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[gitk] searching commits includes irrelevant file renaming entries

Subject: [gitk] searching commits includes irrelevant file renaming entries

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One message between Aug 31, 2020 and Aug 31, 2020.

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Lyndon Brown· Aug 31, 2020, 05:11 UTC · lore

Hi,

When searching commits in add/remove string mode, the search results include commits that simply rename files that contain the string. UX would be improved IMO if it were to ignore such commits.

I'm a Debian Linux user, running version 1:2.28.0-1.

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