Create constants for IDE commit action values

**Why?**
These values will be used to help build the mirroring diff.
It is helpful keeping it controlled in a constant.

**Links:**
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/10232
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/11478

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/ide/constants.js b/app/assets/javascripts/ide/constants.js
index 7c560c89695..e30670e119f 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/ide/constants.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/ide/constants.js
@@ -72,4 +72,11 @@ export const modalTypes = {
   tree: 'tree',
 };
 
+export const commitActionTypes = {
+  move: 'move',
+  delete: 'delete',
+  create: 'create',
+  update: 'update',
+};
+
 export const packageJsonPath = 'package.json';
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/ide/stores/utils.js b/app/assets/javascripts/ide/stores/utils.js
index 66c5180b782..bcc9ca60d9b 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/ide/stores/utils.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/ide/stores/utils.js
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import { commitActionTypes } from '../constants';
+
 export const dataStructure = () => ({
   id: '',
   // Key will contain a mixture of ID and path
@@ -114,14 +116,14 @@ export const setPageTitle = title => {
 
 export const commitActionForFile = file => {
   if (file.prevPath) {
-    return 'move';
+    return commitActionTypes.move;
   } else if (file.deleted) {
-    return 'delete';
+    return commitActionTypes.delete;
   } else if (file.tempFile) {
-    return 'create';
+    return commitActionTypes.create;
   }
 
-  return 'update';
+  return commitActionTypes.update;
 };
 
 export const getCommitFiles = stagedFiles =>