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View/copy full path of file (Changes or History tab)

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Description

In history mode, view/copy complete file path if it’s longer than the given screenspace. View screenshot. Copying gives me src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/web/p…/manage.jsp

See #2801 for more context.

GitHub Desktop version: 0.9.1

OS version: 10.12.6

Actual behavior:

Reproduces how often: 100%

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:7 (6 by maintainers)

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billygriffincommented, Oct 16, 2018

Thanks @Amabel for running with @niik’s suggestion. Seems reasonable to me. I think the only change I’d recommend is to be a bit more explicit about what exactly is being copied just to make sure people don’t think this would copy the contents of the file somehow. In this case, I think “Copy File Path” would work with the same casing as the other things in the context menu. Feel free to go ahead and open a PR and we’ll address any additional feedback there.

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niikcommented, Oct 3, 2017

Hey @artivilla. Our component for rendering file paths doesn’t, as you’ve noticed, rely on css to perform truncation. CSS currently only supports truncating text at the end whereas we really wanted a more intelligent truncation for paths where the beginning and end is usually the most important bits.

In this case I think we could add a context menu as well as a hotkey (Cmd/Ctrl+C) when focused on an item to copy the full path. I’ve added this to the design review project to get some more thoughts on this.

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