Unapply terminology makes the action you are about to perform unclear

[timothysparg]

Version

013.15

Operating System

macOS

Distribution Method

dmg (Apple Silicon)

Describe the issue

After you have made the changes that you need and pushed them to a remote branch, and you want to remove the local virtual branch from the GitButler UI you click the Unapply menu option.

The first time I needed to remove a virtual branch I spent a view minutes googling and looking through the documentation to see what action 'unapply' would perform.

In my mind there was a possibility that it would un-apply or undo something, and if it did do this action would it be local or remote.

In short as new user I found it a bit disquieting.

How to reproduce

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Expected behavior

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Relevant log output

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[Byron]

Thanks a lot for sharing your experience here, I think it's very valuable.

I noticed that tooltips aren't used at all, so indeed it's hard to get context on what a button would do, if it would be pressed.
CC @PavelLaptev who would know best how those things could be communicated, for instance, I think that an onboarding step is planned as well, something that could serve a similar purpose.

[PavelLaptev]

We already discussed this before. @krlvi @Caleb-T-Owens any thoughts?

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There was a related issue lately #5466

[Caleb-T-Owens]

We hashed out a plan for a model which should be simpler a week back, both in terms of implementation, but also UX.

For now though, I would suggest putting in a tooltip which describes it, but that would need more than one sentence... so I'm not sure how you would usefully describe the actions in app.