6 Usability, bells and whistles
7 -----------------------------
8 * `git dag` now displays commit metadata more similarly to `git log`.
9 The commit date is now displayed and the subject field is displayed
10 directly above the extended description.
12 * The default `patches` directory that is used when exporting patches
13 is now configurable using the `cola.patchesdirectory` configuration
14 variable and the Preferences dialog.
16 * The Diff Editor can now export the diff selection, or the current
17 diff hunk, to a `*.patch` file from the `Patches` context menu action.
19 * Existing patches can be appended to by choosing a patch file from
20 the `Append Patch` sub-menu in the `Patches` context menu action.
24 * ``QApplication::desktop()`` is no longer available on PyQt6.
25 Git Cola no longer relies on this method.
35 * Diffs for repositories with a single commit have been fixed.
36 (`#1306 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1306>`_)
38 * The toolbars follow the Qt toolbar style, as they did prior to `v4.2.0`.
39 (`#1307 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1307>`_)
41 * The "Checkout Branch" dialog was fixed to display all completions when first shown.
42 (`#1308 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1308>`_)
50 Usability, bells and whistles
51 -----------------------------
52 * The Diff Editor can now send diffs to your favorite editor before the diffs are applied.
53 The right-click "Edit Diff ..." menu actions and the `Ctrl + Shift + S` /
54 `Ctrl + Shift + U` hotkeys send the current diff hunk, or the selected diff, to your
55 editor before they are applied to the worktree / staging area.
56 (`#1290 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1290>`_)
57 (`#794 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/794>`_)
59 * The Diff Editor and DAG viewer can now search within their diffs using
60 `Ctrl + F` and `Ctrl + G` hotkeys.
61 (`#1116 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1116>`_)
63 * A new *Diff Mode* can be used to diff and unstage edits relative to any commit.
64 (`#816 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/816>`_)
66 * The Commit Message Editor can now spell-check the summary field. Previously only the
67 "Extended Description..." field supported spell checking.
68 (`#633 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/633>`_)
69 (`#1070 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1070>`_)
71 * Repositories in your "Recents" and "Favorites" can now be searched using the new
72 "Search" tool button. Quickly switch between these repositories using the `Alt + P`
73 hotkey and "Quick Open..." File menu action.
74 (`#1282 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1282>`_)
76 * "Favorites", "Recents" and the startup dialog now display a case-insensitively
77 sorted list of repositories.
78 (`#1047 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1047>`_)
80 * The startup dialog now has a right-click context menu that allows you to prune
81 stale entries and other actions that were not previously accessible from
83 (`#1199 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1199>`_)
84 (`#1280 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1280>`_)
86 * The "Copy Leading Paths" action in the Status tool's right-click "Copy" sub-menu
87 can now strip off an arbitrary number of leading paths.
88 (`#784 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/784>`_)
90 * The "Cherry-Pick" action now reports errors when "git cherry-pick" fails.
91 A new "Abort Cherry-Pick" action has been added for aborting a failed cherry-pick.
92 (`#1062 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1062>`_)
94 * The diff text can now be quickly zoomed using `Ctrl + Mouse wheel` scroll.
95 This will quickly change the text size within the current session only.
96 (`#1029 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1029>`_)
98 * The Console and Diff widgets learned to open URLs. Right-click on a line
99 that contains http URLs and context-menu actions for opening each URL
100 using your default web browser will be displayed.
101 (`#1139 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1139>`_)
103 * Drag-and-drop has been improved when dragging filenames from the Status tool.
104 Dragging multiple files requires special handling to improve usability.
105 Some terminals (such as `kitty`) consume multiple file URLs by separating paths with
106 newlines. This is useful when you'd like to capture raw filenames but is less
107 convenient when dropping filenames onto a command-line. Drag with the `Alt`-modifier
108 held down to drag-and-drop filenames for command-line use. Using the `Alt` modifier
109 omits URLs so that the drag-and-drop payload includes only space-delimited,
111 (`#719 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/719>`_)
113 * The DAG viewer now displays the diff between the start and end commits when
114 multiple commits are selected. The diffs are displayed in the DAG's diff viewer.
115 (`#552 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/552>`_)
117 * The DAG viewer learned to checkout branches and initiate rebases from its right-click menu.
118 (`#1113 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1113>`_)
120 * The DAG diff viewer learned to word-wrap the diff text.
121 (`#1242 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1242>`_)
123 * The spelling dictionaries are now discovered dynamically at runtime.
124 `dict/words` and `dict/propernames` are now discovered via `$XDG_DATA_DIRS`
125 by the spell checker. This allows a spelling dictionary to be placed in eg.
126 `~/.local/share/dict/words` to override the default `/usr/share/dict/words`.
127 (`#873 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/873>`_)
129 * The File menu now has a "Patches" sub-menu with a full set of "git am" Patch actions.
131 * The Diff Editor and various Diff widgets now have a "Copy Diff" action with an
132 `Alt + Shift + C` hotkey that copies the selected diff text to the clipboard with the
133 `+`, `-` and `<Space>` diff prefix characters removed.
134 (`#1288 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1288>`_)
136 * The "Revert" action for reverting commits from the DAG tool now displays error
137 messages when ``git revert`` fails.
138 (`#885 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/885>`_)
140 * The Diff Editor now uses an easier-to-see *block cursor* by default.
141 Disable `cola.blockcursor <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#cola-blockcursor>`_
142 to continue using original *line cursor* by running
143 ``git config --global cola.blockcursor false``, or by editing the settings in the menu.
145 * The "Unmerged" header item in the Status tool now displays a summary list of unmerged files.
147 * The hotkeys documentation has been updated to clarify that the "Copy Commit ID"
148 action is available in several tools.
149 (`#779 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/779>`_)
151 * Saving files when using "Browse Other Branch" now displays errors from
152 ``git show`` when saving files from arbitrary commits.
153 (`#1065 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1065>`_)
155 * The Apply Patches dialog now reports errors when patches fail to apply.
156 (`#673 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/673>`_)
158 * The "Status" tool now disables "Copy" actions in its context menu when no
159 files have been selected.
160 (`#697 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/697>`_)
162 * The "Unstage" menu item in the Status tool now uses a "Remove" icon.
163 (`#1289 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1289>`_)
167 * The vendored `qtpy` module was modified to sever its dependency on the
168 `packaging.version` module. This mostly affects users that want to run
169 Git Cola directly from the the source tree outside of any virtualenv.
170 (`#1286 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1286>`_)
178 Usability, bells and whistles
179 -----------------------------
180 * The rebase editor was taught to handle stacked branch workflows enabled by
181 ``git rebase --update-refs``. The ``git cola rebase`` sub-command now has
182 an ``--update-refs`` option and the menu actions display a prompt that allows
183 you to enable the updating of stacked branches.
184 (`#1261 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1261>`_)
185 (`#571 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/571>`_)
187 * The status widget now respects `diff.ignoreSubmodules`.
188 (`#1269 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1269>`_)
190 Packaging and Dependencies
191 --------------------------
192 * PyQt6 is now officially supported.
193 (`#1211 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1211>`_)
194 (`#1273 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1273>`_)
196 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v2.3.0`.
200 * Fixes and updates to Git Cola's CI actions.
201 (`#1278 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1278>`_)
202 (`#1277 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1277>`_)
212 * The "T" hotkey for "Find Files" was removed to avoid issues in some configurations.
213 (`#1270 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1270>`_)
215 * Some context menus entries were erroring out on binary files.
216 (`#1271 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1271>`_)
224 Usability, bells and whistles
225 -----------------------------
226 * The branches widget no longer loses its selection state in response to
227 notifications and UI actions.
228 (`#1221 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1221>`_)
230 * The use of ``gravatar.com`` to fetch icons associated with author emails
231 can now be disabled by setting `git config --global cola.gravatar false`.
232 (`#933 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/933>`_)
236 * The config reader has been revamped to better read settings when git config
237 files are located in unexpected locations.
238 (`#927 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/927>`_)
239 (`#1264 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1264>`_)
241 * The preferences dialog no longer throws an error when the editor has not
243 (`#1263 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1263>`_)
245 * Context menu actions for staging files has been added when diffing images.
246 (`#1265 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1265>`_)
248 * The stash editor now properly displays stashes with slashes ("/") in
249 their names or messsages.
250 (`#1267 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1267>`_)
252 * The settings file is now written-to and read-from in a robust manner to avoid data
253 loss when doing an ACPI shutdown or forced shutdown of a machine.
254 (`#1241 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1241>`_)
256 * Git Cola now displays an error message when attempting to open a repository that
257 cannot be accessed due to the new `safe.directory` protections in Git v2.30.3.
258 (`#1243 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1243>`_)
262 * The .po and .pot files now contain location information.
263 (`#880 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/880>`_)
271 Usability, bells and whistles
272 -----------------------------
273 * The Rebase editor (`git-cola-sequence-editor`) now supports multi-select.
274 Use `Shift-{Up,Down}` to select multiple lines and the keyboard hotkeys
275 listed in the `?` dialog to drive the UI.
276 (`#1257 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1257>`_)
278 * The `$GIT_VISUAL` and `$VISUAL` environment variable are now consulted in addition
279 to `$GIT_EDITOR` and `$EDITOR` when the `gui.editor` configuration is unset.
