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>
This reverts commit 871f4c97ad.
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>
This reverts commit 92446aba47.
Too many users have complained about the credits generator in
git-gui, so I'm backing the entire thing out.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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>
To fit nicely into the output of the git.git project's own quieter
Makefile, we want to make the git-gui Makefile nice and quiet too.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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>
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>
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>
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>
We should always avoid rewriting a built file during `make install`
if nothing has changed since `make all`. This is to help support
the typical installation process of compiling a package as yourself,
then installing it as root.
Forcing CREDITS-FILE to be always be rebuilt in the Makefile means
that CREDITS-GEN needs to check for a change and only update
CREDITS-FILE if the file content actually differs. After all,
content is king in Git.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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>
I'm apparently not very good at keeping my own TODO file current.
I its also somewhat strange to keep the TODO list as part of the
software branch, as its meta-information that is not directly
related to the code. I'm pulling the TODO list from git-gui and
moving it into a seperate branch.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Some distributions are using Git for part of their package
management system, but unpack Git's own source code for
delivery from the .tar.gz. This means that when we walk
up the directory tree with git-describe to locate a Git
repository, the repository we find is for the distribution
and *not* for git-gui. Consequently any tag we might find
there is bogus and does not apply to us.
In this case the version file should always exist and be
readable, as the packager is working from the released
.tar.gz sources. So we should always favor the version
file over anything git-describe guess for us.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
This is the start of the 0.6 series of git-gui. I'm calling it 0.6
(rather than any other value) as I already had a private tag on
one system based on 0.5, and that tag is quite a bit behind this
version.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
When we are included as a subproject, such as how git.git carries
us, we want to retain our own version number and not the version
number assigned by git.git's own tags. Consequently we need to
locate the correct tag which applies to our tree content and
its commit lineage.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I've decided to use gitgui-0.5 as the format for tags in the
git-gui repository. The prefix of gitgui was chosen here to
make its namespace different from the namespace used by git
itself, allowing developers to pull both tag namespaces into
the same repository.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Because git-gui is being shipped as a subproject of the main
Git project and will often have a different lifecycle than
the main Git project, we should ship our own version number
in the release tarball rather than relying on the main Git
version file.
Git's master Makefile will invoke our own with the target
dist-version, asking us to save off our GITGUI_VERSION value
into our own version file, so that our GIT-VERSION-GEN script
can recover it at build time.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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>
When used as a subproject within git.git our Makefile must honor
the gitexecdir which git.git's Makefile is passing down to us,
ensuring that we install our executables into the libexec chosen
by the end-user or packager.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Shawn O. Pearce