Do something else with the sidebar
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Submitted by Allan Day Link to original bug (#702639)
Description
The current sidebar doesn't make good use of the screen space. You don't use branches or tags all that often, and you don't need them displayed while you are viewing a particular branch/tag. The sidebar eats space that could be used to show the commit history.
This would be the ideal place to use a popover - you could have a visible control in the toolbar for the branch/tag, which could be opened when you want to switch. I say popover rather than combobox, because you really need a way to easily scroll and/or search - there will sometimes be a lot of branches and tags.
In the absence of a popover widget for GTK+, it might make sense to simply have the sidebar pop out on demand: by default it would be hidden and you would press a button and to display it. Then if you switch branch/tag it would hide again.
Version: git master