Usually, generated files are not part of the tracked content in
a project. However, translators may lack the tools to generate
git-gui.pot. Besides, it is possible that a contributor does
not even check out the repository, but gets this file via gitweb.
Pointed out by Junio.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The procedure [mc ...] will translate the strings through msgcat.
Strings must be enclosed in quotes, not in braces, because otherwise
xgettext cannot extract them properly, although on the Tcl side both
delimiters would work fine.
[jes: I merged the later patches to that end.]
Signed-off-by: Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
git-gui: Initialize Tcl's msgcat library for internationalization
Tcl's msgcat library and corresponding mc procedure can locate a
translated string for any user message, provided that it is first
given a directory where the *.msg files are located containing the
translations.
During installation we will place the translations in lib/msgs/,
so we need to inform msgcat of this location once we determine it
during startup. Our source code tree however will store all of
the translations within the po/ directory, so we need to special
case this variant.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Locate the library directory early during startup
To support a localized version of git-gui we need to locate the
library directory early so we can initialize Tcl's msgcat package
to load translated messages from. This needs to occur before we
declare our git-version proc so that errors related to locating
git or assessing its version can be reported to the end-user in
their preferred language. However we have to keep the library
loading until after git-version has been declared, otherwise we
will fail to start git-gui if we are using a fake tclIndex that
was generated by our Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Correct 'git gui blame' in a subdirectory
David Kastrup pointed out that the following sequence was not
working as we had intended:
$ cd lib
$ git gui blame console.tcl
fatal: cannot stat path lib/console.tcl: No such file or directory
The problem here was we disabled the chdir to the root of the
working tree when we are running with a "bare allowed" feature
such as blame or browser, but we still kept the prefix we found via
`git rev-parse --show-prefix`. This caused us to try and look for
the file "console.tcl" within the subdirectory but also include
the subdirectory's own path from the root of the working tree.
This is unlikely to succeed, unless the user just happened to have
a "lib/lib/console.tcl" file in the repository, in which case we
would produce the wrong result.
In the case of a bare repository we shouldn't get back a value from
`rev-parse --show-prefix`, so really $_prefix should only be set
to the non-empty string if we are in a working tree and we are in a
subdirectory of that working tree. If this is true we really want
to always be at the top level of the working tree, as all paths are
accessed as though they were relative to the top of the working tree.
Converting $_prefix to a ../ sequence is a fairly simple approach
to moving up the requisite levels.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Do not offer to stage three-way diff hunks into the index
git-apply does not accept a patch that was generated as a three-way
combined diff format such as we see during merge conflicts. If we
get such a diff in our diff viewer and try to send it to git-apply
it just errors out and the user is left confused wondering why they
cannot stage that hunk.
Instead of feeding a known to be unacceptable hunk to git-apply we
now just disable the stage/unstage context menu option if the hunk
came from a three way diff. The user may still be confused about
why they cannot work with a combined diff, but at least they are
only confused as to why git-gui is not offering them the action.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Refactor diff pane popup support for future improvements
The current popup_diff_menu procedure is somewhat messy as it has a
few duplications of the same logic in each of the different legs of
the routine. We can simplify these by setting a few state variables
in the different legs.
No functional change, just a cleanup to make it easier to implement
future functional changes within this block.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Fix "unoptimized loading" to not cause git-gui to crash
If the tclsh command was not available to us at the time we were
"built" our lib/tclIndex just lists all of our library files and
we source all of them at once during startup, rather than trying
to lazily load only the procedures we need. This is a problem as
some of our library code now depends upon the git-version proc,
and that proc is not defined until after the library was fully
loaded.
I'm moving the library loading until after we have determined the
version of git we are talking to, as this ensures that the required
git-reversion procedure is defined before any library code can be
loaded. Since error_popup is defined in the library we instead use
tk_messageBox directly for errors found during the version detection.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Paper bag fix "Stage Hunk For Commit" in diff context menu
In a13ee29b975d3a9a012983309e842d942b2bbd44 I totally broke the
"Stage Hunk For Commit" feature by making this menu item always
appear in a disabled state, so it was never invokable. A "teaser
feature", just sitting there taunting the poor user who has become
used to having it available.
