Joel Kulesza wrote: > Is there a way to bring these consistent so a user can clearly see which > commits are going to be compared? I understand the ease associated with > the HEAD~N approach; however, can that information be put into the Version > Control Log? Alternatively, could a Version Control Log-like text box be > added to the diff dialog and populated with "git log -N" according to the > "N" selected by the user? This latter approach is likely (a) easier and > (b) more descriptive.
What sounds relatively easy is to add one-line text field next to "Revision back: N" counter which contains the ouput of: git show --quiet --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline HEAD~N which would be triggered for any value entered in the counter. Pavel