Using Wappler's GIT

[aschoijett]

Hi,

I’m trying to wrap my head around GIT and realized that I don’t understand the difference in Wappler’s GIT UI between right-click “Checkout” on a particular branch and selecting that branch from the drop down menu on the top-left.

Can someone explain that to me?

Also, is there a reason why the Merge option in the right click menu only appears when I click on the rectangle with the name of the branch and not on the line that I want to merge? Is that a minor bug or a feature?

Many thanks in advance,

Alex

[patrick]

@aschoijett

I’m trying to wrap my head around GIT and realized that I don’t understand the difference in Wappler’s GIT UI between right-click “Checkout” on a particular branch and selecting that branch from the drop down menu on the top-left.

A checkout doesn't move you to a branch, the menu on top does. The checkout is handy when you want to restore to an older version, it gets all the files as it was on that specific commit. You can restore files this way or test an old version from your app.

@aschoijett

Also, is there a reason why the Merge option in the right click menu only appears when I click on the rectangle with the name of the branch and not on the line that I want to merge? Is that a minor bug or a feature?

It would indeed be more logical if the merge option would be available on the whole line, will check if that is possible.

[aschoijett]

Thank you Patrick.