The issue caused by a13ee was I added a test to look at the data
in $file_states, but I didn't do that test correctly as it was
always looking at a procedure local $file_states array, which is
not defined, so the test was always true and we always disabled
the menu entry.
Instead we only want to disable the menu entry if the current file
we are looking at has no file state information (git-gui is just a
very confused little process) or it is an untracked file (and we
cannot stage individual hunks).
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Allow git-merge to use branch names in conflict markers
Earlier when I rewrote the merge implementation for git-gui I broke
it such that the conflict markers for the "theirs" side of the hunk
was using a full SHA-1 ID in hex, rather than the name of the branch
the user had merged. This was because I got paranoid and passed off
the full SHA-1 to git-merge, instead of giving it the reference name
the user saw in the merge dialog.
I'd still like to resolve the SHA-1 upfront in git-gui and always use
that value throughout the merge, but I can't do that until we have a
full implementation of git-merge written in Tcl. Until then its more
important that the conflict markers be useful to the end-user, so we
need to pass off the ref name and not the SHA-1 ID.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
cehteh on #git noticed that secondary windows such as console
windows from push/fetch/merge or the blame browser failed on ion
when we tried to open them a second time.
The issue turned out to be the fact that on ion [winfo ismapped .]
returns false if . is not visible right now because it has been
obscured by another window in the same panel. So we need to keep
track of whether or not the root window has been displayed for this
application, and once it has been we cannot ever assume that ismapped
is going to return true.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Avoid Tcl error in popup menu on diff viewer
If there is no path currently shown in the diff viewer then we
were getting Tcl errors anytime the user right-clicked on the
diff viewer to bring up its popup menu. The bug here is caused
by trying to get the file_state for the empty string; this path
is never seen so we never have file_state for it. In such cases
we now disable the Stage Hunk For Commit option.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Minor refactoring of merge command line in merge support
This is just a small code movement to cleanup how we generate
the command line for a merge. I'm only doing it to make the
next series of changes slightly more readable.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Use more modern looking icons in the tree browser
This is a replacement of all of the icons in our tree browser
window, as the prior icons just looked too 1980s Tk-ish. The
icons used here are actually from a KDE themed look, so they
might actually be familiar to some users of git-gui.
Aside from using more modern looking icons we now have a special
icon for executable blobs, to make them stand out from the normal
non-executable blobs. We also denote symlinks now with a different
icon, so they stand out from the other types of objects in the tree.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Don't offer to stage hunks from untracked files
If the user looks at an untracked file in our diff pane we used
to offer "Stage Hunk For Commit" in the context menu when they
right-clicked in that pane. The problem is we don't actually
have any diff hunks in untracked files, so there is nothing to
really select for staging. So we now grey out the menu item,
so the user cannot invoke it and think its broken when it does
not perform any useful action.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Make sure remotes are loaded when picking revisions
If we are started for only a blame/browser/citool run we don't
usually initialize the list of remotes, or determine which refs
are tracking branches and which are local branch heads. This is
because some of that work is relatively expensive and is usually
not going to be needed if we are started only for a blame, or to
make a single commit.
However by not loading the remote configuration we were crashing
if the user tried to open a browser for another branch through
the Repository menu, as our load_all_heads procedure was unable
to decide which refs/heads/ items were actually local heads. We
now force all remote configuration data to be loaded if we have
not done so already and we are trying to create a revision mega
widget.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Use progress bar while resetting/aborting files
Resetting a large number of files on a slow filesystem can take
considerable time, just as switching branches in such a case can
take more than two seconds. We now take advantage of the progress
meter output by read-tree and show it in the main window status
bar, just like we do during checkout (branch switch).
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Honor core.excludesfile when listing extra files
Recent git versions have a git-status that honors the core.excludesfile
configuration option when it reports on untracked files. Unfortunately
I missed the introduction of this configuration option in the core
porcelain implementation, so it was not reflected here in git-gui.
