(should have had:)

quoted

I have an entry in the "Tools" menu for this called 'Delete':

That's kind of neat, I wasn't aware of that facet of Git Gui :-) But,
it isn't quite the same feature:

Oops, double gaffe. I accidentally forgot to "Reply All", so this was
a re-send of the message. And when I re-sent it, I didn't notice that
the e-mail client hid the quoted line from me and accidentally sent it
without quoting Bert's line. I wasn't sure whether to write this
follow-up but the longer I stared at it, the more sure I was that
somebody would call me out on it so I decided to be pre-emptive. My
apologies if it would have been better to just let it slide.

Jonathan Gilbert

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 3:25 PM Jonathan Gilbert [off-list ref] wrote:

That's kind of neat, I wasn't aware of that facet of Git Gui :-) But,
it isn't quite the same feature:

* It has to be manually set up on each installation.
* It invokes an external process, I don't know if it's safe to assume
that "rm" will work on all platforms (though I just tested it on my
Windows installation and it worked).
* It doesn't remove directories that it makes empty.
* I don't see a way to bind it to a keyboard shortcut. That could just
be me not knowing enough about custom tools, though. :-)
* It only processes the first file selected.
* If I select a tracked file, it will still delete it, and the feature
I'm looking for is more of a "return repository to clean state" type
function, like "revert" already is but extended to handle files that
you can't actually "git revert".

Thanks,

Jonathan Gilbert

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 9:32 AM Bert Wesarg
bert.wesarg-at-googlemail.com |GitHub Public/Example Allow|
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 7:58 PM Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

My development environment sometimes makes automatic changes that I don't
want to keep. In some cases, this involves new files being added that I
don't want to commit or keep. I have typically had to explicitly delete
those files externally to Git Gui, and I want to be able to just select
those newly-created untracked files and "revert" them into oblivion.

I have an entry in the 'Tools" menu for this called 'Delete':

[guitool "Delete"]
    cmd = rm -f \"$FILENAME\"
    noconsole = yes
    needsfile = yes
    confirm = yes

Best,
Bert

quoted

This change updates the revert_helper function to check for untracked files
as well as changes, and then any changes to be reverted and untracked files
are handled by independent blocks of code. The user is prompted
independently for untracked files, since the underlying action is
fundamentally different (rm -f). If after deleting untracked files, the
directory containing them becomes empty, then the directory is removed as
well.

This introduces new strings in index.tcl. I have been told that there is a
separate process whereby the translations get updated.

Jonathan Gilbert (1):
  git-gui: Revert untracked files by deleting them

 git-gui/lib/index.tcl | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 104 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)