Re: Gitk : When the number of commits is small, you can roll up excessively

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date: Feb 27, 2023, 10:00 UTC
Message-ID: <15d5c6c5-091a-63b1-979a-5aaa64c9e717@iee.email>
In-Reply-To: <CH2PR14MB35637B8C5593D5F17076E7EEB1AF9@CH2PR14MB3563.namprd14.prod.outlook.com>

On 27/02/2023 05:01, L2750558108@outlook.com wrote:

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> You can scroll up via the scroll wheel or the right column button and
> see the white space in front of the first row, and in this case, the
> collision box for each row is misaligned, which prevents me from
> selecting the commit by clicking. If you stll not understand, I can
> send a picture or video to show the situation I am experiencing,

I see the space above (which I guess is for 'uncommitted changes', should they exist) and a small space below when scrolling. I'm unsure what the 'collision box' refers to as I don't see any 'misalignment'. But I maybe just too familiar with gitk's quirks.

> but I don't know where to put them
>

The https://groups.google.com/g/git-users does allow (If I remember correctly) the inclusion of photos. Please do annotate/label the screen shots. Plain text doesn't always carry the expected nuances...

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> L2750558108@outlook.com
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>      
>     From: Philip Oakley <mailto:philipoakley@iee.email>
>     Date: 2023-02-26 20:26
>     To: L2750558108@outlook.com; git <mailto:git@vger.kernel.org>
>     Subject: Re: Gitk : When the number of commits is small, you can
>     roll up excessively
>     A bit of a late response..
>     On 14/02/2023 06:02, L2750558108@outlook.com wrote:
>     > Gitk : When the number of commits is small, you can roll up
>     excessively
>     >
>     > Reduce :
>     >
>     > 1.Create a new respository
>     > 2.Make 2 Commit
>     > 3.Go to Gitk to see them
>     > 4.Scroll up in the commit list and you can see the error
>     I cannot replicate this problem (on Git-for-Windows git version
>     2.39.2.windows.1).
>
>     What OS, Git and gitk versions are you on?
>
>     I created the repo with the commands
>     phili@Philip-Win10 MINGW64 /c/git-sdk-64/usr/src (main)
>     $ git init gitkfault
>     $ cd gitkfault/
>     $ echo test>file;git add file;git commit -mfirst
>     $ echo test2>file;git add file;git commit -msecond
>     $ gitk &
>     [1] 1021
>
>     I was visualising the commits (lower gitk window) with the "Diff" and
>     "Patch" settings.
>      
>     At your step 4, I tried 'scrolling up' both by mouse clicking on
>     the two
>     commits in the top left window that displays the history, and by
>     using
>     the left/right arrows displayed just right of the "SHA1 ID" value. No
>     errors were shown.
>
>     (those sha1 arrows are distinct from the 'Find' selection and
>     navigation
>     capability immediately below the "SHA1 ID" line.
>
>     What were the exact errors shown at your step 4?
>
>     -- 
>     Philip
>