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gitextensions
Duplicate About Dialog item into Windows Explorer menu and/or Settings
Feature description
Quite a bit annoying each time to search for a git working copy to just open only the About Dialog to lookup the version or copy the information to clipboard.
Environment
- Git Extensions 3.5.4.12724
- Build 65f01f39982ccb121c4df7d4b00b506939553958
- Git 2.33.1.windows.1
- Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
- .NET Framework 4.8.3761.0
- DPI 96dpi (no scaling)
Quite a bit annoying each time to search for a git working copy to just open only the About Dialog to lookup the version or copy the information to clipboard.
Thank you for your suggestion, but in my opinion your request is going way outside the context of Git Extensions. There are multiple ways of determining what git version is installed on your workstation, including opening a cmd prompt and running git version.
Can you please elaborate how often you search for git version, and why is it needed to be done on such a regular basis?
Quite a bit annoying each time to search for a git working copy to just open only the About Dialog to lookup the version or copy the information to clipboard.
Thank you for your suggestion, but in my opinion your request is going way outside the context of Git Extensions. There are multiple ways of determining what git version is installed on your workstation, including opening a cmd prompt and running
git version. Can you please elaborate how often you search for git version, and why is it needed to be done on such a regular basis?
Not the git version, the GitExtensions version. The GitExtensions is required to open a git working copy to show the Repository Browser window, where the Help option exists to open About Dialog to lookup the info. All this can be shortcutted down to a help item in the Windows Explorer context menu.
A repo doesn't have to be opened for help-> about to work. To get the version info, yes you need to open git extensions.
A repo doesn't have to be opened for help-> about to work. To get the version info, yes you need to open git extensions.
There is no such an option if click not on repo folder.
You have to open git extensions no matter what. So just start the program. You only get fit menu items in a repo which makes sense.
You have to open git extensions no matter what. So just start the program. You only get fit menu items in a repo which makes sense.
Initial request was about Windows Explorer and work from the Windows Explorer. Why I need to open Repository Browser if can just open the Commit window from the Windows Explorer? The same about the help.
Is the folder part of a repo? Yes:. Then you get git extensions menus tied to git repo and you get things that let you manipulate said repo. It makes no sense to have menu options like commit and pull and such in a non repo folder. The about screen is the Git Extensions About screen. Not a folder about screen. It makes 100% sense to me to only have create repo menu when not in a repo folder.
For the users which use only the shell integration, About and Help could be added to the GE submenu in the Explorer - by a volunteer - as we already provide a menuitem for settings here:
Is the folder part of a repo? Yes:. Then you get git extensions menus tied to git repo and you get things that let you manipulate said repo. It makes no sense to have menu options like commit and pull and such in a non repo folder. The about screen is the Git Extensions About screen. Not a folder about screen. It makes 100% sense to me to only have create repo menu when not in a repo folder.
You have to find a repo before open the browser and then open the help which gives 3 steps instead of 1 from already opened Windows Explorer or from Total Commander which can open the Windows Explorer menu.
No. You don't. You hit start. Open git extensions and hit help about. It's not hard.
No. You don't. You hit start. Open git extensions and hit help about. It's not hard.
I am not working in the Windows Start Menu, i am working in the Windows Explorer context menu.
The about info has nothing to do with the folder and everything to do with the information about Git Extensions.
The about info has nothing to do with the folder and everything to do with the information about Git Extensions.
Jesus Christ, this is feature request, WTF?
Some users will see this as overflowing the menus. If this was fully configurable, it would not be an issue. #9701 adds the possibility to completely deactivate the menu only.
Fun Fact: You can run gitex about on the command line, and it will show the About dialog. (You don't need to be in a git repository.)
You could perhaps create a shortcut to run Git Extensions with the about argument.
(Note that I'm on Git Extensions 4.1.0.14868 which is alpha/beta/something and not officially released yet. So: YMMV.)
Pro Tip: Try gitex help to see all possible command line arguments.
My point is you're forcing yourself to do this through explorer when it's simple to just start the program. You are complaining that it's not a repo folder and it makes perfect sense that non repo folders don't show git related menus. So quit making it silly abd instead just start the program if you want the about info.