Bug 433386

Summary: Commit viewer should provide some way to "show in history"
Product: [Technology] EGit Reporter: Stephan Herrmann <stephan.herrmann>
Component: UIAssignee: Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: markus.kell.r, matthias.sohn, robin, swamblumat-eclipsebugs
Version: 3.3Keywords: bugday, helpwanted
Target Milestone: 3.4   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:

Description Stephan Herrmann CLA 2014-04-24 06:46:07 EDT 
(In reply to Markus Keller from bug 368346 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 1 Robin Stocker CLA 2014-04-25 13:59:40 EDT 
Agreed, would be nice and should not be hard to implement. The icon could be the one from the history view. Added helpwanted and bugday keywords, maybe one of our new contributors wants to pick this up.
Comment 2 Konrad Kügler CLA 2014-04-26 14:10:34 EDT 
Suggested patch at https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/25611/
Comment 3 Matthias Sohn CLA 2014-04-26 19:08:28 EDT 
merged as 9924f686a5d6150c0cff76a6994a69d852707d86