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gitk: highlighting commits "touching path" with globs doesn't work for files list

From
Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
Date
Nov 29, 2012, 13:51 UTC
Message-ID
<20121129135130.GA24445@onerussian.com>
Hi GIT Gurus,

Highlighting files (in patch view) and commits which modified those files is a really nice feature to have. Often it is needed to highlight based on a glob expression for files, e.g. '*Makefile*' -- that seems to highlight the commits but files in the patch view are no longer highlighted, which significantly reduces usefulness of such a feature.

Also, those choices (Exact/IgnCase/Regexp) seems to have no relation with the edit box when looking for "touching path" files, so shouldn't it be somehow disabled/emptied to avoid users trying to create the ultimate filepattern regexp for no good reason? (the same for next field on where to search through -- All Fields/... ) ;)

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  1. Yaroslav HalchenkoNov 29, 2012

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