Commit dialog - Feature request

[Hans-Emil Skogh]

Hi!

 

I find myself quite frequently wanting to see the log from the path that I'm committing to. Mostly to find out the revision when a certain bug was introduced, to be able to include that revision number in my commit message. Sometimes to check formating or de-facto naming standards from older commit messages.

 

I'd propose to add a button "Show log" to the right of the "Recent messages" button. I know that the commit dialog is sort of crowded already, and I'm not sure that this addition would make it any clearer. Maybe there is a better way from a GUI point of view to add direct access to the log dialog from the commit dialog? (I guess it would only make sense to show the button when committing a single file/folder.)

 

Hans-Emil

[Grzegorz Adamiak]

--- Hans-Emil Skogh [2009-11-12 10:16]:

> I find myself quite frequently wanting to see the log from the path that
> I'm committing to. Mostly to find out the revision when a certain bug
> was introduced, to be able to include that revision number in my commit
> message. Sometimes to check formating or de-facto naming standards from
> older commit messages.
>
> I'd propose to add a button "Show log" to the right of the "Recent
> messages" button.

You can display a log from commit dialog for each item by using item's context menu.

-- Grzegorz

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[Hans-Emil Skogh]

>> I find myself quite frequently wanting to see the log from the path that
>> I'm committing to.

> You can display a log from commit dialog for each item by using item's context menu.

Yes, I know. But this ends up being a little bit of a lottery. Did the revision that I'm looking for affect this file? Or that file? Or none of them? It's unfortunately not always obvious in the project I'm working on right now...

 

Maybe this is a too narrow use case to warrant a new button, but randomly checking the logs of individual files is not really an alternative. Going back to the dialog that I started the commit from and invoking the log dialog from there is though. And it's not that slow either. (Unless I closed that dialog before I realised I needed a look at the logs.) But a direct posibility to open the log dialog directly from the commit dialog would streamline this particular use case quite a bit.

 

Hans-Emil