From: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: Stefan Haller <stefan@haller-berlin.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] git-gui: Auto-rescan on activate
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 01:40:51 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201217201051.am33p6h2xu6wq34s@yadavpratyush.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e5f6753b-10b3-1291-1b39-34af63792037@kdbg.org>
Hi,
On 17/12/20 08:45PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 01.11.20 um 18:05 schrieb Stefan Haller:
> > Do an automatic rescan whenever the git-gui window receives focus. Most other
> > GUI tools do this, and it's very convenient; no more pressing F5 manually.
> >
> > People who don't like this behavior can turn it off using
> > "git config gui.autorescan false".
> >
> > Stefan Haller (2):
> > git-gui: Delay rescan until idle time
> > git-gui: Auto-rescan on activate
> >
> > git-gui.sh | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
> > 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
>
> I've been using these patches in the past days.
>
> I am still a bit ambivalent on whether I like the behavior. I do switch
> among windows *a lot* and there is a short flicker on every rescan. And
> there is muscle memory...
This is part of the reason I am a little uneasy enabling it by default,
and why I insist on having a loud and clear warning to the users about
what is going on.
> I observe a bug and a half:
>
> It is unclear which file is selected automatically when there are
> unstaged changes. But there is one misbehavior: after I have invoked the
> merge tool, resolved the conflict, and then switch back to Git GUI, the
> conflicted file is not selected anymore when it is not the first file in
> the list. That is *very* annoying.
Haven't had a chance to try this out yet but AFAIK the last file should
be correctly remembered. See below.
> And then there is the following use-case. While Git GUI is not active
> (think Git GUI and Gitk side-by-side and Gitk active), I click on a
> particular file that is not at the top of the list; then Git GUI becomes
> active and rescans, but also forgets on which file I have clicked. But I
> expected the clicked-on file to become visible, which it doesn't, and I
> have to click again. This is mildly annoying.
Hmm, I don't see that on my system on Linux. The code to remember last
open file is there in 'rescan_done'. So I don't understand why this
becomes a problem on your system.
--
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-17 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-01 17:05 [PATCH 0/2] git-gui: Auto-rescan on activate Stefan Haller
2020-11-01 17:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-gui: Delay rescan until idle time Stefan Haller
2020-11-02 15:45 ` Pratyush Yadav
2020-11-02 19:29 ` Stefan Haller
2020-11-01 17:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] git-gui: Auto-rescan on activate Stefan Haller
2020-11-02 15:48 ` Pratyush Yadav
2020-11-02 19:31 ` Stefan Haller
2020-11-02 13:15 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Pratyush Yadav
2020-11-02 19:24 ` Stefan Haller
2020-11-03 16:16 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Stefan Haller
2020-11-03 16:16 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " Stefan Haller
2020-11-14 19:14 ` Stefan Haller
2020-11-17 7:36 ` Pratyush Yadav
2020-11-17 11:13 ` Stefan Haller
2020-11-17 12:05 ` Pratyush Yadav
2020-11-18 9:17 ` Stefan Haller
2020-12-17 19:45 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Johannes Sixt
2020-12-17 20:10 ` Pratyush Yadav [this message]
2020-12-17 22:21 ` Johannes Sixt
2020-12-18 10:36 ` Stefan Haller
2020-12-18 18:07 ` Johannes Sixt
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