Default Commit Message Text

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It is not related to a problem, it is more related to convenience of use.

Describe the solution you’d like On GitHub.com, if you edit a single file, the default commit text “Update filename” appears, which is actually quite useful in some cases when making small tweaks to non-code files (Markdown files, CHANGELOGs, etc.). It would be nice if this feature was available in Desktop. I would assume it would only be provided if the user had only one file selected, or it could go further and say “Update filename, filename, …” if multiple files were selected, but I think having it work with only one file is fine.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered Really there are none, a lot of times I just manually insert this default commit message text when making small, trivial commits.

Teachability, Documentation, Adoption, Migration Strategy Users will be able to use this to increase their workflow speed. Many times, I find myself correcting 4 or 5 mistakes, back-to-back, and committing each one with default text of “Update filename”. Having this text show up automatically would increase the speedy workflow of Desktop.

[outofambit]

@redSlug @lean257 I am leaning towards parity with github.com, which is just the filename.

any thoughts @desktop/design?

[redSlug]

I’m looking at this