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Bug 368346

Summary: Commit viewer should link to History view
Product: [Technology] EGit Reporter: Markus Keller <markus.kell.r>
Component: UIAssignee: Kevin Sawicki <kevin>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: matthias.sohn, stephan.herrmann
Version: 1.3   
Target Milestone: 1.3   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Markus Keller CLA 2012-01-11 09:16:56 EST 
Commit viewers should link to the History view if "Link with Editor and Selection" is enabled there: Set History view input to the repository and select the commit.

"Show In > History" is also not available in a commit viewer.

Workarounds I found is to open the Working Tree Version of a file or click the repository label in the commit viewer. That at least feeds the right repo into the History view, but you still have to find the commit manually.
Comment 1 Kevin Sawicki CLA 2012-01-24 15:10:18 EST 
Proposed fix pushed to: http://egit.eclipse.org/r/4992
Comment 2 Matthias Sohn CLA 2012-01-25 19:14:39 EST 
merged as 933ff93918bff14d86355270e1dba2f3c8fad493
Comment 3 Stephan Herrmann CLA 2014-04-24 06:27:07 EDT 
(In reply to Markus Keller from comment #0)
> "Show In > History" is also not available in a commit viewer.

I've searched the UI several times for any clues how to find the current commit from the commit viewer in the history view. I always ended up copying the SHA1 and doing a search, which isn't convenient.

Only today I found that not the commit viewer but the history is able to make the connection.

Wouldn't it be nice, cool and easy if the toolbar of the commit viewer allows this, too? It already has a link to the repository, why not a "history" button which puts focus on this commit?
Comment 4 Stephan Herrmann CLA 2014-04-24 06:46:35 EDT 
(In reply to Stephan Herrmann from comment #3)
> (In reply to Markus Keller from comment #0)
> > "Show In > History" is also not available in a commit viewer.
> 
> I've searched the UI several times for any clues how to find the current
> commit from the commit viewer in the history view. I always ended up copying
> the SHA1 and doing a search, which isn't convenient.
> 
> Only today I found that not the commit viewer but the history is able to
> make the connection.
> 
> Wouldn't it be nice, cool and easy if the toolbar of the commit viewer
> allows this, too? It already has a link to the repository, why not a
> "history" button which puts focus on this commit?

I moved this to its own RFE : bug 433386 :)