280 (`#1237 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1237>`_)
282 * The application window icon is now enabled when running on Wayland.
283 (`#1240 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1240>`_)
285 * The Status widget now has an "Open Worktree" action.
286 (`#1245 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1245>`_)
288 * The "Open Using Default Application", "Open Directory",
289 "Open Parent Directory" and "Open Worktree" actions are now available on Windows.
291 * The dialog for opening repositories is now a read-only dialog that omits the
292 ability to create folders and modify the filesystem.
293 (`#1168 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1168>`_)
295 * A few more `git` calls have been eliminated from the startup sequence.
296 This further improved the startup time for Git Cola.
297 (`#1259 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1259>`_)
301 * Documentation rendering errors have been fixed.
302 (`#1256 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1256>`_)
304 * Use of a `~/.config/git-cola/language` file to override the language has been fixed.
305 (`#1246 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1246>`_)
307 * We no longer write the `cola.spellcheck` configuration value on launch.
308 (`#1238 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1238>`_)
312 * Updated Spanish translation.
313 (`#1244 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1244>`_)
315 * Updated Japanese translation.
316 (`#1249 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1249>`_)
320 * Building documentation offline is supported again.
321 (`#1250 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1250>`_)
323 * The Appstream Metadata files were missing in the v4.0.0 release are included again.
324 (`#1254 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1254>`_)
325 (`#1253 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1253>`_)
333 Usability, bells and whistles
334 -----------------------------
335 * Double-clicking dock widgets no longer creates sub-windows when the layout is locked.
336 (`#1176 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1176>`_)
337 (`#1198 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1198>`_)
341 * We now guard against `locale.getdefaultlocale()` returning `None` in some
342 configurations, notably on macOS if none of 'LC_ALL', 'LC_CTYPE', 'LANG' or 'LANGUAGE'
344 (`#1234 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1234>`_)
346 * The preferences dialog has been fixed to properly handle booleans.
347 (`#1235 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1235>`_)
349 * The `docs/` directory was restructured to avoid missing `setup.py` errors.
350 `share/doc/git-cola` is now a symlink pointing to `docs/`.
351 (`#1230 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1230>`_)
353 * Message boxes could sometimes display off-screen or using geometry that is larger
354 than the current desktop. Message box sizes are now clamped to the desktop size.
355 (`#1228 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1228>`_)
365 These changes are primarily breaking changes for packagers of Git Cola.
366 For example, Linux distribution and Homebrew package maintainers may need to
367 be aware of these changes.
369 Changes have been made build infrastructure and the resulting filesystem artifacts.
371 * The build system is now Python3-only and has been modernized for PEP-517/518.
372 While Git Cola still builds and runs under Python2, it is no longer officially
373 supported and may stop working in a future release without notice.
374 (`#1201 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1201>`_)
376 * The `#!/usr/bin/env python` shebang lines in the `git-cola` and `git-dag` wrapper
377 scripts have been updated to use `python3`.
378 (`#1204 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1204>`_)
380 * The build system was switched to `setuptools` and no longer depends on `distutils`.
381 ``python setup.py {build,install,build_pot,build_mo}`` are no longer provided.
382 Use the https://pypa-build.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html
383 ``python -m build`` tool to generate sdist and wheel distributions,
384 and ``pip install .`` to install Git Cola from source.
385 (`#1204 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1204>`_)
387 * The `git-cola`, `git-dag` and `git-cola-sequence-editor` commands are now installed
388 using setuptools entry points.
390 * The `bin/` wrapper scripts in the source tree continue to be provided for convenience
391 but they are not the scripts that get installed.
393 * The `qtpy` Python package is no longer installed alongside the `cola` Python package.
395 * The `cola` package is now installed into the standard Python site-packages location.
397 * The `share/git-cola/lib` private Python modules directory no longer exists.
399 * The `NO_VENDOR_LIBS` and `NO_PRIVATE_LIBS` Makefile options are no longer necessary.
401 * The `share/git-cola` filesystem namespace no longer exists. All of cola's package data
402 is distributed alongside the `cola` module as package data.
404 * Building the Sphinx documentation now also requires the `jaraco.packaging` and
405 `rst.linker` packages. See `requirements/requirements-dev.txt` for the package
408 Usability, bells and whistles
409 -----------------------------
411 <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#custom-themes>`_
412 can be used by adding `*.qss` Qt stylesheet files to `~/.config/git-cola/themes/`.
413 (`#1222 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1222>`_)
414 (`#1226 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1226>`_)
416 * Git Cola now keeps track of child Browser windows and will close all of them when
417 the main window is closed.
418 (`#1200 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1200>`_)
422 * Staging conflicted binary files has been fixed to avoid Unicode decoding errors.
423 (`#1189 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1189>`_)
425 * Ensure that secure permissions are used when creating temporary files.
426 (`#1209 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1209>`_)
428 * The line numbering in the diff viewer was corrected when displaying merge diffs.
429 (`#1208 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1208>`_)
431 * Documentation typofixes.
432 (`#1193 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1193>`_)
434 * Git Cola was revamped to use Qt signals and slots for all of its notifications.
435 This made its notification system more robust.
436 (`#1202 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1202>`_)
437 (`#1203 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1203>`_)
438 (`#1205 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1205>`_)
439 (`#1206 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1206>`_)
443 * `vcruntime140.dll` and `msvcp140.dll` are now included in the Windows installation.
444 (`#1207 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1207>`_)
452 Usability, bells and whistles
453 -----------------------------
454 * The git config guitool action can now be grouped under user-defined menus.
455 This is done by using slash (``/``) delimiters in the action name.
456 Entries before the final slash are treated like submenus inside the
457 top-level ``Actions`` menu.
458 (`#1150 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1150>`_)
460 * Toolbars now have a full set of icons. The icons follow the system theme
461 and can be configured to display text, just icons, or text and icons.
462 (`#1177 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1177>`_)
464 * The startup dialog will now open the selected repository when the "enter"
466 (`#1162 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1162>`_)
468 * ``Shift+S`` will stage selected lines (in addition to ``s``).
469 (`#1187 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1187>`_)
473 * The vendored qtpy library was patched to retain Python2 compatibility.
475 * The "Unstage" toolbar action was fixed.
476 (`#1178 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1178>`_)
478 * We now avoid `setWidth(float)` for compatibility with newer Qt versions.
479 (`#1183 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1183>`_)
481 * Documentation typofixes.
482 (`#1185 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1185>`_)
486 * Updated Polish translation.
487 (`#1184 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1184>`_)
491 * Git Cola now uses Github Actions for running its continuous integration tests.
492 (`#1179 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1179>`_)
500 Usability, bells and whistles
501 -----------------------------
502 * The Status tool was improved to better retain selected files when
503 the state changes and the display is refreshed.
504 (`#1130 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1130>`_)
505 (`#1131 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1131>`_)
507 * The Diff editor can now stage selected lines for untracked files.
508 Git Cola will detect when a file is untracked and will allow you to
509 partially stage it, just like existing tracked files.
510 (`#1146 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1146>`_)
511 (`#1084 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1084>`_)
513 * Diffing of staged files has been implemented for repositories that contain
515 (`#1149 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1149>`_)
516 (`#1110 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1110>`_)
518 * Documentation improvements and typofixes.
519 (`#1163 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1163>`_)
520 (`#1164 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1164>`_)
524 * The `FIPS security mode
525 <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/FIPS_Mode_-_an_explanation>`_
526 is now supported by Git Cola when running on FIPS-enabled Python
527 (Python 3.9+ or centos8/rhel8's patched Python 3.6).
528 (`#1157 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1157>`_)
532 * The `argparse` usage was adjusted to remain compatible with older Pythons.
533 (`#1155 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1155>`_)
535 * The window restoration logic was fixed to properly save/restore settings
536 when different languages are used.
537 (`#1071 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1071>`_)
538 (`#1161 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1161>`_)
539 (`#382 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/382>`_)
541 * `git dag` no longer passes floats to `QPen::setWidth()` for better compatibility.
542 (`bz #2014950 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2014950>`_)
546 * The Windows installer was slimmed down by removing unused Qt DLLs.
547 (`#1152 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1152>`_)
557 * Patch release to fix a typo in the Interactive Rebase feature.
564 Usability, bells and whistles
565 -----------------------------
566 * The git config reader now supports the `include.path` directive
567 for including config files.
568 (`#1136 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1136>`_)
569 (`#1137 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1137>`_)
571 * The dialog for selecting commits now support filtering.
572 (`#1121 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1121>`_)
574 * The diff editor now wraps long lines by default. The diff options
575 menu can be used to enable/disable line wrapping.
576 (`#1123 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1123>`_)
578 * Git Cola now honors `core.hooksPath` for configuring custom Git hooks,
579 which was introduced in Git v2.9.
580 (`#1118 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1118>`_)
582 * A new `Ctrl + Shift + S` hotkey was added for staging/unstaging all
583 files, both modified and untracked.
585 * The `Status` tool now supports `Ctrl + A` for selecting all files and
586 it behaves more predictably when performing operations when multiple
587 categories of files are selected (eg. when both modified and untracked
588 header items are selected).
589 (`#1117 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1117>`_)
593 * Updated Hungarian translation.
