Re: git-gui: automatically move focus to staged file before typing commit message?

Am 14.09.19 um 23:15 schrieb Pratyush Yadav:

On 14/09/19 02:24PM, Birger Skogeng Pedersen wrote:

quoted

When the user
stages the last file in the "Unstaged Changes" widget, no file is
selected and the diff view becomes blank. When this is the case, I
would prefer that git-gui automatically selects one of the staged
files and shows it in the diff widget before I type up my commit
message. Naturally, this automatic selection should **only** happen
when the user chooses focus the "Commit Message" widget.

Why should it only happen when the commit message widget is selected? 
What's wrong with directly switching focus when all the files are 
staged?

That was my reaction, too.

What I have in mind is once there are no more files to stage, the focus 
directly goes to the staged files section, and the first staged file 
gets selected.

... or the last one that was staged. Typically, it is a fixup found
during testing that is staged last. Then I like to have a look at the
complete staged changes of that file.

 Then if you want you can type in the commit message. And

conversely, when unstaging things, once all files are unstaged, the 
focus goes directly to the unstaged files section.

Same here.

-- Hannes