Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There are currently two ways to search the commits view:
- text-based search via '/', which allows you to search based on the commit hash or commit message summary (i.e. whatever is visible in the view)
- searching by file path
I want a more comprehensive search feature that allows searching by:
- commit message (whole commit message, not just the summary)
- author
- file path
- file diff content
I also want to be able to specify whether I want to search within the whole repo or just the current branch (similar to Fork):
Describe the solution you'd like
I don't have a proposal for a design: I think it's worth looking at how various other git GUIs support search and then choose a design that we think works best for lazygit. Notably, I like gitui's approach where you can search and specify what you want to search within and then it shows the results in context, with non-matches greyed out (and your cursor skips over those when navigating)
In Fork, you only specify a single attribute to search by (e.g. author, message) and results are shown in a side view, and if you click on one, it selects the corresponding item in the main graph view
I think gitui's approach makes more sense for lazygit which doesn't have a main graph view like many git GUIs do. We could add a keybinding for whether we show the greyed out non-matching commits or not.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There are currently two ways to search the commits view:
I want a more comprehensive search feature that allows searching by:
I also want to be able to specify whether I want to search within the whole repo or just the current branch (similar to Fork):
Describe the solution you'd like
I don't have a proposal for a design: I think it's worth looking at how various other git GUIs support search and then choose a design that we think works best for lazygit. Notably, I like gitui's approach where you can search and specify what you want to search within and then it shows the results in context, with non-matches greyed out (and your cursor skips over those when navigating)
In Fork, you only specify a single attribute to search by (e.g. author, message) and results are shown in a side view, and if you click on one, it selects the corresponding item in the main graph view
I think gitui's approach makes more sense for lazygit which doesn't have a main graph view like many git GUIs do. We could add a keybinding for whether we show the greyed out non-matching commits or not.