History for Commit message

[hajo4]

Just like here, for entering the title of new issues.

That would make it more easy to re-use
one of the previous commit messages,
if you revisited+fixed an earlier edit,
after some other saves.

[tmcw]

This doesn't seem like something that should be in the domain of iD; a user can easily pull up their own commit history.

[jfirebaugh]

I could see this being done in a helpful yet unobtrusive way. iD could do a changeset API request behind the scenes and then autocomplete commit messages based on that.

[hajo4]

When mapping, I often have cycles like

• "paint new houses",
• "new pub x"
• "added housenumbers"
• "new shop y"
• "more new houses"
• "update data for x"
  etc.

So, re-using old commit-messages would be really helpful.

@tmcw : "easily" as in

• open new tab
• go to user-page at www.openstreetmap.org/user/xxx
• go to "My Edits"
• find old commit-message
• copy
• change back to map-tab
• paste into field for commit-comment

as opposed to "cllck+edit" ?

Also, no need to go for old commit-messages in the database,
just remember the commits from the current session.

[tmcw]

If the commit message uses a input type=text instead of a textarea, then we could just use browser autocomplete.

[HolgerJeromin]

IMO no need for calling the API. This is better stored in the browser storage.