594 (`#1135 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1135>`_)
598 * The "Interactive Rebase" feature was updated to work with Windows.
600 * `make install-man` was updated to support Sphinx 4.0.
601 (`#1141 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1141>`_)
603 * `git cola --help-commands` was updated for newer versions of argparse.
604 (`#1133 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1133>`_)
608 * Git Cola can now be started as a Python module.
609 (`#1119 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1119>`_)
617 Usability, bells and whistles
618 -----------------------------
619 * The startup dialog now detects when Recent and Favorite repositories no
620 longer exist on disk, and offers to remove these entries when selected.
621 (`#1089 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1089>`_)
623 * The startup dialog now includes a simpler and more condensed folder view
624 that can be used for selecting Favorites and Recent repositories.
625 (`#1086 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1086>`_)
627 * The "Commit" menu now includes an "Undo Last Commit" action.
628 (`#890 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/890>`_)
630 * The "Reset" menu was revamped to expose all of Git's reset modes alongside a
631 new "Restore Worktree" action that updates the worktree using "git read-tree".
632 (`#890 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/890>`_)
636 * Updated Polish translation.
637 (`#1107 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1107>`_)
639 * Updated Japanese translation.
640 (`#1098 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1098>`_)
642 * Updated Brazilian translation.
643 (`#1091 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1091>`_)
647 * The ``--use-env-python`` option for ``setup.py`` is now Python3 compatible.
648 (`#1102 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1102>`_)
656 Usability, bells and whistles
657 -----------------------------
658 * The submodules widget can now be used to add submodules.
659 Submodules are now updated recursively.
660 (`#534 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/534>`_)
662 * The image diff viewer can now be toggled between text and image modes.
663 This is helpful when, for example, diffing .svg files where it can be useful
664 to see diffs in both an image and text representation.
665 (`#859 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/859>`_)
666 (`#1035 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1035>`_)
668 * The default `ssh-askpass` username + password dialog included with Git Cola
669 can now toggle between showing and masking the password input field.
670 (`#1069 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1069>`_)
674 * Updated Polish translation.
675 (`#1076 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1076>`_)
677 * Updated Hungarian translation.
678 (`#1067 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1067>`_)
682 * The `share/appdata` AppStream data was renamed to `share/metainfo`
683 in accordance with `AppStream standard changes from 2016
684 <https://github.com/ximion/appstream/blob/master/NEWS#L1363>`_.
685 (`#1079 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1079>`_)
687 * The ``cola`` modules are now installed into the Python ``site-packages``
688 directory by default. This allows distributions to package ``git-cola`` for
689 multiple versions of Python. See the PACKAGING NOTES section in the README
690 for details about suppressing the installation of the private
691 ``share/git-cola/lib/cola`` modules when building cola.
692 (`#181 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/181>`_)
694 * Git Cola's rebase / sequence editor, formerly known as ``git-xbase`` and
695 installed as ``share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase``, has been renamed to
696 ``git-cola-sequence-editor`` and is now installed into the default
697 ``bin/git-cola-sequence-editor`` executable location to enable external
698 reuse of this general-purpose tool.
700 * A workaround used by the pynsist installer preamble script was obsoleted by
701 `takluyver/pynsist#149 <https://github.com/takluyver/pynsist/pull/149>`_
702 and has now been removed.
703 (`#1073 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1073>`_)
707 * `git dag` now uses integer widths when initializing its brushes.
708 (`#1080 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1080>`_)
716 Usability, bells and whistles
717 -----------------------------
718 * The ``git-xbase`` rebase editor now includes a file list for filtering
719 the changes displayed in the diff view.
720 (`#1051 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1051>`_)
722 * The fallback `ssh-askpass` script, which provides the Username/Password
723 login dialog when performing remote operations, previously presented both
724 the username and password input fields with ``***`` asterisks.
725 The dialog now uses asterisks for the password field only.
726 (`#1026 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1026>`_)
728 * Stashes can now be applied using the `Ctrl + Enter` hotkey, popped with the
729 `Ctrl + Backspace` hotkey, and dropped with the `Ctrl + Shift + Backspace`
730 hotkey when inside the stash dialog. This enables a keyboard-centric
731 mouse-free workflow when using the stash dialog.
733 * When amending a commit, `git cola` will check whether the commit has been
734 published to a remote branch using ``git branch -r --contains HEAD``.
735 This command can be slow when operating on a repository with many
736 remote branches. The new `cola.checkpublishedcommits` configuration
737 variable allows you to opt-out of this check, which improves performance
738 when amending a commit. The settings widget exposes this variable as,
739 "Check Published Commits when Amending".
740 (`#1021 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1021>`_)
741 (`#1027 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1027>`_)
745 * Updated Polish translation.
746 (`#1033 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1033>`_)
750 * ``git-dag.appdata.xml`` was updated to allow network access for author icons.
751 (`#1050 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1050>`_)
753 * The inotify filesystem monitor now handles
754 `OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files` errors by disabling inotify.
755 (`#1015 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1015>`_)
757 * Typos in various documentation files have been fixed.
758 (`#1025 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1025>`_)
760 * The "Recent Repositories" limit was off by one, and now correctly
761 remembers the configured number of repositories in the menu.
762 (`#1024 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1024>`_)
764 * The "revert" action in the DAG and other tools now uses
765 ``git revert --no-edit``, which avoids launching an editor
766 when reverting the commit. Use `Ctrl+m` in the commit message
767 editor after reverting a commit to rewrite its commit message.
768 (`#1020 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1020>`_)
776 Usability, bells and whistles
777 -----------------------------
778 * The remote editor is much faster since it no longer queries
779 remotes, and uses the cached information instead.
780 (`#986 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/986>`_)
782 * Commit message templates can now be loaded automatically by setting
783 ``git config cola.autoloadcommittemplate true``.
784 (`#1013 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1013>`_)
785 (`#735 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/735>`_)
787 * The UI layout can now be reset back to its initial state by selecting
788 the "Reset Layout" action. This reverts the layout to the same state
789 as when the app first launched.
790 (`#1008 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1008>`_)
791 (`#994 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/994>`_)
793 * Files can now be ignored in either the project's `.gitignore`, or in the
794 repository's private local `.git/info/exclude` ignore file.
795 (`#1006 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1006>`_)
796 (`#1000 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1000>`_)
798 * New remotes are now selected when they are added in the "Edit Remotes" tool.
799 (`#1002 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1002>`_)
801 * The "Recent" repositories list is now saved to disk when opening a
802 repository. Previously, this list was only updated when exiting the app.
803 (`#1001 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1001>`_)
805 * The bookmarks tool now has a "Delete" option in its right-click menu.
806 (`#999 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/999>`_)
808 * The current repository is no longer listed in the "File/Open Recent" menu.
809 (`#998 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/998>`_)
813 * Updated Hungarian translation.
814 (`#1005 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1005>`_)
815 (`#1018 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1018>`_)
817 * Updated Turkish translation.
818 (`#1003 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1003>`_)
819 (`#1011 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1011>`_)
823 * Better support for Python 3.8's line buffering modes.
824 (`#1014 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1014>`_)
826 * The default `ssh-askpass` script now uses a more generic `#!` shebang line.
827 (`#1012 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1012>`_)
829 * Fetch, push, and pull operations will now refresh the model and display when
831 (`#996 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/996>`_)
833 * The branches widget now refreshes its display when changing branches.
834 (`#992 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/992>`_)
838 * The `share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase` script will now have its `#!` lines
839 updated during installation.
840 (`#991 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/991>`_)
844 * The unit tests were made more platform-independent.
845 (`#993 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/993>`_)
853 Usability, bells and whistles
854 -----------------------------
855 * Auto-completion for filenames can now be disabled. This speeds up
856 revision completion when working in large repositories with many files.
857 (`#981 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/981>`_)
859 * The Stash dialog now shows the stash date as a tooltip when hovering
860 over a stashed change.
861 (`#982 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/982>`_)
863 * Qt HiDPI settings are overridden by the `git cola` HiDPI appearance settings.
864 These overrides can now be disabled by selecting the "Disable" mode.
865 This allows users to control Qt's HiDPI settings through environment
866 variables. Additionally, the "Auto" mode now detects the presence of
867 the Qt HiDPI variables and no longer overrides them when the user has
868 configured their environment explicitly.
869 (`#963 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/963>`_)
871 * Confirmation dialogs can now focus buttons using the Tab key.
872 Previously, the "Y" and "N" keys could be used to confirm or deny
873 using the keyboard, but "Tab" is more familiar.
874 (`#965 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/965>`_)
876 * Error dialogs (for example, when a commit hook fails) will now always
877 show the details. The details were previously hidden behind a toggle.
878 (`#968 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/968>`_)
882 * Updated Japanese translation.
883 (`#973 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/973>`_)
884 (`#974 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/974>`_)
886 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation.
887 (`#950 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/950>`_)
891 * The filesystem monitor no longer logs that it has been enabled after the
892 inotify watch limit is reached on Linux.
893 (`#984 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/984>`_)
895 * Better unicode robustness.
896 (`#990 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/990>`_)
897 (`#910 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/991>`_)
899 * The "Branches" widget did not always update itself when deleting branches
900 (for example, when inotify is disabled or unavailable).
901 (`#978 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/978>`_)
903 * Non-ascii unicode byte strings are more robustly handled by the log widget.
