I'm genuinely surprised that this doesn't seem to have been reported, but I 
swear I did my homework searching in Google, in this users list, and in the 
Git Community Mailing List, without relevant results. So, here it goes.

Gitk "find commit" search function doesn't follow the "IgnCase" option that 
is selectable with a combo selector on the right side of the window; it 
should be searching in a case-insensitive way, but it doesn't.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Clone any repo. I'm right now using 
https://github.com/Kurento/kms-core.git
2. cd into the repo and launch gitk
3. In the "Find commit" bar, select "changing lines matching"
4. In the right side of the same bar, select "IgnCase"
5. Search for a term that you know exists in uppercase, but write the 
search in lowercase. In my example, I'm searching for "leaky_time".
6. No search results appear.
7. Change your search word to uppercase.
8. Some search results appear, thus proving that the search is being done 
case-sensitive.

The only direct mention of this issue that I was able to find was this 
answer that seems to confirm that this is a bug, but doesn't help much:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11964704/msysgit-how-do-i-use-gitk-to-search-for-string-in-commit-ignoring-case

Should I follow steps from https://git-scm.com/community and write a bug 
report directly to the Git mailing list? Or maybe this is well known and 
the solution is hidden somewhere here?

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