6 Usability, bells and whistles
7 -----------------------------
8 * The diff editor now wraps long lines by default. The diff options
9 menu can be used to enable/disable line wrapping.
10 (`#1123 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1123>`_)
12 * Git Cola now honors `core.hooksPath` for configuring custom Git hooks,
13 which was introduced in Git v2.9.
14 (`#1118 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1118>`_)
16 * A new `Ctrl + Shift + S` hotkey was added for staging/unstaging all
17 files, both modified and untracked.
19 * The `Status` tool now supports `Ctrl + A` for selecting all files and
20 it behaves more predictably when performing operations when multiple
21 categories of files are selected (eg. when both modified and untracked
22 header items are selected).
23 (`#1117 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1117>`_)
27 * Git Cola can now be started as a Python module.
28 (`#1119 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1119>`_)
35 Usability, bells and whistles
36 -----------------------------
37 * The startup dialog now detects when Recent and Favorite repositories no
38 longer exist on disk, and offers to remove these entries when selected.
39 (`#1089 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1089>`_)
41 * The startup dialog now includes a simpler and more condensed folder view
42 that can be used for selecting Favorites and Recent repositories.
43 (`#1086 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1086>`_)
45 * The "Commit" menu now includes an "Undo Last Commit" action.
46 (`#890 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/890>`_)
48 * The "Reset" menu was revamped to expose all of Git's reset modes alongside a
49 new "Restore Worktree" action that updates the worktree using "git read-tree".
50 (`#890 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/890>`_)
54 * Updated Polish translation.
55 (`#1107 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1107>`_)
57 * Updated Japanese translation.
58 (`#1098 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1098>`_)
60 * Updated Brazilian translation.
61 (`#1091 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1091>`_)
65 * The ``--use-env-python`` option for ``setup.py`` is now Python3 compatible.
66 (`#1102 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1102>`_)
73 Usability, bells and whistles
74 -----------------------------
75 * The submodules widget can now be used to add submodules.
76 Submodules are now updated recursively.
77 (`#534 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/534>`_)
79 * The image diff viewer can now be toggled between text and image modes.
80 This is helpful when, for example, diffing .svg files where it can be useful
81 to see diffs in both an image and text representation.
82 (`#859 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/859>`_)
83 (`#1035 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1035>`_)
85 * The default `ssh-askpass` username + password dialog included with Git Cola
86 can now toggle between showing and masking the password input field.
87 (`#1069 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1069>`_)
91 * Updated Polish translation.
92 (`#1076 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1076>`_)
94 * Updated Hungarian translation.
95 (`#1067 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1067>`_)
99 * The `share/appdata` AppStream data was renamed to `share/metainfo`
100 in accordance with `AppStream standard changes from 2016
101 <https://github.com/ximion/appstream/blob/master/NEWS#L1363>`_.
102 (`#1079 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1079>`_)
104 * The ``cola`` modules are now installed into the Python ``site-packages``
105 directory by default. This allows distributions to package ``git-cola`` for
106 multiple versions of Python. See the PACKAGING NOTES section in the README
107 for details about suppressing the installation of the private
108 ``share/git-cola/lib/cola`` modules when building cola.
109 (`#181 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/181>`_)
111 * Git Cola's rebase / sequence editor, formerly known as ``git-xbase`` and
112 installed as ``share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase``, has been renamed to
113 ``git-cola-sequence-editor`` and is now installed into the default
114 ``bin/git-cola-sequence-editor`` executable location to enable external
115 reuse of this general-purpose tool.
117 * A workaround used by the pynsist installer preamble script was obsoleted by
118 `takluyver/pynsist#149 <https://github.com/takluyver/pynsist/pull/149>`_
119 and has now been removed.
120 (`#1073 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1073>`_)
124 * `git dag` now uses integer widths when initializing its brushes.
125 (`#1080 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1080>`_)
132 Usability, bells and whistles
133 -----------------------------
134 * The ``git-xbase`` rebase editor now includes a file list for filtering
135 the changes displayed in the diff view.
136 (`#1051 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1051>`_)
138 * The fallback `ssh-askpass` script, which provides the Username/Password
139 login dialog when performing remote operations, previously presented both
140 the username and password input fields with ``***`` asterisks.
141 The dialog now uses asterisks for the password field only.
142 (`#1026 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1026>`_)
144 * Stashes can now be applied using the `Ctrl + Enter` hotkey, popped with the
145 `Ctrl + Backspace` hotkey, and dropped with the `Ctrl + Shift + Backspace`
146 hotkey when inside the stash dialog. This enables a keyboard-centric
147 mouse-free workflow when using the stash dialog.
149 * When amending a commit, `git cola` will check whether the commit has been
150 published to a remote branch using ``git branch -r --contains HEAD``.
151 This command can be slow when operating on a repository with many
152 remote branches. The new `cola.checkpublishedcommits` configuration
153 variable allows you to opt-out of this check, which improves performance
154 when amending a commit. The settings widget exposes this variable as,
155 "Check Published Commits when Amending".
156 (`#1021 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1021>`_)
157 (`#1027 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1027>`_)
161 * Updated Polish translation.
162 (`#1033 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1033>`_)
166 * ``git-dag.appdata.xml`` was updated to allow network access for author icons.
167 (`#1050 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1050>`_)
169 * The inotify filesystem monitor now handles
170 `OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files` errors by disabling inotify.
171 (`#1015 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1015>`_)
173 * Typos in various documentation files have been fixed.
174 (`#1025 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1025>`_)
176 * The "Recent Repositories" limit was off by one, and now correctly
177 remembers the configured number of repositories in the menu.
178 (`#1024 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1024>`_)
180 * The "revert" action in the DAG and other tools now uses
181 ``git revert --no-edit``, which avoids launching an editor
182 when reverting the commit. Use `Ctrl+m` in the commit message
183 editor after reverting a commit to rewrite its commit message.
184 (`#1020 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1020>`_)
191 Usability, bells and whistles
192 -----------------------------
193 * The remote editor is much faster since it no longer queries
194 remotes, and uses the cached information instead.
195 (`#986 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/986>`_)
197 * Commit message templates can now be loaded automatically by setting
198 ``git config cola.autoloadcommittemplate true``.
199 (`#1013 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1013>`_)
200 (`#735 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/735>`_)
202 * The UI layout can now be reset back to its initial state by selecting
203 the "Reset Layout" action. This reverts the layout to the same state
204 as when the app first launched.
205 (`#1008 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1008>`_)
206 (`#994 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/994>`_)
208 * Files can now be ignored in either the project's `.gitignore`, or in the
209 repository's private local `.git/info/exclude` ignore file.
210 (`#1006 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1006>`_)
211 (`#1000 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1000>`_)
213 * New remotes are now selected when they are added in the "Edit Remotes" tool.
214 (`#1002 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1002>`_)
216 * The "Recent" repositories list is now saved to disk when opening a
217 repository. Previously, this list was only updated when exiting the app.
218 (`#1001 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1001>`_)
220 * The bookmarks tool now has a "Delete" option in its right-click menu.
221 (`#999 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/999>`_)
223 * The current repository is no longer listed in the "File/Open Recent" menu.
224 (`#998 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/998>`_)
228 * Updated Hungarian translation.
229 (`#1005 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1005>`_)
230 (`#1018 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1018>`_)
232 * Updated Turkish translation.
233 (`#1003 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1003>`_)
234 (`#1011 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1011>`_)
238 * Better support for Python 3.8's line buffering modes.
239 (`#1014 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1014>`_)
241 * The default `ssh-askpass` script now uses a more generic `#!` shebang line.
242 (`#1012 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1012>`_)
244 * Fetch, push, and pull operations will now refresh the model and display when
246 (`#996 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/996>`_)
248 * The branches widget now refreshes its display when changing branches.
249 (`#992 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/992>`_)
253 * The `share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase` script will now have its `#!` lines
254 updated during installation.
255 (`#991 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/991>`_)
259 * The unit tests were made more platform-independent.
260 (`#993 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/993>`_)
267 Usability, bells and whistles
268 -----------------------------
269 * Auto-completion for filenames can now be disabled. This speeds up
270 revision completion when working in large repositories with many files.
271 (`#981 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/981>`_)
273 * The Stash dialog now shows the stash date as a tooltip when hovering
274 over a stashed change.
275 (`#982 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/982>`_)
277 * Qt HiDPI settings are overriden by the `git cola` HiDPI appearance settings.
278 These overrides can now be disabled by selecting the "Disable" mode.
279 This allows users to control Qt's HiDPI settings through environment
280 variables. Additionally, the "Auto" mode now detects the presence of
281 the Qt HiDPI variables and no longer overrides them when the user has
282 configured their environment explicitly.
283 (`#963 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/963>`_)
285 * Confirmation dialogs can now focus buttons using the Tab key.
286 Previously, the "Y" and "N" keys could be used to confirm or deny
287 using the keyboard, but "Tab" is more familiar.
288 (`#965 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/965>`_)
290 * Error dialogs (for example, when a commit hook fails) will now always
291 show the details. The details were previously hidden behind a toggle.
292 (`#968 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/968>`_)
296 * Updated Japanese translation.
297 (`#973 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/973>`_)
298 (`#974 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/974>`_)
300 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation.
301 (`#950 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/950>`_)
305 * The filesystem monitor no longer logs that it has been enabled after the
306 inotify watch limit is reached on Linux.
307 (`#984 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/984>`_)
309 * Better unicode robustness.
310 (`#990 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/990>`_)
311 (`#910 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/991>`_)
313 * The "Branches" widget did not always update itself when deleting branches
314 (for example, when inotify is disabled or unavailable).
315 (`#978 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/978>`_)
317 * Non-ascii unicode byte strings are more robustly handled by the log widget.
318 (`#977 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/977>`_)
320 * Non-unicode results from the `gettext` library are more robustly handled.
321 (`#969 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/969>`_)
323 * Launching `git cola` from within a directory that has since been deleted
324 would previously result in a traceback, and is now robustly handled.
325 (`#961 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/961>`_)
329 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.9`.
336 Usability, bells and whistles
337 -----------------------------
338 * The file browser now includes "Blame" in its context menu.
339 (`#953 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/953>`_)
341 * The "Push" action now uses "git push --force-with-lease" when using
342 the "Force" option with Git v1.8.5 and newer.
343 (`#946 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/946>`_)
345 * Updated German translation.
346 (`#936 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/936>`_)
348 * The `Status` widget learned to optionally display file counts in its
349 category headers, and indent the files displayed in each category.
350 (`#931 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/931>`_)
352 * The `Branches` widget can now sort branches by their most recent commit.
353 (`#930 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/930>`_)
355 * `git cola` now includes configurable GUI themes that can be used to style
356 the user interface. Enable the new themes by configuring `cola.theme`
357 in the preferences window. See the
358 `cola.theme documentation <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#cola-theme>`_
359 for more details. (`#924 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/924>`_)
361 * `git cola` now has built-in support for HiDPI displays by enabling
362 Qt's 5.6's `QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR` feature.
363 (`#938 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/938>`_)
365 * `git cola` now uses HiDPI pixmaps when rendering icons, and the builtin
366 icons have been updated to look sharp when displayed in HiDPI.
367 (`#932 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/932>`_)
371 * `git cola`'s "Revert Unstaged Edits" previously checked out from "HEAD^",
372 when in "Amend" mode, and removing staged changes. This behavior has been
373 changed to always checkout from the index, which avoids data loss.
374 (`#947 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/947>`_)
376 * `git cola` has been updated to work with newer versions of `gnome-terminal`
377 and no longer shell-quotes its arguments when launching `gnome-terminal`.
378 The `cola.terminalshellquote` configuration variable can be set to `true` to
379 get the old behavior, or to handle other terminals that take the command to run
380 as a single string instead of as arguments to `execv()`.
381 (`#935 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/935>`_)
383 * `git dag` now properly handles arbitrary input on Python3.
384 Previously, an exception would be raised when entering `--grep=xxx` where
385 `xxx` is a quoted string with a missing end-quote.
386 (`#941 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/941>`_)
390 * The contribution guidelines for contributors has been updated to mention
391 how to regenerate the `*.mo` message files.
392 (`#934 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/934>`_)
399 Usability, bells and whistles
400 -----------------------------
401 * `git dag` improved how it renders parent commits.
