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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon gitpod-io

Create new branch from Projects/Branches page

Open mbrevoort opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

As a user, I find it frustrating that I can't easily create a new branch from the Gitpod web UI.

Describe the behaviour you'd like

  1. Navigate to Projects -> Branches page
  2. Obvious call to action "Create Branch" or "New Branch"
  3. Click "Create Branch" and a new git branch is created and appears in the list of branches.
  4. I can the click existing "New Workspace" button.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Alternatively I can:

  • Go to the Github UI to create a new branch, come back to Gitpod UI branches page...
  • Create a workspace and open on main branch, use the terminal to create a new git branch, stop workspace, go to Gitpod UI branches page...
  • Git on my machine terminal

Additional context

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mbrevoort avatar May 20 '22 22:05 mbrevoort

Additionally, and this may be true already, but when branching from main, the prebuild could just be copied rather than built anew.

mbrevoort avatar Jun 13 '22 15:06 mbrevoort

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

stale[bot] avatar Sep 21 '22 02:09 stale[bot]

No stale bot, no.

mbrevoort avatar Sep 21 '22 13:09 mbrevoort

It would be great if there was a way to do this via the deep link URL as well something like https://gitpod.io/?action=create-branch#https://github.com/mbrevoort/my-repo

mbrevoort avatar Sep 21 '22 13:09 mbrevoort

@mbrevoort Alternatively, we could offer users more control on the workspace start page so that even if the branch does not exist they could ad-hoc create the branch and start a workspace in one click as long as they have permissions to create branches on the repository.

Currently, we show an error page with a nudge which is not so useful and an action button that throws the users back to square one, see screenshot below.

Opening a new workspace for a branch that does not exist
Screenshot 2022-09-21 at 4 57 42 PM (2)

gtsiolis avatar Sep 21 '22 14:09 gtsiolis

Note: Currently, I do this by going to GitHub, making a branch in the UI, then using the browser extension to open that branch (granted, you have to leave Gitpod) and it's probably not well known to many users.

Aside: I also wonder where we draw the line when re-implementing GitHub UX into Gitpod.

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loujaybee avatar Sep 22 '22 12:09 loujaybee