'git checkout' in quickOpen (Ctrl+P)

[borekb]

In VSCode 1.10 and earlier, I could do Ctrl+P, git checkout and it would offer me the list of branches. It was a very nice and smooth workflow.

In VSCode 1.11, this seems to be gone. The new "Git: Checkout to..." is the replacement.

Is there any chance that the original way would be reintroduced (maybe the current state is just a limitation of the SCM provider infrastructure), or is it going to stay the way it is?

Note: somewhat related is #21439 (Can no longer create branch).

[jsynowiec]

Probably related to the new git SCM provider that is enabled by default. Please see #24141 and Microsoft/vscode-docs#931. The new git SCM provider is not yet final so this should be reintroduced in future updates.

[joaomoreno]

Yeah this behaviour is now gone since it's unavailable to extensions, which git has now become.

[borekb]

@joaomoreno Is there a plan to re-introduce it in a future update?

[joaomoreno]

Needs API advancements. It should be possible in the future. But not a very near one.

[eamodio]

@joaomoreno @borekb I could add a "checkout" or "branch switch" command in GitLens in the mean time -- did the old Git extension do anything special to handle error cases? (like if there were uncommitted changes)?

I've been a little hesitant to provide "destructive" operations in GitLens, but since I've already recently added support for stash apply, pop, & delete, this really isn't too different.

[joaomoreno]

Code comes with a checkout command.

What the user asks for is the ability to type git checkout foo in quick open and check out to a foo branch or create it. You can't do this with an extension today.

[eamodio]

@joaomoreno oh I see. So no type of extension can provide that, sorry. I completely missed the built-in Git: Checkout to... since I didn't notice that Git is completely dead in the latest insiders build.

EDIT: Never mind on the Git not working -- it was my issue, when I was debugging an extension the new Git extension seems to trigger an unhandled exception (that it didn't used to before today's update) when finding Git, and I didn't notice that I had typed into that file when the exception popped up -- which killed things from then on.

[joaomoreno]

Can you file an issue for that unhandled exception? 👍

[eamodio]

Filed: #24482

[joaomoreno]

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Thanks for your understanding. Happy coding!