git, branch gitgui-0.6.3

git-gui: Make 'make' quieter by default

2007-03-06T07:13:23Z

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

git-gui: Remove unnecessary /dev/null redirection.

2007-03-01T19:37:34Z

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

git-gui: Don't create empty (same tree as parent) commits.

2007-02-26T16:47:14Z

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

git-gui: Add Reset to the Branch menu.

2007-02-26T16:22:10Z

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

git-gui: Relocate the menu/transport menu code.

2007-02-26T16:17:11Z

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

Don't modify CREDITS-FILE if it hasn't changed.

2007-02-25T07:18:26Z

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 Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce

git-gui: Don't crash in citool mode on initial commit.

2007-02-21T06:33:59Z

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

git-gui: Remove TODO list.

2007-02-21T06:29:05Z

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

git-gui: Include browser in our usage message.

2007-02-21T06:24:57Z

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

git-gui: Change summary of git-gui.

2007-02-21T05:11:02Z

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