Gitg Wishlist
Do you miss a favourite feature from another git client in Gitg? If so, please add it to the list along with a comment on why it should be useful to most users.
Feature |
Relevant Art |
Description |
Why? |
Bug Number |
Honour commit parent order |
|
|
Normally the 1st parent of a commit is the branch we're merging _into_, so if you keep this on the left then you can always read a merge as right-to-left. At the moment it seems to be a bit random. |
|
Preferences tab to set Git name and email |
|
|
Easy access to setting name and email than execute long command in terminal |
Fixed in 963b4d8 |
Badge to display difference between local commits and master |
|
|
Know how many commits need to be pushed to repository. |
|
'Create a branch' button |
|
Available in GitX |
Useful for newbies using Git. |
|
Improve search to filter commits by Author, Subject or Date range |
|
|
Would help in isolating commits should it be required. |
|
File history |
|
Available in GitX |
One could easily view the commit history for a single file especially when rebasing a branch. |
|
Pull button |
|
Available in Sourcetree |
Quick way to get the latest changes! |
|
Push button |
|
Available in Sourcetree |
Push to desired branch without needing to remember repository names. |
|
Commit button |
|
|
Good for newbies learning Git. |
|
Stash changes button |
|
Feature available in GitY |
Quick stashing of changes when switching branches. |
|
Ability to rebase |
|
|
Advanced operation for advanced users! |
|
Keep original timezone info for commits |
|
|
User requested |
|
Remember last selected tabs |
|
|
For ease of usability sakes |
|
Open Terminal with current repository's directory |
|
Available in GitY |
For quick access to command line without having to fumble around cd nests. |
|
Quick pastebin files |
|
|
Helps to show the file quickly to non git users without the diff information. |
|
Bookmarking functionality |
|
The ability to 'bookmark' commits, so that you can easily find back certain commits |
I use gitg when I do code review. Bookmarks could help me easily find the commit I am reviewing |
|
Ignore white-space in diff |
|
Option for ignore white space in diff of files |
Makes navigating diff for code that has white space change a lot for readability (e.g. VHDL) much easier for picking out the true content changes. |
|
No fast forward when merging |
|
Do not do an automatic fast forward when merging in a branch. |
To be able to follow the Git-Flow as described on http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ |
|
Add commit message from command-line |
|
Command line argument for prepopulating the commit message field |
Component-based design: While opening multiple projects from the command line, it would be nice to add the same commit message (ie, issue number) in the message field for each of the components that I have edited to fix a single issue |
|
Show position of HEAD/index when HEAD is in a detached state |
|
When the HEAD is in a detached state it would be nice to show the commit the detached-HEAD is at. It could look like showing which branch is checked out. |
It's hard to know which commit is checked out. Even though "Added gitignore" is checkout out (left image), you can't tell. |
|
Added GPG-sign support |
|
The ability to sign a commit with a given PGP key |
It provides a way give more assurance that a commit is not spoofed. |
|
Add Drop-down list to reuse older commit messages in commit section |
|
Prepopulating the commit message field with last commit message, and the ability to choose from older commit messages |
Very useful if you have to follow a prescribed template with git commits |
|
