The width of the commit message text area is currently hard-coded
to 75 characters. This value might be not optimal for some projects.
For instance users who would like to generate GNU-style ChangeLog
file from git commit message might prefer commit messages of width
no longer than 70 characters.
This patch adds a global and per repository option "Commit Message
Text Width", which could be used to change the width of the commit
message text area.
Signed-off-by: Adam Piątyszek <ediap@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
In several places, only the background colour is set to an explicit
value, sometimes even "white". This does not work well with dark
colour themes.
This patch tries to set the foreground colour to "black" in those
situations, where an explicit background colour is set without defining
any foreground colour.
Signed-off-by: Philipp A. Hartmann <ph@sorgh.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
"git gui" would complain at launch if the local version of Git was
"1.5.4.2.dirty". Loosen the regular expression to look for either
"-dirty" or ".dirty", thus eliminating spurious warnings.
Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Many user friendly tools like word processors, email editors and web
browsers allow users to spell check the message they are writing
as they type it, making it easy to identify a common misspelling
of a word and correct it on the fly.
We now open a bi-directional pipe to Aspell and feed the message
text the user is editing off to the program about once every 300
milliseconds. This is frequent enough that the user sees the results
almost immediately, but is not so frequent as to cause significant
additional load on the system. If the user has modified the message
text during the last 300 milliseconds we delay until the next period,
ensuring that we avoid flooding the Aspell process with a lot of
text while the user is actively typing their message.
We wait to send the current message buffer to Aspell until the user
is at a word boundary, thus ensuring that we are not likely to ask
for misspelled word detection on a word that the user is actively
typing, as most words are misspelled when only partially typed,
even if the user has thus far typed it correctly.
Misspelled words are highlighted in red and are given an underline,
causing the word to stand out from the others in the buffer. This is
a very common user interface idiom for displaying misspelled words,
but differs from one platform to the next in slight variations.
For example the Mac OS X system prefers using a dashed red underline,
leaving the word in the original text color. Unfortunately the
control that Tk gives us over text display is not powerful enough
to handle such formatting so we have to work with the least common
denominator.
The top suggestions for a misspelling are saved in an array and
offered to the user when they right-click (or on the Mac ctrl-click)
a misspelled word. Selecting an entry from this menu will replace
the misspelling with the correction shown. Replacement is integrated
with the undo/redo stack so undoing a replacement will restore the
misspelled original text.
If Aspell could not be started during git-gui launch we silently eat
the error and run without spell checking support. This way users
who do not have Aspell in their $PATH can continue to use git-gui,
although they will not get the advanced spelling functionality.
If Aspell started successfully the version line and language are
shown in git-gui's about box, below the Tcl/Tk versions. This way
the user can verify the Aspell function has been activated.
If Aspell crashes while we are running we inform the user with an
error dialog and then disable Aspell entirely for the rest of this
git-gui session. This prevents us from fork-bombing the system
with Aspell instances that always crash when presented with the
current message text, should there be a bug in either Aspell or in
git-gui's output to it.
We escape all input lines with ^, as recommended by the Aspell manual
page, as this allows Aspell to properly ignore any input line that is
otherwise looking like a command (e.g. ! to enable terse output). By
using this escape however we need to correct all word offsets by -1 as
Aspell is apparently considering the ^ escape to be part of the line's
character count, but our Tk text widget obviously does not.
Available dictionaries are offered in the Options dialog, allowing
the user to select the language they want to spellcheck commit
messages with for the current repository, as well as the global
user setting that all repositories inherit.
Special thanks to Adam Flott for suggesting connecting git-gui
to Aspell for the purpose of spell checking the commit message,
and to Wincent Colaiuta for the idea to wait for a word boundary
before passing the message over for checking.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The code we use to test if a hook is executable or not differs on
Cygwin from the normal POSIX case. Rather then repeating that for
all three hooks we call in our commit code path we can place the
common logic into a global procedure and invoke it when necessary.
This also lets us get rid of the ugly "|& cat" we were using before
as we can now rely on the Tcl 8.4 feature of "2>@1" or fallback to
the "|& cat" when necessary.
The post-commit hook is now run through the same API, but its outcome
does not influence the commit status. As a result we now show any of
the errors from the post-commit hook in a dialog window, instead of on
the user's tty that was used to launch git-gui. This resolves a long
standing bug related to not getting errors out of the post-commit hook
when launched under git-gui.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
"Stage/Unstage Hunk" is probably the most frequently used command of the
patch context menu *and* it is not available in some other form than
the context menu. Therefore, it should go to the top. "Less Context" and
"More Context" entries are also not easily available otherwise, and are
therefore, moved second. The other entries are available via key strokes
(Copy, Paste, Refresh) or rarly used (Font Size, Options) and can go last.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Aaron Digulla suggested we bind Ctrl-T or Cmd-T to "Stage To Commit"
menu action so it can be easily accessed from the keyboard.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Previously we allowed users to tweak their font weight to be bold by
setting it manually in their ~/.gitconfig prior to starting git-gui.