402 (`#921 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/921>`_)
404 * The `Branches` widget now checks out branches when double-clicked.
405 (`#920 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/920>`_)
407 * The new `Submodules` widget makes it easy to interact with submodules.
408 Additionally, submodules can now be updated using the `Status` widget.
409 (`#916 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/916>`_)
411 * Updated Japanese translation.
412 (`#914 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/914>`_)
414 * The "Open Terminal" action now launches a Git Bash shell on Windows.
415 (`#913 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/913>`_)
417 * New menu actions for updating all submodules.
418 (`#911 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/911>`_)
420 * The status widget can now update submodules.
421 (`#911 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/911>`_)
423 * The "Apply Patch" `git cola am` dialog now includes a diff viewer
424 to display the contents of the selected patch.
426 * The "Alt+D" diffstat hotkey now selects the staged/modified/etc.
427 header in the Status widget, which shows the totality of everything
428 that will be committed.
429 (`#771 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/771>`_)
431 * Running "Launch Editor" from the diff editor now opens the editor at the
433 (`#898 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/898>`_)
435 * The textwidth and tabwidth configuration values can now be set
436 per-repository, rather than globally only.
438 * Text entry widgets switched to using a block cursor in `v3.2`.
439 This has been reverted to the original line cursor for consistency
440 with other applications and user expectations.
441 (`#889 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/889>`_)
443 * The "edit at line" feature, used by the "Grep" tool, now supports
444 the Sublime text editor.
445 (`#894 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/894>`_)
449 * Launching external programs has been improved on Windows.
450 (`#925 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/925>`_)
452 * Improve compatibility when using PySide2.
453 (`#912 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/912>`_)
455 * The Diff Editor was not honoring the configured tab width on startup.
456 (`#900 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/900>`_)
458 * The "Delete Files" feature was creating an unreadable display when
459 many files were selected. Word-wrap the list of files so that the
460 display stays within a sensible size.
461 (`#895 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/895>`_)
463 * Spelling and grammar fixes.
464 (`#915 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/915>`_)
465 (`#891 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/891>`_)
469 * The logo was run through `tidy` to give it a consistent style.
470 Some technical issues with the logo were improved.
471 (`#877 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/877>`_)
473 * The entire codebase is now checked by `flake8`, rather than just
474 the module and test directories. This catches things like
475 the pynsist installer scripts.
476 (`#884 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/884>`_)
477 (`#882 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/882>`_)
478 (`#879 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/879>`_)
482 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.6`.
484 * The Windows installer's wrapper scripts were missing an import.
485 (`#878 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/878>`_)
492 Usability, bells and whistles
493 -----------------------------
494 * The `git cola dag` DAG window now supports `git revert`.
495 (`#843 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/843>`_)
497 * `git stash pop` is now supported by the stash dialog.
498 (`#844 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/844>`_)
500 * The status widget now ensures that each item is visible when selection
501 changes. Previously, if you scrolled to the right to see the name of
502 a long filename, and then selected a short filename above it, the widget
503 may not have shown the short filename in the viewport. We now ensure
504 that the filenames are visible when the selection changes.
505 (`#828 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/828>`_)
507 * The `git xbase` rebase editor no longer displays an error when
508 cancelling an interactive rebase.
509 (`#814 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814>`_)
511 * The dialog shown when renaming remotes has been simplified.
512 (`#840 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/840>`_)
513 (`#838 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/838>`_)
515 * The help dialog in the `git-xbase` Rebase editor is now scrollable.
516 (`#855 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/855>`_)
520 * Updated Brazilian translation.
521 (`#845 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/845>`_)
523 * Updated Czech translation.
524 (`#854 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/854>`_)
525 (`#853 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/853>`_)
526 (`#835 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/835>`_)
527 (`#813 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/813>`_)
529 * Update Spanish translation.
530 (`#862 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/862>`_)
531 (`#867 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/867>`_)
535 * The original `#!/usr/bin/env python` shebang lines can now be
536 retained by passing `USE_ENV_PYTHON=1` to `make` when installing.
537 (`#850 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/850>`_)
539 * The Makefile is now resilient to DESTDIR and prefix containing whitespace.
540 (`#858 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/858>`_)
542 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.4.2`.
544 * `python3-distutils` is needed to build cola on Debian.
545 (`#837 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/837>`_)
549 * The "C" key no longer closes the message dialogs, for example the
550 one that is shown when a commit fails its pre-commit hooks.
551 This allows "Ctrl+C" copy to work, rather than closing the dialog.
552 (`#734 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/734>`_)
554 * Dock widgets sizes are now properly saved and restored when the main
556 (`#848 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/848>`_)
558 * The spellcheck feature was broken under Python3.
559 (`#857 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/857>`_)
561 * A regression when saving stashes was fixed.
562 (`#847 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/847>`_)
564 * Diffing image files was not updating the available context menus,
565 which prevented the "Stage" action from being present in the menu.
566 (`#841 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/841>`_)
568 * `git cola` now detects when `git lfs uninstall` has been run. This allows
569 you to re-initialize "Git LFS" in an existing repository where it had been
570 previously uninstalled.
571 (`#842 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/842>`_)
573 * Custom color values that did not contain any hexadecimal digits in the
574 `a-f` range were being converted into integers by the config reader. This
575 then caused the configured colors to be ignored.
577 These color values are now interpreted correctly. Additionally, color
578 values can now use an optional HTML-like `#` prefix.
580 Example `.gitconfig` snippet::
585 (`#836 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/836>`_)
586 (`#849 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/849>`_)
588 * We now display an error message graphically when `Git` is not installed.
589 Previously, the message went to stderr only.
590 (`#830 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/830>`_)
592 * Changing diff options was causing resulting in an exception.
593 (`#833 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/833>`_)
594 (`#834 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/834>`_)
596 * The DAG window now updates itself when branches and tags are created.
597 (`#814 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814>`_)
599 * The user's `$PATH` environment variable can now contain utf-8
600 encoded paths. Previously, launching external commands could
602 (`#807 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/807>`_)
604 * Git Cola development sandboxes can now be stored on utf-8 encoded
605 filesystem paths. Previously, the interactive rebase feature
606 could be broken when running in that environment.
607 (`#825 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/825>`_)
609 * The log window now uses an ISO-8601 timestamp, which
610 avoids localized output in the log window.
611 (`#817 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/817>`_)
615 * The code base has been thoroughly sanitized using `pylint`, and
616 travis is now running pylint over the entire project.
618 * Miscellaneous improvements and code improvements.
619 (`#874 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/874>`_)
626 Usability, bells and whistles
627 -----------------------------
628 * The "Browser" widget learned to rename files using "git mv".
629 (`#239 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/239>`_)
631 * The "Diff" widget learned to diff images. Side-by-side and pixel diff
632 modes allow you to inspect changes to common images formats.
633 (`#444 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/444>`_)
634 (`#803 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/803>`_)
636 * Git LFS and Git Annex are natively supported by the image diff viewer.
638 * Git Annex operations are now included. `git annex init` can be performed on
639 repositories, and `git annex add` can be run on untracked files from the
640 status widget. Install `git-annex` to activate this feature.
642 * Git LFS operations are now included. `git lfs install` can be performed on
643 repositories, and `git lfs track` can be run on untracked files from the
644 status widget. Install `git-lfs` to activate this feature.
646 * The "Stash" tool learned to stash staged changes only. Select the
647 "Stage Index" option and only staged changes will be stashed away.
648 (`#413 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/413>`_)
650 * The "Stash" tool learned to use vim-like navigation keyboard shortcuts,
651 shows error messages when things go wrong, and now saves the "Stash Index"
652 and "Keep Index" options across sessions.
654 * The Edit menu's "Copy" and "Select All" actions now forward to either the
655 diff, status, recent, or favorites widgets, based on which widget has focus.
657 * The "File" and "Edit" menu can now be activated using `Alt-{f,e}` hotkeys.
658 (`#759 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/759>`_)
660 * It was easy to accidentally trigger the first action in the `Status` tool's
661 context menu when using a quick right-click to bring up the menu.
662 A short sub-second delay was added to ensure that the top-most action is not
663 triggered unless enough time has passed. This prevents accidental
664 activation of the first item (typically "Stage" or "Unstage") without
665 burdening common use cases.
666 (`#755 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/755>`_)
667 (`#643 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/643>`_)
669 * The "Ctrl+S" hotkey now works for the header items in the Status tool.
670 Selected the "Modified" header item and activating the "Stage" hotkey,
671 for example, will stage all modified files. This works for the "Staged",
672 "Modified", and "Untracked" headers. This is not enabled for the
673 "Unmerged" header by design.
674 (`#772 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/772>`_)
676 * The list of "Recent" repositories previously capped the number of
677 repositories shown to 8 repositories. This can be set to a higher
678 value by setting the `cola.maxrecent` configuration variable.
679 (`#752 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/752>`_)
681 * The "Create Branch" dialog now prevents invalid branch names.
682 (`#765 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/765>`_)
684 * Updated Turkish translation.
685 (`#756 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/756>`_)
687 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
688 (`#753 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/753>`_)
690 * Updated German translation.
691 (`#802 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/802>`_)
693 * Updated Czech translation
694 (`#792 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/792>`_)
695 (`#806 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/806>`_)
697 * The window title can be configured to not display the absolute path of the
699 (`#775 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/775>`_)
701 * The "Edit Remotes" editor learned to edit remote URLS.
703 * Bare repositories can now be created by selecting the
704 "New Bare Repository..." action from the `File` menu.
706 * The "Branches" widget learned to configure upstream branches.
708 * A new `git cola clone` sub-command was added for cloning repositories.
712 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.3.1`.
714 * The macOS installation was made simpler for better compatibility with
716 (`#636 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/636>`_)
718 * The Windows installer is now much simpler. Git Cola now bundles
719 Python and PyQt5, so users need only install the "Git for Windows"
720 and "Git Cola" installers to get things working.
724 * Uninitialized difftool errors will now be displayed graphically.
725 They were previously going to the shell.
726 (`#457 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/457>`_)
728 * Translations marked "fuzzy" will no longer be used when translating strings.
729 (`#782 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/782>`_)
731 * Deleted unmerged files will now correctly use a deleted icon.
732 (`#479 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/479>`_)
734 * The `Ctrl+C` "Copy" hotkey on the diff viewer has been fixed.
735 (`#767 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/767>`_)
737 * The "Create Tag" dialog did not correctly handle the case when a signed
738 tag is requested, but no message is provided, and the user chooses to
739 create an unannotated tag instead. This convenience fallback will now
740 properly create an unsigned, unannotated tag.
741 (`#696 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/696>`_)
743 * `.gitconfig` and `.git/config` values editable by the Preferences dialog
744 (aka `git cola config`) will now get unset when set to an empty value.
745 For example, setting a different `user.email` in the current repository,
746 followed by a subsequent emptying of that field, would previously result in
747 an empty string getting stored in the config. This has been fixed so that
748 the value will now get unset in the config instead.
749 (`#406 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/406>`_)
751 * Spelling and typofixes.
752 (`#748 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/748>`_)
754 * `core.commentChar` is now honored when set in the local repository
756 (`#766 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/766>`_)
758 * The log window was using a format string that did not display
759 correctly in all locales. A locale-aware format is now used.
760 (`#800 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/800>`_)
762 * The dialog displayed when prompting for a reference could sometimes
764 (`#804 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/804>`_)
771 Usability, bells and whistles
772 -----------------------------
773 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation.
774 (`#726 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/726>`_)
776 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
777 (`#723 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/723>`_)
779 * New Czech translation.
780 (`#736 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/736>`_)
781 (`#737 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/737>`_)
782 (`#740 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/740>`_)
783 (`#743 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/743>`_)
785 * The "name" field in the "Create Tag" dialog now includes autocompletion,
786 which makes it easy to see which tags currently exist.
788 * `git cola` now has configurable toolbars. Use the `View -> Add toolbar`
789 menu item to add a toolbar.
791 * Setting `cola.expandtab` to `true` will now expand tabs into spaces
792 in the commit message editor. The number of spaces to insert is determined
793 by consulting `cola.tabwidth`, which defaults to `8`.
795 * The "Copy SHA-1" hotkey is now `Alt + Ctrl + C`, to avoid clobbering the
796 ability to copy text from the DAG window.