904 (`#977 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/977>`_)
906 * Non-unicode results from the `gettext` library are more robustly handled.
907 (`#969 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/969>`_)
909 * Launching `git cola` from within a directory that has since been deleted
910 would previously result in a traceback, and is now robustly handled.
911 (`#961 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/961>`_)
915 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.9`.
923 Usability, bells and whistles
924 -----------------------------
925 * The file browser now includes "Blame" in its context menu.
926 (`#953 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/953>`_)
928 * The "Push" action now uses "git push --force-with-lease" when using
929 the "Force" option with Git v1.8.5 and newer.
930 (`#946 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/946>`_)
932 * Updated German translation.
933 (`#936 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/936>`_)
935 * The `Status` widget learned to optionally display file counts in its
936 category headers, and indent the files displayed in each category.
937 (`#931 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/931>`_)
939 * The `Branches` widget can now sort branches by their most recent commit.
940 (`#930 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/930>`_)
942 * `git cola` now includes configurable GUI themes that can be used to style
943 the user interface. Enable the new themes by configuring `cola.theme`
944 in the preferences window. See the
945 `cola.theme documentation <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#cola-theme>`_
946 for more details. (`#924 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/924>`_)
948 * `git cola` now has built-in support for HiDPI displays by enabling
949 Qt's 5.6's `QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR` feature.
950 (`#938 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/938>`_)
952 * `git cola` now uses HiDPI pixmaps when rendering icons, and the builtin
953 icons have been updated to look sharp when displayed in HiDPI.
954 (`#932 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/932>`_)
958 * `git cola`'s "Revert Unstaged Edits" previously checked out from "HEAD^",
959 when in "Amend" mode, and removing staged changes. This behavior has been
960 changed to always checkout from the index, which avoids data loss.
961 (`#947 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/947>`_)
963 * `git cola` has been updated to work with newer versions of `gnome-terminal`
964 and no longer shell-quotes its arguments when launching `gnome-terminal`.
965 The `cola.terminalshellquote` configuration variable can be set to `true` to
966 get the old behavior, or to handle other terminals that take the command to run
967 as a single string instead of as arguments to `execv()`.
968 (`#935 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/935>`_)
970 * `git dag` now properly handles arbitrary input on Python3.
971 Previously, an exception would be raised when entering `--grep=xxx` where
972 `xxx` is a quoted string with a missing end-quote.
973 (`#941 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/941>`_)
977 * The contribution guidelines for contributors has been updated to mention
978 how to regenerate the `*.mo` message files.
979 (`#934 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/934>`_)
987 Usability, bells and whistles
988 -----------------------------
989 * `git dag` improved how it renders parent commits.
990 (`#921 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/921>`_)
992 * The `Branches` widget now checks out branches when double-clicked.
993 (`#920 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/920>`_)
995 * The new `Submodules` widget makes it easy to interact with submodules.
996 Additionally, submodules can now be updated using the `Status` widget.
997 (`#916 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/916>`_)
999 * Updated Japanese translation.
1000 (`#914 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/914>`_)
1002 * The "Open Terminal" action now launches a Git Bash shell on Windows.
1003 (`#913 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/913>`_)
1005 * New menu actions for updating all submodules.
1006 (`#911 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/911>`_)
1008 * The status widget can now update submodules.
1009 (`#911 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/911>`_)
1011 * The "Apply Patch" `git cola am` dialog now includes a diff viewer
1012 to display the contents of the selected patch.
1014 * The "Alt+D" diffstat hotkey now selects the staged/modified/etc.
1015 header in the Status widget, which shows the totality of everything
1016 that will be committed.
1017 (`#771 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/771>`_)
1019 * Running "Launch Editor" from the diff editor now opens the editor at the
1021 (`#898 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/898>`_)
1023 * The textwidth and tabwidth configuration values can now be set
1024 per-repository, rather than globally only.
1026 * Text entry widgets switched to using a block cursor in `v3.2`.
1027 This has been reverted to the original line cursor for consistency
1028 with other applications and user expectations.
1029 (`#889 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/889>`_)
1031 * The "edit at line" feature, used by the "Grep" tool, now supports
1032 the Sublime text editor.
1033 (`#894 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/894>`_)
1037 * Launching external programs has been improved on Windows.
1038 (`#925 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/925>`_)
1040 * Improve compatibility when using PySide2.
1041 (`#912 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/912>`_)
1043 * The Diff Editor was not honoring the configured tab width on startup.
1044 (`#900 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/900>`_)
1046 * The "Delete Files" feature was creating an unreadable display when
1047 many files were selected. Word-wrap the list of files so that the
1048 display stays within a sensible size.
1049 (`#895 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/895>`_)
1051 * Spelling and grammar fixes.
1052 (`#915 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/915>`_)
1053 (`#891 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/891>`_)
1057 * The logo was run through `tidy` to give it a consistent style.
1058 Some technical issues with the logo were improved.
1059 (`#877 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/877>`_)
1061 * The entire codebase is now checked by `flake8`, rather than just
1062 the module and test directories. This catches things like
1063 the pynsist installer scripts.
1064 (`#884 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/884>`_)
1065 (`#882 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/882>`_)
1066 (`#879 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/879>`_)
1070 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.6`.
1072 * The Windows installer's wrapper scripts were missing an import.
1073 (`#878 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/878>`_)
1081 Usability, bells and whistles
1082 -----------------------------
1083 * The `git cola dag` DAG window now supports `git revert`.
1084 (`#843 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/843>`_)
1086 * `git stash pop` is now supported by the stash dialog.
1087 (`#844 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/844>`_)
1089 * The status widget now ensures that each item is visible when selection
1090 changes. Previously, if you scrolled to the right to see the name of
1091 a long filename, and then selected a short filename above it, the widget
1092 may not have shown the short filename in the viewport. We now ensure
1093 that the filenames are visible when the selection changes.
1094 (`#828 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/828>`_)
1096 * The `git xbase` rebase editor no longer displays an error when
1097 cancelling an interactive rebase.
1098 (`#814 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814>`_)
1100 * The dialog shown when renaming remotes has been simplified.
1101 (`#840 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/840>`_)
1102 (`#838 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/838>`_)
1104 * The help dialog in the `git-xbase` Rebase editor is now scrollable.
1105 (`#855 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/855>`_)
1109 * Updated Brazilian translation.
1110 (`#845 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/845>`_)
1112 * Updated Czech translation.
1113 (`#854 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/854>`_)
1114 (`#853 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/853>`_)
1115 (`#835 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/835>`_)
1116 (`#813 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/813>`_)
1118 * Update Spanish translation.
1119 (`#862 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/862>`_)
1120 (`#867 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/867>`_)
1124 * The original `#!/usr/bin/env python` shebang lines can now be
1125 retained by passing `USE_ENV_PYTHON=1` to `make` when installing.
1126 (`#850 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/850>`_)
1128 * The Makefile is now resilient to DESTDIR and prefix containing whitespace.
1129 (`#858 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/858>`_)
1131 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.4.2`.
1133 * `python3-distutils` is needed to build cola on Debian.
1134 (`#837 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/837>`_)
1138 * The "C" key no longer closes the message dialogs, for example the
1139 one that is shown when a commit fails its pre-commit hooks.
1140 This allows "Ctrl+C" copy to work, rather than closing the dialog.
1141 (`#734 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/734>`_)
1143 * Dock widgets sizes are now properly saved and restored when the main
1144 window is maximized.
1145 (`#848 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/848>`_)
1147 * The spellcheck feature was broken under Python3.
1148 (`#857 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/857>`_)
1150 * A regression when saving stashes was fixed.
1151 (`#847 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/847>`_)
1153 * Diffing image files was not updating the available context menus,
1154 which prevented the "Stage" action from being present in the menu.
1155 (`#841 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/841>`_)
1157 * `git cola` now detects when `git lfs uninstall` has been run. This allows
1158 you to re-initialize "Git LFS" in an existing repository where it had been
1159 previously uninstalled.
1160 (`#842 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/842>`_)
1162 * Custom color values that did not contain any hexadecimal digits in the
1163 `a-f` range were being converted into integers by the config reader. This
1164 then caused the configured colors to be ignored.
1166 These color values are now interpreted correctly. Additionally, color
1167 values can now use an optional HTML-like `#` prefix.
1169 Example `.gitconfig` snippet::
1174 (`#836 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/836>`_)
1175 (`#849 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/849>`_)
1177 * We now display an error message graphically when `Git` is not installed.
1178 Previously, the message went to stderr only.
1179 (`#830 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/830>`_)
1181 * Changing diff options was causing resulting in an exception.
1182 (`#833 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/833>`_)
1183 (`#834 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/834>`_)
1185 * The DAG window now updates itself when branches and tags are created.
1186 (`#814 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814>`_)
1188 * The user's `$PATH` environment variable can now contain utf-8
1189 encoded paths. Previously, launching external commands could
1191 (`#807 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/807>`_)
1193 * Git Cola development sandboxes can now be stored on utf-8 encoded
1194 filesystem paths. Previously, the interactive rebase feature
1195 could be broken when running in that environment.
1196 (`#825 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/825>`_)
1198 * The log window now uses an ISO-8601 timestamp, which
1199 avoids localized output in the log window.
