git/info path as it is a Cygwin symlink and
not a standard Windows directory.
So we actually need to start a Cygwin process that can do the
path translation for us and let it test for .git/info/exclude
so we know if we can include that file in our git-ls-files or
not.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I really cannot explain Cygwin's behavior here but if we start
git-gui through Cygwin on a local drive it appears that Cygwin
is leaving $env(PATH) in Unix style, even if it started a native
(non-Cygwin) Tcl/Tk process to run git-gui. Yet starting that
same git-gui and Tcl/Tk combination through Cygwin on a network
share causes it to automatically convert $env(PATH) into Windows
style, which broke our internal "which" implementation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If we cannot find the git executable in the user's $PATH then
we cannot function correctly. Because we need that to get the
version so we can load our library correctly we cannot rely on
the library function "error_popup" here, as this is all running
before the library path has been configured, so error_popup is
not available to us.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Cygwin has been stuck on the 8.4.1 version of Tcl/Tk for quite some
time, even though the main Tcl/Tk distribution is already shipping
an 8.4.15. The problem is Tcl/Tk no longer supports Cygwin so
apparently building the package for Cygwin is now a non-trivial task.
Its actually quite easy to build the native Win32 version of Tcl/Tk
by compiling with the -mno-cygwin flag passed to GCC but this means
we lose all of the "fancy" Cygwin path translations that the Tcl
library was doing for us. This is particularly an issue when we
are trying to start git-gui through the git wrapper as the git
wrapper is passing off a Cygwin path for $0 and Tcl cannot find
the startup script or the library directory.
We now use `cygpath -m -a` to convert the UNIX style paths to Windows
style paths in our startup script if we are building on Cygwin.
Doing so allows either the Cygwin-ized Tcl/Tk 8.4.1 that comes with
Cygwin or a manually built 8.4.15 that is running the pure Win32
implementation to read our script.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Sometimes we use a Tk text widget as though it were a listbox.
This happens typically when we want to show an icon to the left
of the text label or just when a text widget is generally a better
choice then the native listbox widget.
In these cases if we want the user to have control over the selection
we implement our own "in_sel" tag that shows the selected region
and we perform our own selection management in the background
via keybindings and mouse bindings. In such uses we don't want
the user to be able to activate the native platform selection by
dragging their mouse through the text widget. Doing so creates a
very confusing display and the user is left wondering what it may
mean to have two different types of selection in the same widget.
Tk doesn't allow us to delete the "sel" tag that it uses internally
to manage the native selection but it will allow us to make it
invisible by setting the tag to have the same display properties
as unselected text. So long as we don't actually use the "sel"
tag for anything in code its effectively invisible.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The Tcl expression "[append [mc Foo] Bar]" does not return the string
"FooBar" after translation; instead it is setting the variable Foo to
the value Bar, or if Foo is already defined it is appending Bar onto
the end of it. This is *not* what we wanted to have happen here.
Tcl's join function is actually the correct function but its default
joinStr argument is a single space. Unfortunately all of our call
sites do not want an extra space added to their string. So we need
a small wrapper function to make the call to join with an empty
join string. In C this is (roughly) the job of the strcat function.
Since strcat is not yet used at the global level it is a reasonable
name to use here.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Most of these changes were suggested by Shawn Pearce in an answer
to Johannes Schindelin.
Some strings for the blame module were added too.
[sp: Minor edits in blame module formatting]
Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is a very trivial hack to define a global mc procedure that
does not actually perform i18n translations on its input strings.
By declaring an mc procedure here in our maint version of git-gui
we can take patches that are intended for the latest development
version of git-gui and easily backport them without needing to
tweak the mc calls first.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Commit is used as both verb and noun. While these happen to be
the same in some languages, they are not the same in all
languages, so disambiguate them using context-sensitive i18n.
Signed-off-by: Harri Ilari Tapio Liusvaara <hliusvaa@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Ocassionally, one would want to translate the same string used in
different contexts in diffrent ways. This patch provides a wrapper
for msgcat::mc that trims "@@" and anything coming after it, whether
or not the string actually got translated.
