Re: [egit-dev] Support for rebase interactive

[Sascha Vogt <FunkyFish@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Tobias,

thanks for the links, mockups and explanations. That sounds great. And
it already looks quite ready (from a GUI perspective).

Waiting for monday :)
Greetings
-Sascha-

Am 24.07.2013 14:01, schrieb Pfeifer, Tobias:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently working on a view for interactive rebase in EGit. There
> has already been a discussion on the mailing list about how a rebase
> interactive could look like (found an archive here:
> http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/wFRgJzOZY6EspKpJhsXk).
> 
> Regarding this discussion I decided to approach the rebase
> interactive with a new view for the following reasons: -A modal
> Dialog would block the UI, this can be really annoying since the
> "planning phase" may be a long lasting task where I do not want to
> have my UI blocked. -As mentioned in the discussion the HistoryView
> is already pretty complex -It would be hard to distinguish between
> what would be the result of the rebase (i.e. what is the plan) and
> what is the current respository state in the HistoryView -IMO the
> HistoryView is responsible for displaying the current history of the
> repository. It might be confusing for beginners if we mix
> responsibilities here.
> 
> See the screenshots of the current state attached to this mail (note
> that unlike in c git the "planned steps" are not shown in reverse
> order in this view - I'm not quite sure on how to display the
> "steps"). I've planned to push a working version of my current work
> as an early draft by Monday.
> 
> comments, recommendations, feedback is appreciated.
>