List branch and/or path in list of repositories

On my filesystem, I commonly have 2-3 different clones of the repository. For example:

• /home/user/myrepo-upstream (upstream branch of fork)
• /home/user/myrepo-master (master branch of fork)
• /home/user/myrepo-devel (current developments)

I have various reasons for doing so, but the byproduct is that I commonly end up with multiple versions of “myrepo” in GitHub Desktop. The “issue” (more of an irritant) is that the drop down list of “Current Repository” provides no information about which path is being referenced, e.g.:

• Current Repository
  • GitHub.com
    • myrepo
    • myrepo
    • myrepo

is all that I see in the list. It seems like it would not be particularly difficult to add a “View” option that will insert the folder-name or branch name into the list, e.g.:

• Current Repository
  • GitHub.com
    • myrepo [myrepo-upstream]
    • myrepo [myrepo-master]
    • myrepo [myrepo-devel]

I haven’t looked through the source code to gauge how difficult this might be to integrate but I suspect this would not be particularly difficult since GitHub Desktop obviously knows the path to the repository and it is just a simple string addition of the base folder name (or an iteration over of the display names checking for equality and then parsing the folder-paths for the shortest unique path)

[xakiru]

@jrmadsen, does hovering the mouse over each entry not hint the path?

Maybe this is a Windows only thing?

Hi, I know this might be old, but is there any plans to make an option to show the repo list with either

• folder_name
• repo_name[branch_name]

Or is there a proper way to have this work without having to hover project and wait whenever we wanna switch working to another project ?

[ryaa]

This will be a very helpful feature. Or it would be very helpful if the user can change (rename) the displayed name to whatever he/she wants. This is how it works in Bitbucket Source Tree and I find it very useful…