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Cancel Retrieving history after you accidentally click Show history

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Clicking the option "Show history" for a document requires a lot of patience, as the retrieval of the history of a document sometimes takes 50 seconds. This is quite frustrating and could definetely be improved, however, this idea is about the blocking pop-up "Retrieving History" before the results are shown:

It would be very convenient if I could cancel this process, because I accidentally clicked it or don't need the change history anymore. This would save me lots of time!

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We're taking a two-step approach here. Step 1 is being implemented, step 2 is on the roadmap but not concretely planned yet.

  1. Speed up the loading of the history dialogue. Under the hood we're swapping out the Libgit2 implementation with Git CLI commands here. This will make it very fast. In addition we'll also change the batch-size of commits from 25 to 250, so there's less clicking needed.
  2. Provide a non-blocking history pane instead of a blocking dialogue. 

For step 2 we're in the early design phase which means we're conducting user interviews to validate the direction and early mock-ups. The actual planning of the feature is not determined yet, as other features like "quick branch switching" and "visual diffing between commits" are also in high-demand.

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Fully agree. This has never been fast, but it seems to take ages since the migration to GIT.

Would even be better if the popup was not blocking at all.

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