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Bug 313862

Summary:

PushWizard appears unnecessary complex

Product:

[Technology] EGit

Reporter:

Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel>

Component:

Assignee:

Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>

Status:

CLOSED DUPLICATE

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

b.muskalla, ekke, Lars.Vogel, matthias.sohn, matthiasheinrich, milesparker, remy.suen, robin, stefan.lay

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Bug Depends on:

Bug Blocks:

312586

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Push Dialog	none

Description Lars Vogel

2010-05-21 02:58:35 EDT

The EGit push dialog seems a bit to complex. Would it be possible to use labels which are more descriptive as they are now.

For example the following labels bear no meaning for me:

Source ref 
Destination ref
Add Spec - What is a spec?
Add delete ref specfication
Remote ref to delete

There *must* be better names then these... ;-)

These fields I get I I suggest to rename them:

Add all branches spec -> All all branches
Add all tags spec -> All all tags

Comment 1 Matthias Sohn

2010-05-21 03:32:56 EDT

- first this needs some documentation, I will care for that soon since we will update the documentation for the upcoming Helios release
- for the simplification discussion have a look at bug 312586, hence linking it to this one
- as a first step to simplify push and fetch Mathias recently implemented http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,715. Maybe you want to give this a try using a recent nightly ? Go to the repositories view as described here http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Configuration_of_remote_Repositories, select a remote and from the context menu create a push or fetch and configure it (ok, here you still see the offending labels). Then you can push and fetch from the context menu of these new entries. This also needs proper documentation.

Comment 2 Lars Vogel

2010-05-21 03:59:02 EDT

I'm using the latest nightly build. Perhaps this change is not yet in the build?

Comment 3 Matthias Sohn

2010-05-31 20:06:14 EDT

I added some documentation for the Push Wizard here :
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Pushing_to_other_Repositories 

Direct Push is described here :
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Direct_Fetch_and_Push_Support

Comment 4 Lars Vogel

2010-06-07 08:44:08 EDT

Created attachment 171257 [details]
Push Dialog 

Hi Matthias,

in the latest nightly build the push dialog does not yet contain the configured remote repository (see screenshot). 

Best regards, Lars

Comment 5 Miles Parker

2010-12-30 16:34:53 EST

I look forward to taking a look as there are a lot of changes and I'm unfamiliar w/ Gerrit it's hard for me to understand exactly what's happening, but it does sound like a great deal of progress. One suggestion re:
"What is still missing is some smart way of editing the Push/FetchRefSpecs, perhaps some buttons like "Suggest Gerrit pattern" or such should be available..." That doesn't sound to me like a simplification. ;D One thing that P2 does that I think works quite well is to use the hyper-link style for "alternative things you can do that are related to the current task". For example, when you're n the feature install dialog you can click on "what is already installed".

Comment 6 Matthias Sohn

2011-01-13 05:29:47 EST

(In reply to comment #4)
> Created attachment 171257 [details]
> Push Dialog 
> 
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> in the latest nightly build the push dialog does not yet contain the configured
> remote repository (see screenshot). 

yep, since this change is still in review you have to build that locally, our attempt to get hudson builds also for changes pending in review using gerrit-hudson plugin did not yet succeed.

Comment 7 Robin Stocker

2013-09-27 11:10:36 EDT

Please see bug 312586 comment 16 for pointers for further improvements.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 312586 ***