797 (`#705 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/705>`_)
799 * The "Prepare Commit Message" action can now be invoked via the
800 `Ctrl+Shift+Return` shortcut.
801 (`#707 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/707>`_)
803 * The `Branches` pane now has a filter field that highlights branches whose
804 names match the string entered into its text field.
805 (`#713 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/713>`_)
807 * Actions that are triggered in response to button presses were being
808 triggered when the button was pressed, rather than when it was released,
809 which was a usability flaw. All buttons now respond when clicked
810 rather than when pressed.
811 (`#715 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/715>`_)
813 * The DAG window will now only refresh when object IDs change.
814 Previously, the DAG would redraw itself in response to inotify events,
815 such as filesystem operations, which was disruptive when inspecting a large
816 diff in its diff viewer. The DAG will now only redraw when the object IDs
817 corresponding to its query input changes. Furthermore, when redrawing, the
818 scrollbar positions are retained to minimize disruption to the viewport
820 (`#620 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/620>`_)
821 (`#724 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/724>`_)
823 * The "About" dialog now includes the SHA-1 where Git Cola was built.
824 (`#530 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/530>`_)
826 * The "Status" widget now has "Copy Leading Path to Clipboard" and
827 "Copy Basename to Clipboard" actions.
828 (`#435 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/435>`_)
829 (`#436 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/436>`_)
831 * The "Status" widget now supports custom "Copy ... to Clipboard" actions.
832 (`#437 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/437>`_)
834 * The main menu now has an "Edit" menu.
835 (`#725 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/725>`_)
837 * `git dag` learned to checkout commits into a detached HEAD state.
838 (`#698 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/698>`_)
840 * The `status` widget's context menus now omit actions selection-dependent
841 actions when no file is selected.
842 (`#731 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/731>`_)
844 * The startup dialog now focuses the repository list so that repositories
845 can be selected with the keyboard without mouse intervention.
846 (`#741 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/741>`_)
850 * `git dag` now prevents nodes from overlapping in more situations.
851 (`#689 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/689>`_)
853 * Adding untracked Git submodule repo directories previously ran
854 `git add submodule/` but we now call `git add submodule` without
855 the trailing slash (`/`) to avoid staging files that belong to the
856 submodule (which is possibly a `git` bug). By working around the
857 buggy behavior we allow users to recover by issuing the appropriate
858 `git submodule add` command to properly register the submodule.
859 (`#681 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/681>`_)
861 * We now avoid `git for-each-ref --sort=version:refname` on versions
862 of `git` older than `v2.7.0`. Previously we only avoided it for
863 versions older than `v2.0.0`, which was a mistake.
864 (`#686 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686>`_)
866 * The error message displayed when `git` is not installed has been fixed.
867 (`#686 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686>`_)
869 * Adding new remotes was silently broken.
870 (`#684 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/684>`_)
871 (`#685 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/685>`_)
873 * The repo selection dialog had errors during startup when the
874 `cola.refreshonfocus` feature was enabled, as reported on Ubuntu 16.04.
875 (`#690 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/690>`_)
877 * Restored support for PyQt 4.6 (Centos 6.8)
878 (`#692 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/692>`_)
880 * Switching repositories now resets the "Amend Mode" and other settings
882 (`#710 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/710>`_)
884 * `git rebase` error messages now displayed when rebasing fails or stops
885 via the standalone `git cola rebase` front-end.
886 (`#721 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/721>`_)
888 * `git cola` learned to stage broken symlinks.
889 (`#727 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/727>`_)
891 * The "View History" feature in the `Browser` tool was fixed, and now
892 disambiguates between refs and paths.
893 (`#732 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/732>`_)
895 * The diff editor now has better support for files with CRLF `\r\n`
897 (`#730 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/730>`_)
899 * `cola.inotify` in a repo-local config is now honored
900 when `git cola` is launched from a desktop entry (`git cola --prompt`).
901 (`#695 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/695>`_)
908 Usability, bells and whistles
909 -----------------------------
910 * New Ukrainian translation.
911 (`#670 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/670>`_)
912 (`#672 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/672>`_)
914 * New and improved French translations.
916 * The new `Branches` widget makes it easier to checkout, merge, push,
917 and pull branches from a single interface.
919 * `git cola` now includes a dark icon theme. The dark icon theme can be
920 activated either by setting the `GIT_COLA_ICON_THEME` environment variable
921 to `dark`, by configuring `cola.icontheme` to `dark`, or by specifying
922 `--icon-theme=dark` on the command line.
923 (`#638 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/638>`_)
925 * Autocompletion was added to the `Fetch`, `Push`, and `Pull` dialogs.
927 * The commit message editor now remembers the "Spellcheck" setting
929 (`#645 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/645>`_)
931 * `git dag` now uses an improved algorithm for laying out the graph,
932 which avoids collisions under certain graph configurations, and
933 avoids overlapping tag with commits.
934 (`#648 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/648>`_)
935 (`#651 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/651>`_)
936 (`#654 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/654>`_)
937 (`#656 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/656>`_)
938 (`#659 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/659>`_)
940 * `git dag` now remembers its column sizes across sessions.
941 (`#674 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/674>`_)
943 * `Grep` now shows a preview of the selected file's content in a split window
944 below the grep results.
946 * `Grep` now includes line numbers in the preview pane's output.
948 * `Edit Remotes` now remembers its window settings after exiting.
950 * `Diff` now has an option to display line numbers in the editor.
951 (`#136 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/136>`_)
953 * `Amend Last Commit` can now be triggered via the `Commit` menu in addition
954 to the commit message editor's options.
955 (`#640 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/640>`_)
957 * The `File Browser` tool was made much faster and can now operate on
958 much larger repositories.
959 (`#499 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/499>`_)
961 * A new "turbo" mode was added that allows you to opt-out of operations
962 that can slow `git cola` on large repositories. The turbo mode is
963 enabled by configuring `git config cola.turbo true`. Turbo mode
964 disables the background loading of Git commit messages and other
965 details in the `File Browser` widget.
967 * A new GitIgnore dialog allows adding custom gitignore patterns.
968 (`#653 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/653>`_)
970 * The spellchecker in `git cola` can now use an additional dictionary
971 by configuring `cola.dictionary` to the path to a file containing
972 a newline-separated list of words.
973 (`#663 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663>`_)
975 * The stash, export patches, diff, and gitignore dialogs now remember
978 * A new `git cola recent` sub-command was added for finding recently
981 * The `Fetch` dialog now allows pruning remote branches.
982 (`#639 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/639>`_)
983 (`#680 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/680>`_)
987 * `git cola`'s spellchecker now supports the new `dict-common` filesystem
988 layout, and prefers the `/usr/share/dict/cracklib-small` file over the
989 `/usr/share/dict/words` provided on older distributions.
990 This makes the spellchecker compatible with Arch, which does not provide
991 a `words` symlink like Debian.
992 (`#663 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663>`_)
994 * Properly handle the case where an existing file is untracked using
997 * Fix a quirk where the "Create Branch" dialog sometimes required clicking
998 twice on the radio buttons.
999 (`#662 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/662>`_)
1001 * Fixed a focus issue to ensure that "Push", "Fetch", and "Pull" can
1002 be executed with the press of a single enter key after being shown.
1003 (`#661 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/661>`_)
1005 * Committing is now allowed in when resolving a merge results in no
1006 changes. This state was previously prevented by the commit message editor,
1007 which prevented users from resolving merges that result in no changes.
1008 (`#679 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/679>`_)
1010 * The filesystem monitor would sometimes emit backtraces when directories
1011 are modified. This has been fixed.
1012 (`bz #1438522 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438522>`_)
1014 * Absolute paths are now returned when querying for `.git`-relative paths
1015 from within a submodule, which uses `.git`-files.
1016 This fixes launching `git cola` from within a subdirectory of a submodule.
1017 (`#675 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/675>`_)
1024 Usability, bells and whistles
1025 -----------------------------
1026 * `git cola` can now invoke the `.git/hooks/cola-prepare-commit-msg`
1027 hook to update the commit message. This hook takes the same parameters
1028 as Git's `prepare-commit-message` hook. The default path to this hook
1029 can be overridden by setting the `cola.prepareCommitMessageHook`
1030 configuration variable.
1031 (`Documentation <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#prepare-commit-message>`_)
1033 * `git cola diff` (and the corresponding `Diff` menu actions) can now
1034 launch difftool with the standard `Ctrl+D` hotkey. The `Ctrl+E` hotkey was
1035 also added for launching an editor.
1037 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
1041 * `git cola` now works when installed in non-ascii, utf8-encoded paths.
1042 (`#629 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/629>`_)
1044 * Styling issues that caused black backgrounds in various widgets when using
1045 PyQ5 on Mac OS X have been fixed.
1046 (`#624 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/624>`_)
1048 * The "Open Recent" menu action was broken and has been fixed.
1049 (`#634 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/634>`_)
1051 * Exiting `git cola` with a maximized main window would hang when reopened
1053 (`#641 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/641>`_)
1057 * `appdata.xml` files are now provided at
1058 `share/appdata/git-cola.xml` and `share/appdata/git-dag.xml`
1059 for use by the Linux software gallery.
1060 (`#627 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/627>`_)
1061 (`Appdata <https://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/>`_)
1070 * The "Open Recent" menu was updated to new bookmarks format.
1071 (`#628 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/628>`_)
1078 Usability, bells and whistles
1079 -----------------------------
1080 * New Polish translation thanks to Łukasz Wojniłowicz
1081 (`#598 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/598>`_)
1083 * The `Bypass Commit Hooks` feature now disables itself automatically
1084 when a new commit is created. The new behavior turns the option into a
1085 single-use flag, which helps prevent users from accidentally leaving it
1086 active longer than intended.
1087 (`#595 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/595>`_)
1089 * `git dag` learned to launch an external diff viewer on selected commits.
1090 The standard `Ctrl+D` shortcut can be used to view diffs.
1091 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1093 * `git dag` learned to launch directory diffs via `git difftool --dir-diff`.
1094 The `Ctrl+Shift+D` shortcut launches difftool in directory-diff mode.
1095 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1097 * Items in the "Favorites" list can now be renamed, which makes it
1098 easier to differentiate between several checkouts of the same repository.
1099 (`#599 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/599>`_)
1100 (`#601 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/601>`_)
1102 * The startup screen now includes a logo and `git cola` version information.
1103 (`#526 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/526>`_)
1105 * The `About` page was revamped to contain multiple tabs. A new tab was added
1106 that provides details about `git cola`''s dependencies. New tabs were also
1107 added for giving credit to `git cola`'s authors and translators.
1109 * The `About` page can now be accessed via `git cola about`.
1111 * The "Fast-forward only" and "No fast-forward" options supported by
1112 `git pull` are now accessible via `git cola pull`.
1114 * Doing a forced push no longer requires selecting the remote branch.
1115 (`#618 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/618>`_)
1117 * `git cola push` now has an option to suppress the prompt that is shown
1118 when pushing would create new remote branches.
1119 (`#605 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/605>`_)
1121 * `git dag` now shows commit messages in a more readable color.
1122 (`#574 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/574>`_)
1124 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch the OS-specified
1125 default action for a file. When used on directories via `git cola browse`,
1126 or when "Open Parent Directory" is used on files, the OS-specified
1127 file browser will typically be used.
1129 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch terminals.
1133 * `git cola browse` was not updating when expanding items.
1134 (`#588 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/588>`_)
1136 * Typofixes in comments, naming, and strings have been applied.
1137 (`#593 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/593>`_)
1139 * The inotify and win32 filesystem monitoring no longer refreshes
1140 when updates are made to ignored files.
1141 (`#517 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/517>`_)
1142 (`#516 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/516>`_)
1144 * The `Refresh` button on the actions panel no longer raises an
1145 exception when using PyQt5.
1146 (`#604 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/604>`_)
1148 * Fixed a typo in the inotify backend that is triggered when files are removed.
1149 (`#607 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/607>`_)
1151 * Fixed a typo when recovering from a failed attempt to open a repository.
1152 (`#606 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/606>`_)
1154 * `git dag` now properly updates itself when launched from the menubar.
1155 (`#613 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/613>`_)
1157 * If git-cola is invoked on Windows using `start pythonw git-cola`,
1158 a console window will briefly flash on the screen each time
1159 `git cola` invokes `git`. The console window is now suppressed.