Proposed-by: Harri Ilari Tapio Liusvaara <hliusvaa@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The Windows port of Tk does not have the send command so we
cannot delete it from our global namespace, but the Mac OS
X and X11 ports do have it. Switching this delete attempt
into a catch makes send go away, or stay away.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Oddly enough `git ls-files --others` supplies us the name of an
untracked submodule by including the trailing slash but that
same git version will not accept the name with a trailing slash
through `git update-index --stdin`. Stripping off that final
slash character before loading it into our file lists allows
git-gui to stage changes to submodules just like any other file.
This change should give git-gui users some basic submodule support,
but it is strictly at the plumbing level as we do not actually know
about calling the git-submodule porcelain that is a recent addition
to git 1.5.3.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* maint:
git-gui: Avoid use of libdir in Makefile
git-gui: Disable Tk send in all git-gui sessions
git-gui: lib/index.tcl: handle files with % in the filename properly
The Tk designers blessed us with the "send" command, which on X11
will allow anyone who can connect to your X server to evaluate any
Tcl code they desire within any running Tk process. This is just
plain nuts. If git-gui wants someone running Tcl code within it
then would ask someone to supply that Tcl code to it; waiting for
someone to drop any random Tcl code into us is not fantastic idea.
By renaming send to the empty name the procedure will be removed
from the global namespace and Tk will stop responding to random Tcl
evaluation requests sent through the X server. Since there is no
facility to filter these requests it is unlikely that we will ever
consider enabling this command.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* maint:
git-gui: Properly set the state of "Stage/Unstage Hunk" action
git-gui: Fix detaching current branch during checkout
git-gui: Correct starting of git-remote to handle -w option
Conflicts:
git-gui.sh
Today I found yet another way for the "Stage Hunk" and "Unstage
Hunk" context menu actions to leave the wrong state enabled in
the UI. The problem this time was that I connected the state
determination to the value of $::current_diff_side (the side the
diff is from). When the user was last looking at a diff from the
index side and unstages everything the diff panel goes empty, but
the action stayed enabled as we always assumed unstaging was a
valid action.
This change moves the logic for determining when the action is
enabled away from the individual side selection, as they really
are two unrelated concepts.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Current versions of git-remote apparently are passing the -w option
to Perl as part of the shbang line:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
this caused a problem in git-gui and gave the user a Tcl error with
the message: "git-remote not supported: #!/usr/bin/perl -w".
The fix for this is to treat the shbang line as a Tcl list and look
at the first element only for guessing the executable name. Once
we know the executable name we use the remaining elements (if any
exist) as arguments to the executable, before the script filename.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This particular message is talking about a specific option in the
configuration file named "gui.$name". This option is not localized
so we cannot localize the "gui." that denotes the section the option
$name is found within. Currently there are no plans to localize the
configuration options for git-gui, but if that were to change in the
future then it would be necessary to localize not only the "gui."
section prefix but also the $name (fontui and fontdiff).
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The procedure [mc ...] will translate the strings through msgcat.
Strings must be enclosed in quotes, not in braces, because otherwise
xgettext cannot extract them properly, although on the Tcl side both
delimiters would work fine.
[jes: I merged the later patches to that end.]
Signed-off-by: Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Tcl's msgcat library and corresponding mc procedure can locate a
translated string for any user message, provided that it is first
given a directory where the *.msg files are located containing the
translations.
During installation we will place the translations in lib/msgs/,
so we need to inform msgcat of this location once we determine it
during startup. Our source code tree however will store all of
the translations within the po/ directory, so we need to special
case this variant.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To support a localized version of git-gui we need to locate the
library directory early so we can initialize Tcl's msgcat package
to load translated messages from. This needs to occur before we
declare our git-version proc so that errors related to locating
git or assessing its version can be reported to the end-user in
their preferred language. However we have to keep the library
loading until after git-version has been declared, otherwise we
will fail to start git-gui if we are using a fake tclIndex that
was generated by our Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
David Kastrup pointed out that the following sequence was not
working as we had intended:
$ cd lib
$ git gui blame console.tcl
fatal: cannot stat path lib/console.tcl: No such file or directory
The problem here was we disabled the chdir to the root of the
working tree when we are running with a "bare allowed" feature
such as blame or browser, but we still kept the prefix we found via
`git rev-parse --show-prefix`. This caused us to try and look for
the file "console.tcl" within the subdirectory but also include
the subdirectory's own path from the root of the working tree.
