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Bug 348196

Summary: Dialogs for switching to new branch are confusing
Product: [Technology] EGit Reporter: Tobias Oberlies <t-oberlies>
Component: UIAssignee: Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: P3 CC: matthias.sohn
Version: 0.12   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows Vista   
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Description Tobias Oberlies CLA 2011-06-03 08:02:30 EDT 
When I choose "Switch to..." > "New Branch..." I would expect a similar functionality as "git checkout -b" in native git, i.e.
1) to be asked for the name of the new branch
2) optionally be able to specify the start-point of the new branch

However the "Create a local branch" dialog that is triggered by "New Branch..." puzzeled me. It requires me to specify point 2, when I was expecting to be able to type the name of the new branch somewhere. I found the filter field, but this only made things worse.

Knowing that writing an intuitive IU doesn't come for free, I am still wondering why you show the "Create a local branch" dialog at all. IMHO the the "Switch to"/"New Branch" action should directly jump to the "Create a new branch" dialog, with current HEAD pre-selected as source branch.
Comment 1 Matthias Sohn CLA 2011-06-29 05:17:55 EDT 
Fixed by b9c5c1358047ee1e527eb806868e5998f3596483