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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon oxygenxml

Display diff in a preview pane upon selecting it

Open joewiz opened this issue 7 years ago • 0 comments

Another suggestion borrowed from Git GUI clients such as GitHub Desktop and Tower:

Current behavior

To view a diff, the user must double-click on a changed file in the Working Copy view, which opens a new window with the diff. Then the user must close or move this window before being able to return to the main window

Proposal

Upon selecting (with a single click) a changed file in the Working Copy view, a preview of the diff should appear in a pane. This would allow a user to quickly preview the changes in a file before deciding whether to stage it.

A future enhancement would be to select lines within a diff to stage.

Here is screenshot taken from GitHub Desktop showing how selecting a changed file displays a preview of the diff:

screen shot 2017-08-22 at 11 29 21 am

joewiz avatar Aug 22 '17 15:08 joewiz