1161 * We now avoid some problematic Popen flags on Windows which were
1162 breaking the `git rebase` feature on Windows.
1164 * The `Save` button in `git dag`'s "Grab File..." feature now properly
1165 prompts for a filename when saving files.
1166 (`#617 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/617>`_)
1170 * The `qtpy` symlink in the source tree has been removed to allow for easier
1171 development on Windows.
1172 (`#626 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/626>`_)
1179 Usability, bells and whistles
1180 -----------------------------
1181 * `git cola push` learned to configure upstream branches.
1182 (`#563 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/563>`_)
1186 * The diffstat view is now properly updated when notifications are
1187 received via inotify filesystem monitoring.
1188 (`#577 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/577>`_)
1190 * Python3 with PyQt5 had a bug that prevented `git cola` from starting.
1191 (`#589 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/589>`_)
1201 * When repositories stored in non-ASCII, UTF-8-encoded filesystem paths
1202 were operated upon with `LC_ALL=C` set in the environment, unicode errors
1203 would occur when using `python2`. `git cola` was made more robust and will
1204 now operate correctly within this environment.
1205 (`#581 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/581>`_)
1207 * Support for the `GIT_WORK_TREE` environment variable was fixed.
1208 (`#582 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/582>`_)
1213 * The `unittest.mock` module is now used instead of the original `mock` module
1214 when running the `git cola` test suite using Python3.
1215 (`#569 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/569>`_)
1220 * `git cola` is now compatible with *PyQt5*, *PyQt4*, and *Pyside*.
1221 `git cola` previously supported *PyQt4* only, but will now use whichever
1222 library is available. Users are not required to upgrade at this time,
1223 but *PyQt5* support can be enabled anytime by making its python
1225 (`#232 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/232>`_)
1227 *NOTE*: We do not yet recommend using *PyQt5* because there are known
1228 exit-on-segfault bugs in *Qt5* that have not yet been addressed.
1229 `git cola` is sensitive to this bug and is known to crash on exit
1230 when using `git dag` or the interactive rebase feature on *PyQt5*.
1232 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-52988
1234 *PyQt4* is stable and there are no known issues when using it so
1235 we recommend using it until the Qt5 bugs have been resolved.
1237 * `git cola` now depends on *QtPy* and includes a bundled copy of the
1238 `qtpy` library. If you are packaging `git cola` and would prefer to use
1239 `qtpy` from your distribution instead of the built-in version then use
1240 `make NO_VENDOR_LIBS=1` when building `git cola`. This will prevent
1241 vendored libraries from being installed.
1248 Usability, bells and whistles
1249 -----------------------------
1251 * A new "Reset" sub-menu provides access to running "git reset --mixed"
1252 when resetting branch heads and "git reset --merge" when resetting
1254 (`#542 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/542>`_)
1256 * `git cola` now supports linked worktrees, i.e. worktrees created by
1258 (`#554 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/554>`_)
1263 * Diff highlighting is now robust to the user having
1264 diff.supressBlankEmpty=true in their git config.
1265 (`#541 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/541>`_)
1267 * The filesystem monitor now properly handles repositories that use
1268 `.git`-files, e.g. when using submodules.
1269 (`#545 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/545>`_)
1270 (`#546 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pulls/546>`_)
1272 * Per-repository git configuration is now properly detected when launching
1273 `git cola` from an application launcher.
1274 (`#548 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/548>`_)
1276 * `git cola` now cleans up after itself immediately to avoid leaving behind
1277 empty `/tmp/git-cola-XXXXXX` directories when the user uses `Ctrl+C`
1279 (`#566 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/566>`_)
1284 * It is now possible to install `git cola` to and from utf8-encoded filesystem
1285 paths. Previously, Python's stdlib would throw an encoding error during
1286 installation. We workaround the stdlib by forcing python2 to use utf-8,
1287 thus fixing assumptions in the stdlib library code.
1288 (`#551 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/551>`_)
1295 Usability, bells and whistles
1296 -----------------------------
1298 * The icon for untracked files was adjusted to better differentiate
1299 between files and the "Untracked" header.
1300 (`#509 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/509>`_)
1302 * Ctrl+O was added as a hotkey for opening repositories.
1303 (`#507 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/507>`_)
1305 * `git dag` now uses consistent edge colors across updates.
1306 (`#512 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/512>`_)
1308 * `git cola`'s Bookmarks widget can now be used to set a "Default Repository".
1309 Under the hood, we set the `cola.defaultrepo` configuration variable.
1310 The default repository is used whenever `git cola` is launched outside of
1311 a Git repository. When unset, or when set to a bogus value, `git cola`
1312 will prompt for a repository, as it previously did.
1313 (`#513 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/513>`_)
1315 * `git cola`'s Russian and Spanish translations were improved
1316 thanks to Vaiz and Zeioth.
1317 (`#514 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/514>`_)
1318 (`#515 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/515>`_)
1319 (`#523 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/523>`_)
1321 * `git cola` was translated to Turkish thanks to Barış ÇELİK.
1322 (`#520 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/520>`_)
1324 * The status view now supports launching `git gui blame`. It can be
1325 configured to use a different command by setting `cola.blameviewer`.
1326 (`#521 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/521>`_)
1328 * `git dag` now allows selecting non-contiguous ranges in the log widget.
1329 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1331 * Any font can now be chosen for the diff editor, not just monospace fonts.
1332 (`#525 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/525>`_)
1337 * `xfce4-terminal` and `gnome-terminal` are now supported when launching
1338 `git mergetool` to resolve merges. These terminals require that the command
1339 to execute is shell-quoted and passed as a single string argument to `-e`
1340 rather than as additional command line arguments.
1341 (`#524 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/524>`_)
1343 * Fixed a unicode problem when formatting the error message that is shown
1344 when `gitk` is not installed. We now handle unicode data in tracebacks
1345 generated by python itself.
1346 (`#528 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/528>`_)
1348 * The `New repository` feature was fixed.
1349 (`#533 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/533>`_)
1351 * We now use omit the extended description when creating "fixup!" commits,
1352 for consistency with the Git CLI. We now include only the one-line summary
1353 in the final commit message.
1354 (`#522 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/522>`_)
1361 Usability, bells and whistles
1362 -----------------------------
1364 * The user interface is now HiDPI-capable. git-cola now uses SVG
1365 icons, and its interface can be scaled by setting the `GIT_COLA_SCALE`
1366 environment variable.
1368 * `git dag` now supports the standard editor, difftool, and history hotkeys.
1369 It is now possible to invoke these actions from file widget's context
1370 menu and through the standard hotkeys.
1371 (`#473 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/473>`_)
1373 * The `Status` tool also learned about the history hotkey.
1374 Additionally, the `Alt-{j,k}` aliases are also supported in the `Status`
1375 tool for consistency with the other tools where the non-Alt hotkeys are not
1377 (`#488 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/488>`_)
1379 * The `File Browser` tool now has better default column sizes,
1380 and remembers its window size and placement.
1382 * The `File Browser` now supports the refresh hotkey, and has better
1383 behavior when refreshing. The selection is now retained, and new and
1384 removed files are found when refreshing.
1386 * A new `git-cola-completion.bash` completion script is provided in the
1387 `contrib/` directory. It must be used alongside Git's completion script.
1388 Source it from your `~/.bashrc` (or `~/.zshrc`, etc) after sourcing
1389 the `git-completion.bash` script and you will have command-line completion
1390 support for the `git cola` and `git dag` sub-commands.
1392 * The "checkout" dialog now offers completion for remote branches and other
1393 git refs. This makes it easier to checkout remote branches in a detached
1394 head state. Additionally, the checkout dialog also offers completion for
1395 remote branches that have not yet been checked out, which makes it easier to
1396 create a local tracking branch by just completing for that potential name.
1397 (`#390 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/390>`_)
1399 * The "create branch" and "create tag" dialogs now save and restore their
1402 * The "status" widget can now be configured to use a bold font with a darker
1403 background for the header items.
1404 (`#506 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/506>`_)
1406 * The "status" widget now remembers its horizontol scrollbar position across
1407 updates. This is helpful when working on projects with long paths.
1408 (`#494 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/494>`_)
1413 * When using *Git for Windows*, a `git` window would appear
1414 when running *Windows 8*. We now pass additional flags to
1415 `subprocess.Popen` to prevent a `git` window from appearing.
1416 (`#477 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/477>`_)
1417 (`#486 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/486>`_)
1419 * Launching difftool with `.PY` in `$PATHEXT` on Windows was fixed.
1420 (`#492 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/492>`_)
1422 * Creating a local branch tracking a remote branch that contains
1423 slashes in its name is now properly handled.
1424 (`#496 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/496>`_)
1426 * The "Browse Other Branch" feature was broken by Python3, and is now fixed.
1427 (`#501 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/501>`_)
1429 * We now avoid `long` for better Python3 compatibility.
1430 (`#502 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/502>`_)
1432 * We now use Git's default merge message when merging branches.
1433 (`#508 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/508>`_)
1435 * Miscellaneous fixes
1436 (`#485 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/485>`_)
1441 * git-cola's documentation no longer uses an intersphinx link mapping
1442 to docs.python.org. This fixes warnings when building rpms using koji,
1443 where network access is prevented.
1445 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231812
1452 Usability, bells and whistles
1453 -----------------------------
1455 * The Interactive Rebase feature now works on Windows!
1456 (`#463 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/463>`_)
1458 * The `diff` editor now understands vim-style `hjkl` navigation hotkeys.
1459 (`#476 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/476>`_)
1461 * `Alt-{j,k}` navigation hotkeys were added to allow changing to the
1462 next/previous file from the diff and commit editors.
1464 * The `Rename branch` menu action is now disabled in empty repositories.
1465 (`#475 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/475>`_)
1466 (`#459 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/459>`_)
1468 * `git cola` now checks unmerged files for conflict markers before
1469 staging them. This feature can be disabled in the preferences.
1470 (`#464 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/464>`_)
1472 * `git dag` now remembers which commits were selected when refreshing
1473 so that it can restore the selection afterwards.
1474 (`#480 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/480>`_)
1476 * "Launch Editor", "Launch Difftool", "Stage/Unstage",
1477 and "Move Up/Down" hotkeys now work when the commit message
1479 (`#453 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453>`_)
1481 * The diff editor now supports the `Ctrl+u` hotkey for reverting
1482 diff hunks and selected lines.
1484 * The `core.commentChar` Git configuration value is now honored.
1485 Commit messages and rebase instruction sheets will now use
1486 the configured character for comments. This allows having
1487 commit messages that start with `#` when `core.commentChar`
1488 is configured to its non-default value.
1489 (`#446 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/446>`_)
1494 * Diff syntax highlighting was improved to handle more edge cases
1495 and false positives.
1496 (`#467 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/467>`_)
1498 * Setting commands in the interactive rebase editor was fixed.
1499 (`#472 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/472>`_)
1501 * git-cola no longer clobbers the Ctrl+Backspace text editing shortcut
1502 in the commit message editor.
1503 (`#453 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453>`_)
1505 * The copy/paste clipboard now persists after `git cola` exits.
1506 (`#484 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/484>`_)
1515 * Fixed the "Sign off" feature in the commit message editor.
1522 Usability, bells and whistles
1523 -----------------------------
1524 * Double-click will now choose a commit in the "Select commit" dialog.
1526 * `git cola` has a feature that reads `.git/MERGE_MSG` and friends for the
1527 commit message when a merge is in-progress. Upon refresh, `git cola` will
1528 now detect when a merge has completed and reset the commit message back to
1529 its previous state. It is only reset if the editor contains a message
1530 that was read from the file and has not been manually edited by the user.
1532 * The commit message editor's context menu now has a "Clear..." action for
1533 clearing the message across both the summary and description fields.
1535 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
1537 * The system theme's icons are now used wherever possible.
1538 (`#458 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/458>`_)
1542 * The stash viewer now uses ``git show --no-ext-diff`` to avoid running
1543 user-configured diff tools.
1545 * `git cola` now uses the `setsid()` system call to ensure that the
1546 `GIT_ASKPASS` and `SSH_ASKPASS` helper programs are used when pushing
1547 changes using `git`. The askpass helpers will now be used even when
1548 `git cola` is launched from a terminal.