Found and reported by Lars Noschinski <lars@public.noschinski.de>.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Don't kill modified commit message buffer with merge templates
If the user is in the middle of a merge and has already started to
modify their commit message we were losing the user's changes when
they pressed 'Rescan' after resolving issues or making changes in
the working directory.
The problem here was our background timer that saves the commit
message buffer. It marks the commit message buffer as not being
modified when it writes it out to disk, so during the rescan we
assumed the buffer should be replaced with what we read from the
MERGE_MSG file. So we now only read these files from .git if we
have a valid backup file. Since we clear it on commit this will
only have an impact while the user is actively editing the current
commit.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Remove usernames from absolute SSH urls during merging
If we are being asked to merge a tracking branch that comes from a
remote repository accessed by the very common SSH URL format of
"user@host:/path/to/repo" then we really don't need the username
as part of the merge message, it only clutters up the history and
makes things more confusing. So we instead clip the username part
off if the local filesystem path is absolute, as its probably not
going to be an ambiguous URL even when it is missing the username.
On the other hand we cannot clip the username off if the URL is
not absolute, because in such cases (e.g. "user@host:myrepo") the
directory that the repository path is resolved in is relative to
the user's home directory, and the username becomes important.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Format tracking branch merges as though they were pulls
If we are merging a tracking branch we know exactly what remote URL
that branch is fetched from, and what its name is on that remote
repository. In this case we can setup a merge message that looks
just like a standard `git-pull $remote $branch` operation by filling
out FETCH_HEAD before we start git-merge, and then run git-merge just
like git-pull does.
I think the result of this behavior is that merges look a lot nicer
when the came off of local tracking branches, because they no longer
say "commit 'origin/...'" to describe the commit being merged but
instead now mention the specific repository we fetched those commits
from.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Replace merge dialog with our revision picker widget
Now that we only support merging one branch we can offer the user
a better user interface experience by allowing them to select the
revision they want to merge through our revision picking widget.
This change neatly solves the problem of locating a branch out of
a sea of 200 tracking branches, and of dealing with very long branch
names that all have a common prefix.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Show ref last update times in revision chooser tooltips
If we can we now show the last modification date of a loose ref as
part of the tooltip information shown in the revision picker. This
gives the user an indication of when was the last time that the ref
was modified locally, and may especially be of interest when looking
at a tracking branch.
If we cannot find the loose ref file than we try to fallback on the
reflog and scan it for the date of the last record. We don't start
with the reflog however as scanning it backwards from the end is not
an easy thing to do in Tcl. So I'm being lazy here and just going
through the entire file, line by line. Since that is less efficient
than a single stat system call, its our fallback strategy.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Display commit/tag/remote info in tooltip of revision picker
Our revision chooser mega-widget now sets up tooltips for itself so
that it displays details about a commit (or a tag and the commit
it refers to) when the user mouses over that line in the filtered
ref list. If the item is from a remote tracking branch then we also
show the remote url and what branch on that remote we fetch from, so
the user has a clear concept of where that revision data originated.
To help the merge dialog I've also added a new constructor that
makes the dialog only offer unmerged revisions (those not in HEAD),
as this allows users to avoid performing merges only to get "Already
up to date" messages back from core Git.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Save remote urls obtained from config/remotes setup
I'm storing the URLs of any pre-configured remote repositories
that we happen to come across so that we can later use these
URLs to show to the user in parts of the UI that might care.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Avoid unnecessary symbolic-ref call during checkout
If we are checking out the branch we are already on then there is no
need to call symbolic-ref to update the HEAD pointer to the "new"
branch name, it is already correct.
Currently this situation does not happen very often, but it can be
seen in some workflows where the user always recreates their local
branch from a remote tracking branch and more-or-less ignores what
branch he/she is on right now. As they say, ignorance is bliss.
This case will however become a tad more common when we overload
checkout_op to actually also perform all of our merges. In that
case we will likely see that the branch we want to "checkout" is
the current branch, as we are actually just merging into it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Refactor current branch menu items to make i18n easier
The i18n team has also identified a rather ugly block of code in
git-gui that is used to make a pair of Repository menu items show
the current branch name. This code is difficult to convert to use
[mc ...] to lookup the translation, so I'm refactoring it into a
procedure.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Refactor diff popup into a procedure to ease i18n work
The folks working on the i18n version of git-gui have had some
trouble trying to convert these English strings into [mc] calls
due to the double evaluation. Moving this block into a standard
procedure eliminates the double evaluation, making their work
easier.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Paper bag fix quitting crash after commit
My earlier introduction of the GITGUI_BCK file (which saves the user's
commit message buffer while they are typing it) broke the Quit function.
