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Quick diff in commit graph view #2476

Open rlipscombe opened 1 year ago

rlipscombe commented 1 year ago

I'm using GitLens in VS Code and I'm missing a feature from gitk: clicking on a commit in the commit graph quickly shows the diff against the previous commit.

Does GitLens do this? Am I missing something?

I found the "Files Changed" thing in the sidebar, which opens the L/R diff in the main editor.

I don't want that.

I want to quickly browse up and down the commit graph and have the unified diff for that commit displayed next to it, like in gitk.

(from https://hachyderm.io/@rogerlipscombe/109541887757441903)

eamodio commented 1 year ago

This is something I've wanted for a while (e.g. a unified view of a commit/patch). If something like this was part of the Commit Details view, it could also be used for uncommitted changes (and ideally allow for partial staging)

rlipscombe commented 1 year ago

Some more context on my motivation for this:

I regularly just do haphazard commits as I'm working. Then I go back and do an interactive rebase to split/merge/squash/fixup the commits into some kind of sensible "story", which makes it easier to review the changes in a PR.

By being able to quickly skip up and down the commit history and see the diffs, I can figure out which commits go together, which ones are too big or too unfocussed (i.e. need splitting), and so on. Opening up a gajillion L/R diff tabs doesn't work for this way of working.

Pictor13 commented 1 year ago

I also heavily depend on this functionality, during my Git workflows.

On macOS I was using GitX, and Gittyup on Ubuntu. Unfortunately the latter is starting to crash often or freeze for half a minute when I simply click around the graph.

GitLens is a great integration, I'd be happy to eventually throw away other external Git tools; but being able to preview-diffs & explore-files of the commit clicked in the graph is something that I find difficult working without. And unfortunately my brain needs to visualize the graph in a GUI 😅