1200 (`#817 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/817>`_)
1204 * The code base has been thoroughly sanitized using `pylint`, and
1205 travis is now running pylint over the entire project.
1207 * Miscellaneous improvements and code improvements.
1208 (`#874 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/874>`_)
1216 Usability, bells and whistles
1217 -----------------------------
1218 * The "Browser" widget learned to rename files using "git mv".
1219 (`#239 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/239>`_)
1221 * The "Diff" widget learned to diff images. Side-by-side and pixel diff
1222 modes allow you to inspect changes to common images formats.
1223 (`#444 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/444>`_)
1224 (`#803 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/803>`_)
1226 * Git LFS and Git Annex are natively supported by the image diff viewer.
1228 * Git Annex operations are now included. `git annex init` can be performed on
1229 repositories, and `git annex add` can be run on untracked files from the
1230 status widget. Install `git-annex` to activate this feature.
1232 * Git LFS operations are now included. `git lfs install` can be performed on
1233 repositories, and `git lfs track` can be run on untracked files from the
1234 status widget. Install `git-lfs` to activate this feature.
1236 * The "Stash" tool learned to stash staged changes only. Select the
1237 "Stage Index" option and only staged changes will be stashed away.
1238 (`#413 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/413>`_)
1240 * The "Stash" tool learned to use vim-like navigation keyboard shortcuts,
1241 shows error messages when things go wrong, and now saves the "Stash Index"
1242 and "Keep Index" options across sessions.
1244 * The Edit menu's "Copy" and "Select All" actions now forward to either the
1245 diff, status, recent, or favorites widgets, based on which widget has focus.
1247 * The "File" and "Edit" menu can now be activated using `Alt + {F,E}` hotkeys.
1248 (`#759 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/759>`_)
1250 * It was easy to accidentally trigger the first action in the `Status` tool's
1251 context menu when using a quick right-click to bring up the menu.
1252 A short sub-second delay was added to ensure that the top-most action is not
1253 triggered unless enough time has passed. This prevents accidental
1254 activation of the first item (typically "Stage" or "Unstage") without
1255 burdening common use cases.
1256 (`#755 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/755>`_)
1257 (`#643 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/643>`_)
1259 * The "Ctrl+S" hotkey now works for the header items in the Status tool.
1260 Selected the "Modified" header item and activating the "Stage" hotkey,
1261 for example, will stage all modified files. This works for the "Staged",
1262 "Modified", and "Untracked" headers. This is not enabled for the
1263 "Unmerged" header by design.
1264 (`#772 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/772>`_)
1266 * The list of "Recent" repositories previously capped the number of
1267 repositories shown to 8 repositories. This can be set to a higher
1268 value by setting the `cola.maxrecent` configuration variable.
1269 (`#752 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/752>`_)
1271 * The "Create Branch" dialog now prevents invalid branch names.
1272 (`#765 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/765>`_)
1274 * Updated Turkish translation.
1275 (`#756 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/756>`_)
1277 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
1278 (`#753 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/753>`_)
1280 * Updated German translation.
1281 (`#802 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/802>`_)
1283 * Updated Czech translation
1284 (`#792 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/792>`_)
1285 (`#806 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/806>`_)
1287 * The window title can be configured to not display the absolute path of the
1289 (`#775 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/775>`_)
1291 * The "Edit Remotes" editor learned to edit remote URLS.
1293 * Bare repositories can now be created by selecting the
1294 "New Bare Repository..." action from the `File` menu.
1296 * The "Branches" widget learned to configure upstream branches.
1298 * A new `git cola clone` sub-command was added for cloning repositories.
1302 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.3.1`.
1304 * The macOS installation was made simpler for better compatibility with
1306 (`#636 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/636>`_)
1308 * The Windows installer is now much simpler. Git Cola now bundles
1309 Python and PyQt5, so users need only install the "Git for Windows"
1310 and "Git Cola" installers to get things working.
1314 * Uninitialized difftool errors will now be displayed graphically.
1315 They were previously going to the shell.
1316 (`#457 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/457>`_)
1318 * Translations marked "fuzzy" will no longer be used when translating strings.
1319 (`#782 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/782>`_)
1321 * Deleted unmerged files will now correctly use a deleted icon.
1322 (`#479 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/479>`_)
1324 * The `Ctrl+C` "Copy" hotkey on the diff viewer has been fixed.
1325 (`#767 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/767>`_)
1327 * The "Create Tag" dialog did not correctly handle the case when a signed
1328 tag is requested, but no message is provided, and the user chooses to
1329 create an unannotated tag instead. This convenience fallback will now
1330 properly create an unsigned, unannotated tag.
1331 (`#696 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/696>`_)
1333 * `.gitconfig` and `.git/config` values editable by the Preferences dialog
1334 (aka `git cola config`) will now get unset when set to an empty value.
1335 For example, setting a different `user.email` in the current repository,
1336 followed by a subsequent emptying of that field, would previously result in
1337 an empty string getting stored in the config. This has been fixed so that
1338 the value will now get unset in the config instead.
1339 (`#406 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/406>`_)
1341 * Spelling and typofixes.
1342 (`#748 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/748>`_)
1344 * `core.commentChar` is now honored when set in the local repository
1346 (`#766 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/766>`_)
1348 * The log window was using a format string that did not display
1349 correctly in all locales. A locale-aware format is now used.
1350 (`#800 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/800>`_)
1352 * The dialog displayed when prompting for a reference could sometimes
1354 (`#804 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/804>`_)
1362 Usability, bells and whistles
1363 -----------------------------
1364 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation.
1365 (`#726 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/726>`_)
1367 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
1368 (`#723 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/723>`_)
1370 * New Czech translation.
1371 (`#736 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/736>`_)
1372 (`#737 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/737>`_)
1373 (`#740 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/740>`_)
1374 (`#743 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/743>`_)
1376 * The "name" field in the "Create Tag" dialog now includes autocompletion,
1377 which makes it easy to see which tags currently exist.
1379 * `git cola` now has configurable toolbars. Use the `View -> Add toolbar`
1380 menu item to add a toolbar.
1382 * Setting `cola.expandtab` to `true` will now expand tabs into spaces
1383 in the commit message editor. The number of spaces to insert is determined
1384 by consulting `cola.tabwidth`, which defaults to `8`.
1386 * The "Copy SHA-1" hotkey is now `Alt + Ctrl + C`, to avoid clobbering the
1387 ability to copy text from the DAG window.
1388 (`#705 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/705>`_)
1390 * The "Prepare Commit Message" action can now be invoked via the
1391 `Ctrl+Shift+Return` shortcut.
1392 (`#707 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/707>`_)
1394 * The `Branches` pane now has a filter field that highlights branches whose
1395 names match the string entered into its text field.
1396 (`#713 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/713>`_)
1398 * Actions that are triggered in response to button presses were being
1399 triggered when the button was pressed, rather than when it was released,
1400 which was a usability flaw. All buttons now respond when clicked
1401 rather than when pressed.
1402 (`#715 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/715>`_)
1404 * The DAG window will now only refresh when object IDs change.
1405 Previously, the DAG would redraw itself in response to inotify events,
1406 such as filesystem operations, which was disruptive when inspecting a large
1407 diff in its diff viewer. The DAG will now only redraw when the object IDs
1408 corresponding to its query input changes. Furthermore, when redrawing, the
1409 scrollbar positions are retained to minimize disruption to the viewport
1411 (`#620 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/620>`_)
1412 (`#724 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/724>`_)
1414 * The "About" dialog now includes the SHA-1 where Git Cola was built.
1415 (`#530 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/530>`_)
1417 * The "Status" widget now has "Copy Leading Path to Clipboard" and
1418 "Copy Basename to Clipboard" actions.
1419 (`#435 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/435>`_)
1420 (`#436 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/436>`_)
1422 * The "Status" widget now supports custom "Copy ... to Clipboard" actions.
1423 (`#437 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/437>`_)
1425 * The main menu now has an "Edit" menu.
1426 (`#725 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/725>`_)
1428 * `git dag` learned to checkout commits into a detached HEAD state.
1429 (`#698 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/698>`_)
1431 * The `status` widget's context menus now omit actions selection-dependent
1432 actions when no file is selected.
1433 (`#731 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/731>`_)
1435 * The startup dialog now focuses the repository list so that repositories
1436 can be selected with the keyboard without mouse intervention.
1437 (`#741 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/741>`_)
1441 * `git dag` now prevents nodes from overlapping in more situations.
1442 (`#689 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/689>`_)
1444 * Adding untracked Git submodule repo directories previously ran
1445 `git add submodule/` but we now call `git add submodule` without
1446 the trailing slash (`/`) to avoid staging files that belong to the
1447 submodule (which is possibly a `git` bug). By working around the
1448 buggy behavior we allow users to recover by issuing the appropriate
1449 `git submodule add` command to properly register the submodule.
1450 (`#681 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/681>`_)
1452 * We now avoid `git for-each-ref --sort=version:refname` on versions
1453 of `git` older than `v2.7.0`. Previously we only avoided it for
1454 versions older than `v2.0.0`, which was a mistake.
1455 (`#686 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686>`_)
1457 * The error message displayed when `git` is not installed has been fixed.
1458 (`#686 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686>`_)
1460 * Adding new remotes was silently broken.
