Re: [PATCH/TOY] Shortcuts to quickly refer to a commit name with keyboard

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2017, 11:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8C0SFsTNTB=R8zLLvnqkPofP0VQWPUR9pguT-n2Y+Tp1w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1701201138520.3469@virtualbox>

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Why not introduce a flag to "git log" that shows a keyboard-friendly name
> similar to what `git name-rev` would have said, except that the name would
> be generated using the name(s) specified on the command-line?
>
> Example:
>
>         git log 8923d2d0 upstream/pu
>
>         commit 8923d2d00192ceb1107078484cccf537cb51c1b5 (8923d2d0)
>         ...
>         commit 9f500d6cf5eaa49391d6deca85fc864e5bd23415 (8923d2d0^)
>         ...
>         commit f79c24a291a58845b08cfec7573e22cc153693e1 (8923d2d0~2)
>         ...
>         commit c921c5bb63baaa16dc760de9549da55c8c89dc9c (upstream/pu)
>         ...
>         commit 16793ba6b6333ba0cdee1adb53d979c3fbdb17bc (upstream/pu^)
>         ...
>
> Granted, this is still a little more cumbersome to type than @h1, but
> then, you can skip those round-robin games as well as the possibly
> backwards-incompatible extension of the rev syntax.

I mentioned name-rev a few paragraphs down. No, I want the sweet and short @h1 (or something like that). name-rev does not qualify. I don't feel comfortable typing 8923d2d0 without looking at the keyboard, and that's a lot of movement on the keyboard. upstream/pu is a bit better, but still very long (at least for me). Yes TAB-ing does help, but not enough. Then you'll get the dreadful "^2~1^3" dance.

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Duy