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Log, Graph: when the graph is filtered, highlight the matching text parts in commit message/author columns

Marc Strapetz 4 years ago updated by Chris Kline 4 years ago 1

Sometimes it's not immediately obvious why a commit has been matched by the Log Graph filter. Hence, it would be helpful to highlight the matching part of the text (e.g. in the commit message or author name) for quicker understanding. Highlighting could be done using a different text background color (like browsers do). The color should be configurable, at least using Low Level properties.

This would be quite helpful for me. Our commit graph has lots of merges, so when filtering the graph by, say, author name, half the commits shown are just merges and not actual matches. Having a way to visually identify the actual matches would make it much easier to understand filtered graphs.