This was broken in ae0754ac9a when
Simon set the font weight to normal by default, overridding whatever
we found from the ~/.gitconfig file.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If a translation string uses a format character we don't have an
argument for then it may throw an error when we attempt to format
the translation. In this case switch back to the default format
that comes with the program (aka the English translation).
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-config won't honor any options after --list. We must supply
the --global option in front of --list if we really want to load
the global configuration options.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
On Windows using the native Tcl/Tk the copyright header is
being read from the script using the system encoding, which
may not be utf-8. This causes the multi-byte copyright symbol
(which is actually encoded as utf-8) to read as two characters
and not as a proper copyright symbol. Explicitly asking Tcl
to read this sequence of bytes as utf-8 corrects the issue.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If git-gui is started outside a work tree the repository chooser
will offer a list of recently opened repositories. Clicking on
any list entry directly opens the repository.
The list of recently opened repositories is stored in the config
as the multi-valued option gui.recentrepo. If the list grows beyond
10 entries it will be truncated by removing one of the older entries.
Only repositories that are opened through the repository chooser
will get added to the recent list. Repositories opened from the
shell will not yet be added to the recent list, as users are likely
to have a way to easily return to the same directory via their shell.
[sp: This is actually a combined work from both Steffen and myself.
Most of the ideas are Steffen's, as is the basic outline of
the code, but any outstanding bugs are entirely my fault.]
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Using the new --null option added to git-config in git 1.5.3 we
can safely accept LFs that are embedded in configuration options.
This does require a completely different configuration file parser
then the pre 1.5.3 version as we are splitting on very different
values.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The parsing for the output of `git config --list` is the same for
both the global options and the current repository's options so we
can really just use the same parser between them.
I'm currently just refactoring the parser so we can use a different
one depending on the version of git available to us at runtime. My
next change will add support for 1.5.3's --null option.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To better handle configuration options that contain LFs in their
values we want to use the new -z option available in git-config
version 1.5.3 and later. To configure load_config based upon the
git version we need to move thos below the git-version computation.
No logic changes yet, just a minor reordering of the code.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The layout is changed to have the file lists at the left (Unstaged
Changes at the top, Staged Changes below it) and the diff window
at the right (with the commit area below it).
+----------+---------------------+
| Unstaged | Diff area |
| | |
| | |
| | |
+----------+ |
| Staged | |
| +---------------------+
| | Commit area |
| | |
+----------+---------------------+
The advantages are:
- The height of the file lists can be adjusted independently to
fit the files that they contain.
- The diff viewer is higher.
On wide screens it is ok that the main window is now generally
wider, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This commit modifies PATH to include a good guess where git
could be found. The first location to search for executable is
the directory git-gui is installed in. This is a good guess for
a sane installation.
Even if git is not available in PATH, git-gui is now able
to find it. Hence git-gui can be passed to wish as an absolute
path without caring about the environment.
We must modify PATH to be able to spawn shell based git commands.
For builtins it would be sufficient to located them and execute
them with their absolute path. But for shell based git commmands
PATH needs to be modified.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The titles for the staged and unstaged areas were usually opening
up too narrow by default, causing the text to be clipped by Tcl as
it tried to center the text in the middle of the available area.
This meant that users who were new to git-gui did not get to see
the entire header and may be unclear about what the different lists
are.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
A Mac OS X UI convention is to have Cmd-, be the accelerator key
for the preferences window, which by convention is located in the
apple menu under a separator below the about command. We also now
call this "Preferences..." as that is the conventional term used
in English.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Sometimes the Fetch menu looks really odd, such as if you are in a
repository that has no remotes configured when you start git-gui.
Here we didn't have any items to add to the Fetch menu so it was a
tad confusing for the end-user to see an empty menu on the menu bar.
We now place all of the commands related to fetching and pushing of
changes into a single "Remote" menu. This way we have a better class
of bucket that we can drop additional remote related items into such
as doing a remote merge or editing the remote configuration specs.
The shortcuts to execute fetch/remote prune/push on existing remote
specifications are now actually submenus listing the remotes by name.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This commit teaches git-gui to accept versions with annotations
that start with text and optionally end with a dot followed by
a number.