This is unlikely to succeed, unless the user just happened to have
a "lib/lib/console.tcl" file in the repository, in which case we
would produce the wrong result.
In the case of a bare repository we shouldn't get back a value from
`rev-parse --show-prefix`, so really $_prefix should only be set
to the non-empty string if we are in a working tree and we are in a
subdirectory of that working tree. If this is true we really want
to always be at the top level of the working tree, as all paths are
accessed as though they were relative to the top of the working tree.
Converting $_prefix to a ../ sequence is a fairly simple approach
to moving up the requisite levels.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-apply does not accept a patch that was generated as a three-way
combined diff format such as we see during merge conflicts. If we
get such a diff in our diff viewer and try to send it to git-apply
it just errors out and the user is left confused wondering why they
cannot stage that hunk.
Instead of feeding a known to be unacceptable hunk to git-apply we
now just disable the stage/unstage context menu option if the hunk
came from a three way diff. The user may still be confused about
why they cannot work with a combined diff, but at least they are
only confused as to why git-gui is not offering them the action.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The current popup_diff_menu procedure is somewhat messy as it has a
few duplications of the same logic in each of the different legs of
the routine. We can simplify these by setting a few state variables
in the different legs.
No functional change, just a cleanup to make it easier to implement
future functional changes within this block.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If the tclsh command was not available to us at the time we were
"built" our lib/tclIndex just lists all of our library files and
we source all of them at once during startup, rather than trying
to lazily load only the procedures we need. This is a problem as
some of our library code now depends upon the git-version proc,
and that proc is not defined until after the library was fully
loaded.
I'm moving the library loading until after we have determined the
version of git we are talking to, as this ensures that the required
git-reversion procedure is defined before any library code can be
loaded. Since error_popup is defined in the library we instead use
tk_messageBox directly for errors found during the version detection.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
In a13ee29b97 I totally broke the
"Stage Hunk For Commit" feature by making this menu item always
appear in a disabled state, so it was never invokable. A "teaser
feature", just sitting there taunting the poor user who has become
used to having it available.
The issue caused by a13ee was I added a test to look at the data
in $file_states, but I didn't do that test correctly as it was
always looking at a procedure local $file_states array, which is
not defined, so the test was always true and we always disabled
the menu entry.
Instead we only want to disable the menu entry if the current file
we are looking at has no file state information (git-gui is just a
very confused little process) or it is an untracked file (and we
cannot stage individual hunks).
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
cehteh on #git noticed that secondary windows such as console
windows from push/fetch/merge or the blame browser failed on ion
when we tried to open them a second time.
The issue turned out to be the fact that on ion [winfo ismapped .]
returns false if . is not visible right now because it has been
obscured by another window in the same panel. So we need to keep
track of whether or not the root window has been displayed for this
application, and once it has been we cannot ever assume that ismapped
is going to return true.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
OS X sends Button-2 on a "real" right click, such as with a three
button mouse, or by using the two-finger trackpad click.
Signed-off-by: Väinö Järvelä <v@pp.inet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If there is no path currently shown in the diff viewer then we
were getting Tcl errors anytime the user right-clicked on the
diff viewer to bring up its popup menu. The bug here is caused
by trying to get the file_state for the empty string; this path
is never seen so we never have file_state for it. In such cases
we now disable the Stage Hunk For Commit option.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is a replacement of all of the icons in our tree browser
window, as the prior icons just looked too 1980s Tk-ish. The
icons used here are actually from a KDE themed look, so they
might actually be familiar to some users of git-gui.
