Re: [anjuta-devel] git-shell branch

[Abderrahim KITOUNI <a kitouni gmail com>]

Hi all,

I've also recently tried the git shell branch and I like it. I feel
the UI is a bit too cluttered but the idea is good. Having items
(dis)appear or become (un)sensitive as I (de)select things would be a
plus, though.

2010/11/14 Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de>:
> Hi James!
>
> I just took a look at the git shell branch and I think it works out
> really nice. Don't you think it would be a good point to merge it into
> master? I couldn't find anything that's not working though of course
> some features are missing but they can be added later on (git am, git
> bisect came to my mind).
I also think it's fine to merge it now, there are still some little
bugs, but nothing that should block merging.


> Some small things I found that I consider bugs:
I'll add some of my own:
* It seems to refresh the status of the working dir every second or so
(the display is cleared and reshown every time).
I think this is caused by the fact that running 'git status' touches
.git/index which triggers another update.
* It doesn't support working with a detached HEAD (not that this is an
often used feature ...), It won't let me checkout a remote branch
(really, the checkout button should be unsensitive when it cannot do
it rather than doing nothing) and I get an error message on startup
saying: "ambiguous argument '(no branch)': unknown revision or path
not in the working tree." (it's clearly trying to pass the "(no
branch)" output of git branch to git log.

> * Log viewer freezes anjuta for some seconds here, I think it should be
> async
I don't see this here, maybe I'm just using some "small" repository.

> I am not 100% sure if it is useful to show the "Push" and "Pull" tab (or
> basically any other) at the same time. I was a bit confusing to me and I
> felt it would be easier if the "Push" tab just closed the "Pull" tab an
> veci versa.
Yes, I agree. I feel like these shouldn't be tabs in the first place.
Also try to make sure panes don't get too big (I'm using a 17" monitor
and I often see scrollbars, so someone using a laptop wouldn't get a
nice experience).

> Thanks for all the work you put into that branch!
Yes, thanks James :-)

Cheers,
Abderrahim

P.S. sorry if I don't make sense, it's late here :-)