This is needed by the current versioning scheme of msysgit,
which uses versions like 1.5.3.mingw.1. However, the changes
is not limited to this use case. Any version of the form
<numeric version>.<anytext>.<number> would be parsed and only
the starting <numeric version> used for validation.
[sp: Minor edit to remove unnecessary group matching]
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* maint:
git-gui: Don't crash when starting gitk from a browser session
git-gui: Allow gitk to be started on Cygwin with native Tcl/Tk
Conflicts:
git-gui.sh
If the user has started git-gui from the command line as a browser
we offer the gitk menu options but we didn't create the main status
bar widget in the "." toplevel. Trying to access it while starting
gitk just results in Tcl errors.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
gitk expects $env(GIT_DIR) to be valid as both a path that core Git
and Tcl/Tk can resolve to a valid directory, but it has no special
handling for Cygwin style UNIX paths and Windows style paths. So
we need to do that for gitk and ensure that only relative paths are
fed to it, thus allowing both Cygwin style and UNIX style paths to
be resolved.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
When displaying the name of the application in window titles
and menu options (e.g. "About [appname]") we would prefer to
call ourselves "Git Gui" over "git-gui" as the former name is
now being actively used in the Mac OS X UI strings and just
plain looks better to the reader.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Rather than displaying the stock red "Tk" icon in our window
title bars and on the task bar we now show a Git specific logo.
This is Henrik Nyh's logo that we also use in the startup wizard,
scaled to a 16x16 image for Windows task bar usage with a proper
transparent background.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <shawn.o.pearce@bankofamerica.com>
If we are started outside of a git repository than it is likely
the user started us from some sort of desktop shortcut icon in
the operating system. In such a case the user is expecting us to
prompt them to locate the git repository they want to work on,
or to help them make a new repository, or to clone one from an
existing location. This is a very simple wizard that offers the
user one of these three choices.
When we clone a repository we always use the name `master` in the
local repository, even if the remote side does not appear to point
to that name. I chose this as a policy decision. Much of the Git
documentation talks about `master` being the default branch in a
repository and that's what git-init does too. If the remote side
doesn't call its default branch `master` most users just don't care,
they just want to use Git the way the documentation describes.
Rather than relying on the git-clone Porcelain that ships with
git we build the new repository ourselves and then obtain content
by git-fetch. This technique simplifies the entire clone process
to roughly: `git init && git fetch && git pull`. Today we use
three passes with git-fetch; the first pass gets us the bulk of
the objects and the branches, the second pass gets us the tags,
and the final pass gets us the current value of HEAD to initialize
the default branch.
If the source repository is on the local disk we try to use a
hardlink to connect the objects into the new clone as this can
be many times faster than copying the objects or packing them and
passing the data through a pipe to index-pack. Unlike git-clone
we stick to pure Tcl [file link -hard] operation thus avoiding the
need to fork a cpio process to setup the hardlinks. If hardlinks
do not appear to be supported (e.g. filesystem doesn't allow them or
we are crossing filesystem boundaries) we use file copying instead.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I'm starting to setup a main window that the user can use to
locate an existing repository, clone an existing repository,
or create a new repository from scratch. To help do that I
want most of our common UI support already defined before we
start to look for the Git repository, this way if it was not
found we can open a window to help the user locate it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* maint:
git-gui: Ensure .git/info/exclude is honored in Cygwin workdirs
git-gui: Handle starting on mapped shares under Cygwin
git-gui: Display message box when we cannot find git in $PATH
Conflicts:
git-gui.sh
If we are using Cygwin and the git repository is actually a
workdir (by way of git-new-workdir) but this Tcl process is
a native Tcl/Tk and not the Cygwin Tcl/Tk then we are unable
to traverse the .git/info path as it is a Cygwin symlink and
not a standard Windows directory.
So we actually need to start a Cygwin process that can do the
path translation for us and let it test for .git/info/exclude
so we know if we can include that file in our git-ls-files or
not.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I really cannot explain Cygwin's behavior here but if we start
git-gui through Cygwin on a local drive it appears that Cygwin
is leaving $env(PATH) in Unix style, even if it started a native
(non-Cygwin) Tcl/Tk process to run git-gui. Yet starting that
same git-gui and Tcl/Tk combination through Cygwin on a network
share causes it to automatically convert $env(PATH) into Windows
style, which broke our internal "which" implementation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If we cannot find the git executable in the user's $PATH then
we cannot function correctly. Because we need that to get the
version so we can load our library correctly we cannot rely on
the library function "error_popup" here, as this is all running
before the library path has been configured, so error_popup is
not available to us.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Cygwin has been stuck on the 8.4.1 version of Tcl/Tk for quite some
time, even though the main Tcl/Tk distribution is already shipping
an 8.4.15. The problem is Tcl/Tk no longer supports Cygwin so
apparently building the package for Cygwin is now a non-trivial task.
