Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-gui: fix problem with gui.maxfilesdisplayed

From: Pat Thoyts <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:32:43 +0000

Csaba Kiraly <[email-masked]> writes:

>gui.maxfilesdisplayed (added in dd6451f9c7c5a36d3006231b618ac6da06c7c7b4)
>was applied brute force on the file list in alphabetic order. As a result,
>files that had modifications might not be displayed by git-gui. Even
>worse, files that are already in the index might not be displayed, which
>makes git-gui hard to use in some workflows.
>
>This fix changes the meaning of gui.maxfilesdisplayed, making it a soft
>limit that only applies to "_O" files, i.e. files that are "Untracked,
>not staged".
>
>Signed-off-by: Csaba Kiraly <[email-masked]>
>---
> git-gui.sh | 21 ++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
>index 27ce0e3..0e4b05a 100755
>--- a/git-gui.sh
>+++ b/git-gui.sh
>@@ -1965,20 +1965,22 @@ proc display_all_files {} {
> 
> 	set to_display [lsort [array names file_states]]
> 	set display_limit [get_config gui.maxfilesdisplayed]
>-	if {[llength $to_display] > $display_limit} {
>-		if {!$files_warning} {
>-			# do not repeatedly warn:
>-			set files_warning 1
>-			info_popup [mc "Displaying only %s of %s files." \
>-				$display_limit [llength $to_display]]
>-		}
>-		set to_display [lrange $to_display 0 [expr {$display_limit-1}]]
>-	}
>+	set displayed 0
> 	foreach path $to_display {
> 		set s $file_states($path)
> 		set m [lindex $s 0]
> 		set icon_name [lindex $s 1]
> 
>+		if {$displayed > $display_limit && [string index $m 1] eq {O} } {
>+			if {!$files_warning} {
>+				# do not repeatedly warn:
>+				set files_warning 1
>+				info_popup [mc "Display limit (gui.maxfilesdisplayed = %s) reached, not showing all %s files." \
>+					$display_limit [llength $to_display]]
>+			}
>+			continue
>+		}
>+
> 		set s [string index $m 0]
> 		if {$s ne {U} && $s ne {_}} {
> 			display_all_files_helper $ui_index $path \
>@@ -1993,6 +1995,7 @@ proc display_all_files {} {
> 		if {$s ne {_}} {
> 			display_all_files_helper $ui_workdir $path \
> 				$icon_name $s
>+			incr displayed
> 		}
> 	}

I found a way to test this and it seems fine. The message box points out
the new controlling config variable which is good. Applied to the master
branch.

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