Feature request - Populate Quickfix/Location List

[dsirov]

If Flog would enable (optionally) populating quickfix or location lists (hopefully supporting both) this may further simplify prev./next commit browsing without jumping back from the commit buffer (window) back to Flog.

[Fugitive does this and it is quite handy...]

[rbong]

Thanks for the feature request!

This is my first time hearing about this feature. Can you elaborate a little bit more about how Fugitive populates the quickfix/location list and how you might use it so I can understand the feature? What does Fugitive populate into the lists? How might you use this?

[rbong]

It didn't quite click when reading the documentation for Fugitive but I've had a chance to actually try :Gclog/:Gllog now and I think I understand what you're looking for now. You want to be able to populate the quickfix/location list with the commits that show up in :Flog, instead of writing them to a buffer and showing them in a normal window, is that right?

There may be a lot of difficulties showing commits in a list rather than in a buffer here but let me also make sure I understand your core problem:

this may further simplify prev./next commit browsing without jumping back from the commit buffer (window) back to Flog

Is this the issue that you're describing?

• Open a commit in Flog
• Go into the temporary window with the commit
• Want to go to the previous/next commit, but have to go back to the main Flog window to do so

If not, could you describe this issue?

Are there any other issues lists would solve?

[dsirov]

I think this is mainly relevant for browsing, which is made especially easy with the unimpaired plugin, which introduces ]l and [l for location list and ]q and [q for quickfix list prev./next shortcuts.

You may want to check out this great video blog post which deals specifically with history browsing using fugitive and quickfix list.

[rbong]

The quickfix and location list are great, and I use unimpaired, and I have enjoyed the full vimcasts series on Fugitive, but I still have questions about how you'd like this to work.

I think this is mainly relevant for browsing

Can you clarify what you mean by "browsing"?

Particularly I can't reconcile this with what you said in your original post:

this may further simplify prev./next commit browsing without jumping back from the commit buffer (window) back to Flog

Can you please outline, step-by-step, how you'd like this to work?

I am particularly not sure what Flog can do that :Gclog and :Gllog can't already do.

[rbong]

It's been a while, I can re-open if you'd like to provide more details about how this should work.