Its actually quite easy to build the native Win32 version of Tcl/Tk
by compiling with the -mno-cygwin flag passed to GCC but this means
we lose all of the "fancy" Cygwin path translations that the Tcl
library was doing for us. This is particularly an issue when we
are trying to start git-gui through the git wrapper as the git
wrapper is passing off a Cygwin path for $0 and Tcl cannot find
the startup script or the library directory.
We now use `cygpath -m -a` to convert the UNIX style paths to Windows
style paths in our startup script if we are building on Cygwin.
Doing so allows either the Cygwin-ized Tcl/Tk 8.4.1 that comes with
Cygwin or a manually built 8.4.15 that is running the pure Win32
implementation to read our script.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Sometimes we use a Tk text widget as though it were a listbox.
This happens typically when we want to show an icon to the left
of the text label or just when a text widget is generally a better
choice then the native listbox widget.
In these cases if we want the user to have control over the selection
we implement our own "in_sel" tag that shows the selected region
and we perform our own selection management in the background
via keybindings and mouse bindings. In such uses we don't want
the user to be able to activate the native platform selection by
dragging their mouse through the text widget. Doing so creates a
very confusing display and the user is left wondering what it may
mean to have two different types of selection in the same widget.
Tk doesn't allow us to delete the "sel" tag that it uses internally
to manage the native selection but it will allow us to make it
invisible by setting the tag to have the same display properties
as unselected text. So long as we don't actually use the "sel"
tag for anything in code its effectively invisible.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The Tcl expression "[append [mc Foo] Bar]" does not return the string
"FooBar" after translation; instead it is setting the variable Foo to
the value Bar, or if Foo is already defined it is appending Bar onto
the end of it. This is *not* what we wanted to have happen here.
Tcl's join function is actually the correct function but its default
joinStr argument is a single space. Unfortunately all of our call
sites do not want an extra space added to their string. So we need
a small wrapper function to make the call to join with an empty
join string. In C this is (roughly) the job of the strcat function.
Since strcat is not yet used at the global level it is a reasonable
name to use here.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Most of these changes were suggested by Shawn Pearce in an answer
to Johannes Schindelin.
Some strings for the blame module were added too.
[sp: Minor edits in blame module formatting]
Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is a very trivial hack to define a global mc procedure that
does not actually perform i18n translations on its input strings.
By declaring an mc procedure here in our maint version of git-gui
we can take patches that are intended for the latest development
version of git-gui and easily backport them without needing to
tweak the mc calls first.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Commit is used as both verb and noun. While these happen to be
the same in some languages, they are not the same in all
languages, so disambiguate them using context-sensitive i18n.
Signed-off-by: Harri Ilari Tapio Liusvaara <hliusvaa@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Ocassionally, one would want to translate the same string used in
different contexts in diffrent ways. This patch provides a wrapper
for msgcat::mc that trims "@@" and anything coming after it, whether
or not the string actually got translated.
Proposed-by: Harri Ilari Tapio Liusvaara <hliusvaa@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The Windows port of Tk does not have the send command so we
cannot delete it from our global namespace, but the Mac OS
X and X11 ports do have it. Switching this delete attempt
into a catch makes send go away, or stay away.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Oddly enough `git ls-files --others` supplies us the name of an
untracked submodule by including the trailing slash but that
same git version will not accept the name with a trailing slash
through `git update-index --stdin`. Stripping off that final
slash character before loading it into our file lists allows
git-gui to stage changes to submodules just like any other file.
This change should give git-gui users some basic submodule support,
but it is strictly at the plumbing level as we do not actually know
about calling the git-submodule porcelain that is a recent addition
to git 1.5.3.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* maint:
git-gui: Avoid use of libdir in Makefile
git-gui: Disable Tk send in all git-gui sessions
git-gui: lib/index.tcl: handle files with % in the filename properly
The Tk designers blessed us with the "send" command, which on X11
will allow anyone who can connect to your X server to evaluate any
Tcl code they desire within any running Tk process. This is just
plain nuts. If git-gui wants someone running Tcl code within it
then would ask someone to supply that Tcl code to it; waiting for
someone to drop any random Tcl code into us is not fantastic idea.
By renaming send to the empty name the procedure will be removed
from the global namespace and Tk will stop responding to random Tcl
evaluation requests sent through the X server. Since there is no
facility to filter these requests it is unlikely that we will ever
consider enabling this command.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
