Re: Gitk: shortcut to jump to the current HEAD (yellow spot)?

From: Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date: Dec 23, 2011, 18:54 UTC
Message-ID: <4EF4CE80.8090502@dirk.my1.cc>
In-Reply-To: <874nwslayi.fsf@fox.patthoyts.tk>

Am 22.12.2011 19:26 schrieb Pat Thoyts:

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> Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> writes:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> Does anybody know about a shortcut in gitk to "jump to the yellow spot"?
>>
>> I often use cmdline and gitk at the same time, switch branches, stash,
>> rebase and so on from bash. When hitting [Ctrl-]F5 in gitk, the last
>> highlighted commit is focused again and my HEAD is far off the screen.
>>
>> Is there a way to jump to the HEAD (the yellow bubble in gitk) with a
>> fingertip?
>>
>> TIA
>>    Dirk
> 
> Hit the Home key. The binding for that takes you to the first commit.
> End to the last (oldest) commit.

Hi Pat,

thank you, but I almost always run gitk with the '--all' parameter. Actually, I have a function in my .bashrc for this:

  # calls gitk from the top-level directory:
  function gkup()
  {
      (cd "./$(git rev-parse --show-cdup)"; gitk --all "$@" &)
  }

That's because gitk behaves odd (at least to me) when not run from the top-level directory. E.g. the "touching paths" box won't find files in the top dir if you don't prefix them with a slash. It's all relative to the directory gitk was started in. To get predictable behavior, I wrote this function and garnished it with '--all'.

Thus, my current HEAD is not always on the top of the history but somewhere in between. However, typing "HEAD" (or "head" in the SHA1 field works for me.

Cheers
    Dirk