If the user makes a commit we delete the GITGUI_BCK file; if they then
immediately quit the application we fail to rename the GITGUI_BCK file
to GITGUI_MSG. This is because the file does not exist, but our flag
still says it does. The root cause is we did not unset the flag during
commit.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Clarify meaning of add tracked menu option
Junio recently pointed out on the mailing list that our "Add Existing"
feature is a lot like `git add -u`, which is generally described as
"(Re)Add Tracked Files". This came up during discussion of how to
translate "Add Existing" into Japanese, as the individual working on
the translation was not quite sure what the option meant and therefore
had some trouble selecting the best translation.
I'm changing the menu option to "Add Tracked Files To Commit" and the
button to "Add Tracked". This should help new users to better understand
the actions behind those GUI widgets.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Fix unnecessary fast-forward during checkout
If we are trying to checkout a local branch which is matched to a
remote tracking branch, but the local branch is newer than the remote
tracking branch we actually just want to switch to the local branch.
The local branch is "Already up to date".
Unfortunately we tossed away the local branch's commit SHA-1 and kept
the remote tracking branch's SHA-1, which meant that the user lost the
local changes when we updated the working directory. At least we did
not update the local branch ref, so the user's data was still intact.
We now toss the tracking branch's SHA-1 and replace with the local
branch's SHA-1 before the checkout, ensuring that we pass of the right
tree to git-read-tree when we update the working directory.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This menu option of Tools/Migrate has been living inside of git-gui
as a local hack to support some coworkers of mine. It has no value
to anyone outside of my day-job team and never really should have
been in a release version of git-gui. So I'm pulling it out, so
that nobody else has to deal with this garbage.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Internally allow fetch without storing for future pull support
This is actually just an underlying code improvement that has no user
visible component yet. UI improvements to actually fetch and merge via
an arbitrary remote with no tracking branches must still follow to make
this change useful for the end-user.
Our tracking branch specifications are a Tcl list of three components:
- local tracking branch name
- remote name/url
- remote branch name/tag name
This change just makes the first element optional. If it is an empty
string we will run the fetch, but have the value be saved only into the
special .git/FETCH_HEAD, where we can pick it up and use it for this one
time operation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Skip unnecessary read-tree work during checkout
I totally missed this obvious optimization in the checkout code path.
If our current repository HEAD is actually at the commit we are moving
to, and we agreed to perform this switch earlier, then we have no files
to update in the working directory and any stale mtimes are simply not
of consequence right now. We can pretend like we ran a read-tree and
skip right into the post-read-tree work, such as updating the branch
and setting the symbolic-ref.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Simplify error case for unsupported merge types
If we are given a merge type we don't understand in checkout_op there
is probably a bug in git-gui somewhere that allowed this unknown merge
strategy to come into this part of the code path. We currently only
recognize three merge types ('none', 'ff' and 'reset') but are going
to be supporting more in the future. Rather than keep editing this
message I'm going with a very generic "Uh, we don't do that!" type of
error.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Factor out common fast-forward merge case
In both the ff and reset merge_types supported by checkout_op the
result is the same if the merge base of our target commit and the
existing commit is the existing commit: its a fast-forward as the
existing commit is fully contained in the target commit.
This minor cleanup in logic will make it easier to implement a
new kind of merge_type that actually merges the two trees with a
real merge strategy, such as git-merge-recursive.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Save the merge base during checkout_op processing
I've decided to teach checkout_op how to perform more than just a
fast-forward and reset type of merge. This way we can also do a full
recursive merge even when we are recreating an existing branch from
a remote. To help with that process I'm saving the merge-base we
computed during the ff/reset/fail decision process, in case we need
it later on when we actually start a true merge operation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Automatically backup the user's commit buffer
A few users have been seeing crashes in Tk when using the undo key
binding to undo the last few keystroke events in the commit buffer.
