Re: [PATCH] gitk: Add a "Copy commit summary" command

["Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 13:34 -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:42 AM,  <dev+git@drbeat.li> wrote:
> > From: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
> > 
> > When referencing earlier commits in new commit messages or other 
> > text,
> > one of the established formats is
> > 
> >     commit <abbrev-sha> ("<summary>", <author-date>)
> 
> That sounds like I would use it a lot! Thanks :)
> 

Yep, quite useful. Also, the kernel suggests using it as a tag like so

Fixes: <abbrev-sha> ("summary")

I really like this :)

Regards,
Jake

> > 
> > Add a "Copy commit summary" command to the context menu that puts 
> > this
> > text for the currently selected commit on the clipboard. This makes 
> > it
> > easy for our users to create well-formatted commit references.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> > ---
> >  gitk-git/gitk | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/gitk-git/gitk b/gitk-git/gitk
> > index 9a2daf3..0612331 100755
> > --- a/gitk-git/gitk
> > +++ b/gitk-git/gitk
> > @@ -2617,6 +2617,7 @@ proc makewindow {} {
> >         {mc "Diff selected -> this" command {diffvssel 1}}
> >         {mc "Make patch" command mkpatch}
> >         {mc "Create tag" command mktag}
> > +       {mc "Copy commit summary" command copysummary}
> >         {mc "Write commit to file" command writecommit}
> >         {mc "Create new branch" command mkbranch}
> >         {mc "Cherry-pick this commit" command cherrypick}
> > @@ -9341,6 +9342,19 @@ proc mktaggo {} {
> >      mktagcan
> >  }
> > 
> > +proc copysummary {} {
> > +    global rowmenuid commitinfo
> > +
> > +    set id [string range $rowmenuid 0 7]
> > +    set info $commitinfo($rowmenuid)
> > +    set commit [lindex $info 0]
> > +    set date [formatdate [lindex $info 2]]
> > +    set summary "[mc "commit"] $id (\"$commit\", $date)"
> > +
> > +    clipboard clear
> > +    clipboard append $summary
> > +}
> > +
> >  proc writecommit {} {
> >      global rowmenuid wrcomtop commitinfo wrcomcmd NS
> > 
> > --
> > 2.1.4
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