Re: [PATCH JGIT] Add "compare with index" action.

[Yann Simon <yann.simon.fr@gmail.com>]

2009/2/22 Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>:
> fredag 20 februari 2009 09:20:29 skrev Yann Simon <yann.simon.fr@gmail.com>:
>> In the Compare With... menu, the "compare with index" action opens
>> a diff editor that compares the workspace version of a file and its
>> index version.
>
> The appearance in the menu is a bit odd. "Compare with" is already in the menu
> context as that is the name of the menu that hold the Compare with index. So the
> menu name should be really be just "Git Index".

Yes, you're right.
I can change the labels to:
CompareWithIndexAction_label=Git Index
CompareWithIndexAction_tooltip=Compare with Git's index version

>> The local file can be modified and saved.
>>
>> The staged version can be modified and saved. This updates the index.
>> For this, add methods into GitIndex to allow to specify a content
>> different from the file.
>
> One would expect this feature to work at any level of the project, not just files. That
> won't be a showstopper though.

Yes of course. In that case, we would need to display a tree of modifications.
That could be done in a second step.

-- yann