Unfortunately that means the user loses their commit message and
must start over from scratch when the user restarts the process.
git-gui now saves the user's commit message buffer every couple of
seconds to a temporary file under .git (specifically .git/GITGUI_BCK).
At exit time we rename this file to .git/GITGUI_MSG if there is a
message, the file exists, and it is currently synchronized with the
Tk buffer. Otherwise we do our usual routine of saving the Tk buffer
to .git/GITGUI_MSG and delete .git/GITGUI_BCK, if it exists.
During startup we favor .git/GITGUI_BCK over .git/GITGUI_MSG. This
way a crash doesn't take out the user's message buffer but instead
will cause the user to lose only a few keystrokes. Most people do
not type more than 200 WPM, and with 30 possible saves per minute
we are unlikely to lose more than 7 words.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Completely remove support for creating octopus merges
I'm working on refactoring the UI of the merge dialog, because as it
currently stands the dialog is absolutely horrible, especially when
you have 200+ branches available from a single remote system.
In that refactoring I plan on using the choose_rev widget to allow
the user to select exactly which branch/commit they want to merge.
However since that only selects a single commit I'm first removing
the code that supports octopus merges.
A brief consultation on #git tonight seemed to indicate that the
octopus merge strategy is not as useful as originally thought when
it was invented, and that most people don't commonly use them. So
making users fall back to the command line to create an octopus is
actually maybe a good idea here, as they might think twice before
they use it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Don't show blame tooltips that we have no data for
If we haven't yet loaded any commit information for a given line but
our tooltip timer fired and tried to draw the tooltip we shouldn't;
there is nothing to show.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Translate standard encoding names to Tcl ones
This is a essentially a copy of Paul Mackerras encoding support from
gitk. I stole the code from gitk commit fd8ccbec4f0161, as Paul has
already done all of the hard work setting up this translation table.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Avoid unnecessary global statements when possible
Running global takes slightly longer than just accessing the variable
via its package name, especially if the variable is just only once in
the procedure, or isn't even used at all in the procedure. So this is
a minor cleanup for some of our commonly invoked procedures.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I've found that the class code makes it a whole lot easier to create
more complex GUI code, especially the dialogs. So before I make any
major improvements to the merge dialog's interface I'm going to first
switch it to use the class system, so the code is slightly cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Increase the default height of the revision picker
Showing only five lines of heads/tags is not very useful to a user
when they have about 10 branches that match the filter expression.
The list is just too short to really be able to read easily, at
least not without scrolling up and down. Expanding the list out
to 10 really makes the revision picker easier to read and access,
as you can read the matching branches much more quickly.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Clarify the visualize history menu options
Users who are new to Git may not realize that visualizing things in
a repository involves looking at history. Adding in a small amount
of text to the menu items really helps to understand what the action
might do, before you invoke it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Allow users to browse any branch, not just the current one
We now allow users to pick which commit they want to browse through
our revision picking mega-widget. This opens up in a dialog first,
and then opens a tree browser for that selected commit. It is a very
simple approach and requires minimal code changes.
I also clarified the language a bit in the Repository menu, to show
that these actions will access files. Just in case a user is not
quite sure what specific action they are looking for, but they know
they want some sort of file thing.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Allow browser subcommand to start in subdirectory
Like our blame subcommand the browser subcommand now accepts both
a revision and a path, just a revision or just a path. This way
the user can start the subcommand on any branch, or on any subtree.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Allow blame/browser subcommands on bare repositories
A long time ago Linus Torvalds tried to run git-gui on a bare
repository to look at the blame viewer, but it failed to start
because we required that the user run us only from within a
working directory that had a normal git repository associated
with it.
This change relaxes that requirement so that you can start the
tree browser or the blame viewer against a bare repository. In
the latter case we do require that you provide a revision and a
pathname if we cannot find the pathname in the current working
directory.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Move feature option selection before GIT_DIR init
By moving our feature option determination up before we look for GIT_DIR
we can make a decision about whether or not we need a working tree up
front, before we look for GIT_DIR. A future change could then allow
us to start in a bare Git repository if we only need access to the ODB.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Delay the GC hint until after we are running
I'm moving the code related to looking to see if we should GC now
into a procedure closer to where it belongs, the database module.