Aside from using more modern looking icons we now have a special
icon for executable blobs, to make them stand out from the normal
non-executable blobs. We also denote symlinks now with a different
icon, so they stand out from the other types of objects in the tree.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If the user looks at an untracked file in our diff pane we used
to offer "Stage Hunk For Commit" in the context menu when they
right-clicked in that pane. The problem is we don't actually
have any diff hunks in untracked files, so there is nothing to
really select for staging. So we now grey out the menu item,
so the user cannot invoke it and think its broken when it does
not perform any useful action.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Recent git versions have a git-status that honors the core.excludesfile
configuration option when it reports on untracked files. Unfortunately
I missed the introduction of this configuration option in the core
porcelain implementation, so it was not reflected here in git-gui.
Found and reported by Lars Noschinski <lars@public.noschinski.de>.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Also, the warning message when clicking "Reset" is adapted to
the wording "Reset" rather than a confusion "Cancel commit?".
Signed-off-by: Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If the user is in the middle of a merge and has already started to
modify their commit message we were losing the user's changes when
they pressed 'Rescan' after resolving issues or making changes in
the working directory.
The problem here was our background timer that saves the commit
message buffer. It marks the commit message buffer as not being
modified when it writes it out to disk, so during the rescan we
assumed the buffer should be replaced with what we read from the
MERGE_MSG file. So we now only read these files from .git if we
have a valid backup file. Since we clear it on commit this will
only have an impact while the user is actively editing the current
commit.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The i18n team has also identified a rather ugly block of code in
git-gui that is used to make a pair of Repository menu items show
the current branch name. This code is difficult to convert to use
[mc ...] to lookup the translation, so I'm refactoring it into a
procedure.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The folks working on the i18n version of git-gui have had some
trouble trying to convert these English strings into [mc] calls
due to the double evaluation. Moving this block into a standard
procedure eliminates the double evaluation, making their work
easier.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Junio recently pointed out on the mailing list that our "Add Existing"
feature is a lot like `git add -u`, which is generally described as
"(Re)Add Tracked Files". This came up during discussion of how to
translate "Add Existing" into Japanese, as the individual working on
the translation was not quite sure what the option meant and therefore
had some trouble selecting the best translation.
I'm changing the menu option to "Add Tracked Files To Commit" and the
button to "Add Tracked". This should help new users to better understand
the actions behind those GUI widgets.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This menu option of Tools/Migrate has been living inside of git-gui
as a local hack to support some coworkers of mine. It has no value
to anyone outside of my day-job team and never really should have
been in a release version of git-gui. So I'm pulling it out, so
that nobody else has to deal with this garbage.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
A few users have been seeing crashes in Tk when using the undo key
binding to undo the last few keystroke events in the commit buffer.
Unfortunately that means the user loses their commit message and
must start over from scratch when the user restarts the process.
git-gui now saves the user's commit message buffer every couple of
seconds to a temporary file under .git (specifically .git/GITGUI_BCK).
At exit time we rename this file to .git/GITGUI_MSG if there is a
message, the file exists, and it is currently synchronized with the
Tk buffer. Otherwise we do our usual routine of saving the Tk buffer
to .git/GITGUI_MSG and delete .git/GITGUI_BCK, if it exists.
During startup we favor .git/GITGUI_BCK over .git/GITGUI_MSG. This
way a crash doesn't take out the user's message buffer but instead
will cause the user to lose only a few keystrokes. Most people do
not type more than 200 WPM, and with 30 possible saves per minute
we are unlikely to lose more than 7 words.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Running global takes slightly longer than just accessing the variable
via its package name, especially if the variable is just only once in
the procedure, or isn't even used at all in the procedure. So this is
a minor cleanup for some of our commonly invoked procedures.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Users who merge often may want to access the merge action quickly,
so we now bind M to the merge action.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Users shouldn't see this menu option if they startup a browser or
blame from the command line, especially if they are doing so on a
bare repository.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Users who are new to Git may not realize that visualizing things in
a repository involves looking at history. Adding in a small amount
of text to the menu items really helps to understand what the action
might do, before you invoke it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
We now allow users to pick which commit they want to browse through
our revision picking mega-widget. This opens up in a dialog first,
and then opens a tree browser for that selected commit. It is a very
simple approach and requires minimal code changes.
