Make searching for commits case insensitive.

Fixes #21800.

CHANGELOG

@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ v 8.13.0 (unreleased)
   - Fix unnecessary escaping of reserved HTML characters in milestone title. !6533
   - Add organization field to user profile
   - Fix deploy status responsiveness error !6633
+  - Make searching for commits case insensitive
   - Fix resolved discussion display in side-by-side diff view !6575
   - Optimize GitHub importing for speed and memory
   - API: expose pipeline data in builds API (!6502, Guilherme Salazar)

app/models/repository.rb

@@ -111,8 +111,10 @@ class Repository
   def find_commits_by_message(query, ref = nil, path = nil, limit = 1000, offset = 0)
     ref ||= root_ref
 
-    # Limited to 1000 commits for now, could be parameterized?
-    args = %W(#{Gitlab.config.git.bin_path} log #{ref} --pretty=%H --skip #{offset} --max-count #{limit} --grep=#{query})
+    args = %W(
+      #{Gitlab.config.git.bin_path} log #{ref} --pretty=%H --skip #{offset}
+      --max-count #{limit} --grep=#{query} --regexp-ignore-case
+    )
     args = args.concat(%W(-- #{path})) if path.present?
 
     git_log_results = Gitlab::Popen.popen(args, path_to_repo).first.lines.map(&:chomp)

spec/models/repository_spec.rb

@@ -97,12 +97,20 @@ describe Repository, models: true do
   end
 
   describe '#find_commits_by_message' do
-    subject { repository.find_commits_by_message('submodule').map{ |k| k.id } }
+    it 'returns commits with messages containing a given string' do
+      commit_ids = repository.find_commits_by_message('submodule').map(&:id)
 
-    it { is_expected.to include('5937ac0a7beb003549fc5fd26fc247adbce4a52e') }
-    it { is_expected.to include('6f6d7e7ed97bb5f0054f2b1df789b39ca89b6ff9') }
-    it { is_expected.to include('cfe32cf61b73a0d5e9f13e774abde7ff789b1660') }
-    it { is_expected.not_to include('913c66a37b4a45b9769037c55c2d238bd0942d2e') }
+      expect(commit_ids).to include('5937ac0a7beb003549fc5fd26fc247adbce4a52e')
+      expect(commit_ids).to include('6f6d7e7ed97bb5f0054f2b1df789b39ca89b6ff9')
+      expect(commit_ids).to include('cfe32cf61b73a0d5e9f13e774abde7ff789b1660')
+      expect(commit_ids).not_to include('913c66a37b4a45b9769037c55c2d238bd0942d2e')
+    end
+
+    it 'is case insensitive' do
+      commit_ids = repository.find_commits_by_message('SUBMODULE').map(&:id)
+
+      expect(commit_ids).to include('5937ac0a7beb003549fc5fd26fc247adbce4a52e')
+    end
   end
 
   describe '#blob_at' do