This reduces our script by a few lines for the single commit case
(aka citool). But really it just is to help organize the code.
We now perform the check after we have been running for at least
1 second. This way the main window has time to open up and our
dialog (if we open it) will attach to the main window, instead of
floating out in no-mans-land like it did before on Mac OS X.
I had to use a wait of a full second here as a wait of 1 millisecond
made our console install itself into the main window. Apparently we
had a race condition with the console code where both the console and
the main window thought they were the main window.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Let the user continue even if we cannot understand git version
Some users may do odd things, like tag their own private version of
Git with an annotated tag such as 'testver', then compile that git
and try to use it with git-gui. In such a case `git --version` will
give us 'git version testver', which is not a numeric argument that
we can pass off to our version comparsion routine.
We now check that the cleaned up git version is a going to pass the
version comparsion routine without failure. If it has a non-numeric
component, or lacks at least a minor revision then we ask the user to
confirm they really want to use this version of git within git-gui.
If they do we shall assume it is git 1.5.0 and run with only the code
that will support.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Change our initial GC hint to be an estimate
Instead of running a full git-count-objects to count all of the loose
objects we can get a reasonably close approximation by counting the
number of files in the .git/objects/42 subdirectory. This works out
reasonably well because the SHA-1 hash has a fairly even distribution,
so every .git/objects/?? subdirectory should get a relatively equal
number of files. If we have at least 8 files in .git/objects/42 than it
is very likely there is about 8 files in every other directory, leaving
us with around 2048 loose objects.
This check is much faster, as we need to only perform a readdir of
a single directory, and we can do it directly from Tcl and avoid the
costly fork+exec.
All of the credit on how clever this is goes to Linus Torvalds; he
suggested using this trick in a post commit hook to repack every so
often.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Don't crash in ask_popup if we haven't mapped main window yet
If we have more than our desired number of objects and we try to
open the "Do you want to repack now?" dialog we cannot include a
-parent . argument if the main window has not been mapped yet.
On Mac OS X it appears this window isn't mapped right away, so we
had better hang avoid including it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Delay searching for 'nice' until its really asked for
Not every caller of 'git' or 'git_pipe' wants to use nice to lower the
priority of the process its executing. In many cases we may never use
the nice process to launch git. So we can avoid searching our $PATH
to locate a suitable nice if we'll never actually use it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Always disable the Tcl EOF character when reading
On Windows (which includes Cygwin) Tcl defaults to leaving the EOF
character of input file streams set to the ASCII EOF character, but
if that character were to appear in the data stream then Tcl will
close the channel early. So we have to disable eofchar on Windows.
Since the default is disabled on all platforms except Windows, we
can just disable it everywhere to prevent any sort of read problem.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
My prior change to allow git-gui to run with a version of Git
that was built from a working directory that had uncommitted
changes didn't account for the pattern starting with -, and
that confused Tcl.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If the user is running a 'dirty' version of git (one compiled in a
working directory with modified files) we want to just assume it
was a committed version, as we really only look at the part that
came from a real annotated tag anyway.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Work around bad interaction between Tcl and cmd.exe on ^{tree}
From Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>:
> It seems that MSYS's wish does some quoting for Bourne shells,
> in particular, escape the first '{' of the "^{tree}" suffix, but
> then it uses cmd.exe to run "git rev-parse". However, cmd.exe does
> not remove the backslash, so that the resulting rev expression
> ends up in git's guts as unrecognizable garbage: rev-parse fails,
> and git-gui hickups in a way that it must be restarted.
Johannes originally submitted a patch to this section of commit.tcl
to use `git rev-parse $PARENT:`, but not all versions of Git will
accept that format. So I'm just taking the really simple approach
here of scanning the first line of the commit to grab its tree.
