Re: [PATCH 2/2] contrib/git-jump: add mode commit

> On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 12:38:46PM +0100, Beat Bolli wrote:
> 
>> After committing, I often want to return to the place of the latest
>> change to continue my work. Add the new mode "commit" which does exactly
>> this.
> 
> That's one of my primary uses for git-jump, too. But you can already do
> that by jumping to the diff of HEAD^. Which has the additional advantage
> that it's a diff against the working tree. So if you did a partial
> commit, the diff will include any leftover changes.
> 
> So I'm not opposed to this patch per se, given that it's not very many
> lines. But I'm not sure I see much advantage over "git jump diff HEAD^".
> It's slightly less typing, but I already alias "git jump diff" since
> it's so long.
> 
>> Optional arguments are given to the "git show" call. So it's possible to
>> jump to changes of other commits than HEAD.
> 
> This can also be done with "git jump diff $commit^ $commit". However,
> I've found that jumping based on older diffs is mostly useless, because
> the line numbers at $commit and those in the working tree don't always
> match up (and inherently you're always jumping in the working tree
> copy).