desktop: Unable to change Label of Local Repo
Please summarize the issue in the title, and then use the template below to fill out the details so we can reproduce the issue on our end.
Description
When I clone a repo multiple times it has the same name within the application even though each entry has different local folders. I should be able to set a name so I can easily distinguish between each duplicate. You ask why am I duplicating them? Because I use a different tool to upload changes to the server since I don’t get direct server access to use the git command line tool to just update the repo on the server.
Version
What version of GitHub Desktop are you running? This is displayed under the
About GitHub Desktop menu item. If you are running from source, include
the commit by running git rev-parse HEAD from your local repository.
GitHub Desktop version: 0.5.9
The operating system you are running on may also help with reproducing the issue:
- If you are on macOS, launch
About This Macand write down the OS version listed. - If you are on Windows, open
Command Promptand attach the output of this command*:cmd /c ver
OS version: Mac OS Sierra 10.12.5
Steps to Reproduce
- Clone a repo.
- Clone it again into a new folder.
If the issue involves a specific public repository, including the information about that repository will make it is easier to recreate the issue.
If you think screenshots or a GIF recording will help demonstrate the issue better, feel free to add them here.
Expected behavior: Change the label that shows in the application for the repo.
Actual behavior: No way to change the repo label.
Reproduces how often: Every time.
Logs
There may be some relevant information in log files generated by GitHub Desktop:
- If you are on macOS, attach the most recent log file from:
~/Library/Application Support/GitHub Desktop/logs/*.desktop.production.log - If you are on Windows, attach the most recent log file from:
%APPDATA%\\GitHub Desktop\\logs\\*.desktop.production.log
The log files are organized by date, so see if anything was generated for today’s date.
Full Log Pasted
2017-05-22T18:02:36.418Z - info: Opt in reported. 2017-05-23T16:02:20.192Z - info: Stats reported. 2017-06-01T21:43:34.128Z - info: Stats reported. 2017-06-07T18:26:51.969Z - info: Stats reported.
Additional Information
Any additional information, configuration or data that might be necessary to reproduce the issue.
This is probably a feature request but maybe I’ve missed something? I’ve been using SourceTree for a while now but my company is switching from BitBucket to Github Enterprise. I haven’t been able to get SourceTree to work with Github Enterprise with SSH due to authentication via 3rd party service (Okta).
Happy to provide any other information.
tags: duplicate repository name label repo same two
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 7 years ago
- Reactions: 18
- Comments: 22 (10 by maintainers)
Feedback from https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/4576:
There’s a temporary workaround, although not recommended at all, is to edit the renderer.js file directly in the installed GithubDesktop, to show the full path instead of the folder name.
It should be in c:/Users/[username]/AppData/Local/GithubDesktop/app1.4.2/resources/app/renderer.js Look for the text “s.HighlightText,{text:e.name,highlight:this.props.matches.title” and replace e.name with e.path.
Obviously, I’d discourage this unless you know what you’re doing, because renderer.js is minimized, so it’s not easy to edit, and one mistake and you’ll break your app.
If you’re compiling from source, you can also change repository-list-item.tsx, line 120 ( text={repository.name} ).
A little bit more info for those interested: the indexedDB, that has the repositories list, doesn’t have a name field. So there’s no label/name/field that can be edited. The app “gets” the name directly from the repository path. I’m guessing that’s why this feature hasn’t been added, because it’d require some work (like adding new fields in the db, a ui to edit it, etc).
@steveward I think an improvement with less impact may be to display the path name over/under the repo label in tiny grey text, instead of as a tooltip. Additionally, maybe this can be added as an option.
@varkor you’re gonna have to ask one of the maintainers here about what they’d like to do with the feedback - I’m no longer active on this project.
@tierninho: I very much agree this is still a big issue. Hovering over a repo takes several seconds before the tooltip pops up. This is a frustrating amount of time to wait to distinguish between two different repos with the same repo name. I would love if repos with the same name could be distinguished by their directory names. I don’t think this issue (or https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/6460) should have been closed.
Thanks @innocuo, appreciate the color on this and for the recommendation not to do the workaround unless you’re really advanced. 😄
There are several issues we’re trying to look at holistically related to the grouping and presentation/disambiguation of repos. We’re going through all the
future-proposallabeled issues currently, so I don’t expect anything to happen on this in the near term, but it’s definitely not lost on us and we totally agree that being able to visually understand which similarly-named repo you’re looking at would be a nice improvement from where we are today.