Add HasStagedChanges to the Branch model

[danielo515]

Related to #2724
I think it will be cool if the current branch has a property indicating if it contains staged changes. This way you can construct better conditional flows based on the global state of the current branch.

[mark2185]

Having staged changes isn't really a property of a branch, in the git sense.

Is this regarding this specifically?

Works like a charm, but it forces me to work using SelectedFile, while what I wanted in reality was current branch, but the current branch does not have the HasStagedChanges field

I mean, you don't have to use what lazygit has to offer, you can just invoke a bash script that checks if anything is staged and does whatever you want it to do.

[danielo515]

Ok, that could be a viable workaround. But what do you mean that staged changes is not a property of a branch?

[mark2185]

In my mental model (which may be wrong), branches are just a list of commits, they shouldn't have any information about the staging area.

Given that you can even stage things when you're in a detached HEAD state, a HasStagedChanges property would be more related to a repository, rather than the current branch.

[danielo515]

Yes, that makes sense. Is there any entity for the whole repository?

[mark2185]

Based on the current models there doesn't seem to be a way to do what you want.

I'm not sure how needed it is, maybe someone else will also want it. In the meantime, I'd advise a shell script.