1461 (`#684 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/684>`_)
1462 (`#685 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/685>`_)
1464 * The repo selection dialog had errors during startup when the
1465 `cola.refreshonfocus` feature was enabled, as reported on Ubuntu 16.04.
1466 (`#690 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/690>`_)
1468 * Restored support for PyQt 4.6 (Centos 6.8)
1469 (`#692 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/692>`_)
1471 * Switching repositories now resets the "Amend Mode" and other settings
1473 (`#710 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/710>`_)
1475 * `git rebase` error messages now displayed when rebasing fails or stops
1476 via the standalone `git cola rebase` front-end.
1477 (`#721 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/721>`_)
1479 * `git cola` learned to stage broken symlinks.
1480 (`#727 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/727>`_)
1482 * The "View History" feature in the `Browser` tool was fixed, and now
1483 disambiguates between refs and paths.
1484 (`#732 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/732>`_)
1486 * The diff editor now has better support for files with CRLF `\r\n`
1488 (`#730 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/730>`_)
1490 * `cola.inotify` in a repo-local config is now honored
1491 when `git cola` is launched from a desktop entry (`git cola --prompt`).
1492 (`#695 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/695>`_)
1500 Usability, bells and whistles
1501 -----------------------------
1502 * New Ukrainian translation.
1503 (`#670 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/670>`_)
1504 (`#672 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/672>`_)
1506 * New and improved French translations.
1508 * The new `Branches` widget makes it easier to checkout, merge, push,
1509 and pull branches from a single interface.
1511 * `git cola` now includes a dark icon theme. The dark icon theme can be
1512 activated either by setting the `GIT_COLA_ICON_THEME` environment variable
1513 to `dark`, by configuring `cola.icontheme` to `dark`, or by specifying
1514 `--icon-theme=dark` on the command line.
1515 (`#638 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/638>`_)
1517 * Autocompletion was added to the `Fetch`, `Push`, and `Pull` dialogs.
1519 * The commit message editor now remembers the "Spellcheck" setting
1521 (`#645 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/645>`_)
1523 * `git dag` now uses an improved algorithm for laying out the graph,
1524 which avoids collisions under certain graph configurations, and
1525 avoids overlapping tag with commits.
1526 (`#648 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/648>`_)
1527 (`#651 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/651>`_)
1528 (`#654 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/654>`_)
1529 (`#656 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/656>`_)
1530 (`#659 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/659>`_)
1532 * `git dag` now remembers its column sizes across sessions.
1533 (`#674 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/674>`_)
1535 * `Grep` now shows a preview of the selected file's content in a split window
1536 below the grep results.
1538 * `Grep` now includes line numbers in the preview pane's output.
1540 * `Edit Remotes` now remembers its window settings after exiting.
1542 * `Diff` now has an option to display line numbers in the editor.
1543 (`#136 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/136>`_)
1545 * `Amend Last Commit` can now be triggered via the `Commit` menu in addition
1546 to the commit message editor's options.
1547 (`#640 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/640>`_)
1549 * The `File Browser` tool was made much faster and can now operate on
1550 much larger repositories.
1551 (`#499 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/499>`_)
1553 * A new "turbo" mode was added that allows you to opt-out of operations
1554 that can slow `git cola` on large repositories. The turbo mode is
1555 enabled by configuring `git config cola.turbo true`. Turbo mode
1556 disables the background loading of Git commit messages and other
1557 details in the `File Browser` widget.
1559 * A new GitIgnore dialog allows adding custom gitignore patterns.
1560 (`#653 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/653>`_)
1562 * The spellchecker in `git cola` can now use an additional dictionary
1563 by configuring `cola.dictionary` to the path to a file containing
1564 a newline-separated list of words.
1565 (`#663 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663>`_)
1567 * The stash, export patches, diff, and gitignore dialogs now remember
1570 * A new `git cola recent` sub-command was added for finding recently
1573 * The `Fetch` dialog now allows pruning remote branches.
1574 (`#639 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/639>`_)
1575 (`#680 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/680>`_)
1579 * `git cola`'s spellchecker now supports the new `dict-common` filesystem
1580 layout, and prefers the `/usr/share/dict/cracklib-small` file over the
1581 `/usr/share/dict/words` provided on older distributions.
1582 This makes the spellchecker compatible with Arch, which does not provide
1583 a `words` symlink like Debian.
1584 (`#663 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663>`_)
1586 * Properly handle the case where an existing file is untracked using
1589 * Fix a quirk where the "Create Branch" dialog sometimes required clicking
1590 twice on the radio buttons.
1591 (`#662 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/662>`_)
1593 * Fixed a focus issue to ensure that "Push", "Fetch", and "Pull" can
1594 be executed with the press of a single enter key after being shown.
1595 (`#661 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/661>`_)
1597 * Committing is now allowed in when resolving a merge results in no
1598 changes. This state was previously prevented by the commit message editor,
1599 which prevented users from resolving merges that result in no changes.
1600 (`#679 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/679>`_)
1602 * The filesystem monitor would sometimes emit backtraces when directories
1603 are modified. This has been fixed.
1604 (`bz #1438522 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438522>`_)
1606 * Absolute paths are now returned when querying for `.git`-relative paths
1607 from within a submodule, which uses `.git`-files.
1608 This fixes launching `git cola` from within a subdirectory of a submodule.
1609 (`#675 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/675>`_)
1617 Usability, bells and whistles
1618 -----------------------------
1619 * `git cola` can now invoke the `.git/hooks/cola-prepare-commit-msg`
1620 hook to update the commit message. This hook takes the same parameters
1621 as Git's `prepare-commit-message` hook. The default path to this hook
1622 can be overridden by setting the `cola.prepareCommitMessageHook`
1623 configuration variable.
1624 (`Documentation <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#prepare-commit-message>`_)
1626 * `git cola diff` (and the corresponding `Diff` menu actions) can now
1627 launch difftool with the standard `Ctrl+D` hotkey. The `Ctrl+E` hotkey was
1628 also added for launching an editor.
1630 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
1634 * `git cola` now works when installed in non-ascii, utf8-encoded paths.
1635 (`#629 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/629>`_)
1637 * Styling issues that caused black backgrounds in various widgets when using
1638 PyQ5 on Mac OS X have been fixed.
1639 (`#624 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/624>`_)
1641 * The "Open Recent" menu action was broken and has been fixed.
1642 (`#634 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/634>`_)
1644 * Exiting `git cola` with a maximized main window would hang when reopened
1646 (`#641 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/641>`_)
1650 * `appdata.xml` files are now provided at
1651 `share/appdata/git-cola.xml` and `share/appdata/git-dag.xml`
1652 for use by the Linux software gallery.
1653 (`#627 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/627>`_)
1654 (`Appdata <https://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/>`_)
1664 * The "Open Recent" menu was updated to new bookmarks format.
1665 (`#628 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/628>`_)
1673 Usability, bells and whistles
1674 -----------------------------
1675 * New Polish translation thanks to Łukasz Wojniłowicz
1676 (`#598 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/598>`_)
1678 * The `Bypass Commit Hooks` feature now disables itself automatically
1679 when a new commit is created. The new behavior turns the option into a
1680 single-use flag, which helps prevent users from accidentally leaving it
1681 active longer than intended.
1682 (`#595 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/595>`_)
1684 * `git dag` learned to launch an external diff viewer on selected commits.
1685 The standard `Ctrl+D` shortcut can be used to view diffs.
1686 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1688 * `git dag` learned to launch directory diffs via `git difftool --dir-diff`.
1689 The `Ctrl+Shift+D` shortcut launches difftool in directory-diff mode.
1690 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1692 * Items in the "Favorites" list can now be renamed, which makes it
1693 easier to differentiate between several checkouts of the same repository.
1694 (`#599 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/599>`_)
1695 (`#601 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/601>`_)
1697 * The startup screen now includes a logo and `git cola` version information.
1698 (`#526 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/526>`_)
1700 * The `About` page was revamped to contain multiple tabs. A new tab was added
1701 that provides details about `git cola`''s dependencies. New tabs were also
1702 added for giving credit to `git cola`'s authors and translators.
1704 * The `About` page can now be accessed via `git cola about`.
1706 * The "Fast-forward only" and "No fast-forward" options supported by
1707 `git pull` are now accessible via `git cola pull`.
1709 * Doing a forced push no longer requires selecting the remote branch.
1710 (`#618 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/618>`_)
1712 * `git cola push` now has an option to suppress the prompt that is shown
1713 when pushing would create new remote branches.
1714 (`#605 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/605>`_)
1716 * `git dag` now shows commit messages in a more readable color.
1717 (`#574 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/574>`_)
1719 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch the OS-specified
1720 default action for a file. When used on directories via `git cola browse`,
1721 or when "Open Parent Directory" is used on files, the OS-specified
1722 file browser will typically be used.
1724 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch terminals.
1728 * `git cola browse` was not updating when expanding items.
1729 (`#588 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/588>`_)
1731 * Typofixes in comments, naming, and strings have been applied.
1732 (`#593 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/593>`_)
1734 * The inotify and win32 filesystem monitoring no longer refreshes
1735 when updates are made to ignored files.
1736 (`#517 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/517>`_)
1737 (`#516 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/516>`_)
1739 * The `Refresh` button on the actions panel no longer raises an
1740 exception when using PyQt5.