1550 The behavior without `setsid()` is that `git cola` can appear to hang while
1551 pushing changes. The hang happens when `git` prompts the user for a
1552 password using the terminal, but the user never sees the prompt. `setsid()`
1553 detaches the terminal, which ensures that the askpass helpers are used.
1554 (`#218 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/218>`_)
1555 (`#262 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/262>`_)
1556 (`#377 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/377>`_)
1558 * `git dag`'s file list tool was updated to properly handle unicode paths.
1560 * `gnome-terminal` is no longer used by default when `cola.terminal` is unset.
1561 It is broken, as was detailed in #456.
1562 (`#456 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/456>`_)
1564 * The interactive rebase feature was not always setting `$GIT_EDITOR`
1565 to the value of `gui.editor`, thus there could be instances where rebase
1566 will seem to not stop, or hang, when performing "reword" actions.
1568 We now set the `$GIT_EDITOR` environment variable when performing the
1569 "Continue", "Skip", and "Edit Todo" rebase actions so that the correct
1570 editor is used during the rebase.
1571 (`#445 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/445>`_)
1575 * `git cola` moved from a 3-part version number to a simpler 2-part "vX.Y"
1576 version number. Most of our releases tend to contain new features.
1582 Usability, bells and whistles
1583 -----------------------------
1584 * Updated zh_TW translations.
1586 * `git cola rebase` now defaults to `@{upstream}`, and generally uses the same
1587 CLI syntax as `git rebase`.
1589 * The commit message editor now allows you to bypass commit hooks by selecting
1590 the "Bypass Commit Hooks" option. This is equivalent to passing the
1591 `--no-verify` option to `git commit`.
1592 (`#357 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/357>`_)
1594 * We now prevent the "Delete Files" action from creating a dialog that does
1596 (`#378 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/378>`_)
1598 * `git xbase` learned to edit rebase instruction sheets that contain
1601 * The diff colors are now configurable. `cola.color.{text,add,remove,header}`
1602 can now be set with 6-digit hexadecimal colors.
1603 See the `git cola manual <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#configuration-variables>_`
1606 * Improved hotkey documentation.
1610 * `git cola` will now allow starting an interactive rebase with a dirty
1611 worktree when `rebase.autostash` is set.
1612 (`#360 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/360>`_)
1618 Usability, bells and whistles
1619 -----------------------------
1620 * A new "Find files" widget was added, and can be activated by
1621 using the `Ctrl+t` or `t` hotkeys.
1623 * A new `git cola find` sub-command was added for finding files.
1625 * `git cola` now remembers the text cursor's position when staging
1626 interactively with the keyboard. This makes it easier to use the keyboard
1627 arrows to select and stage lines.
1629 * The completion widgets will now select the top completion item
1630 when `Enter` or `Return` are pressed.
1632 * You can now refresh using `F5` in addition to the existing `Ctrl+R` hotkey.
1636 * `git cola` now passes `--no-abbrev-commit` to `git log` to override
1637 having `log.abbrevCommit = true` set in `.gitconfig`.
1643 Usability, bells and whistles
1644 -----------------------------
1645 * `git dag` now forwards all unknown arguments along to `git log`.
1646 (`#389 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/389>`_)
1648 * Line-by-line interactive staging was made more robust.
1649 (`#399 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/399>`_)
1651 * "Bookmarks" was renamed to "Favorites".
1652 (`#392 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/392>`_)
1654 * Untracked files are now displayed using a unique icon.
1655 (`#388 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/388>`_)
1659 * `git dag` was triggering a traceback on Fedora when parsing Git logs.
1660 (`bz #181676 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181686>`_)
1662 * inotify expects unicode paths on Python3.
1663 (`#393 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/393>`_)
1665 * Untracked files are now assumed to be utf-8 encoded.
1666 (`#401 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/401>`_)
1672 Usability, bells and whistles
1673 -----------------------------
1674 * `git cola` can now create GPG-signed commits and merges.
1675 See the documentation for details about setting up a GPG agent.
1676 (`#149 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/149>`_)
1678 * The status widget learned to copy relative paths when `Ctrl+x` is pressed.
1679 (`#358 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/358>`_)
1681 * Custom GUI actions can now define their own keyboard shortcuts by
1682 setting `guitool.$name.shortcut` to a string understood by Qt's
1683 `QAction::setShortcut()` API, e.g. `Alt+X`.
1685 `Qt docs <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qkeysequence.html#QKeySequence-2>`_
1686 for more details about the supported values.
1688 * `git cola` learned to rename branches.
1689 (`#364 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/364>`_)
1690 (`#278 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/278>`_)
1692 * `git dag` now has a "Show history" context menu which can be used to filter
1693 history using the selected paths.
1697 * `sphinxtogithub.py` was fixed for Python3.
1698 (`#353 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/353>`_)
1700 * The commit that changed how we read remotes from `git remote`
1701 to parsing `git config` was reverted since it created problems
1704 * Fixed a crash when using the `rebase edit` feature.
1705 (`#351 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/351>`_)
1707 * Better drag-and-drop behavior when dropping into gnome-terminal.
1708 (`#373 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/373>`_)
1712 * The `git-cola-folder-handler.desktop` file handler was fixed
1713 to pass validation by `desktop-file-validate`.
1714 (`#356 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/356>`_)
1716 * The `git.svg` icon was renamed to `git-cola.svg`, and `git cola` was taught
1717 to prefer icons from the desktop theme when available.
1723 Usability, bells and whistles
1724 -----------------------------
1725 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+Shift+M` merges branches.
1727 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+R` refreshes the DAG viewer.
1728 (`#347 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/347>`_)
1732 * We now use `git config` to parse the list of remotes
1733 instead of parsing the output of `git remote`, which
1734 is a Git porcelain and should not be used by scripts.
1736 * Avoid "C++ object has been deleted" errors from PyQt4.
1737 (`#346 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/346>`_)
1741 * The `make install` target now uses `install` instead of `cp`.
1747 Usability, bells and whistles
1748 -----------------------------
1749 * Updated Brazillian Portuguese translation.
1751 * The status and browse widgets now allow drag-and-drop into
1752 external applications.
1753 (`#335 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/335>`_)
1755 * We now show a progress bar when cloning repositories.
1756 (`#312 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/312>`_)
1758 * The bookmarks widget was simplified to not need a
1760 (`#289 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/289>`_)
1762 * Updated Traditional Chinese translation.
1764 * We now display a warning when trying to rebase with uncommitted changes.
1765 (`#338 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/338>`_)
1767 * The status widget learned to filter paths.
1768 `Ctrl+Shift+S` toggles the filter widget.
1769 (`#337 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/337>`_)
1770 (`#339 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/339>`_)
1772 * The status widget learned to move files to the trash
1773 when the `send2trash <https://github.com/hsoft/send2trash>`_
1774 module is installed.
1775 (`#341 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/341>`_)
1777 * "Recent repositories" is now a dedicated widget.
1778 (`#342 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/342>`_)
1780 * New Spanish translation thanks to Pilar Molina Lopez.
1781 (`#344 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/344>`_)
1785 * Newly added remotes are now properly seen by the fetch/push/pull dialogs.
1786 (`#343 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/343>`_)
1792 Usability, bells and whistles
1793 -----------------------------
1794 * New Brazillian Portuguese translation thanks to Vitor Lobo.
1796 * New Indonesian translation thanks to Samsul Ma'arif.
1798 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation thanks to Zhang Han.
1800 * `Ctrl+Backspace` is now a hotkey for "delete untracked files" in
1803 * Fetch/Push/Pull dialogs now use the configured remote of the current
1805 (`#324 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/324>`_)
1809 * We now use `os.getcwd()` on Python3.
1810 (`#316 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/316>`_)
1811 (`#326 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/326>`_)
1813 * The `Ctrl+P` hotkey was overloaded to both "push" and "cherry-pick",
1814 so "cherry-pick" was moved to `Ctrl+Shift+C`.
1816 * Custom GUI tools with mixed-case names are now properly supported.
1818 * "Diff Region" is now referred to as "Diff Hunk" for consistency
1819 with common terminology from diff/patch tools.
1820 (`#328 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/328>`_)
1822 * git-cola's test suite is now portable to MS Windows.
1823 (`#332 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/332>`_)
1829 Usability, bells and whistles
1830 -----------------------------
1831 * We now handle the case when inotify `add_watch()` fails
1832 and display instructions on how to increase the number of watches.
1833 (`#263 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/263>`_)
1835 * New and improved zh_TW localization thanks to V字龍(Vdragon).
1836 (`#265 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/265>`_)
1837 (`#267 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/267>`_)
1838 (`#268 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/268>`_)
1839 (`#269 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/269>`_)
1840 (`#270 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/270>`_)
1841 (`#271 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/271>`_)
1842 (`#272 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/272>`_)
1844 * New hotkeys: `Ctrl+F` for fetch, `Ctrl+P` for push,
1845 and `Ctrl+Shift+P` for pull.
1847 * The bookmarks widget's context menu actions were made clearer.
1848 (`#281 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/281>`_)
1850 * The term "Staging Area" is used consistently in the UI
1851 to allow for better localization.
1852 (`#283 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/283>`_)
1854 * The "Section" term is now referred to as "Diff Region"
1856 (`#297 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/297>`_)
1858 * The localization documentation related to the LANGUAGE
1859 environment variable was improved.
1860 (`#293 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/293>`_)
1862 * The "Actions" panel now contains tooltips for each button
1863 in case the button labels gets truncated by Qt.
1864 (`#292 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/292>`_)
1866 * Custom `git config`-defined actions can now be run in the
1867 background by setting `guitool.<name>.background` to `true`.
1871 * We now use bold fonts instead of SmallCaps to avoid
1872 artifacts on several configurations.
1874 * We now pickup `user.email`, `cola.tabwidth`, and similar settings
1875 when defined in /etc/gitconfig.
1876 (`#259 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/259>`_)
1878 * Better support for unicode paths when using inotify.
1879 (`bz #1104181 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104181>`_)
1881 * Unicode fixes for non-ascii locales.
1882 (`#266 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/266>`_)
1883 (`#273 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/273>`_)
1884 (`#276 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/276>`_)
1885 (`#282 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/282>`_)
1886 (`#298 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/298>`_)
1887 (`#302 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/302>`_)
1888 (`#303 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/303>`_)
1889 (`#305 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/305>`_)
1891 * Viewing history from the file browser was fixed for Python3.
1892 (`#274 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/274>`_)
1894 * setup.py was fixed to install the `*.rst` documentation.
1895 (`#279 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/279>`_)
1897 * Patch export was fixed for Python3.
1898 (`#290 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/290>`_)
1900 * Fixed adding a bookmark with trailing slashes.
1901 (`#295 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/295>`_)
1903 * The default `git dag` layout is now setup so that its widgets
1904 can be freely resized on Linux.
1905 (`#299 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/299>`_)
1907 * Invalid tag names are now reported when creating tags.
1908 (`#296 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/296>`_)
1914 Usability, bells and whistles
1915 -----------------------------
1916 * `git cola` no longer prompts after successfully creating a new branch.
1917 (`#251 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/251>`_)
1919 * Hitting enter on simple dialogs now accepts them.
1920 (`#255 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/255>`_)
1924 * `git dag` no longer relies on `sys.maxint`, which is
1925 not available in Python3.
1926 (`#249 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/249>`_)
1928 * Python3-related fixes.
1929 (`#254 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/254>`_)
1931 * Python3-on-Windows-related fixes.
1932 (`#250 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/250>`_)
1933 (`#252 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/252>`_)
1934 (`#253 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/253>`_)
1936 * Switching repositories using the bookmarks widget was not
1937 refreshing the inotify watcher.
1938 (`#256 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/256>`_)
1940 * Special commit messages trailers (e.g. "Acked-by:") are now special-cased to
1941 fix word wrapping lines that start with "foo:".
1942 (`#257 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/257>`_)
1944 * `git dag` sometimes left behind selection artifacts.
1945 We now refresh the view to avoid them.
1946 (`#204 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/204>`_)
1952 Usability, bells and whistles
1953 -----------------------------
1954 * Better inotify support for file creation and deletion.
1955 (`#240 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/240>`_)
1957 * `git cola` now supports the X11 Session Management Protocol
1958 and remembers its state across logout/reboot.
