{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/issues/279","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eamodio/vscode-gitlens","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/issues/279/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/issues/279/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/issues/279/events","html_url":"https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/issues/279","id":295669109,"number":279,"title":"\"Compare selected ancestor with working tree\" needs \"select for compare\"","user":{"login":"Mellbourn","id":1785727,"avatar_url":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/1785727?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Mellbourn","html_url":"https://github.com/Mellbourn","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Mellbourn/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Mellbourn/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Mellbourn/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Mellbourn/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Mellbourn/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Mellbourn/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Mellbourn/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Mellbourn/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Mellbourn/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2018-02-08T21:19:32Z","updated_at":"2018-02-08T21:19:32Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"NONE","body":"<!--\r\nIf you are encountering an issue that says `See output channel for more details`, please enable output channel logging by setting `\"gitlens.outputLevel\": \"verbose\"` in your settings.json. This will enable logging to the GitLens channel in the Output pane. Once enabled, please attempt to reproduce the issue (if possible) and attach the relevant log lines from the GitLens channel.\r\n-->\r\n\r\n- GitLens Version: 8.0.0\r\n- VSCode Version: 1.20.0\r\n- OS Version: MacOS 10.13.3\r\n\r\nI'm not sure I understand how \"Compare selected ancestor with working tree\"  is supposed to work.\r\n\r\nThe only way I can get it to show up is by first doing \"select to compare\".\r\nAnd only if I choose my current branch does the result of \"Compare selected ancestor...\" make sense to me.\r\nShouldn't \"Compare selected ancestor...\" work without first doing \"select for compare\", implicitly choosing the current branch for the merge-base calculation?"}}
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