Move commit summary popup to bottom of screen (position)

[linkarzu]

Let's say I'm typing a commit message and I forget the changes I made and I want to look at the staged changes pane, I have to cose the commit summary popup, look at the changes, and bring it back up to keep typing my message.

Is there a way to configure the position of the popup so that it shows at the bottom?

I searched but couldn't find how to do it

Here's my config
https://github.com/linkarzu/dotfiles-latest/blob/main/lazygit/config.yml

[stefanhaller]

I'm also in this situation sometimes, but I think just moving the panel to a different position wouldn't solve it. You'd also want to select different files, or at least scroll the diff view, none of which is possible while the popup is showing. We'd need a non-modal UI for committing, maybe like in git gui.

But I also have to say that I find closing the popup and then reopening it to be an acceptable workaround. It remembers the commit message, so you don't lose what you typed already. And when pressing tab from the subject it puts the cursor at the end of the body, so you can simply continue typing there.

[linkarzu]

Yeah, I do love the fact that I can close the popup, see what I need to see, re-open it and it remembers my message so that I could continue writing.
I do understand that you want to select different files and scroll through the diff view, I do that all the time and I don't have any complaints there, those 2 are amazing the way they work. I sometimes write multiple commits per file, and I'm used to this too, works wonderfully.

My specific suggestion is because, most of the times I get ready to type a commit on a file, as shown on image1 below, and I say to myself, I'll remember what I did, but then the popup shows up, my mind goes blank, don't remember what it was about, and the popup is inconveniently at the place where the action happens (image1), so I have to close it and say "ah, OK, I remember, I deleted that function" (image2) then re-open it and continue with my message

I would save so much time if the popup position would be configurable, I'm not saying it should be the default but just an option, so I'd just move it to the bottom left corner, I don't care if it doesn't look pretty, I just want to have it outside of my Staged changes area

Image1 below (popup in the way)

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Image2 below (have to close popup to remember what I did)

[mark2185]

Since you're already using nvim, there may be an alternative that suits you - in such situations I usually open up the editor using C, and since I have this in my gitconfig, I see the entire diff:

[commit]
	verbose = true

[linkarzu]

Sorry, I got lost here, are you talking about this file?

And then you mention you bring up the editor using c, by this you mean lazygit and the commit popup that shows when you press c?

I'm always inside neovim, I almost never run any git commands outside of it, I'm working on my changes, when done, bring up lazygit from within neovim and start working there. Is your suggestion skipping lazygit altogether? Sorry, I got lost and just trying to understand

[mark2185]

Sorry, I got lost here, are you talking about this file?

If that's your global gitconfig file, then yes, that's the gitconfig file I was referring to.

And then you mention you bring up the editor using c, by this you mean lazygit and the commit popup that shows when you press c?

It was uppercase C, which is keybinding for Commit changes using git editor which, for me, opens it up in vim where I can see the entire diff for the commit I'm making.

[linkarzu]

Really appreciate you suggesting that, thank you very much 🙇

But I'd like to stay in LazyGit. If I could just configure the position of the commit message popup I'd become a 10X engineer, trust me bro