1741 (`#604 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/604>`_)
1743 * Fixed a typo in the inotify backend that is triggered when files are removed.
1744 (`#607 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/607>`_)
1746 * Fixed a typo when recovering from a failed attempt to open a repository.
1747 (`#606 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/606>`_)
1749 * `git dag` now properly updates itself when launched from the menubar.
1750 (`#613 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/613>`_)
1752 * If git-cola is invoked on Windows using `start pythonw git-cola`,
1753 a console window will briefly flash on the screen each time
1754 `git cola` invokes `git`. The console window is now suppressed.
1756 * We now avoid some problematic Popen flags on Windows which were
1757 breaking the `git rebase` feature on Windows.
1759 * The `Save` button in `git dag`'s "Grab File..." feature now properly
1760 prompts for a filename when saving files.
1761 (`#617 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/617>`_)
1765 * The `qtpy` symlink in the source tree has been removed to allow for easier
1766 development on Windows.
1767 (`#626 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/626>`_)
1775 Usability, bells and whistles
1776 -----------------------------
1777 * `git cola push` learned to configure upstream branches.
1778 (`#563 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/563>`_)
1782 * The diffstat view is now properly updated when notifications are
1783 received via inotify filesystem monitoring.
1784 (`#577 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/577>`_)
1786 * Python3 with PyQt5 had a bug that prevented `git cola` from starting.
1787 (`#589 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/589>`_)
1798 * When repositories stored in non-ASCII, UTF-8-encoded filesystem paths
1799 were operated upon with `LC_ALL=C` set in the environment, unicode errors
1800 would occur when using `python2`. `git cola` was made more robust and will
1801 now operate correctly within this environment.
1802 (`#581 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/581>`_)
1804 * Support for the `GIT_WORK_TREE` environment variable was fixed.
1805 (`#582 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/582>`_)
1810 * The `unittest.mock` module is now used instead of the original `mock` module
1811 when running the `git cola` test suite using Python3.
1812 (`#569 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/569>`_)
1817 * `git cola` is now compatible with *PyQt5*, *PyQt4*, and *Pyside*.
1818 `git cola` previously supported *PyQt4* only, but will now use whichever
1819 library is available. Users are not required to upgrade at this time,
1820 but *PyQt5* support can be enabled anytime by making its python
1822 (`#232 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/232>`_)
1824 *NOTE*: We do not yet recommend using *PyQt5* because there are known
1825 exit-on-segfault bugs in *Qt5* that have not yet been addressed.
1826 `git cola` is sensitive to this bug and is known to crash on exit
1827 when using `git dag` or the interactive rebase feature on *PyQt5*.
1829 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-52988
1831 *PyQt4* is stable and there are no known issues when using it so
1832 we recommend using it until the Qt5 bugs have been resolved.
1834 * `git cola` now depends on *QtPy* and includes a bundled copy of the
1835 `qtpy` library. If you are packaging `git cola` and would prefer to use
1836 `qtpy` from your distribution instead of the built-in version then use
1837 `make NO_VENDOR_LIBS=1` when building `git cola`. This will prevent
1838 vendored libraries from being installed.
1846 Usability, bells and whistles
1847 -----------------------------
1849 * A new "Reset" sub-menu provides access to running "git reset --mixed"
1850 when resetting branch heads and "git reset --merge" when resetting
1852 (`#542 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/542>`_)
1854 * `git cola` now supports linked worktrees, i.e. worktrees created by
1856 (`#554 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/554>`_)
1861 * Diff highlighting is now robust to the user having
1862 diff.supressBlankEmpty=true in their git config.
1863 (`#541 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/541>`_)
1865 * The filesystem monitor now properly handles repositories that use
1866 `.git`-files, e.g. when using submodules.
1867 (`#545 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/545>`_)
1868 (`#546 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pulls/546>`_)
1870 * Per-repository git configuration is now properly detected when launching
1871 `git cola` from an application launcher.
1872 (`#548 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/548>`_)
1874 * `git cola` now cleans up after itself immediately to avoid leaving behind
1875 empty `/tmp/git-cola-XXXXXX` directories when the user uses `Ctrl+C`
1877 (`#566 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/566>`_)
1882 * It is now possible to install `git cola` to and from utf8-encoded filesystem
1883 paths. Previously, Python's stdlib would throw an encoding error during
1884 installation. We workaround the stdlib by forcing python2 to use utf-8,
1885 thus fixing assumptions in the stdlib library code.
1886 (`#551 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/551>`_)
1894 Usability, bells and whistles
1895 -----------------------------
1897 * The icon for untracked files was adjusted to better differentiate
1898 between files and the "Untracked" header.
1899 (`#509 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/509>`_)
1901 * Ctrl+O was added as a hotkey for opening repositories.
1902 (`#507 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/507>`_)
1904 * `git dag` now uses consistent edge colors across updates.
1905 (`#512 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/512>`_)
1907 * `git cola`'s Bookmarks widget can now be used to set a "Default Repository".
1908 Under the hood, we set the `cola.defaultrepo` configuration variable.
1909 The default repository is used whenever `git cola` is launched outside of
1910 a Git repository. When unset, or when set to a bogus value, `git cola`
1911 will prompt for a repository, as it previously did.
1912 (`#513 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/513>`_)
1914 * `git cola`'s Russian and Spanish translations were improved
1915 thanks to Vaiz and Zeioth.
1916 (`#514 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/514>`_)
1917 (`#515 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/515>`_)
1918 (`#523 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/523>`_)
1920 * `git cola` was translated to Turkish thanks to Barış ÇELİK.
1921 (`#520 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/520>`_)
1923 * The status view now supports launching `git gui blame`. It can be
1924 configured to use a different command by setting `cola.blameviewer`.
1925 (`#521 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/521>`_)
1927 * `git dag` now allows selecting non-contiguous ranges in the log widget.
1928 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1930 * Any font can now be chosen for the diff editor, not just monospace fonts.
1931 (`#525 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/525>`_)
1936 * `xfce4-terminal` and `gnome-terminal` are now supported when launching
1937 `git mergetool` to resolve merges. These terminals require that the command
1938 to execute is shell-quoted and passed as a single string argument to `-e`
1939 rather than as additional command line arguments.
1940 (`#524 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/524>`_)
1942 * Fixed a unicode problem when formatting the error message that is shown
1943 when `gitk` is not installed. We now handle unicode data in tracebacks
1944 generated by python itself.
1945 (`#528 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/528>`_)
1947 * The `New repository` feature was fixed.
1948 (`#533 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/533>`_)
1950 * We now use omit the extended description when creating "fixup!" commits,
1951 for consistency with the Git CLI. We now include only the one-line summary
1952 in the final commit message.
1953 (`#522 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/522>`_)
1961 Usability, bells and whistles
1962 -----------------------------
1964 * The user interface is now HiDPI-capable. git-cola now uses SVG
1965 icons, and its interface can be scaled by setting the `GIT_COLA_SCALE`
1966 environment variable.
1968 * `git dag` now supports the standard editor, difftool, and history hotkeys.
1969 It is now possible to invoke these actions from file widget's context
1970 menu and through the standard hotkeys.
1971 (`#473 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/473>`_)
1973 * The `Status` tool also learned about the history hotkey.
1974 Additionally, the `Alt + {J,K}` aliases are also supported in the `Status`
1975 tool for consistency with the other tools where the non-Alt hotkeys are not
1977 (`#488 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/488>`_)
1979 * The `File Browser` tool now has better default column sizes,
1980 and remembers its window size and placement.
1982 * The `File Browser` now supports the refresh hotkey, and has better
1983 behavior when refreshing. The selection is now retained, and new and
1984 removed files are found when refreshing.
1986 * A new `git-cola-completion.bash` completion script is provided in the
1987 `contrib/` directory. It must be used alongside Git's completion script.
1988 Source it from your `~/.bashrc` (or `~/.zshrc`, etc) after sourcing
1989 the `git-completion.bash` script and you will have command-line completion
1990 support for the `git cola` and `git dag` sub-commands.
1992 * The "checkout" dialog now offers completion for remote branches and other
1993 git refs. This makes it easier to checkout remote branches in a detached
1994 head state. Additionally, the checkout dialog also offers completion for
1995 remote branches that have not yet been checked out, which makes it easier to
1996 create a local tracking branch by just completing for that potential name.
1997 (`#390 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/390>`_)
1999 * The "create branch" and "create tag" dialogs now save and restore their
2002 * The "status" widget can now be configured to use a bold font with a darker
2003 background for the header items.
2004 (`#506 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/506>`_)
2006 * The "status" widget now remembers its horizontol scrollbar position across
2007 updates. This is helpful when working on projects with long paths.
2008 (`#494 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/494>`_)
2013 * When using *Git for Windows*, a `git` window would appear
2014 when running *Windows 8*. We now pass additional flags to
2015 `subprocess.Popen` to prevent a `git` window from appearing.
2016 (`#477 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/477>`_)
2017 (`#486 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/486>`_)
2019 * Launching difftool with `.PY` in `$PATHEXT` on Windows was fixed.
2020 (`#492 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/492>`_)
2022 * Creating a local branch tracking a remote branch that contains
2023 slashes in its name is now properly handled.
