gitk: add horizontal scrollbar to the commit list pane
When many branches and tags decorate the same commit, the ref labels push the commit description far to the right, often out of the visible area of the left pane. The canvas widget already tracked the maximum x extent via canvxmax and updated its scrollregion accordingly, but there was no scrollbar wired up to let the user reach that content. Add a horizontal scrollbar (.tf.histframe.cxsb) below the three-pane history area, connected to the left canvas (canv) via its xscrollcommand and xview. No behaviour is changed for the author (canv2) or date (canv3) panes; they continue to scroll only vertically in lock-step as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Rob McDonald <rob.a.mcdonald@gmail.com>
Rob McDonald committed
Apr 14, 2026 at 09:34 UTC
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index 2730274966..0f3571050b 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -2469,7 +2469,8 @@ proc makewindow {} {
-selectbackground $selectbgcolor \
-background $bgcolor -bd 0 \
-xscrollincr $linespc \
- -yscrollincr $linespc -yscrollcommand "scrollcanv $cscroll"
+ -yscrollincr $linespc -yscrollcommand "scrollcanv $cscroll" \
+ -xscrollcommand ".tf.histframe.cxsb set"
.tf.histframe.pwclist add $canv
set canv2 .tf.histframe.pwclist.canv2
canvas $canv2 \
@@ -2487,9 +2488,11 @@ proc makewindow {} {
.tf.histframe.pwclist sashpos 0 [lindex $::geometry(pwsash0) 0]
}
- # a scroll bar to rule them
+ # a scroll bar to rule them (vertical), and one for horizontal scroll of left pane
ttk::scrollbar $cscroll -command {allcanvs yview}
pack $cscroll -side right -fill y
+ ttk::scrollbar .tf.histframe.cxsb -orient horizontal -command "$canv xview"
+ pack .tf.histframe.cxsb -side bottom -fill x
bind .tf.histframe.pwclist <Configure> {resizeclistpanes %W %w}
lappend bglist $canv $canv2 $canv3
pack .tf.histframe.pwclist -fill both -expand 1 -side left