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Re: gitk highlight feature

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 20, 2006, 16:42 UTC
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On Sat, 20 May 2006, Paul Mackerras wrote:
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> 
> I just pushed some changes to the "new" branch of the gitk.git
> repository which change the way we do highlighting.  There is now a
> row of controls across the middle of the window, just below the row
> containing the sha1 ID, "Find" button, etc., which controls the
> highlighting.

Ok, this is much nicer, I think this ends up being much closer to what I really wanted, even if I didn't know quite how I wanted it.

I think the "Find" field should highlight things too. Right now there's no way to get highlighting for somebody having signed-off on a patch, for example, even though you can _search_ for it.

Also, right now it says "Author/committer", but it actually only triggers on author. Which may be the right thing to do (it's certainly what I'd normally want to see), but it doesn't match the description. 

		Linus
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