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From: Lyndon Brown <jnqnfe@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [gitk] searching misses relevant commits
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:08:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14a46bcf8da119af8b8882fe77a0d96ff3984b1a.camel@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

When searching commits (by which I mean the "find" feature), sometimes
relevant entries are missed which should have been selected. I reported
this to Debian as bug #969197 ([1]).

I gave an example in the Debian bug report of searching the VLC
codebase for commits adding/removing "set_capability" (exact; all
fields). While 888451fe5146a49de8d49e830dbe57dd478e358f was one of
those found, the adjacent
commit 46650ad3f7f92d2757c43b42aa170965dc1df25c was skipped, despite it
being entirely relevant.

Changing to IgnCase makes no difference.

I'm a Debian Linux user, running version 1:2.28.0-1.

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=969197


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