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Bug 344500 - [client] git log and git remote should be user-controlled variants of the same page
Summary: [client] git log and git remote should be user-controlled variants of the sam...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Orion
Classification: ECD
Component: Client (show other bugs)
Version: 0.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 0.2   Edit
Assignee: Szymon Brandys CLA
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Reported: 2011-05-02 14:01 EDT by Susan McCourt CLA
Modified: 2011-09-01 11:42 EDT (History)
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Description Susan McCourt CLA 2011-05-02 14:01:46 EDT 
I find it confusing that there are two separate commands (git log and git remote) for what is basically the same thing, browsing the commit history of a repo. Seems like we should just have a git log page and depending on where you open it from, it figures out which branch you are referring to, but allows you to switch to another one if that's not what you meant.

Opening from navigator opens the local branch.
Opening from the clones list opens the remote tracking branch.

You could switch branches from the log page.

I think boris was suggesting similar stuff in bug 339722 comment 13.
Comment 1 Susan McCourt CLA 2011-05-25 11:29:09 EDT 
wherever we show the branch (and let the user switch it), we could also reinforce what scope they are looking at.  That would probably be enough for bug 347095
Comment 2 Susan McCourt CLA 2011-06-07 12:26:12 EDT 
Ideally, switching between the local repo and a remote tracking branch would not require a page load and would feel about the same as switching locations in the navigator.

This would let me see incoming/outgoing changes with the push of a button and no loss of context.
Comment 3 Szymon Brandys CLA 2011-06-09 08:47:32 EDT 
What I am trying to do is to show both incoming and outgoing changes on one view without a need to switch between modes.
Comment 4 Szymon Brandys CLA 2011-06-10 07:19:14 EDT 
Will continue during RC2.
Comment 5 Szymon Brandys CLA 2011-06-15 10:09:24 EDT 
Fixed.