About the same cost, but works everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If we get more than 80 characters of text in a single line odds
are it is output from git-fetch or git-push and its showing a
lot of detail off to the right edge that is not so important to
the average user. We still want to make sure we show everything
we need, but we can get away with that information being off to
the side with a horizontal scrollbar.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Correct ls-tree buffering problem in browser
Our file browser was showing bad output as it did not properly buffer
a partial record when read from `ls-tree -z`. This did not show up on
my Mac OS X system as most trees are small, the pipe buffers generally
big and `ls-tree -z` was generally fast enough that all data was ready
before Tcl started to read. However on my Cygwin system one of my
production repositories had a large enough tree and packfile that it
took a couple of pipe buffers for `ls-tree -z` to complete its dump.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Improve the Windows and Mac OS X shortcut creators
We now embed any GIT_* and SSH_* environment variables as well as
the path to the git wrapper executable into the Mac OS X .app file.
This should allow us to restore the environment properly when
we restart.
We also try to use proper Bourne shell single quoting when we can,
as this avoids any sort of problems that might occur due to a path
containing shell metacharacters.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Now that we are pretty strict about setting up own absolute paths to
any git helper (saving a marginal runtime cost to resolve the tool)
we can do the same in our console widget by making sure all console
execs go through git_read if they are a git subcommand, and if not
make sure they at least try to use the Tcl 2>@1 IO redirection if
possible, as it should be faster than |& cat.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Perform our own magic shbang detection on Windows
If we cannot locate a .exe for a git tool that we want to run than
it may just be a Bourne shell script as these are popular in Git.
In such a case the first line of the file will say "#!/bin/sh" so
a UNIX kernel knows what program to start to parse and run that.
But Windows doesn't support shbang lines, and neither does the Tcl
that comes with Cygwin.
We can pass control off to the git wrapper as that is a real Cygwin
program and can therefore start the Bourne shell script, but that is
at least two fork+exec calls to get the program running. One to do
the fork+exec of the git wrapper and another to start the Bourne shell
script. If the program is run multiple times it is rather expensive
as the magic shbang detection won't be cached across executions.
On MinGW/MSYS we don't have the luxury of such magic detection. The
MSYS team has taught some of this magic to the git wrapper, but again
its slower than it needs to be as the git wrapper must still go and
run the Bourne shell after it is called.
We now attempt to guess the shbang line on Windows by reading the
first line of the file and building our own command line path from
it. Currently we support Bourne shell (sh), Perl and Python. That
is the entire set of shbang lines that appear in git.git today.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
We know that the version subcommand of git is special. It does not
currently have an executable link installed into $gitexecdir and we
therefore would never match it with one of our file exists tests.
So we forward any invocations to it directly to the git wrapper, as
it is a builtin within that executable.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Assume unfound commands are known by git wrapper
If we cannot locate a command in $gitexecdir on our own then it may
just be because we are supposed to run it by `git $name` rather than
by `git-$name`. Many commands are now builtins, more are likely to
go in that direction, and we may see the hardlinks in $gitexecdir go
away in future versions of git.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The master Makefile in git.git installs gitk into bindir, not
gitexecdir, which means gitk is located as a sibling of the git
wrapper and not as though it were a git helper tool.
We can also avoid some Tcl concat operations by letting eval do
all of the heavy lifting; we have two proper Tcl lists ($cmd and
$revs) that we are joining together and $revs is currently never
an empty list.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Always use absolute path to all git executables
Rather than making the C library search for git every time we want
to execute it we now search for the main git wrapper at startup, do
symlink resolution, and then always use the absolute path that we
found to execute the binary later on. This should save us some
cycles, especially on stat challenged systems like Cygwin/Win32.
While I was working on this change I also converted all of our
existing pipes ([open "| git ..."]) to use two new pipe wrapper
functions. These functions take additional options like --nice
and --stderr which instructs Tcl to take special action, like
running the underlying git program through `nice` (if available)
or redirect stderr to stdout for capture in Tcl.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Show a progress meter for checking out files
Sometimes switching between branches can take more than a second or
two, in which case `git checkout` would normally have shown a small
progress meter to the user on the terminal to let them know that we
are in fact working, and give them a reasonable idea of when we may
finish.
