GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 620834
Display "commit name" in tooltips when hovering the lane bubbles
Last modified: 2018-05-22 13:04:10 UTC
When there are long parallel lanes displayed, it's something difficult to figure out on which branch we are currently. An idea to workaround this would be to display a tooltip when hovering the bubble. This tooltip would contain the result of git-name-rev or git-describe.
IMHO, the concerned branches should be displayed on the details pane. Use case: when you are lost in the history, select a commit and look at its details pane, it will display all the branches containing this commit (like gitk does).
Created attachment 246589 [details] Screenshot of Gitg showing long commit messages being snipped off due to restrictive column sizes. The bug report from Steve and commit from Guilhem basically say that long commit messages are snipped due to fixed column sizes of the 'commit message', 'author' and 'time' details in hte history view.
Marking bug as NEW.
Actually, this is more a problem of having many long "lanes" shown in parallel. It's then not really obvious which lane represents which part (usually a branch) of a repository. This is not a problem of the commit message not being visible. I like the idea of having a tooltip when hovering over the lane, showing reachable branches. The suggestion of Guilhem also looks like a good idea to have implemented in the new gitg.
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