Re: File filters for version control view?

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 26 February 2018 at 20:29, Ben Ross <Ben Ross scisys co uk> wrote:
> > From: meld-list [mailto:meld-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Kai Willadsen
>
> > Meld's version control view always tries to show you whatever your version control is going to show you on 
> > the command line, and I personally consider that to be a good design choice. Having said that, several 
> > people have wanted this so... even though I disagree, I'm open to the notion that I just don't get it.
>
> > On a technical/UI level, it's a reasonable amount of work to do this.
> > The main thing is that it should be *really obvious* that this was happening, and it should probably be 
> > untied from the current global on/off setting of the filter. In other words, just because I filter out 
> > comment changes in my file comparison doesn't mean that I want to blanket commit files that have 
> > comment-only changes when in version control view.
>
> > In short, feel free to file an issue! However, I can't even picture how the user interaction would work at 
> > the moment, which means that in my mind, it's a long way off.
>
> The principle that Meld's version control view shows you what your version control shows on the command 
> line is good. However considering subversion (which I know best) it does categorise non-version controlled 
> files into 2 categories, unversioned and ignored (and recent contact with git suggests to me it might do 
> the same). Rather than using melds filtering a better option may be displaying files according to these 2 
> statuses which would continue the principle of showing what the version control shows while allowing 
> viewing of unversioned files. Other graphical version control display programs often allow the option to 
> show or not show files in either of these 2 statuses.

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you're suggesting here. Meld already
has filter buttons for unversioned files vs. ignored files, which
represent (I think) exactly what you're describing. However, that's a
matter of what the version control system sees as being ignored. The
original request in the thread was for an additional layer of
text-based filtering in version control view that matches what we
currently have in folder comparison.

cheers,
Kai