We now do obtain that progress meter from read-tree -v and include
it in our main window's status bar. This allows users to see how
many files we have checked out, how many remain, and what percentage
of the operation is completed. It should help to keep users from
getting bored during a large checkout operation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Change the main window progress bar to use status_bar
Now that we have a fancy status bar mega-widget we can reuse that
within our main window. This opens the door for implementating
future improvements like a progress bar.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Extract blame viewer status bar into mega-widget
Our blame viewer has had a very fancy progress bar at the bottom of
the window that shows the current status of the blame engine, which
includes the number of lines completed as both a text and a graphical
meter. I want to reuse this meter system in other places, such as
during a branch switch where read-tree -v can give us a progress
meter for any long-running operation.
This change extracts the code and refactors it as a widget that we
can take advantage of in locations other than in the blame viewer.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Allow double-click in checkout dialog to start checkout
If the user double clicks a branch in the checkout dialog then they
probably want to start the checkout process on that branch. I found
myself doing this without realizing it, and of course it did nothing
as there was no action bound to the listbox's Double-Button-1 event
handler. Since I did it without thinking, others will probably also
try, and expect the same behavior.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If we have specifications listed in our revision picker mega-widget
then we should default the selection within that widget to the first
ref available. This way the user does not need to use the spacebar
to activate the selection of a ref within the box; instead they can
navigate up/down with the arrow keys and be done with it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Unabbreviate commit SHA-1s prior to display
If the end-user feeds us an abbreviated SHA-1 on the command line for
`git gui browser` or `git gui blame` we now unabbreviate the value
through `git rev-parse` so that the title section of the blame or
browser window shows the user the complete SHA-1 as Git determined
it to be.
If the abbreviated value was ambiguous we now complain with the
standard error message(s) as reported by git-rev-parse --verify,
so that the user can understand what might be wrong and correct
their command line.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Refactor branch switch to support detached head
This is a major rewrite of the way we perform switching between
branches and the subsequent update of the working directory. Like
core Git we now use a single code path to perform all changes: our
new checkout_op class. We also use it for branch creation/update
as it integrates the tracking branch fetch process along with a
very basic merge (fast-forward and reset only currently).
Because some users have literally hundreds of local branches we
use the standard revision picker (with its branch filtering tool)
to select the local branch, rather than keeping all of the local
branches in the Branch menu. The branch menu listing out all of
the available branches is simply not sane for those types of huge
repositories.
Users can now checkout a detached head by ticking off the option
in the checkout dialog. This option is off by default for the
obvious reason, but it can be easily enabled for any local branch
by simply checking it. We also detach the head if any non local
branch was selected, or if a revision expression was entered.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I'm really starting to dislike global variables. The ui_status_value
global varible is just one of those that seems to appear in a lot of
code and in many cases we didn't even declare it "global" within the
proc that updates it so we haven't always been getting all of the
updates we expected to see.
This change introduces two new global procs:
ui_status $msg; # Sets the status bar to show $msg.
ui_ready; # Changes the status bar to show "Ready."
The second (special) form is used because we often update the area
with this message once we are done processing a block of work and
want the user to know we have completed it.
I'm not fixing the cases that appear in lib/branch.tcl right now
as I'm actually in the middle of a huge refactoring of that code
to support making a detached HEAD checkout.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If the current branch is not a symbolic-ref that points to a
name in the refs/heads/ namespace we now just assume that the
head is a detached head. In this case we return the special
branch name of HEAD rather than empty string, as HEAD is a
valid revision specification and the empty string is not.
I have also slightly improved the current-branch function by
using string functions to parse the symbolic-ref data. This
should be slightly faster than using a regsub. I think the
code is clearer too.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui: Automatically refresh tracking branches when needed
If the user is creating a new local branch and has selected to use
a tracking branch as the starting revision they probably want to
make sure they are using the absolute latest version available of
that branch.
We now offer a checkbox "Fetch Tracking Branch" (on by default)
that instructs git-gui to run git-fetch on just that one branch
before resolving the branch name into a commit SHA-1 and making
(or updating) the local branch.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>