Eclipse has a plugin (http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Search_CVS)
that lets you search through the messages of a commit for given phrases.  On our project, we setup CVS to require an issue# with each commit and now I'm trying to files what files I've modified for a given issue.  If I had something like that for Netbeans, it would be very helpful.

thnx a bunch,
tom