Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] git-gui: Add ability to revert selected hunks and lines

Bert Wesarg [off-list ref] writes:

The thing is, that the partial revert "just don't happen by accident".
Here are the minimum user actions needed to get to this dialog:

1. whole-file revert

- do a Ctrl+J, more or less anywhere in the GUI

2. hunk revert/revert one unselected line

- right click anywhere in the diff pane (thats around 60% of the window area)
- move the mouse pointer down 3/4 menu items
- click this menu item

3. partially revert selected lines

- select some content in the diff pane by starting by pressing and
holding a left click
- end the selection by releasing the left click
- move the mouse pointer down 3/4 menu items
- click this menu item

Thats always at least 2 user actions more than the whole-file revert.
Thus this cannot happen by accident quite easily in comparison to the
whole-file revert. And thats the reason why this dialog exists, from
my point of view.

I can see the need to disable the dialog for the whole-file revert,
and IIRC that was also requested a long time ago on this list. But I
don't see a reason to have this dialog also for the partial reverts as
a safety measure.

Thanks for walking us readers through your thought process.