1959 (`#164 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/164>`_)
1961 * `git cola` has a new icon.
1962 (`#190 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/190>`_)
1966 * Building the documentation no longer requires `asciidoc`.
1967 We now use `Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/>`_ for building
1968 html documentation and man pages.
1972 * Reworked the git-dag gravatar icon code to avoid a unicode
1975 * Commit message line-wrapping was made to better match the GUI editor.
1976 (`#242 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/242>`_)
1978 * Better support for Python3 on Windows
1979 (`#246 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/246>`_)
1983 * git-cola no longer depends on Asciidoc for building its documentation
1984 and man-pages. We now depend on [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/) only.
1990 Usability, bells and whistles
1991 -----------------------------
1992 * Some context menu actions are now hidden when selected
1994 (`#238 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/238>`_)
1998 * The build-git-cola.sh contrib script was improved.
1999 (`#235 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/235>`_)
2001 * Non-ascii worktrees work properly again.
2002 (`#234 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/234>`_)
2004 * The browser now guards itself against missing files.
2005 (`bz #1041378 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071378>`_)
2007 * Saving widget state now works under Python3.
2008 (`#236 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/236>`_)
2016 * git-cola now runs on Python 3 thanks to Virgil Dupras.
2017 (`#233 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/233>`_)
2019 * Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2+ are now supported.
2020 Python 2.5 is no longer supported.
2024 * i18n test fixes thanks to Virgil Dupras.
2025 (`#231 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/231>`_)
2027 * git-cola.app build fixes thanks to Maicon D. Filippsen.
2028 (`#230 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/230>`_)
2030 * Lots of pylint improvements thanks to Alex Chernetz.
2031 (`#229 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/229>`_)
2037 Usability, bells and whistles
2038 -----------------------------
2039 * The new `Bookmarks` tool makes it really easy to switch between repositories.
2041 * There is now a dedicated dialog for applying patches.
2042 See the ``File -> Apply Patches`` menu item.
2043 (`#215 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/215>`_)
2045 * A new `git cola am` sub-command was added for applying patches.
2049 * Fixed a typo that caused inotify events to be silently ignored.
2051 * Fixed the sys.path setup for Mac OS X (Homebrew).
2052 (`#221 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/221>`_)
2054 * Lots of pylint fixes thanks to Alex Chernetz.
2060 Usability, bells and whistles
2061 -----------------------------
2062 * `git cola --amend` now starts the editor in `amend` mode.
2063 (`#187 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/187>`_)
2065 * Multiple lines of text can now be pasted into the `summary` field.
2066 All text beyond the first newline will be automatically moved to the
2067 `extended description` field.
2068 (`#212 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/212>`_)
2072 * Stray whitespace in `.git` files is now ignored.
2073 (`#213 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/213>`_)
2075 * Fix "known incorrect sRGB profile" in `staged-item.png`.
2076 (`gentoo-devel message #85066
2077 <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/85066>`_)
2085 * Fix a traceback when `git push` fails.
2086 (`bz #1034778 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034778>`_)
2090 * Most of the git-cola sub-packages have been removed.
2091 The only remaining packages are `cola`, `cola.models`,
2094 * The translation file for Simplified Chinese was renamed
2096 (`#209 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/209>`_)
2104 * `git cola version --brief` now prints the brief version number.
2108 * Resurrected the "make dist" target, for those that prefer to create
2111 * Fixed the typo that broke the preferences dialog.
2117 Usability, bells and whistles
2118 -----------------------------
2119 * We now ship a full-featured interactive `git rebase` editor.
2120 The rebase todo file is edited using the `git xbase` script which
2121 is provided at `$prefix/share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase`.
2122 This script can be used standalone by setting the `$GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR`
2123 before running `git rebase --interactive`.
2124 (`#1 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1>`_)
2126 * Fixup commit messages can now be loaded from the commit message editor.
2128 * Tool widgets can be locked in place by using the "Tools/Lock Layout"
2130 (`#202 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/202>`_)
2132 * You can now push to several remotes simultaneously by selecting
2133 multiple remotes in the "Push" dialog.
2134 (`#148 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/148>`_)
2136 * The `grep` tool learned to search using three different modes:
2137 basic regular expressions (default), extended regular expressions,
2142 * `git cola` now depends on the `argparse` Python module.
2143 This module is part of the stdlib in Python 2.7 and must
2144 be installed separately when using Python 2.6 and below.
2148 * Support unicode in the output from `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`.
2154 Usability, bells and whistles
2155 -----------------------------
2156 * We now detect when the editor or history browser are misconfigured.
2157 (`#197 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/197>`_)
2158 (`bz #886826 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886826>`_)
2160 * Display of untracked files can be disabled from the Preferences dialog
2161 or by setting the `gui.displayuntracked` configuration variable to `false`.
2162 (`Git Mailing List on 2013-08-21
2163 <https://public-inbox.org/git/20130821032913.GA6092@wheezy.local/>`_)
2167 * Unicode stash names are now supported
2168 (`#198 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/198>`_)
2170 * The diffs produced when reverting workspace changes were made more robust.
2176 Usability, bells and whistles
2177 -----------------------------
2178 * Brand new German translation thanks to Sven Claussner.
2180 * The "File" menu now provides a "New Repository..." menu action.
2182 * `git dag` now uses a dock-widget interface so that its widgets can
2183 be laid-out and arranged. Customizations are saved and restored
2184 the next time `git dag` is launched.
2186 * `git dag` now has a "Zoom Best Fit" button next alongside the
2187 "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" buttons.
2189 * `Ctrl+L` now focuses the "Search" field in the `git dag` tool.
2191 * Right-clicking in the "diff" viewer now updates the cursor position
2192 before performing actions, which makes it much easier to click around
2193 and selectively stage sections. Previously, the current cursor position
2194 was used which meant that it required two clicks (left-click to update
2195 the position followed by right-click to get the context menu) for the
2196 desired section to be used. This is now a single right-click operation.
2198 * The `Ctrl+D` "Launch Diff Tool" action learned to automatically choose
2199 between `git difftool` and `git mergetool`. If the file is unmerged then
2200 we automatically launch `git mergetool` on the path, otherwise we use
2201 `git difftool`. We do this because `git difftool` is not intended to
2202 be used on unmerged paths. Automatically using `git mergetool` when
2203 appropriate is the most intuitive and muscle-memory-friendly thing to do.
2205 * You can now right-click on folders in your standard file browser
2206 and choose "Open With -> Git Cola" (Linux-only).
2210 * Python 2.6 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard does not provide a namedtuple
2211 at `sys.version_info`. We now avoid using that variable for better
2214 * We now read the user's Git configuration from `~/.config/git/config`
2215 if that file is available, otherwise we use the traditional `~/.gitconfig`
2216 path, just like Git itself.
2218 * Some edge cases were fixed when applying partial/selected diffs.
2220 * The diff viewer is now properly cleared when refreshing.
2221 (`#194 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/194>`_)
2227 Usability, bells and whistles
2228 -----------------------------
2229 * The diff viewer now has an "Options" menu which can be
2230 used to set "git diff" options. This can be used to
2231 ignore whitespace changes or to show a change with its
2232 surrounding function as context.
2233 (`#150 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/150>`_)
2235 * `git cola` now remembers your commit message and will restore it
2236 when `git cola` is restarted.
2237 (`#175 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/175>`_)
2239 * `Ctrl+M` can now be used to toggle the "Amend last commit"
2240 checkbox in the commit message editor.
2241 (`#161 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/161>`_)
2243 * Deleting remote branches can now be done from the "Branch" menu.
2244 (`#152 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/152>`_)
2246 * The commit message editor now has a built-in spell checker.
2250 * We now avoid invoking external diffs when showing diffstats.
2251 (`#163 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/163>`_)
2253 * The `Status` tool learned to reselect files when refreshing.
2254 (`#165 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/165>`_)
2256 * `git cola` now remembers whether it has been maximized and will restore the
2257 maximized state when `git cola` is restarted.
2258 (`#172 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/172>`_)
2260 * Performance is now vastly improved when staging hundreds or
2263 * `git cola` was not correctly saving repo-specific configuration.
2264 (`#174 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/174>`_)
2266 * Fix a UnicodeDecode in sphinxtogithub when building from source.
2273 Usability, bells and whistles
2274 -----------------------------
2275 * We now automatically remove missing repositories from the
2276 "Select Repository" dialog.
2277 (`#145 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/145>`_)
2279 * A new `git cola diff` sub-command was added for diffing changed files.
2283 * The inotify auto-refresh feature makes it difficult to select text in
2284 the "diff" editor when files are being continually modified by another
2285 process. The auto-refresh causes it to lose the currently selected text,
2286 which is not wanted. We now avoid this problem by saving and restoring
2287 the selection when refreshing the editor.
2288 (`#155 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/155>`_)
2290 * More strings have been marked for l10n.
2291 (`#157 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/157>`_)
2293 * Fixed the Alt+D Diffstat shortcut.
2294 (`#159 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/159>`_)
2298 * Better error handling when cloning repositories.
2300 We were not handling the case where a git URL has
2301 no basename, e.g. `https://git.example.com/`.
2302 `git cola` originally rejected these URLs instead of
2303 allowing users to clone them. It now allows these URLs
2304 when they point to valid git repositories.
2306 Additionally, `git cola` learned to echo the errors
2307 reported by `git clone` when it fails.
2308 (`#156 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/156>`_)
2315 Usability, bells and whistles
2316 -----------------------------
2317 * `git dag` got a big visual upgrade.
2319 * `Ctrl+G` now launches the "Grep" tool.
2321 * `Ctrl+D` launches difftool and `Ctrl+E` launches your editor
2322 when in the diff panel.
2324 * git-cola can now be told to use an alternative language.
2325 For example, if the native language is German and we want git-cola to
2326 use English then we can create a `~/.config/git-cola/language` file with
2327 "en" as its contents: ``echo en >~/.config/git-cola/language``
2328 (`#140 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/140>`_)
2330 * A new `git cola merge` sub-command was added for merging branches.
2332 * Less blocking in the main UI
2336 * Autocomplete issues on KDE
2337 (`#144 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/144>`_)
2339 * The "recently opened repositories" startup dialog did not
2340 display itself in the absence of bookmarks.
2341 (`#139 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/139>`_)
2348 Usability, bells and whistles
2349 -----------------------------
2350 * `git cola` learned to honor `.gitattributes` when showing and
2351 interactively applying diffs. This makes it possible to store
2352 files in git using a non-utf-8 encoding and `git cola` will
2353 properly accept them. This must be enabled by settings
2354 `cola.fileattributes` to true, as it incurs a small performance
2356 (`#96 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/96>`_)
2358 * `git cola` now wraps commit messages at 72 columns automatically.
2359 This is configurable using the `cola.linebreak` variable to enable/disable
2360 the feature, and `cola.textwidth` to configure the limit.
2361 (`#133 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/133>`_)
2363 * A new "Open Recent" sub-menu was added to the "File" menu.
2364 This makes it easy to open a recently-edited repository.
2365 (`#135 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/135>`_)
2367 * We now show a preview for untracked files when they are clicked
2368 using the `Status` tool.
2369 * A new "Open Using Default Application" action was added to the
2370 `Status` tool. It is activated using either `Spacebar` or through
2371 the context menu. This action uses `xdg-open` on Linux and
2373 * A new "Open Parent Directory" action was added to the `Status` tool.
2374 It is activated using either `Shift+Spacebar` or through the
2376 * `git dag` learned to honor the `log.date` git configuration variable.
2377 This makes the date display follow whatever format the user has
2379 * A new `git cola config` sub-command was added for quickly
2380 tweaking `git cola`'s git configuration settings.
2381 * Some small usability tweaks -- some user confirmation prompts
2382 were defaulting to "Cancel" when they should have been defaulting
2383 to the affirmative option instead.
2387 * Properly handle arbitrarily-named branches.
2388 * We went back to launching `git mergetool` using an xterm.
2389 The reason is that there are a couple of places where `git mergetool`
2390 requires a terminal for user interaction not covered by `--no-prompt`.
2391 * We now properly handle an edge case when applying short diffs at
2392 the start of a file.
2399 Usability, bells and whistles
2400 -----------------------------
2401 * New and improved `grep` mode lets you instantly find and edit files.
2402 * New `git cola grep` standalone mode.
