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Bug 354838

Summary: swap order of branch and path decoration in Git Repositories view
Product: [Technology] EGit Reporter: Steffen Pingel <steffen.pingel>
Component: UIAssignee: Kevin Sawicki <kevin>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: b.muskalla, matthias.sohn
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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New decoration order none

Description Steffen Pingel CLA 2011-08-16 10:29:33 EDT 
The path decoration in the repositories view takes up a lot of horizontal space. If the view is narrow it pushes the branch label out of the visible area hiding useful information (see screenshot)

Once a repository is cloned or imported the path never changes while I find myself frequently checking out branches. Knowing which branch is checked out is much more important to me than the repository location which almost never changes after a repository is cloned.

I suggest to swap the path and branch decoration.
Comment 1 Steffen Pingel CLA 2011-08-16 10:33:02 EDT 
Created attachment 201578 [details]
repositories view
Comment 2 Kevin Sawicki CLA 2011-09-19 14:53:41 EDT 
Proposed fix pushed to: http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,4267
Comment 3 Kevin Sawicki CLA 2011-09-19 14:54:37 EDT 
Created attachment 203622 [details]
New decoration order
Comment 4 Matthias Sohn CLA 2011-09-20 18:21:24 EDT 
merged as 7c44cb376882c0545bea9ffebc2cb9ac0a3eb32a