Support an easy jump to commit comparison from a merge request's Changes tab
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Proposal
The next/previous commits feature in merge requests is a really nice feature. However, attempting to start reviewing per commit over merge request versions is (subjectively) not intuitive for users.
If a merge request includes a stack of patches/commits (for whatever reason it needs to stack), a reviewer who jumps to the Changes tab to start reviewing may be overwhelmed by such a change set. If a user inspects the changes compare actions trying to perform a commit comparison, there is no immediate option to do so:
The only way to jump to a commit comparison is to venture to the Commits subtab then select a random commit. This should then move back to the Changes tab and show to a user the active commit being inspected and the ability to move to next/previous commit(s):
It would be nice if the Changes tab had an easy way to enable the commit navigation directly. For example, adding a Compare Commits button in the scenario that a merge requests has more than one commit:
In a similar style as when viewing a version change and the ability to move back to the "all changes" comparision:
