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

2017-02-05 Thread Jacob Keller
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 2:39 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Jacob Keller wrote: >> I would be interested in the code for this.. I'm curious if I can >> adapt it to my use of tmux. > > I stumbled upon this which does mention about git SHA-1. Maybe you'll > find it useful.

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

2017-02-05 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Jacob Keller wrote: > I would be interested in the code for this.. I'm curious if I can > adapt it to my use of tmux. I stumbled upon this which does mention about git SHA-1. Maybe you'll find it useful. Haven't tried it out though. https://github.com/morantron/t

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

2017-01-21 Thread Jeff King
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 07:44:05PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > You just gave me a reason to rebuild urxvt with perl support. It > solves my problem with SHA-1 nicely (and fixes another problem with > very large counter in my approach, when you scroll git-log further > down, because I can't know wha

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

2017-01-21 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 2:25 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:16:15AM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote: > >> > I recently taught urxvt to recognize sha1s and grab them via keyboard >> > hints, and I'm finding it quite useful. Here's what it looks like if >> > you're interested: >> > >> >

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

2017-01-20 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:16:15AM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote: > > I recently taught urxvt to recognize sha1s and grab them via keyboard > > hints, and I'm finding it quite useful. Here's what it looks like if > > you're interested: > > > > http://peff.net/git-hints.gif > > > > The hints techniqu

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

2017-01-20 Thread Jacob Keller
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 05:22:49PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > >> OK This patch is horrible. Though the idea is cool and I've found it >> very useful. So here it is. Perhaps the idea may be revised a bit >> that's more suitable for more

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

2017-01-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > Not really a comment on your patch itself, but I think a lot of people > solve this at a higher level, either in their terminal or via a tool > like tmux. > > I recently taught urxvt to recognize sha1s and grab them via keyboard > hints, and I'm finding it quite useful. Here's

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

2017-01-20 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 05:22:49PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > OK This patch is horrible. Though the idea is cool and I've found it > very useful. So here it is. Perhaps the idea may be revised a bit > that's more suitable for more than one user. > > The problem is old, SHA-1 name is not

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

2017-01-20 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Duy, On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Johannes Schindelin > wrote: > > 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 n

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

2017-01-20 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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: > >

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

2017-01-20 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Duy, On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > OK This patch is horrible. Yeah ;-) > Though the idea is cool and I've found it very useful. So here it is. > Perhaps the idea may be revised a bit that's more suitable for more than > one user. Why not introduce a flag to "git log" th

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

2017-01-20 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
OK This patch is horrible. Though the idea is cool and I've found it very useful. So here it is. Perhaps the idea may be revised a bit that's more suitable for more than one user. The problem is old, SHA-1 name is not keyboard-friendly, even in abbreviated form. And recent change has made abbrev f