Ignore dialog needed

Bug #524785 reported by Greg
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Bazaar Explorer
Fix Released
Medium
Alexander Belchenko
QBzr
Fix Released
Medium
Alexander Belchenko

Bug Description

I'd like some UI to assist with flagging files and/or folders as ignored.
This 'wishlist' feature somewhat relates to bug #416352

Since programmers are the end user of this application, the local and global ignore files are relatively intuitive, however one goal for a GUI is to eliminate the need to enter commands or hand edit configuration files.

So I suggest that from an appropriate place in the current UI such as beside a file in the 'unversioned' list, and/or the file tree in the bottom right window, a 'ignore' option be present.

This option may expose a dialog which will allow the user to specify things like:
Ignore this file
Ignore all files with this extension
Ignore all files in this folder
Ignore all folders with this name
Ignore all files with this wildcard match + include sub folders
Apply to all projects

That kind of thing, I won't bother showing an example implementation but it would expose the full usefulness of the .bzrignore files.

Note that when a user first uses Bazaar, the first things they do are configure ignores and configure diff/merge applications. So although this is a minor and rarely used feature, it is discovered as part of the introduction experience.

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Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy) wrote :

I agree this is important and it's high on the TODO list. See http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/BzrExplorer/Roadmap.

Changed in bzr-explorer:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Ignore UI
+ Ignore dialog needed
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Wayne Werner (srilyk) wrote :

This is a usability suggestion

Currently in the "Working Tree" window when you right click on a file it gives you useful options like "revert", etc. That would be a great spot to add an "Ignore" option

Changed in qbzr:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: added: qignore
tags: added: treewidget
Changed in qbzr:
assignee: nobody → Alexander Belchenko (bialix)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in qbzr:
milestone: none → 0.22.1
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in bzr-explorer:
milestone: none → 1.2.2
assignee: nobody → Alexander Belchenko (bialix)
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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