git merge?

[arcxne]

Hey there, I'm loving gitu so far! Just wanted to ask if git merge could be implemented. Maybe keybind 'm' could work?

Thanks and best wishes!

[altsem]

It should be! And relatively easy.

Could be a good first task for anyone interested in implementing :) A lot of code would be similar to the rebase module I imagine.

[arcxne]

Actually, could I try implementing it myself this weekend? This project is really cool and I want to try contributing to it, and I can learn Rust at the same time :)

[altsem]

Feel free to give it a go and open a PR/draft. I'd try help out if you get stuck!

[arcxne]

Thanks for the reassurance! I'm trying to workout the file structure so far, but I don't really understand how things are organised. Is there anywhere I can read on this? Or maybe you could help briefly explain the structure?

I think I got way too ahead of myself when I decided to take on this challenge, but that's where the learning happens!

[arcxne]

Seems like the bulk of it is in /src/ops! I'll create a merge.rs file there and get to work on it :desktop_computer:

[altsem]

That seems about right! You could add a keybind in the default config and see where it breaks from there. There's a bunch of tests being ran if you do 'cargo test' too.

[arcxne]

Current plan:

• if uncommitted/unstashed changes, warn user and abort
• assume current branch to be target branch. make this known to user (next bullet)
• ask user for branch to be merged. The prompt will be something like "Branch to merge into : "
• if any conflicts, let user know, User can choose to
  • resolve conflicts (opens git mergetool?)
  • abort and go back to pre-merge state (hence why committing/stashing is req) (git merge --abort)
  • (i have no idea what git merge --continue does but i think it's useless?)
• merge changes and open commit msg panel (latter is alr in gitu)
• commit!

Should an option to run merge without committing (git merge --no-commit) be added? Or maybe instead of forcing a commit msg panel, user can simply be notified that merge is ready to be committed and manual commit wld be req.

EDIT: Was trying out the rebase cmd and it's seems much better to follow for merge too. So I might not do the above, will see

[arcxne]

That seems about right! You could add a keybind in the default config and see where it breaks from there. There's a bunch of tests being ran if you do 'cargo test' too.

Sure! I'll try that out. On the topic of tests, may I know what tests are exactly and how they are supposed to be used? I see test folders in diff repos but don't really know how they help in 'testing'.

[altsem]

I'm a bit busy this weekend but, I'd try sit down and see how Magit behaves, and try replicate as much as it makes sense :) The tests try simulate real usage to try keep bugs away. I can cook some tests for you at the end, don't have to worry about it if you don't want.

[arcxne]

Ah, that explanation about tests makes sense.

Don't worry about me, I'll try my best!

[arcxne]

Hey there, been working on and off on this. I realise that I should have asked this earlier, but how am I to test out what I have done so far? Even better if I can do so without overriding the existing gitu version. Will make test do the trick? I'm getting 422 errors with it currently 😅

Edit: cargo run --release seems to do the trick

[altsem]

Hey @arcxne.

It's a bit hard without more specifics, but I suspect some of the test snapshots may need updating if you add a new entry in the menu. Have a look at "cargo insta": https://insta.rs/docs/cli/

I would copy the existing test, and start from there: https://github.com/altsem/gitu/blob/master/src/tests/rebase.rs