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gitk touching paths highlighting oddity

From
MBMark Burton <markb@ordern.com>
Date
Nov 14, 2008, 17:51 UTC
Message-ID
<loom.20081114T173548-920@post.gmane.org>
Hi,

Using gitk (1.6.0.4) within a given subdirectory of a working tree, I wanted to see those commits that affected files in the current directory so I selected touching paths" and then typed "." into the entry field (That's right isn't it?)

On pressing the Next button, not only was a relevant commit successfully found and highlighted (commit message boldened) but all of the "." characters in the commit message list were given a yellow background (as if I was searching the text for "."). Surely the yellow text highlighting shouldn't happen when finding paths?

A quick look at the gitk code left me no wiser hence this email.
Mark
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  1. Mark BurtonNov 14, 2008

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