Feature request: 'Discard selected changes' in the context menu

1. Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. If you have multiple modified files, but for some reason you want to discard changes on a subset of these files, you have no option. Context menu provides either Discard changes, which discards changes in the file you right-clicked, or Discard all changes, which discards all currently discovered changes. Both options ignore your selections made by checking check-boxes.

2. Describe the solution you’d like

   • Add a context menu item Discard selected changes (or any other appropriate clear name), which performs discard operations on selected (using check-boxes) files. Add a confirmation dialog that cannot be disabled (as operation is performed on, possibly, a large amount of files at the same time). -OR-
   • Change functionality of Discard all changes to Discard all selected changes and use check-box selections. This way current Discard all changes operation can be performed by first, selecting all files and second, clicking appropriate menu item.

3. Describe alternatives you’ve considered

   • Manually discarding files one by one. Works if you have a few files in your Changes and you want to discard changes only in part of those files
   • git checkout -- <pattern>

4. Teachability, Documentation, Adoption, Migration Strategy

[niik]

Hi @Ilia-Kosenkov, thanks for opening this.

You should be able to select more than one file by Shift/Control clicking on them and then right clicking and selecting ‘Discard selected changes’.

This change shipped in the latest release (1.2) so make sure you’re up to date by going to the Help menu and selecting ‘About GitHub Desktop’.

Please let me know if that doesn’t work or if there’s a reason you aren’t able to use that feature.

[tidy-dev]

@amoyano Sorry for the confusion. The check boxes are not for deleting. The check boxes represent which files are staged for commit or not. You can delete as you show in your screenshot.

Example of checkbox use. Modify 3 files, but only want to commit 2 of those changes. You simply uncheck the file you don’t want to commit. Type your summary/description and commit. The unchecked file will remain in your changes list.