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Bug 337747

Summary: Push To from History view
Product: [Technology] EGit Reporter: Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt>
Component: UIAssignee: Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: angvoz.dev, daniel_megert, markus.duft, matthias.sohn, remy.suen
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 2.0-M2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:

Description Alex Blewitt CLA 2011-02-21 13:03:58 EST 
The history view is great for stepping through the prior history of the code. However, it would also be an ideal place to allow you to push changes to a remote system, instead of having to have it as a branch checked out locally first. For example, you could push an unmerged set of branch data to a Gerrit review system without having to be on that branch as well. Or you could use it to push the HEAD to a different branch (or on a backup server, or GitHub, which you may maintain).

You can of course do this by pushing from the repositories view, but this only pushes the HEAD. Being able to push from the review would permit you to push other changes as well. In other words, thsi would allow you to do the graphical equivalent of:

git push github HEAD^2:untested
git push backup master~4:backup
git push gerrit 8e50211:refs/for/master

Right now, you'd have to check that out to push it for a non-tagged release, as well as filling in the source refspec manually.
Comment 1 Markus Duft CLA 2012-01-26 07:30:29 EST 
i have proposed a fix for this:

 http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#/c/4999/

it probably needs some more love to make it great, bu still it already works
Comment 2 Matthias Sohn CLA 2012-04-02 05:33:37 EDT 
merged as 82b60e5aff1bd4ee9e8413806ab491d4da4302fa
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2012-04-20 08:46:33 EDT 
Verified in 2.0.0.201204191915.