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Proposal: add path to "Remove repository" dialog
See original GitHub issueCurrently, when you right click and Remove... on a repository in the list, you’ll get the following dialog:
Several times, I’ve found I had another clone somewhere and GitHub desktop had the wrong one…not the thing I intended to edit. So time to remove that and add the right one.
Since this dialog also offers to delete the files off disk, I think it should include the file path it’s talking about. Can we please add a link with the repo path on it? That’d remove any ambiguity from the situation, and in my case: help find that duplicate repo to boot. Something like this:
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Implementation tips!
The place to start on this would be in: https://github.com/desktop/desktop/blob/9ada1c10559089eea46c8354ac8a1b1404f771b4/app/src/ui/remove-repository/confirm-remove-repository.tsx#L27
The
repositoryprop should have the information needed (aka the path) for this new message 😃 you can see what it contains at https://github.com/desktop/desktop/blob/9ada1c10559089eea46c8354ac8a1b1404f771b4/app/src/models/repository.ts#L19Also, you can use the Ref component to format the filepath text.
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@desktop/engineeringwith any questions!@outofambit Thanks for the time savers there (and thanks all for feedback!) I opened a PR with the changes in #5807.