From: David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>
To: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Cc: Birger Skogeng Pedersen <birger.sp@gmail.com>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: feature request, git-gui: add hotkey to toggle amend/new
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 11:01:19 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMPXz=pUWNVkM78UHm4NpFZ_nJQOa0ba07N3gMKFzWUiindZ1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKPyHN3Zvf6gtKAq03s8AsguaOFG=g2huGRCTWmBVWioDBqFWw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 04:11, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 6:25 PM Birger Skogeng Pedersen <birger.sp@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 12:51 PM Birger Skogeng Pedersen <birger.sp@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > In my pursuit to fully utilize git-gui with only using a keyboard, I
> > > suggest that there is a hotkey to toggle between selecting "New
> > > Commit" and "Amend Last Commit".
Hi, thanks for maintaining and contributing to git and git-gui, it's a
great tool!
> After focusing the commit message widget, you can focus the radio
> buttons with Tab/Shift+Tab and press Space.
> I think this is short enough, so that wasting a Letter is not
> justified here.
Ugh, may I express how unhappy I am to read that opinion from
the maintainer. I strongly disagree, please reconsider :(
And I enthusiastically support this initial request for a single
hotkey to immediately toggle between "New Commit" and "Amend Last
Commit". And it should work regardless of wherever the cursor or
highlight is currently active.
I have used git-gui for many years and I find this is actually the
most annoying and inconsistent aspect of its user interface. Sometimes
if one is lucky then "spacebar" will achieve it at startup or after
refresh, sometimes not. When I test here just now the suggested
tab/shift-tab/spacebar method, it does toggle but it also changes the
items in the staged changes list as an unwanted side effect. My
version says 0.20.0.8.gd000, but I have a few local patches (written
years ago) so sorry I am not testing with a version that you have, but
even so I wanted to report what I observed.
If one is often amending commit messages as I do during large
interactive rebases, it is painful to have to do some kind of
context-sensitive multi-key dance just to change from "New Commit" to
"Amend Last Commit". Especially when every other operation has become
a single keystroke in my muscle memory.
In my world it most definitely would not be "wasting a letter" to
implement this! It would instead be "OMG at last that got fixed for
everyone, hooray!" :D
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-03 1:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-31 10:51 feature request, git-gui: add hotkey to toggle amend/new Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-09-02 16:25 ` Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-09-02 18:07 ` Bert Wesarg
2019-09-02 19:49 ` Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-09-02 19:56 ` [PATCH] Add hotkey to toggle "Amend Last Commit" radio selector Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-09-03 8:52 ` Bert Wesarg
2019-09-03 10:25 ` Bert Wesarg
2019-09-03 16:20 ` Bert Wesarg
2019-09-02 20:12 ` feature request, git-gui: add hotkey to toggle amend/new Bert Wesarg
2019-09-02 20:15 ` Bert Wesarg
2019-09-03 5:37 ` Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-09-03 12:45 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-03 14:06 ` Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-09-03 17:34 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-03 15:35 ` David
2019-09-03 17:27 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-04 6:24 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-09-04 17:46 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-04 17:54 ` Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-09-04 18:52 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-09-04 19:03 ` Bert Wesarg
2019-09-10 8:54 ` David Aguilar
2019-09-11 10:27 ` Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-09-11 18:34 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-11 18:47 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-03 1:01 ` David [this message]
2019-09-03 8:44 ` Bert Wesarg
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