Re: [orion-dev] command line/console in Orion

[Susan Franklin McCourt <susan_franklin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

did anyone ever open a bug on this?
I couldn't find it so I opened one. (please dup it if I was just being clueless). [1]

This has always seemed like an interesting feature to me, but it hasn't been near and dear to my heart. Until today. I used to think, "I imagine Orion UI could be very frustrating for a git expert." Even within the team, I think many folks are running local host and using the command line. I have tried to self-host on orion.eclipse.org and keep my stuff in the cloud as a way of remaining honest about our UI. Because I only started using git briefly before we had enough Orion UI implemented, my workflows up to now have been fairly limited, mostly within the Orion team and my personal github repos, and so the UI does a pretty good job.

But today I have tried to commit about 6 contributions from other folks, and it's been frustrating. Especially frustrating when you know that there is a commit out there that you want to cherry pick, but you have to fumble through the Orion UI to find it. This is the first day in months I've wanted to give up on the cloud, install localhost Orion and use the git command line.

I opened another bug to discuss the contributor workflow in particular, because I really would rather not have to drop to the command line for the most common cases.... [2]
But I'm starting to get a real feeling for how important this feature is for folks on other open source projects to adopt Orion as their IDE.

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=369608
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=369591

Andrew Eisenberg ---01/19/2012 09:07:26 PM--->> > How will you deal with UI view updates if command line operations modify >> > the

From: Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: John J Barton <johnjbarton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Orion developer discussions <orion-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 01/19/2012 09:07 PM
Subject: Re: [orion-dev] command line/console in Orion
Sent by: orion-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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>> > How will you deal with UI view updates if command line operations modify
>> > the
>> > data presented in one or more web pages?
>>
>> How does Orion deal with these kinds of updates right now?  I don't
>> think it needs to be handled any differently from how Orion handles
>> multiple pages right now.  My understanding is that not much is
>> currently done with multiple pages.
>
>
> Sorry I confused the issues by saying 'more'.
>
> A concrete case: on the git page you issue git commands but the UI does not
> reflect your command results. Or does it?

I don't know how things work precisely now, but I could imagine that
the git UI listens registers itself to the git service and is notified
when a change happens.  To keep things simple, the git UI could be
entirely refreshed.

I'm not saying that this is how things have to happen or even if this
is a good idea, but this does seem like a reasonable possibility.
Perhaps someone with more understanding of Orion would have a better
suggestion.
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