danvk
Stage/Unstage/commit diffs from browser
Check out GitX; it has not been updated since 2009 AFAICT but I use it as a pretty handy diff viewer / commit-creation tool. Notable features:
- stage/unstage diffs
- per file
- per logical diff chunk
- per line
- type commit messages / create commits
- bonus: ammend commits
- somewhat hackily implemented / buggy
GitX has some annoying issues:
- no way to turn off OSX spell-checker by default (always turns on at start up), leading to many DYACs in commit msgs
- sometimes mysteriously spins with 100% CPU in background when it shouldn't be doing anything
- generally kind of slow
- could use some hot-key love
Some of GitX combined with your vision for webdiff could be really killer: better diffing (e.g. inline diff highlighting), syntax highlighting, general web-interface goodness, reflecting changes on disk in realtime, allowing inline editing?!!! so many possibilities.
Would love to port my existing GitX flow (stage/unstage/commit) to webdiff to start, though.
It might make sense for this to be a separate process from git-webdiff, which is just a simple wrapper around the git-agnostic webdiff tool.
The main things needed to make it work would be:
- A way to select parts of the diff.
- Some notion of what's staged/unstaged.
- Callbacks in the server to make the commits.
This would be an undertaking, but I don't think it would be wildly difficult.
cool.. some kind of git-http server that exposes an API to perform some obvious git operations, perhaps?
we should look into how GitX does things like staging specific hunks. i guess we could start with simple file-level staging, it's pretty obvious how to do that.
another component could be Watchman-ing your .git directory to feed changes to the UI in realtime?