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Viewing commit messages of a line in Changes in Merge Request

Description

When viewing Changes in a Merge Request, assuming that the merge request consists of several commits, and that the commit messages have helpful information, it seems beneficial to be able to view said commit messages.

The alternative to this that I see at the moment is to browse the files of each commit, which is tedious and has the disadvantage that one might inspect a line which is changed in a later commit (assuming one travels forward in time), without being aware of the later changes, or see a problem that might get resolved in a later commit.

Proposal

When viewing Changes in a Merge Request, upon clicking on a line that was changed, all commits and commit messages that are part of the diff are displayed.

I first thought to only use the latest message, but it might be important to understand the whole story of changes.