open any file from another branch

[emmanueltouzery]

Recently #646 was implemented, but it doesn't completely work for me. The reason being that sometimes a file is renamed, and then the command (understandably) fails. In emacs/magit this is handled like that: you run the command, then by default the same filename as your current file is displayed and you just press enter if you want the same filename, but you can edit the filename if needed.

Maybe that gitlens feature, gitlens.openFileRevisionFromBranch, could be improved so that if it doesn't find the file in another branch, it doesn't fail but rather gives the user the opportunity to manually specify a filename.

In my case I renamed a .ts file to .tsx, but there could be many examples of renaming files.

[danielpickett]

I would LOVE this feature. Any movement on this?

[eamodio]

I can see this being a useful feature, but we (the GitLens team) aren't going to look at it anytime soon, so if the community wanted to open a PR for it we'd definitely be open to accepting it.

[mogelbrod]

I've got a PR up that implements this in #2825