How to keep diff view open?

[ChrisTaylorDeveloper]

Is it possible to keep the diff view open as I move up and down the commits in the graph?

If I select a commit in the graph, then select CHANGES, then select a file I see the diff view. However, if I then move to another commit, the diff view closes until I select a changed file again.

If there are multiple changed files per commit then showing the diff for the first file in the list would be fine.

[love-linger]

This issue has been raised many times.

The mainstream suggestions currently received include:

• After the repository is loaded, the current HEAD should be selected automatically.
• Always switch to the INFORMATION page after commit changed to quickly find out if this commit is the one we want to get.
• Keep the current page, and if it is not the INFORMATION page, there are two different suggestions
  • Automatically select the first file or change
  • Automatically select the last viewed change or file

The main reasons why SourceGit did not choose one of these options are:

• As can be seen from the above, each solution has its own specific situation.

• When the viewing commit changes, a series of Git commands are executed, including but not limited to

  • get the entire message of this commit
  • get the change file list included in current commit
  • get the files that contains in the revision of the commit

  and after adding automatic selection, it will increase again.

  • calcuate the diff of the selected change
  • get the entire content of the selected revision file

  on some low-configured machines, too many git process will stuck the app.

• For some users or at certain times, the results of these auto-selection are meaningless. For example, suppose that you are switching commits quickly and frequently to find the one you need.

• I don't think it's difficult for users to manually select the files they want to view when they need to.

[ChrisTaylorDeveloper]

Thank you for your detailed reply.