[Gambas-user] IDE Git Magic ....

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 08/02/2018 à 18:21, Christof Thalhofer a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I am playing around with the daily version 3.10.90 of Gambas from Launchpad.
> 
> As I have all my codebase in Git I see now, that the Gambas IDE does a
> lot of magic by itself. If I add a new module/class it automagically
> adds it to the staging area of the current Git project.
> 
> Sorry, but I do not like that! Never! I want to compose my commits in
> the staging area by myself and do not want to have to throw out things
> that the IDE added there only because of the fact that I have added a
> file ...
> 
> For me this is annoying and in my opinion it is also against the
> philosophy behind Git. Because: Git encourages the user to do
> fine-granular commits. For that the staging area exists, so that one can
> pick only those changes out of the working dir, which belong to the
> current commit.
> 
> In the current state the Gambas IDE is counteracting this.
> 
> Is there the possibility to switch that behaviour off generally (for all
> projects on my computer)? I need that badly.
> 
> But generally: In my opinion it should be off by default, because it
> leads to bad behaviour of not so skilled programmers.
> 
> 
> Alles Gute
> 
> Christof Thalhofer
> 

It's not easy to find a simple automatic behaviour with git. The logic 
behind is that the IDE add new files automatically, but that you have to 
commit as soon as possible if you want little commits.

I agree that you should be able to disable the automatic management if 
you want to do that yourself. By project maybe.

But I don't want to make it off by default, or I make the default an 
option, but then the default default would be enabling automatic management.

-- 
Benoît Minisini