On 26 February 2018 at 20:29, Ben Ross <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: meld-list [mailto:[email protected]] 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 _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