I also clarified the language a bit in the Repository menu, to show
that these actions will access files. Just in case a user is not
quite sure what specific action they are looking for, but they know
they want some sort of file thing.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Like our blame subcommand the browser subcommand now accepts both
a revision and a path, just a revision or just a path. This way
the user can start the subcommand on any branch, or on any subtree.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
A long time ago Linus Torvalds tried to run git-gui on a bare
repository to look at the blame viewer, but it failed to start
because we required that the user run us only from within a
working directory that had a normal git repository associated
with it.
This change relaxes that requirement so that you can start the
tree browser or the blame viewer against a bare repository. In
the latter case we do require that you provide a revision and a
pathname if we cannot find the pathname in the current working
directory.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
By moving our feature option determination up before we look for GIT_DIR
we can make a decision about whether or not we need a working tree up
front, before we look for GIT_DIR. A future change could then allow
us to start in a bare Git repository if we only need access to the ODB.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I'm moving the code related to looking to see if we should GC now
into a procedure closer to where it belongs, the database module.
This reduces our script by a few lines for the single commit case
(aka citool). But really it just is to help organize the code.
We now perform the check after we have been running for at least
1 second. This way the main window has time to open up and our
dialog (if we open it) will attach to the main window, instead of
floating out in no-mans-land like it did before on Mac OS X.
I had to use a wait of a full second here as a wait of 1 millisecond
made our console install itself into the main window. Apparently we
had a race condition with the console code where both the console and
the main window thought they were the main window.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Some users may do odd things, like tag their own private version of
Git with an annotated tag such as 'testver', then compile that git
and try to use it with git-gui. In such a case `git --version` will
give us 'git version testver', which is not a numeric argument that
we can pass off to our version comparsion routine.
We now check that the cleaned up git version is a going to pass the
version comparsion routine without failure. If it has a non-numeric
component, or lacks at least a minor revision then we ask the user to
confirm they really want to use this version of git within git-gui.
If they do we shall assume it is git 1.5.0 and run with only the code
that will support.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Instead of running a full git-count-objects to count all of the loose
objects we can get a reasonably close approximation by counting the
number of files in the .git/objects/42 subdirectory. This works out
reasonably well because the SHA-1 hash has a fairly even distribution,
so every .git/objects/?? subdirectory should get a relatively equal
number of files. If we have at least 8 files in .git/objects/42 than it
is very likely there is about 8 files in every other directory, leaving
us with around 2048 loose objects.
This check is much faster, as we need to only perform a readdir of
a single directory, and we can do it directly from Tcl and avoid the
costly fork+exec.
All of the credit on how clever this is goes to Linus Torvalds; he
suggested using this trick in a post commit hook to repack every so
often.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Not every caller of 'git' or 'git_pipe' wants to use nice to lower the
priority of the process its executing. In many cases we may never use
the nice process to launch git. So we can avoid searching our $PATH
to locate a suitable nice if we'll never actually use it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The git-gui version check doesn't handle versions of the form
n.n.n.GIT which you can get by installing from an tarball produced by
git-archive.
Without this change you get an error of the form:
'Error in startup script: expected version number but got "1.5.3.GIT"'
Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
On Windows (which includes Cygwin) Tcl defaults to leaving the EOF
character of input file streams set to the ASCII EOF character, but
if that character were to appear in the data stream then Tcl will
close the channel early. So we have to disable eofchar on Windows.
Since the default is disabled on all platforms except Windows, we
can just disable it everywhere to prevent any sort of read problem.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
My prior change to allow git-gui to run with a version of Git
that was built from a working directory that had uncommitted
changes didn't account for the pattern starting with -, and
that confused Tcl.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If the user is running a 'dirty' version of git (one compiled in a
working directory with modified files) we want to just assume it
was a committed version, as we really only look at the part that
came from a real annotated tag anyway.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
We now embed any GIT_* and SSH_* environment variables as well as
the path to the git wrapper executable into the Mac OS X .app file.
