Tig: Feature Request: Ability to show short commit hash in main view

Created on 22 Oct 2014 · 11Comments · Source: jonas/tig

When I go into git blame view on a file within tig I see the short commit hash for each line of the file. I can then press enter and see the log message and diff for that commit. It would be great for the main view to have the ability to show the short commit hash alongside time/author etc.. This is nice for when you want to copy/paste multiple references quickly without having to move to each one in tig to find the hash.

Thanks!

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dustymabe

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@hossbeast Use set main-view-id = yes and alternatively set main-view-id-width = 20 to set the width of the column.

jonas on 18 Aug 2016

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You can toggle this in tig with :toggle show-id or you can enable it
permanently via the main-view option.
On Oct 22, 2014 8:19 AM, "Dusty Mabe" [email protected] wrote:

When I go into git blame view on a file within tig I see the short commit
hash for each line of the file. I can then press enter and see the log
message and diff for that commit. It would be great for the main view to
have the ability to show the short commit hash alongside time/author etc..
This is nice for when you want to copy/paste multiple references quickly
without having to move to each one in tig to find the hash.

Thanks!

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jonas on 22 Oct 2014

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Perfect! Thank you so much

dustymabe on 22 Oct 2014

what is the correct incantation to enable this feature in .tigrc?

I have set main-view = yes but it does not work

hossbeast on 17 Aug 2016

@hossbeast Use set main-view-id = yes and alternatively set main-view-id-width = 20 to set the width of the column.

jonas on 18 Aug 2016

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It's :toggle id now.

VonUniGE on 28 Jan 2019

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:toggle id worked in Ubuntu 16.04's tig version, but set main-view-id = yes in ~~.tmuxrc~~.tigrc didn't.

poige on 3 Jan 2020

@poige, maybe you should try .tigrc instead of .tmuxrc...

koutcher on 16 Jan 2020

@koutcher thank you, but this was a mistype I've made somehow when commenting. Here's what I meant instead:

%  cat ~/.tigrc; lsb_release -a
set main-view-id = yes

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Release:        16.04
Codename:       xenial

poige on 17 Jan 2020

@poige, what is your tig version (tig -v) ?

koutcher on 17 Jan 2020

It's not "my tig version", currently I have Ubuntu 18.04, my comment was purely informational — for those who still use Ubuntu 16.04. I doubt it'd be ever possible to ship a fix into 16.04 package.

poige on 20 Jan 2020