Re: [Builder] Git project file open

[Christian Hergert <christian hergert me>]

That's a great suggestion.

Right now, it only picks up the repository if you run Builder from
within that project. (For example, cd foo; gnome-builder). Then it loads
the index.

This wasn't on purpose. We just don't have a project abstraction in
place yet.

The goal is to represent the current project with a GbProject, which
will get assigned to the GbWorkbench (our toplevel window). That will
cause the GitSearchProvider to update, etc.

I hadn't thought about allowing searching through any project you've
opened, that might be a good idea for people working on more than one
project at a time.

However, we do intend to support multiple projects open at once. Not
sure if that would negate the need to search other projects though.

-- Christian


On 12/21/2014 06:21 PM, John Palmieri wrote:
> I realize this is all a work in progress but the one thing I found lacking
> that would allow me to use gnome-builder was file open searching.  I would
> be nice when I open up a file in a git directory for all the files in the
> git manifest to become searchable with the search widget.
>
> Ideally gnome-builder would learn which git projects I edit files in and
> provide a way for me to turn off/on searching in those projects.  I have a
> tendency to work on one to three git projects at a time. Sometimes it is
> helpful to search cross project and sometimes I want to focus on just a few
> or just one of the projects.
>
> Anyway, great work. I'm happy to contribute to design and specification
> discussions in the short term. My use case isn't directed at GNOME
> development nor are they contrary to that goal. I'm going to pass my
> involvement by my HR and perhaps I will be able to contribute patches in
> the future.