This should allow us to restore the environment properly when
we restart.
We also try to use proper Bourne shell single quoting when we can,
as this avoids any sort of problems that might occur due to a path
containing shell metacharacters.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Now that we are pretty strict about setting up own absolute paths to
any git helper (saving a marginal runtime cost to resolve the tool)
we can do the same in our console widget by making sure all console
execs go through git_read if they are a git subcommand, and if not
make sure they at least try to use the Tcl 2>@1 IO redirection if
possible, as it should be faster than |& cat.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If we cannot locate a .exe for a git tool that we want to run than
it may just be a Bourne shell script as these are popular in Git.
In such a case the first line of the file will say "#!/bin/sh" so
a UNIX kernel knows what program to start to parse and run that.
But Windows doesn't support shbang lines, and neither does the Tcl
that comes with Cygwin.
We can pass control off to the git wrapper as that is a real Cygwin
program and can therefore start the Bourne shell script, but that is
at least two fork+exec calls to get the program running. One to do
the fork+exec of the git wrapper and another to start the Bourne shell
script. If the program is run multiple times it is rather expensive
as the magic shbang detection won't be cached across executions.
On MinGW/MSYS we don't have the luxury of such magic detection. The
MSYS team has taught some of this magic to the git wrapper, but again
its slower than it needs to be as the git wrapper must still go and
run the Bourne shell after it is called.
We now attempt to guess the shbang line on Windows by reading the
first line of the file and building our own command line path from
it. Currently we support Bourne shell (sh), Perl and Python. That
is the entire set of shbang lines that appear in git.git today.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
We know that the version subcommand of git is special. It does not
currently have an executable link installed into $gitexecdir and we
therefore would never match it with one of our file exists tests.
So we forward any invocations to it directly to the git wrapper, as
it is a builtin within that executable.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If we cannot locate a command in $gitexecdir on our own then it may
just be because we are supposed to run it by `git $name` rather than
by `git-$name`. Many commands are now builtins, more are likely to
go in that direction, and we may see the hardlinks in $gitexecdir go
away in future versions of git.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The master Makefile in git.git installs gitk into bindir, not
gitexecdir, which means gitk is located as a sibling of the git
wrapper and not as though it were a git helper tool.
We can also avoid some Tcl concat operations by letting eval do
all of the heavy lifting; we have two proper Tcl lists ($cmd and
$revs) that we are joining together and $revs is currently never
an empty list.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Rather than making the C library search for git every time we want
to execute it we now search for the main git wrapper at startup, do
symlink resolution, and then always use the absolute path that we
found to execute the binary later on. This should save us some
cycles, especially on stat challenged systems like Cygwin/Win32.
While I was working on this change I also converted all of our
existing pipes ([open "| git ..."]) to use two new pipe wrapper
functions. These functions take additional options like --nice
and --stderr which instructs Tcl to take special action, like
running the underlying git program through `nice` (if available)
or redirect stderr to stdout for capture in Tcl.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Now that we have a fancy status bar mega-widget we can reuse that
within our main window. This opens the door for implementating
future improvements like a progress bar.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If the end-user feeds us an abbreviated SHA-1 on the command line for
`git gui browser` or `git gui blame` we now unabbreviate the value
through `git rev-parse` so that the title section of the blame or
browser window shows the user the complete SHA-1 as Git determined
it to be.
If the abbreviated value was ambiguous we now complain with the
standard error message(s) as reported by git-rev-parse --verify,
so that the user can understand what might be wrong and correct
their command line.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is a major rewrite of the way we perform switching between
branches and the subsequent update of the working directory. Like
core Git we now use a single code path to perform all changes: our
new checkout_op class. We also use it for branch creation/update
as it integrates the tracking branch fetch process along with a
very basic merge (fast-forward and reset only currently).
