Sizing bar should always be visible for Commit Message

23 votes

For completed commits, the window for displaying the commit message is often too small but can't be resized unless you click on it which makes the software think you want to edit it. It would be good if the sizing bar was visible always

Done Quality of Life Suggested by: Michael Pitt (12 Aug, '21) • Upvoted: 24 Jan, '23 • Comments: 9

Comments: 9

19 Aug, '21
Jim A
Yes please improve this! Not only is the window too small but when scrolling with mouse wheel it scrolls too far so the next line I want to read is always halfway off the screen. I end up trying to resize and end up editing the message.
19 Sep, '21
Vladislav Javadov
It's better to have a button to expand the message to be fully visible, and turn it off back.
07 Oct, '21
Erwan Egasse
I need this. The current commit message window feels so clunky for not having it. Feels like a step back from Sublime Merge, which has plenty of space for it.
22 Feb, '22
ALEXANDR KULEMIN
I need this. Quite often big commit description I show from terminal, because of from gitkraken it's too uncomfortable.
31 Aug, '22
Stefan Bürk
Yeah, this one nagging me quite often. Having a resize option (which should be persisted/remebered) would be nice and really welcome.
Or at least a 50% height ... (woudl nag other, so persistend state would be nice). Or some kind of option which can be set.
05 Jan, '23
Aaron P
Agree with the above. And even worse, now with version 9.0.1 the resizing of the commit window is now broken :-(
10 May, '23
Joey Kelroy Admin
"(Withdrawn) Resizeable textbox for displaying commit messages" (suggested by Inaki on 2022-06-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
11 Jul, '23
Trevor Admin
You can now resize commit messages in the Commit Panel with the release of GitKraken Client 9.6!

The resize handle will be available for all commit messages in the Commit Panel, not just when you're amending a commit message.

For more details, visit our release notes: https://help.gitkraken.com/gitkraken-client/current/#version-9-6-0

Thank you for providing feedback to help us improve GitKraken Client!
12 Jul, '23
Michael
Awesome. Thanks Trevor.
Just one slight detail. If you click in the message area it resizes back to the default.
I often want to select and copy the text to paste it somewhere else.
It still works, but a little awkward.
Cheers