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No create a new branch button
See original GitHub issueDescription
No obvious button to create a new branch
Version
GitHub Desktop version: 1.0.0
OS version: MacOS 10.12.6
Steps to Reproduce
- Add a repo
- See that there is no button to create a new branch.
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 6 years ago
- Reactions:3
- Comments:10 (5 by maintainers)
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Let’s try adding a button using the secondary button style in line with the filter text.
We’ll go with text-only for this one and try to position it so that the left edge lines up with the foldout cliff above and with the same height as the text box.
In my mocks that translates to 61px wide but that might need tweaking once we get it in. Standard foldout margin otherwise and a single spacer (10px) between the filter textbox and the button.
Clicking on the button would be the exact same thing as
Branch -> New Branch, i.e. it would open the new branch dialog except if there’s text in the filter text box we’d prefill the branch name in the new branch dialog with that.I know that there’s also been requests for automatically creating a branch after typing a branch name that doesn’t exist. That pattern is something we intentionally removed from the classic clients as we feel it has a very high likelihood of mistakenly created branches. That said I think we can do something to guide users onward while at the same time giving our “No Reposiory Found” blank slate a touch up.
I’m still not sure of the first-person voice here in
I can't findbut I think it’s still an improvement so let’s go with it for now until we figure out whether we want to use that style in the app or not.Clicking on the ‘Create New Branch’ button here would be the same as clicking on the
Newbutton.For the
<kbd>elements here we’ll try a minimal amount of padding (1px), a standard rounding of 3px and a base border but we’ll increase the contrast on the border one notch to$gray-300.I was also looking for way to do this in the app yesterday (how to create new branch) and taught by GitHub itself, I started to type new branch name in the search field in branches list hoping it would offer me creating that non-existent branch for me. I think it would be nice workflow and inline with how GitHub web app works.