2403 * Support for passing arguments to the configured editors, e.g. `gvim -p`
2404 This makes it possible to select multiple files in the status
2405 window and use `Ctrl-e` to edit them all at once.
2406 * Remote operations now prompt on errors only.
2407 * The `Tab` key now jumps to the extended description when editing the summary.
2408 * More shortcut key labels and misc. UX improvements.
2412 * Selecting an item no longer copies its filename to the copy/paste buffer.
2413 `Ctrl-c` or the "Copy" context-menu action can be used instead.
2414 * The repository monitoring feature on Windows learned to ignore
2415 changes within the ".git" directory. Thanks to Andreas Sommer.
2416 (`#120 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/120>`_)
2423 Usability, bells and whistles
2424 -----------------------------
2425 * `git dag` learned to color-code branchy edges.
2426 The edge colors change when a new branch is detected,
2427 which makes the history much easier to follow.
2428 A huge thanks to Uri Okrent for making it happen.
2430 * New GUI for editing remote repositories.
2432 * New `git cola archive` and `git cola remote` sub-commands.
2434 * `git cola browser` learned an 'Untrack' command.
2436 * The diff editor learned to staged/unstaged while amending.
2438 * The status tool can now scroll horizontally.
2440 * New git repositories can be created by clicking 'New' on the
2441 `git cola --prompt` startup screen.
2448 Usability, bells and whistles
2449 -----------------------------
2450 * Auto-completion was added to more tools.
2452 * `git dag` is easier to use on smaller displays -- the author
2453 field elides its text which allows for a more compact display.
2455 * Selected commits in `git dag` were made more prominent and
2458 * 'Create Branch' learned to fetch remote branches and uses a
2459 background thread to do so.
2461 * User-configured GUI tools are listed alphabetically in the 'Actions' menu.
2463 * The 'Pull' dialog remembers the value of the 'Rebase' checkbox
2464 between invocations.
2473 * Detect Homebrew so that OS X users do not need to set PYTHONPATH.
2475 * `git dag` can export patches again.
2482 Usability, bells and whistles
2483 -----------------------------
2484 * The 'Classic' tool was renamed to 'Browser' and learned to
2485 limit history to the current branch.
2487 * `git dag` learned about gravatar and uses it to show images
2490 * `git dag` learned to use OpenGL for rendering resulting in
2491 much faster rendering.
2493 * More dialogs learned vim-style keyboard shortcuts.
2495 * The commit message editor learned better arrow key navigation.
2502 Usability, bells and whistles
2503 -----------------------------
2504 * `git cola` learned a few new sub commands:
2512 * `Return` in the summary field jumps to the extended description.
2514 * `Ctrl+Return` is now a shortcut for 'Commit'.
2516 * Better French translation for 'Sign-off'.
2518 * The 'Search' widget now has a much simpler and streamlined
2521 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the DAG widget.
2523 * `git dag` no longer prompts for files when diffing commits if the
2524 text field contains paths.
2526 * General user interface and performance improvements.
2530 * The diff viewer no longer changes font size when holding `Control`
2531 while scrolling with the mouse wheel.
2533 * Files with a typechange (e.g. symlinks that become files, etc.)
2534 are now correctly identified as being modified.
2538 * The `cola.controllers` and `cola.views` packages were removed.
2545 Usability, bells and whistles
2546 -----------------------------
2547 * `git cola` can now launch sub commands, e.g.:
2558 * `git dag` is more responsive when gathering auto-completions.
2560 * Keyboard shortcuts are displayed when the '?' key is pressed.
2562 * Various keyboard shortcuts were added for improved usability.
2564 * The status widget now lists unmerged files before modified files.
2566 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the status widget.
2568 * A 'Recently Modified Files...' tool was added.
2570 * Tools can now be hidden with `Alt + #` (where `#` is a keyboard number)
2571 and focused with `Alt + Shift + #`.
2573 * The syntax highlighting colors for diffs was made less intrusive.
2575 * The commit message editor was redesigned to have a more compact
2576 and keyboard-convenient user interface.
2578 * Keyboard shortcuts for adding a Signed-off-by (`Ctrl + i`)
2579 and creating a commit (`Ctrl + m`) were added.
2581 * The status widget was adjusted to use less screen real-estate.
2585 * Avoid updating the index when responding to inotify events.
2586 This avoids interfering with operations such as `git rebase --interactive`.
2587 (`#99 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/99>`_)
2591 * Create `git-dag.pyw` in the win32 installer.
2593 * win32 shortcuts now contain explicit calls to `pythonw.exe` instead of
2594 calling the `.pyw` file directly.
2598 * The 'Apply Changes from Branch...' feature was removed.
2599 `git dag`'s 'Grab File...' feature used alongside the index/worktree editor
2600 is a simpler alternative.
2609 * Further enhanced the staging/unstaging behavior in the status widget.
2610 (`#97 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97>`_)
2612 * Unmerged files are no longer listed as modified.
2616 The `cola-$version` tarballs on github were originally setup to
2617 have the same contents as the old tarballs hosted on tuxfamily.
2618 The `make dist` target was changed to write files to a
2619 `git-cola-$version` subdirectory and tarball.
2621 This makes the filenames consistent for the source tarball,
2622 the darwin .app tarball, and the win32 .exe installer.
2629 Usability, bells and whistles
2630 -----------------------------
2631 * Refined the staging/unstaging behavior for code reviews.
2632 (`#97 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97>`_)
2634 * Added more styling and icons to menus and buttons.
2636 * Adjusted some terminology to more closely match the git CLI.
2640 * Boolean `git config` settings with no value are now supported
2641 (these are not created by git these days but exist in legacy repositories).
2643 * Unicode branches and tags are supported in the "branch diff" tool.
2645 * Guard against low-memory conditions and more interrupted system calls.
2649 * Added desktop launchers for git-cola.desktop and git-dag.desktop.
2650 This replaces the old cola.desktop, so some adjustments to RPM .spec
2651 and debian/ files will be needed.
2653 * Fixed the darwin app-tarball Makefile target to create relative paths.
2657 * The `--style` option was removed. `git cola` follows the system theme
2658 so there's no need for this option these days.
2665 Usability, bells and whistles
2666 -----------------------------
2667 * Export a patch series from `git dag` into a `patches/` directory.
2669 * `git dag` learned to diff commits, slice history along paths, etc.
2671 * Added instant-preview to the `git stash` widget.
2673 * A simpler preferences editor is used to edit `git config` values.
2674 (`#90 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90>`_)
2675 (`#89 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/89>`_)
2677 * Previous commit messages can be re-loaded from the message editor.
2678 (`#33 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/33>`_)
2682 * Display commits with no file changes.
2683 (`#82 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82>`_)
2685 * Improved the diff editor's copy/paste behavior
2686 (`#90 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90>`_)
2690 * Bumped version number to ceil(minimum git version).
2691 `git cola` now requires `git` >= 1.6.3.
2693 * Simplified git-cola's versioning when building from tarballs
2694 outside of git. We no longer check for a 'version' file at
2695 the root of the repository. We instead keep a default version
2696 in `cola/version.py` and use it when `git cola`'s `.git` repository
2704 Usability, bells and whistles
2705 -----------------------------
2706 * inotify is much snappier and available on Windows
2707 thanks to Karl Bielefeldt.
2709 * New right-click command to add untracked files to .gitignore
2710 thanks to Audrius Karabanovas.
2712 * Stash, fetch, push, and pull usability improvements
2714 * General usability improvements
2716 * stderr is logged when applying partial diffs.
2720 * Files can be unstaged when amending.
2721 (`#82 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82>`_)
2723 * Show the configured remote.$remote.pushurl in the GUI
2724 (`#83 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/83>`_)
2726 * Removed usage of the "user" module.
2727 (`#86 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/86>`_)
2729 * Avoids an extra `git update-index` call during startup.
2737 Usability, bells and whistles
2738 -----------------------------
2739 * We now provide better feedback when `git push` fails.
2740 (`#69 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/69>`_)
2742 * The Fetch, Push, and Pull dialogs now give better feedback
2743 when interacting with remotes. The dialogs are modal and
2744 a progress dialog is used.
2748 * More unicode fixes, again. It is now possible to have
2749 unicode branch names, repository paths, home directories, etc.
2750 This continued the work initiated by Redhat's bugzilla #694806.
2752 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806
2759 Usability, bells and whistles
2760 -----------------------------
2761 * The `git cola` desktop launchers now prompt for a repo
2762 by default. This is done by using the new `--prompt`
2763 flag which tells `git cola` to ignore any git repositories
2764 in the current directory and prompt for one instead.
2768 * More Unicode fixes for repositories and home directories with
2769 embedded unicode characters. Thanks to Christian Jann for
2770 patience and helpful bug reports.
2772 * Fix the 'Clone' button in the startup dialog.
2779 Usability, bells and whistles
2780 -----------------------------
2781 * Faster startup time! `git cola` now offloads initialization
2782 to a background thread so that the GUI appears almost instantly.
2784 * Specialized diff options for p4merge, vimdiff, araxis, emerge,
2785 and ecmerge in difftool (backported from git.git).
2789 * Fix launching commands in the background on Windows
2790 (e.g. when launching `git difftool`).
2792 * Fix unicode errors when home or repository directories contain
2794 (`#74 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/74>`_)
2795 (`bz #694806 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806>`_)
2802 Usability, bells and whistles
2803 -----------------------------
2804 * The `cola classic` tool can be now configured to be dockable.
2805 (`#56 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/56>`_)
2807 * The `cola classic` tool now uses visual sigils to indicate a file's status.
2808 The idea and icons were provided by Uri Okrent.
2810 * Include the 'Rescan' button in the 'Actions' widget regardless
2811 of whether inotify is installed.
2815 * Fix installation of translations per Fedora
2816 This incorporates Fedora's fix for the translations path
2817 which originally appeared in cola-1.4.3-translations.patch.
2819 * Mac OS X git-cola developers can now generate git-cola.app
2820 application bundles using 'make app-bundle'.
2824 * Fixed a stacktrace when trying to use "Get Commit Message Template"
2825 with an unconfigured "commit.template" git config variable.
2826 (`bz #67521 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675721>`_)
2827 (`#72 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/72>`_)
2829 * Properly raise the main window on Mac OS X.
2831 * Properly handle staging a huge numbers of files at once.
2833 * Speed up 'git config' usage by fixing cola's caching proxy.
2835 * Guard against damaged ~/.cola files.
2842 Usability, bells and whistles
2843 -----------------------------
2844 * `git dag` now has a separate display area
2845 for displaying commit metadata. This area will soon
2846 grow additional functionality such as cherry-picking,
2851 * Fixed tests from a previous refactoring.
2853 * Guard against 'diff.external' configuration by always
2854 calling 'git diff' with the '--no-ext-diff' option.
2855 (`#67 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/67>`_)
2857 * Respect 'gui.diffcontext' so that cola's diff display
2858 shows the correct number of context lines.
2860 * Raise the GUI so that it is in the foreground on OS X.
2864 * We now allow distutils to rewrite cola's shebang line.
2865 This allows us to run on systems where "which python"
2866 is Python3k. This is exposed by setting the `PYTHON`
2867 Makefile variable to the location of python2.x.
2869 * git-cola.app is now a tiny download because it no longer
2870 contains Qt and PyQt. These libraries are provided as a
2872 (`Link <http://code.google.com/p/git-cola/downloads/list>`_)
2879 Usability, bells and whistles
2880 -----------------------------
2881 * Clicking on paths in the status widget copies them into the
2882 copy/paste buffer for easy middle-clicking into terminals.
2884 * `Ctrl+C` in diff viewer copies the selected diff to the clipboard.
2888 * Fixed the disappearing actions buttons on PyQt 4.7.4
2889 as reported by Arch and Ubuntu 10.10.
2890 (`#62 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62>`_)
2892 * Fixed mouse interaction with the status widget where some
2893 items could not be de-selected.
2897 * Removed hard-coded reference to lib/ when calculating Python's
2898 site-packages directory.
2905 Usability, bells and whistles
2906 -----------------------------
2907 * Removed "single-click to (un)stage" in the status view.
2908 This is a usability improvement since we no longer perform
2909 different actions depending on where a row is clicked.
2911 * Added ability to create unsigned, annotated tags.
