Re: [egit-dev] Cherry pick workflow?

["Kinzler, Mathias" <mathias.kinzler@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Chris Aniszczyk <caniszczyk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So I was trying to figure out how to use the new cherry pick
> functionality. It looks like it's only accessible via the history view
> which is no fun.

The problem with cherry-pick is you need to designate the commit that
you want picked.  Putting the action in the history view makes it easy
to designate a commit node to cherry-pick.

> I've been working on a selection dialog similar to
> Open Type (Ctrl+Shift+T) that allows you to browse git-related objects
> (e.g., commits) and select them (there's a few places in the UI where
> I don't like how we let people select commits). I think it makes more
> sense to have cherry pick available when you right click on a project
> or file.

If you do that we need to then show a history view in a dialog, and
let the user modify the display of it until they find the commit they
want.  But I agree with you, its more discoverable to have cherry-pick
in the file/project team menu.

-- 
Shawn.
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I agree with Shawn. We need a slightly stripped-down history view including the search 
toolbar that can be shown as dialog. We might also re-use this later in the tag
dialog where the "Advanced" section currently allows to select a commit from a drop-down.
Without the information provided by the history view, it's quite difficult to use, though.
And of course we should also use that dialog in the "Compare with History..." action
to select a commit (instead of simply opening the history view which is the current
implementation of that action).

Mathias