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Improve GitHub tab blank slate in a couple of cases #1566
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Description
Splitting off from #1519 (comment); while poking at that issue I noticed that in a couple of cases, the GitHub tab will just be blank if opened:
- If the project opened isn't a git repository
- if Atom is opened with no project
So if you haven't used the GitHub package before you might think something's wrong 🤔
Steps to Reproduce
Taking the first case above:
mkdir test-no-repo; cd test-no-repoatom --safe .- ctrl-shift-8
Expected behavior:
An informative message rather than a blank tab? E.g. when you have the GitHub tab open for a git repository with no github.com remote you see:
Actual behavior:
You see an empty GitHub tab:
Reproduces how often:
100%
Versions
atom -v
Atom : 1.30.0-dev-55fc57600
Electron: 2.0.4
Chrome : 61.0.3163.100
Node : 8.9.3
apm -v
apm 1.19.0
npm 3.10.10
node 6.9.5 x64
atom 1.30.0-dev-55fc57600
python 2.7.10
git 2.14.3
Additional Information
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mikebronner commentedon Sep 12, 2018
Having this issue as well, it just started after updating to version 1.30.0. Previously I could be opening Atom without a project, then open a project folder, and it would populate the Git tab. Now I need to close the git tab manually after opening a project, then re-open the git tab, and it will display as expected (otherwise it is a blank pane).
bragovo commentedon Oct 1, 2018
Same behaviour in 1.31.1, starts from 1.30.
rsese commentedon Oct 4, 2018
Thanks @mikebronner @bragovo! I think you're both describing a different issue that I think is more a bug? The 2 cases I described above are places I think we can improve the messaging of the GitHub tab when you're not working with a Git repository.
I went ahead and opened #1718 if you want to subscribe (let me know if I mis-understood the issue you were describing).
wireddown commentedon Oct 23, 2018
👍
I also got confused during my setup as well, but at least I found this issue from @rsese!
willcraft1 commentedon Oct 24, 2018
Just started using Atom again and had a 5 minute brain error trying to figure out why I couldn't use the github pane to open a repo. :D
dfmiller commentedon Oct 25, 2018
I had to reload the window for the tree to show after installing a new version (1.32.0)
annthurium commentedon Feb 26, 2019
we have an empty state error message now! Going to close this out but please feel free to reopen if there are additional issues.