2915 * Updated documentation to use `cola.git` instead of `cola.gitcmd`.
2922 Usability, bells and whistles
2923 -----------------------------
2924 * Allow un/staging by right-clicking top-level items
2925 (`#57 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/57>`_)
2927 * Running 'commit' with no staged changes prompts to allow
2929 (`#55 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/55>`_)
2931 * Fetch, Push, and Pull are now available via the menus
2932 (`#58 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/58>`_)
2936 * Simplified the actions widget to work around a regression
2938 (`#62 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62>`_)
2945 Usability, bells and whistles
2946 -----------------------------
2947 * `git dag` interaction was made faster.
2951 * Added '...' indicators to the buttons for
2952 'Fetch...', 'Push...', 'Pull...', and 'Stash...'.
2953 (`#51 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/51>`_)
2955 * Fixed a hang-on-exit bug in the cola-provided
2956 'ssh-askpass' implementation.
2963 Usability, bells and whistles
2964 -----------------------------
2965 * Staging and unstaging is faster.
2966 (`#48 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/48>`_)
2968 * `git dag` reads history in a background thread.
2972 * Added :data:`cola.compat.hashlib` for `Python 2.4` compatibility
2973 * Improved `PyQt 4.1.x` compatibility.
2977 * Configured menu actions use ``sh -c`` for Windows portability.
2985 Usability, bells and whistles
2986 -----------------------------
2987 * Added support for the configurable ``guitool.<tool>.*``
2988 actions as described in the ``git config`` documentation.
2989 (`git-config(1) <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config>`_)
2990 (`#44 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/44>`_)
2992 This makes it possible to add new actions to `git cola`
2993 by simply editing ``~/.gitconfig``. This implements the
2994 same guitool support as `git gui`.
2996 * Introduced a stat cache to speed up `git config` and
2997 repository status checks.
2999 * Added Alt-key shortcuts to the main `git cola` interface.
3001 * The `Actions` dock widget switches between a horizontal
3002 and vertical layout when resized.
3004 * We now use ``git diff --submodule`` for submodules
3005 (used when git >= 1.6.6).
3007 * The context menu for modified submodules includes an option
3008 to launch `git cola`.
3009 (`#17 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/17>`_)
3011 * Prefer ``$VISUAL`` over ``$EDITOR`` when both are defined.
3012 These are used to set a default editor in lieu of `core.editor`
3015 * Force the editor to be ``gvim`` when we see ``vim``.
3016 This prevents us from launching an editor in the (typically
3017 unattached) parent terminal and creating zombie editors
3018 that cannot be easily killed.
3020 * Selections are remembered and restored across updates.
3021 This makes the `partial-staging` workflow easier since the
3022 diff view will show the updated diff after staging.
3024 * Show the path to the current repository in a tooltip
3025 over the commit message editor.
3026 (`#45 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/45>`_)
3028 * Log internal ``git`` commands when ``GIT_COLA_TRACE`` is defined.
3029 (`#39 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/39>`_)
3033 * Improved backwards compatibility for Python 2.4.
3035 * `Review mode` can now review the current branch; it no longer
3036 requires you to checkout the branch into which the reviewed
3037 branch will be merged.
3039 * Guard against `color.ui = always` configuration when using
3040 `git log` by passing ``--no-color``.
3042 * ``yes`` and ``no`` are now supported as valid booleans
3043 by the `git config` parser.
3045 * Better defaults are used for `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`..
3046 (`#43 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/43>`_)
3050 * Removed colon (`:`) from the applilcation name on Windows
3051 (`#41 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/41>`_)
3053 * Fixed bugs with the Windows installer
3054 (`#40 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/40>`_)
3056 * Added a more standard i18n infrastructure. The install
3057 tree now has the common ``share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/git-cola.mo``
3058 layout in use by several projects.
3060 * Started trying to accommodate Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
3061 in the ``darwin/`` build scripts but our tester is yet to
3062 report success building a `.app` bundle.
3064 * Replaced use of ``perl`` in Sphinx/documentation Makefile
3065 with more-portable ``sed`` constructs. Thanks to
3066 Stefan Naewe for discovering the portability issues and
3067 providing msysgit-friendly patches.
3074 Usability, bells and whistles
3075 -----------------------------
3076 * It is now possible to checkout from the index as well
3077 as from `HEAD`. This corresponds to the
3078 `Removed Unstaged Changes` action in the `Repository Status` tool.
3080 * The `remote` dialogs (fetch, push, pull) are now slightly
3083 * Bookmarks can be selected when `git cola` is run outside of a git repository.
3085 * Added more user documentation. We now include many links to
3086 external git resources.
3088 * Added `git dag` to the available tools.
3089 `git dag` is a node-based DAG history browser.
3090 It doesn't do much yet, but it's been merged so that we can start
3091 building and improving upon it.
3095 * Fixed a missing ``import`` when showing `right-click` actions
3096 for unmerged files in the `Repository Status` tool.
3098 * ``git update-index --refresh`` is no longer run every time
3099 ``git cola version`` is run.
3101 * Don't try to watch non-existent directories when using `inotify`.
3103 * Use ``git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name`` plumbing to find
3104 the name of the current branch.
3108 * The ``Makefile`` will now conditionally include a ``config.mak``
3109 file located at the root of the project. This allows for user
3110 customizations such as changes to the `prefix` variable
3111 to be stored in a file so that custom settings do not need to
3112 be specified every time on the command-line.
3114 * The build scripts no longer require a ``.git`` directory to
3115 generate the ``builtin_version.py`` module. The release tarballs
3116 now include a ``version`` file at the root of the project which
3117 is used in lieu of having the git repository available.
3118 This allows for ``make clean && make`` to function outside of
3121 * Added maintainer's ``make dist`` target to the ``Makefile``.
3123 * The built-in `simplejson` and `jsonpickle` libraries can be
3124 excluded from ``make install`` by specifying the ``standalone=true``
3125 `make` variable. For example, ``make standalone=true install``.
3126 This corresponds to the ``--standalone`` option to ``setup.py``.
3134 Usability, bells and whistles
3135 -----------------------------
3136 * We now use patience diff by default when it is available via
3137 `git diff --patience`.
3139 * Allow closing the `cola classic` tool with `Ctrl+W`.
3143 * Fixed an unbound variable error in the `push` dialog.
3147 * Don't include `simplejson` in MANIFEST.in.
3149 * Update desktop entry to read `Cola Git GUI`.
3157 This feature release adds two new features directly from
3158 `git cola`'s github issues backlog. On the developer
3159 front, further work was done towards modularizing the code base.
3161 Usability, bells and whistles
3162 -----------------------------
3163 * Dragging and dropping patches invokes `git am`
3164 (`#3 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/3>`_)
3166 * A dialog to allow opening or cloning a repository
3167 is presented when `git cola` is launched outside of a git repository.
3168 (`#22 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/22>`_)
3170 * Warn when `push` is used to create a new branch
3171 (`#35 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/35>`_)
3173 * Optimized startup time by removing several calls to `git`.
3178 * `git cola` is once again compatible with PyQt 4.3.x.
3182 * `cola.gitcmds` was added to factor out git command-line utilities
3184 * `cola.gitcfg` was added for interacting with `git config`
3186 * `cola.models.browser` was added to factor out repobrowser data
3198 * Fix launching external applications on Windows
3200 * Ensure that the `amend` checkbox is unchecked when switching modes
3202 * Update the status tree when amending commits
3212 * Fix Lintian warnings
3222 * Fix X11 warnings on application startup
3232 * Added missing 'Exit Diff Mode' button for 'Diff Expression' mode
3233 (`#31 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/31>`_)
3235 * Fix a bug when initializing fonts on Windows
3236 (`#32 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/32>`_)
3246 * Keep entries in sorted order in the `cola classic` tool
3248 * Fix staging untracked files
3249 (`#27 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/27>`_)
3251 * Fix the `show` command in the Stash dialog
3252 (`#29 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/29>`_)
3254 * Fix a typo when loading merge commit messages
3255 (`#30 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/30>`_)
3263 This release focuses on a redesign of the git-cola user interface,
3264 a tags interface, and better integration of the `cola classic` tool.
3265 A flexible interface based on configurable docks is used to manage the
3266 various cola widgets.
3268 Usability, bells and whistles
3269 -----------------------------
3270 * New GUI is flexible and user-configurable
3272 * Individual widgets can be detached and rearranged arbitrarily
3274 * Add an interface for creating tags
3276 * Provide a fallback `SSH_ASKPASS` implementation to prompt for
3277 SSH passwords on fetch/push/pull
3279 * The commit message editor displays the current row/column and
3280 warns when lines get too long
3282 * The `cola classic` tool displays upstream changes
3284 * `git cola --classic` launches `cola classic` in standalone mode
3286 * Provide more information in log messages
3290 * Inherit the window manager's font settings
3292 * Miscellaneous PyQt4 bug fixes and workarounds
3296 * Removed all usage of Qt Designer `.ui` files
3298 * Simpler model/view architecture
3300 * Selection is now shared across tools
3302 * Centralized notifications are used to keep views in sync
3304 * The `cola.git` command class was made thread-safe
3306 * Less coupling between model and view actions
3308 * The status view was rewritten to use the MVC architecture
3310 * Added more documentation and tests
3318 Usability, bells and whistles
3319 -----------------------------
3320 * Added a `cola classic` tool for browsing the entire repository
3322 * Handle diff expressions with spaces
3324 * Handle renamed files
3328 * Handle carat `^` characters in diff expressions on Windows
3330 * Worked around a PyQt 4.5/4.6 QThreadPool bug
3334 * Added a keyboard shortcuts reference page
3336 * Added developer API documentation
3340 * Fix the diff expression used when reviewing branches
3342 * Fix a bug when pushing branches
3344 * Fix X11 warnings at startup
3346 * Fix more interrupted system calls on Mac OS X
3354 Usability, bells and whistles
3355 -----------------------------
3356 * Fresh and tasty SVG logos
3358 * Added `Branch Review` mode for reviewing topic branches
3360 * Added diff modes for diffing between tags, branches,
3361 or arbitrary `git diff` expressions
3363 * The push dialog selects the current branch by default.
3364 This is in preparation for `git 1.7.0` where unconfigured `git push`
3365 will refuse to push when run without specifying the remote name
3366 and branch. See the `git` release notes for more information
3368 * Support `open` and `clone` commands on Windows
3370 * Allow saving cola UI layouts
3372 * Re-enabled `double-click-to-stage` for unmerged entries.
3373 Disabling it for unmerged items was inconsistent, though safer.
3375 * Show diffs when navigating the status tree with the keyboard
3379 * Worked around `pyuic4` bugs in the `setup.py` build script
3381 * Added Mac OSX application bundles to the download page
3391 * `git difftool` became an official git command in `git 1.6.3`.
3393 * `git difftool` learned `--no-prompt` / `-y` and a corresponding
3394 `difftool.prompt` configuration variable
3396 Usability, bells and whistles
3397 -----------------------------
3398 * Warn when `non-fast-forward` is used with fetch, push or pull
3400 * Allow `Ctrl+C` to exit cola when run from the command line
3404 * Support Unicode font names
3406 * Handle interrupted system calls
3410 * `PEP-8`-ified more of the cola code base
3416 * All resources are now installed into `$prefix/share/git-cola`.
3417 Closed Debian bug #519972
3419 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519972
3429 * Added support for Kompare in `git difftool`
3431 * Added a separate configuration namespace for `git difftool`
3433 * Added the `diff.tool` configuration variable to define the default diff tool
3435 Usability, bells and whistles
3436 -----------------------------
3437 * The stash dialog allows passing the `--keep-index` option to `git stash`
3439 * Amending a published commit warns at commit time
3441 * Simplified the file-across-revisions comparison dialog
3443 * `origin` is selected by default in fetch/push/pull
3445 * Removed the search field from the log widget
3447 * The log window moved into a drawer widget at the bottom of the UI
3449 * Log window display can be configured with
3450 `cola.showoutput` = `{never, always, errors}`. `errors` is the default.
3452 * `NOTE` -- `cola.showoutput` was removed with the GUI rewrite in 1.4.0.
3456 * Improved nose unittest usage
3460 * Added a Windows/msysGit installer
3462 * Included private versions of `simplejson` and `jsonpickle`
3463 for ease of installation and development