David, On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 3:01 AM David <bouncingcats@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 04:11, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 6:25 PM Birger Skogeng Pedersen <birger.sp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 12:51 PM Birger Skogeng Pedersen <birger.sp@xxxxxxxxx> 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 thanks for the input. Though I'm not the maintainer. Bert
