Search through commit history instead of just browse.

I'd love to be able to search though commit history either based on keywords. I spend a good amount of time figuring out what other team members did, and being able to search for concepts throughout the history of commits would be killer for me.

I don't know if you would want to have search terms applied to commit mesages, code content, or usernames, but there is definitely a chance for some interesting features here. Perhaps, instead of search, take advantage of tagging...that would work quite well with the Lighthouse integration.

This is no small task, but you could probably add some of this functionality just by tossing acts_as_ferret onto changeset models. (BTW, I'm assuming this is built in Rails and not .Net...I know Wildbit does both) This could definitely grind your server pretty hard, though.
 
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