
Once this change is merged, the rendered markdown can be linked to in the official GWTUI deprecation announcement. TODO: find out the way to include this documentation in the final artifact (release.war) Bug: Issue 8267 Change-Id: I4a1be9e7eb6512507819658bc124fc993a07e4eb
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# In-browser Editing in Gerrit
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### What's going on?
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Until Q1 of 2018, editing a file in the browser was not supported by Gerrit's
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new UI. This feature is now done and ready for use.
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Read on for a walkthrough of the feature!
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### Creating an edit
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Click on the "Edit" button to begin.
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One may also go to the project mmanagement page (Browse => Repository =>
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Commands => Create Change) to create a new change.
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### Performing an action
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The buttons in the file list header open dialogs to perform actions on any file
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in the repo.
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* Open - opens an existing or new file from the repo in an editor.
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* Delete - deletes an existing file from the repo.
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* Rename - renames an existing file in the repo.
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To leave edit mode and restore the normal buttons to the file list, click "Stop
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editing".
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### Performing an action on a file
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The "Actions" dropdown appears on each file, and is used to perform actions on
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that specific file.
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* Open - opens this file in the editor.
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* Delete - deletes this file from the repo.
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* Rename - renames this file in the repo.
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* Restore - restores this file to the state it existed in at the patch the
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edit was created on.
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### Modifying the file
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This is the editor view.
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Clicking on the file path allows you to rename the file, You can edit code in
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the textarea, and "Close" will discard any unsaved changes and navigate back to
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the previous view.
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### Saving the edit
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You can save changes to the code with `cmd+s`, `ctrl+s`, or by clicking the
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"Save" button.
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### Publishing the edit
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You may publish or delete the edit by clicking the buttons in the header.
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### What if I have questions not answered here?
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Gerrit's [official docs](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-inline-edit.html)
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are in the process of being updated and largely refer to the old UI, but the
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user experience is largely the same.
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Otherwise, please email
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[the repo-discuss mailing list](mailto:repo-discuss@google.com) or file a bug
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on Gerrit's official bug tracker,
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[Monorail](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/entry?template=PolyGerrit+Issue). |