feature request: ability to edit files via web
Created by: kai-rn
- just like on github.
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Created by: kai-rn
you could get in a situation like this: when you are at home you push some code in your project and go away for a walk, or shopping, whatever. and then you realize that you've made some little but terrible mistake in your code and if your collegues/clients/whoever will pull that update from git it will be epic fail. imagine that you do not carry netbook/mobile/whatever-with-git-installed with yourself:
- you could call or sms everyone with "DO NOT UPDATE!!" and pray that no one will update; or
- you could fix that mistake fast with your mobile via web interface
By Administrator on 2012-06-26T13:51:00 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-06-26T13:51:00 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: dzaporozhets
@kairn Imagine situation when you use branches, Merge Requests, code review, tests. I've made a lot of mistakes but never pushed a broken code to stable branch. Trying to do a quickfix often cause more bugs.
Ex: Do you trust a quickfix done by developer in hurry by Web Editor from some beer pub at 11pm :)
By Administrator on 2012-06-26T13:58:03 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-06-26T13:58:03 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: kai-rn
@randx take a look at this example (was deleted on github but still could be found in google): http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=commit+%22a047be85247755cdbe0acce6%22&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 i was in situation like this, so
Do you trust a quickfix done by developer in hurry by Web Editor from some beer pub at 11pm
yes, i surely will :)
By Administrator on 2012-06-26T13:59:49 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-06-26T13:59:49 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: dzaporozhets
@kairn I dont want to do it cause its useless for me. If @vsizov does it - I'll accept PR
By Administrator on 2012-06-26T14:13:06 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-06-26T14:13:06 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: stfalcon
Minor bugs in html/css/php/js/etc easier to fix into web editor.
I have more than 50 of repositories and this feature really saves my time :)
By Administrator on 2012-06-26T17:53:48 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-06-26T17:53:48 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: michelsalib
I can also give you my use case: One of my trustworthy collaborator would like to be able to work on the wording of localisation files. It is no code at all with a very limited impact. Unfortunately he doesn't have the knowledge to know how to use git (fetch, rebase, commit ,pull...) and it is not his job. So I think we have some legitimate use cases for that... but I also understand that it is not an easy feature to implement...
By Administrator on 2012-07-02T13:23:30 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-07-02T13:23:30 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: stfalcon
By Administrator on 2012-07-11T17:45:38 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-07-11T17:45:38 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: rahul286
+1
I find this feature very helpful. Help me correct readme files specially at last minute (typos & other trivial stuff which doesn't break anything)
I know this nifty feature will take plenty of efforts (and that is why I find it only on Github.com)
By Administrator on 2012-08-05T14:48:54 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-08-05T14:48:54 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: rahul286
@kairn this is resource you were pointing to https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commit/a047be85247755cdbe0acce6#diff-1 :D
By Administrator on 2012-08-05T14:48:44 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-08-05T14:48:44 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: stfalcon
@vsizov оч. сложно сделать?
By Administrator on 2012-08-13T15:14:46 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-08-13T15:14:46 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: espenhogbakk
@vsizov Are you working on this at the moment? I am interrested in the same thing, and figured i'll try implementing it, and maybe send of a pull request. But if you already started the work, maybe you could make your development branch/fork available (or point me too it if it is) so I could pitch in and help?
By Administrator on 2012-09-06T11:14:02 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-09-06T11:14:02 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: rahul286
@vsizov how is the progress? I guess that you have already started :-)
By Administrator on 2012-09-06T14:38:17 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-09-06T14:38:17 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: Philzen
-1 for the idea of editing files in the frontend
But: Very often i am missing a function to upload and version control a new version of a file via gitlab directly, whilst maintaining a permanent link to that file. In my projects there is some technical documentation and/or sample files that we would like to version but also share with other users that don't have git knowledge or access to it - and training them to install and use git just so they can update this file once or twice a year just isn't a viable option.
By Administrator on 2012-10-16T19:22:07 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-10-16T19:22:07 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: justfalter
-1
- putting together a web-based editor seems like a serious undertaking that seems to be outside the scope of something like Gitlab.
- Character-encoding issues are the first thing that jumps into my mind as an issue...
- The security implications of this are pretty huge to me. Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks on source-code editing pages?
- Just because it's something that could be done doesn't mean it's something that should be done.
Wouldn't something like this work better as a plugin for Gitlab rather than built in to the core?
If this really does get integrated into Gitlab, then I think it should be easily disabled through a configuration file for anyone who doesn't want to use it.
By Administrator on 2012-10-18T17:34:46 (imported from GitLab project)
By Administrator on 2012-10-18T17:34:46 (imported from GitLab)
