Re: qgit idea: interface for cherry-picking

Marco Costalba wrote:

In the past weeks I (with Pavel support) have implemented and pushed
the concept of "custom actions".

Is it possible to associate commands sequences, scripts and anything
else executable to a custom action. Actions can be called and run from
menu entry and corresponding output is grabbed by a terminal window.

Instead of hard code each git-native command, this way you have a
flexible framework to add shortcuts and menu entry for anything you
would like to be a click away. BTW I use this for stuff like git pull,
but also for 'make' and 'make install' because you have a window
terminal for feedback.

There is also the possibility to input command line parameters before
to run, useful, as example for a git pull action that asks for source
repository to pull from.

Is this something that can fulfill you request? do you need something
different?  perhaps something as a "default to current selected SHA as
input argument" flag.

It would be nice (I don't know if feasible) that either to provide some kind
of parameters substitution in the likes of "%head" in the invocation line
for a script to be expanded to the sha1 or name of head of currently
selected commit.

Other solution would be to provide GUI for input of command line parameters,
e.g. combo-box (i.e. editable text field, with provided list of default
values) for repository (populated from .git/branches and .git/remotes),
option to select commit or use selected commit for head ref or just commit
ref, etc...

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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