Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-gui: disable (un)staging for files with typechange flags

[Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 22:48, Pat Thoyts
<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>>This covers also the case for newly added files in the index. Like this:
>>
>>    echo bar >foo
>>    git add foo
>>    rm foo
>>    ln -s bar foo
>>
>>This will result in an state of AT. And for cases where the type change is
>>staged, and the new type was modified after the staging. Like this (cont.):
>>
>>    git add foo
>>    git commit -mfoo
>>    rm foo
>>    echo bar >foo
>>    git add foo
>>    echo baz >foo
>>
>>Will result in an state of TM for foo.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
>>---
>> git-gui.sh |    6 ++++--
>> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>>diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
>>index 38362fa..1bebcf1 100755
>>--- a/git-gui.sh
>>+++ b/git-gui.sh
>>@@ -1993,7 +1993,9 @@ foreach i {
>>               {MD {mc "Staged for commit, missing"}}
>>
>>               {_T {mc "File type changed, not staged"}}
>>+              {AT {mc "File type changed, old type staged for commit"}}
>>               {T_ {mc "File type changed, staged"}}
>>+              {TM {mc "Staged file type change, modification not staged"}}
>>
>>               {_O {mc "Untracked, not staged"}}
>>               {A_ {mc "Staged for commit"}}
>>@@ -3533,8 +3535,8 @@ proc popup_diff_menu {ctxm ctxmmg ctxmsm x y X Y} {
>>                       || $current_diff_path eq {}
>>                       || {__} eq $state
>>                       || {_O} eq $state
>>-                      || {_T} eq $state
>>-                      || {T_} eq $state
>>+                      || [string match {?T} $state]
>>+                      || [string match {T?} $state]
>>                       || [has_textconv $current_diff_path]} {
>>                       set s disabled
>>               } else {
>
> This seems fine. We do get a warning about an 'unhandled 2 way diff
> marker' when it bumps into the second 'diff --git a/foo b/foo' section
> but I'm not sure anything can be safely done about that.

We had this before, and you have proposed a fix for that ("git-gui:
handle symlink replaced by file"). But as I wrote I have a better and
nicer solution to that specific problem.

Bert

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