GUI is annoying – Working Copy - Git client Review

The search doesn't seem to have any rhyme or reason to it. I search for start_kernel and it finds matches for "start" and for "kernel". Further there is no ordering to the results, it will randomly change on you while it's searching and it does not use longest match or path name to order results. It just gives you a smaller haystack. 3 stars because it's not all bad, I like having syntax highlighting and the file system navigation is okay. Finally I love the use-case that this app enables. If the author fixes those issues, this is a 4-5 star app. Would like to have vim color scheme support. Nowhere to respond to developer so modifying review: Turns out that the files eventually load, just takes a long time. I will try to hook up quicktime and make a recording to show you what I am talking about. The linux kernel source code repository is huge, so this might just be a feature (maybe the last 25 edits) loading. A UI bug causing artificial scaling issues (waiting for the history instead of loading history asynchronously after showing the code)? I updated the app but still find the search unusable. Its the fuzzy search behavior. I need something that searches for an exact string. It would be nice to have something like ctags so I could jump to definition as well. I understand the complexity in adding that sort of feature / the resource utilization required if you reindex so I know thats a hard ask, but if it is an opt-in feature, that would be nice :). My most recent search was for "#define __setup(" to find a macro definition, but it seems to ignore "#" because its probably a comment in languages like perl and python (IIRC).
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