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Bug 360868

Summary:	Show In > History on a commit/tag/branch does not work
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Deepak Azad <deepakazad>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	b.michael, daniel_megert, markus.kell.r, remy.suen, robin, twolf
Version:	1.2	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	5.5
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://git.eclipse.org/r/145568 https://git.eclipse.org/c/egit/egit.git/commit/?id=10293f9f0c3739a66e772d7cd3e7560f7c4b7ccd
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Description Deepak Azad

2011-10-13 12:32:10 EDT

Eclipse 4.2 - I20111007-1625 and EGit - 1.2.0.201110091909

'Git Seach' and click 'Show In > History' on a commit in the search result list
=>  It just brings up the history view, but does not highlight or navigate to the commit (like the find toolbar).

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2012-08-21 09:51:27 EDT

Still a problem in latest EGit builds.

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2013-01-14 08:15:07 EST

It works if all branches are shown. The GitHistoryPage should show a dialog and ask whether to remove the filter.

Comment 3 Markus Keller

2014-02-19 08:45:50 EST

It would be better if the selection in the Git Repositories view would also modify the History view input so that commits for the selected branches are shown (only temporarily, until a new History view input is set).

I don't think a dialog is necessary. EGit also doesn't show a dialog when the History view is filtered to a specific file.

See also bug 381520 (asks for an explicit permanent selection of refs to show).

Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2019-07-06 14:06:00 EDT

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/145568

Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2019-07-07 12:40:37 EDT

Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/145568 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/egit/egit.git/commit/?id=10293f9f0c3739a66e772d7cd3e7560f7c4b7ccd

Comment 6 Thomas Wolf

2019-07-07 12:49:29 EDT

If the commit history is limited (See Preferences->Team->Git->History, "Maximum number of commits to show") and the selected branch, tag, or commit is beyond this cut-off, it is still _not_ shown.

That was a conscious implementation decision; if the user set a low limit, he or she probably had reasons to do so, and thus respecting this limit instead of going on until the wanted commit was included in the list seemed prudent.