Code highlight in merge request window
Problem to solve
When doing code review you sometimes want to follow a newly initialized and declared variable. This is hard to do since you need to ctrl+f the variable.
Intended users
Development Team Lead Software Developer DevOps Engineer
Further details
The use case is the code review. A benefit is the improvement of code review in terms of quality and speed (Faster understanding of context)
Proposal
As a developer, when I select a variable, the same variable should be highlighted elsewhere in the diff.
This would be the same as the Web IDE.
Permissions and Security
You need to be able to view the merge request diff
Documentation
Testing
What does success look like, and how can we measure that?
A success of this proposal would improve the merge request review. A measurement could be the number of times the code highlight feature is used.
Links / references
Edited by James Ramsay (ex-GitLab)