# Gitk: shortcut to jump to the current HEAD (yellow spot)? 7 messages from 2011-12-22 to 2011-12-25. Participants: Dirk Süsserott, Martin von Zweigbergk, Pat Thoyts. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/29237 ## Dirk Süsserott, 2011-12-22 15:49 Subject: Gitk: shortcut to jump to the current HEAD (yellow spot)? Message-ID: <4EF3517A.8030108@dirk.my1.cc> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4EF3517A.8030108%40dirk.my1.cc ``` 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 ``` ## Martin von Zweigbergk, 2011-12-22 17:09 Subject: Re: Gitk: shortcut to jump to the current HEAD (yellow spot)? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAOeW2eGFw0RfU0FHL4CEMVPwSNvrRLv9_iG7Gy_qCheY3GxWxw%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4EF3517A.8030108@dirk.my1.cc> ``` 2011/12/22 Dirk Süsserott : > Does anybody know about a shortcut in gitk to "jump to the yellow spot"? Not sure it's fast enough for you, but you can always enter "HEAD" in the "SHA1 ID" box (and press Enter). ``` ## Dirk Süsserott, 2011-12-22 17:23 Subject: Re: Gitk: shortcut to jump to the current HEAD (yellow spot)? Message-ID: <4EF3678A.4010900@dirk.my1.cc> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4EF3678A.4010900%40dirk.my1.cc In-Reply-To: ``` Am 22.12.2011 18:09 schrieb Martin von Zweigbergk: > 2011/12/22 Dirk Süsserott : >> Does anybody know about a shortcut in gitk to "jump to the yellow spot"? > > Not sure it's fast enough for you, but you can always enter "HEAD" in > the "SHA1 ID" box (and press Enter). Martin, that's fast enough for me. Works great! Thank you. ``` ## Pat Thoyts, 2011-12-22 18:26 Subject: Re: Gitk: shortcut to jump to the current HEAD (yellow spot)? Message-ID: <874nwslayi.fsf@fox.patthoyts.tk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/874nwslayi.fsf%40fox.patthoyts.tk In-Reply-To: <4EF3517A.8030108@dirk.my1.cc> ``` Dirk Süsserott 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. -- Pat Thoyts http://www.patthoyts.tk/ PGP fingerprint 2C 6E 98 07 2C 59 C8 97 10 CE 11 E6 04 E0 B9 DD ``` ## Dirk Süsserott, 2011-12-23 18:54 Subject: Re: Gitk: shortcut to jump to the current HEAD (yellow spot)? Message-ID: <4EF4CE80.8090502@dirk.my1.cc> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4EF4CE80.8090502%40dirk.my1.cc In-Reply-To: <874nwslayi.fsf@fox.patthoyts.tk> ``` Am 22.12.2011 19:26 schrieb Pat Thoyts: > Dirk Süsserott 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 ``` ## Martin von Zweigbergk, 2011-12-24 04:22 Subject: Re: Gitk: shortcut to jump to the current HEAD (yellow spot)? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAOeW2eGCKxYW1TT-HPoSCO0_PsQPX5C-bcHLUy73MTd7%3DCsqRA%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4EF4CE80.8090502@dirk.my1.cc> ``` 2011/12/23 Dirk Süsserott : > > 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. This should be fixed in c332f44 (gitk: Fix file highlight when run in subdirectory, 2011-04-04), which is in the current master and thus, I believe, to be released in Git 1.7.9. Martin ``` ## Dirk Süsserott, 2011-12-25 19:33 Subject: Re: Gitk: shortcut to jump to the current HEAD (yellow spot)? Message-ID: <4EF77A8D.7020907@dirk.my1.cc> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4EF77A8D.7020907%40dirk.my1.cc In-Reply-To: ``` Am 24.12.2011 05:22 schrieb Martin von Zweigbergk: > 2011/12/23 Dirk Süsserott : >> >> 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. > > This should be fixed in c332f44 (gitk: Fix file highlight when run in > subdirectory, 2011-04-04), which is in the current master and thus, I > believe, to be released in Git 1.7.9. > > Martin Ahh, cool. I wouldn't have noticed because I'm so used to my "cd $TOP && gitk". I thought it was by intention because it just behaves like "git log": When run from subdirs it doesn't know about topdir files: Assume README.txt is in the topdir and current dir is some subdir: $ git log -- README.txt # fails $ git log -- ../README.txt # works My alias (or function) was just a helper to avoid remembering where I started gitk from. Cheers, Dirk BTW, Merry X-Mas to you and all others on the list :-) ```