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Currently launching synchronization from 'Team' menu is quite painful because it requires lots of clicks in sync-dialog where we need to fill in what branches we want to synchronize. Even when the default selected options fits our needs we need to click 'OK' button or hit enter to close this dialog and start synchronization. My current idea is to add additional option (or options) for most common synchronization configuration. IMHO apart from 'Synchronize...' option we should also have 'Synchronize Working Tree' or 'Synchronize Workspace' with will be only showing local uncommitted changes. Another such predefined action should be something like 'Synchronize with remote tracking branch' (if current branch tracks one of remote branches). Here we should show all commits that was made locally and all incoming commits (maybe we should by default activate git change set model ?)
I've already implement 'Synchronize Workspace' action, the changeset can be found here: http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,3237
I think that Matthias Sohn in his comment (#4) on bug 344888 suggest almost perfect solution for launching synchronization from Team menu. From my side I would like to add an extra option 'Synchronize Workspace' so that the most common use case have the shortest path. I this case user don't need to wait for nested menu and then select current branch or HEAD. So the 'synchronize section' in Team menu would look like this: Synchronize Workspace Synchronize Workspace with | --- master --- foo --- bar --- origin/master --- origin/stable-0.12 --- origin/stable-0.11 --- tags/v0.12.1 --- tags/v0.12.0 --- tags/v0.10.1 --- Other... Where 'Other...' option will show 'synchronization wizard'. Additionally I think that we should launch 'Fetch from Upstream' action just before synchronization. This behavior could be disabled in preferences (but by default it should be enabled IMHO) also we need inform user that such configuration option exists when fetch action fails. I think that we also need to inform user that he didn't configure default upstream repository and therefore we cannot fetch changes before synchronization.
What do you think about idea described in above comment Kevin?
My preference is to have a Synchronize Workspace and a Synchronize with... menu option in the Team sub-menu. The Synchronize with... would bring up the wizard pre-filled in with the selected elements checked and HEAD set as the source. I think the menu options for synchronize with other branches/tags should go under the Compare With menu (similar to CVS).
This change[1] adds 'Synchronize Workspace' action. I'll add synchronize-wizard based custom synchronization in separate change [1] http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,3237
I've pushed a draft commit presenting how 'Synchronize...' submenu entry can look like: http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,3421 Any thoughts and feedback are welcome!
(In reply to comment #6) > I've pushed a draft commit presenting how 'Synchronize...' submenu entry can > look like: > http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,3421 > > Any thoughts and feedback are welcome! http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,3421 has been merged as 42569d92e96175f191719c276982f66e8fc7f7bc
Can we close it?
(In reply to comment #8) > Can we close it? Let's close it. Please open new requests for any changes.