Because some users have literally hundreds of local branches we
use the standard revision picker (with its branch filtering tool)
to select the local branch, rather than keeping all of the local
branches in the Branch menu. The branch menu listing out all of
the available branches is simply not sane for those types of huge
repositories.
Users can now checkout a detached head by ticking off the option
in the checkout dialog. This option is off by default for the
obvious reason, but it can be easily enabled for any local branch
by simply checking it. We also detach the head if any non local
branch was selected, or if a revision expression was entered.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I'm really starting to dislike global variables. The ui_status_value
global varible is just one of those that seems to appear in a lot of
code and in many cases we didn't even declare it "global" within the
proc that updates it so we haven't always been getting all of the
updates we expected to see.
This change introduces two new global procs:
ui_status $msg; # Sets the status bar to show $msg.
ui_ready; # Changes the status bar to show "Ready."
The second (special) form is used because we often update the area
with this message once we are done processing a block of work and
want the user to know we have completed it.
I'm not fixing the cases that appear in lib/branch.tcl right now
as I'm actually in the middle of a huge refactoring of that code
to support making a detached HEAD checkout.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If the current branch is not a symbolic-ref that points to a
name in the refs/heads/ namespace we now just assume that the
head is a detached head. In this case we return the special
branch name of HEAD rather than empty string, as HEAD is a
valid revision specification and the empty string is not.
I have also slightly improved the current-branch function by
using string functions to parse the symbolic-ref data. This
should be slightly faster than using a regsub. I think the
code is clearer too.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
In some workflows users will want to almost always just create a new
local branch that matches a remote branch. In this type of workflow
it is handy to have the new branch dialog default to "Match Tracking
Branch" and "Starting Revision"-Tracking Branch", with the focus in
the branch filter field. This can save users working on this type
of workflow at least two mouse clicks every time they create a new
local branch or switch to one with a fast-forward.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
A simple refactoring of the delete branch dialog to allow use of
the class construct to better organize the code and to reuse the
revision selection code of our new choose_rev mega-widget.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This rather large change pulls the "Starting Revision" part of the
new branch dialog into a mega widget that we can use anytime we
need to select a commit SHA-1. To make use of the mega widget I
have also refactored the branch dialog to use the class system,
much like the delete remote branch dialog already does.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Some newer features of git-gui want to rely on features that are
new to Git 1.5.3. Since they were added as part of the 1.5.3
development series we cannot use those features with versions of
Git that are older than 1.5.3, such as from the stable 1.5.2 series.
We introduce [git-version >= 1.5.3] to allow the caller to get a
response of 0 if the current version of git is < 1.5.3 and 1 if
the current version of git is >= 1.5.3. This makes it easy to
setup conditional code based upon the version of Git available to
us at runtime.
Instead of parsing the version text by hand we now use the Tcl
[package vcompare] subcommand to compare the two version strings.
This works nicely, as Tcl as already done all of the hard work
of doing version comparsions. But we do have to remove the Git
specific components such as the Git commit SHA-1, commit count and
release candidate suffix (rc) as we want only the final release
version number.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* maint:
git-gui: Ensure windows shortcuts always have .bat extension
git-gui: Include a Push action on the left toolbar
git-gui: Bind M1-P to push action
git-gui: Don't bind F5/M1-R in all windows
Conflicts:
git-gui.sh
Pushing changes to a remote system is a very common action for
many users of git-gui, so much so that in some workflows a user
is supposed to push immediately after they make a local commit
so that their change(s) are immediately available for their
teammates to view and build on top of.
Including the push button right below the commit button on the
left toolbar indicates that users should probably perform this
action after they have performed the commit action.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Users often need to be able to push the current branch so that they
can publish their recent changes to anyone they are collaborating
with on the project. Associating a keyboard action with this will
make it easier for keyboard-oriented users to quickly activate the
push features.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
We actually only want our F5/M1-R keystroke bound in the main window.
Within a browser/blame/console window pressing these keys should not
execute the rescan action.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
