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Bug 339796

Summary:	Allow column choice in History View
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Wayne Stidolph <wayne>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	dave.keber, kevinsheedy, markus.kell.r, matthias.sohn, remy.suen, robin, till2.schaefer
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	5.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://git.eclipse.org/r/126447 https://git.eclipse.org/c/egit/egit.git/commit/?id=5b76c96c4b38c2e3a6286190c361dc8dcb3b4a71
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Description Wayne Stidolph

2011-03-12 11:57:31 EST

I'd like to select what fields are visible in the History view, and in what order. For example, while I'm working on a branch by myself I would like to hide the Author and Committer fields (it's always me!)

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-12-02 14:34:18 EST

*** Bug 365400 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Kevin Sheedy

2012-10-01 06:45:11 EDT

Me too. The history view is a bit cluttered and could do with a tidy up. It's one of the cases where "less is more".

Comment 3 Robin Stocker

2012-10-01 07:03:19 EDT

Do you know about the following preferences?:

* Go to Team > Git > History
* Check "Relative Dates"
* Uncheck "E-mail addresses in Author/Committer columns"

These get rid of some noise (don't know which of these are defaults right now).

Apart from that, it would probably make sense to be able to hide author/committer fields. I don't know about allowing everything to be changed/reordered though.

Comment 4 Kevin Sheedy

2012-10-01 09:10:22 EDT

Thanks Robin, that removes a little of the clutter but it would still be great if all the columns were customizable. At present, I just can't use this view and have to use the TortoiseGit history instead.

Just as an example of one "user story", here are the columns I'd like to see on my History View, and in this order:

1) Branch Graph (without the branch names)
2) Commit Message (again, without branch names)
3) Committer
4) Date of Commit

I don't want the following in my main history view, instead they should be available in the Revision Details or Revision Comment section:

1) ID (7-digits of hex is just not useful to me at a glance)
2) Branch Names
3) Author - I don't know how this is different to "Commitor"
4) Authored Date - again, don't know how this is different from "Committed Date"

These are just my preferences but it would be great if eGit was customizable enough to support this.

Comment 5 David Keber

2014-09-04 09:59:15 EDT

This request is still relevant, as Mars M1 still exhibits the same (lack of) behavior. Is it going to be addressed before Mars gets to RTM?

I would like to further request that the location of the columns is remembered between invocations (this is not always the case).

Comment 6 Till Schäfer

2018-07-19 08:59:30 EDT

still relevant in photon

Comment 7 Eclipse Genie

2018-07-22 11:58:34 EDT

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/126447

Comment 8 Eclipse Genie

2018-08-01 19:57:11 EDT

Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/126447 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/egit/egit.git/commit/?id=5b76c96c4b38c2e3a6286190c361dc8dcb3b4a71