[Feature request] default commit message

[Mark2Mark]

Proposal: When only one item is staged, offer the default message shown as a placeholder string in the commit message field "Update <filename>" and use that when committing and nothing was typed into the message by the user.

Similar to the Github Desktop app, which does that, it would for instance read "Update a.ss01.glyph". Surely one might have better messages to put, but often I use that actually for quicker work.

When multiple files are staged, nothing changes compared to the current behaviour.

[florianpircher]

Yes, I also see the commit message as potential hurdle for people first getting started with Git.

Your example would probably read more like “Update /a.ss01”. And it would be great if there was some default for multiple files, too. And more specific messages, like “Add Intermediate layer to /someglyph” or similar, but that will have to stay a dream for some time.

[Mark2Mark]

“Update /a.ss01”

Yes, that’s what I usually do. Would indeed be better to parse a .glyph into that style. But other files (fontinfo, ...) could just be left by their file name.

For multiple files I have no idea yet other than maybe compiling them into a list, in case it’s not too long. Or sth like "Update these glyphs:" in the commit message and followed by "/a /b /a.s01" in the additional commit note. There would have to be a limit though, to keep that message short and sensible.

The specific message idea is also nice, I assume that can quickly get out of hand. But you already implemented some sort of recognition and visual representation of things like intermediate layers, as I saw.