2024 (`#496 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/496>`_)
2026 * The "Browse Other Branch" feature was broken by Python3, and is now fixed.
2027 (`#501 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/501>`_)
2029 * We now avoid `long` for better Python3 compatibility.
2030 (`#502 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/502>`_)
2032 * We now use Git's default merge message when merging branches.
2033 (`#508 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/508>`_)
2035 * Miscellaneous fixes
2036 (`#485 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/485>`_)
2041 * git-cola's documentation no longer uses an intersphinx link mapping
2042 to docs.python.org. This fixes warnings when building rpms using koji,
2043 where network access is prevented.
2045 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231812
2053 Usability, bells and whistles
2054 -----------------------------
2056 * The Interactive Rebase feature now works on Windows!
2057 (`#463 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/463>`_)
2059 * The `diff` editor now understands vim-style `hjkl` navigation hotkeys.
2060 (`#476 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/476>`_)
2062 * `Alt + {J,K}` navigation hotkeys were added to allow changing to the
2063 next/previous file from the diff and commit editors.
2065 * The `Rename branch` menu action is now disabled in empty repositories.
2066 (`#475 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/475>`_)
2067 (`#459 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/459>`_)
2069 * `git cola` now checks unmerged files for conflict markers before
2070 staging them. This feature can be disabled in the preferences.
2071 (`#464 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/464>`_)
2073 * `git dag` now remembers which commits were selected when refreshing
2074 so that it can restore the selection afterwards.
2075 (`#480 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/480>`_)
2077 * "Launch Editor", "Launch Difftool", "Stage/Unstage",
2078 and "Move Up/Down" hotkeys now work when the commit message
2080 (`#453 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453>`_)
2082 * The diff editor now supports the `Ctrl+u` hotkey for reverting
2083 diff hunks and selected lines.
2085 * The `core.commentChar` Git configuration value is now honored.
2086 Commit messages and rebase instruction sheets will now use
2087 the configured character for comments. This allows having
2088 commit messages that start with `#` when `core.commentChar`
2089 is configured to its non-default value.
2090 (`#446 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/446>`_)
2095 * Diff syntax highlighting was improved to handle more edge cases
2096 and false positives.
2097 (`#467 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/467>`_)
2099 * Setting commands in the interactive rebase editor was fixed.
2100 (`#472 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/472>`_)
2102 * git-cola no longer clobbers the Ctrl+Backspace text editing shortcut
2103 in the commit message editor.
2104 (`#453 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453>`_)
2106 * The copy/paste clipboard now persists after `git cola` exits.
2107 (`#484 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/484>`_)
2117 * Fixed the "Sign off" feature in the commit message editor.
2125 Usability, bells and whistles
2126 -----------------------------
2127 * Double-click will now choose a commit in the "Select commit" dialog.
2129 * `git cola` has a feature that reads `.git/MERGE_MSG` and friends for the
2130 commit message when a merge is in-progress. Upon refresh, `git cola` will
2131 now detect when a merge has completed and reset the commit message back to
2132 its previous state. It is only reset if the editor contains a message
2133 that was read from the file and has not been manually edited by the user.
2135 * The commit message editor's context menu now has a "Clear..." action for
2136 clearing the message across both the summary and description fields.
2138 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
2140 * The system theme's icons are now used wherever possible.
2141 (`#458 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/458>`_)
2145 * The stash viewer now uses ``git show --no-ext-diff`` to avoid running
2146 user-configured diff tools.
2148 * `git cola` now uses the `setsid()` system call to ensure that the
2149 `GIT_ASKPASS` and `SSH_ASKPASS` helper programs are used when pushing
2150 changes using `git`. The askpass helpers will now be used even when
2151 `git cola` is launched from a terminal.
2153 The behavior without `setsid()` is that `git cola` can appear to hang while
2154 pushing changes. The hang happens when `git` prompts the user for a
2155 password using the terminal, but the user never sees the prompt. `setsid()`
2156 detaches the terminal, which ensures that the askpass helpers are used.
2157 (`#218 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/218>`_)
2158 (`#262 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/262>`_)
2159 (`#377 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/377>`_)
2161 * `git dag`'s file list tool was updated to properly handle unicode paths.
2163 * `gnome-terminal` is no longer used by default when `cola.terminal` is unset.
2164 It is broken, as was detailed in #456.
2165 (`#456 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/456>`_)
2167 * The interactive rebase feature was not always setting `$GIT_EDITOR`
2168 to the value of `gui.editor`, thus there could be instances where rebase
2169 will seem to not stop, or hang, when performing "reword" actions.
2171 We now set the `$GIT_EDITOR` environment variable when performing the
2172 "Continue", "Skip", and "Edit Todo" rebase actions so that the correct
2173 editor is used during the rebase.
2174 (`#445 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/445>`_)
2178 * `git cola` moved from a 3-part version number to a simpler 2-part "vX.Y"
2179 version number. Most of our releases tend to contain new features.
2186 Usability, bells and whistles
2187 -----------------------------
2188 * Updated zh_TW translations.
2190 * `git cola rebase` now defaults to `@{upstream}`, and generally uses the same
2191 CLI syntax as `git rebase`.
2193 * The commit message editor now allows you to bypass commit hooks by selecting
2194 the "Bypass Commit Hooks" option. This is equivalent to passing the
2195 `--no-verify` option to `git commit`.
2196 (`#357 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/357>`_)
2198 * We now prevent the "Delete Files" action from creating a dialog that does
2200 (`#378 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/378>`_)
2202 * `git xbase` learned to edit rebase instruction sheets that contain
2205 * The diff colors are now configurable. `cola.color.{text,add,remove,header}`
2206 can now be set with 6-digit hexadecimal colors.
2207 See the `git cola manual <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#configuration-variables>_`
2210 * Improved hotkey documentation.
2214 * `git cola` will now allow starting an interactive rebase with a dirty
2215 worktree when `rebase.autostash` is set.
2216 (`#360 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/360>`_)
2223 Usability, bells and whistles
2224 -----------------------------
2225 * A new "Find files" widget was added, and can be activated by
2226 using the `Ctrl+t` or `t` hotkeys.
2228 * A new `git cola find` sub-command was added for finding files.
2230 * `git cola` now remembers the text cursor's position when staging
2231 interactively with the keyboard. This makes it easier to use the keyboard
2232 arrows to select and stage lines.
2234 * The completion widgets will now select the top completion item
2235 when `Enter` or `Return` are pressed.
2237 * You can now refresh using `F5` in addition to the existing `Ctrl+R` hotkey.
2241 * `git cola` now passes `--no-abbrev-commit` to `git log` to override
2242 having `log.abbrevCommit = true` set in `.gitconfig`.
2249 Usability, bells and whistles
2250 -----------------------------
2251 * `git dag` now forwards all unknown arguments along to `git log`.
2252 (`#389 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/389>`_)
2254 * Line-by-line interactive staging was made more robust.
2255 (`#399 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/399>`_)
2257 * "Bookmarks" was renamed to "Favorites".
2258 (`#392 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/392>`_)
2260 * Untracked files are now displayed using a unique icon.
2261 (`#388 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/388>`_)
2265 * `git dag` was triggering a traceback on Fedora when parsing Git logs.
2266 (`bz #181676 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181686>`_)
2268 * inotify expects unicode paths on Python3.
2269 (`#393 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/393>`_)
2271 * Untracked files are now assumed to be utf-8 encoded.
2272 (`#401 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/401>`_)
2279 Usability, bells and whistles
2280 -----------------------------
2281 * `git cola` can now create GPG-signed commits and merges.
2282 See the documentation for details about setting up a GPG agent.
2283 (`#149 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/149>`_)
2285 * The status widget learned to copy relative paths when `Ctrl+x` is pressed.
2286 (`#358 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/358>`_)
2288 * Custom GUI actions can now define their own keyboard shortcuts by
2289 setting `guitool.$name.shortcut` to a string understood by Qt's
2290 `QAction::setShortcut()` API, e.g. `Alt+X`.
2292 `Qt docs <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qkeysequence.html#QKeySequence-2>`_
2293 for more details about the supported values.
2295 * `git cola` learned to rename branches.
2296 (`#364 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/364>`_)
2297 (`#278 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/278>`_)
2299 * `git dag` now has a "Show history" context menu which can be used to filter
2300 history using the selected paths.
2304 * `sphinxtogithub.py` was fixed for Python3.
2305 (`#353 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/353>`_)
2307 * The commit that changed how we read remotes from `git remote`
2308 to parsing `git config` was reverted since it created problems
2311 * Fixed a crash when using the `rebase edit` feature.
2312 (`#351 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/351>`_)
2314 * Better drag-and-drop behavior when dropping into gnome-terminal.
2315 (`#373 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/373>`_)
2319 * The `git-cola-folder-handler.desktop` file handler was fixed
2320 to pass validation by `desktop-file-validate`.
2321 (`#356 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/356>`_)
2323 * The `git.svg` icon was renamed to `git-cola.svg`, and `git cola` was taught
2324 to prefer icons from the desktop theme when available.
2331 Usability, bells and whistles
2332 -----------------------------
2333 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+Shift+M` merges branches.
2335 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+R` refreshes the DAG viewer.
2336 (`#347 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/347>`_)
2340 * We now use `git config` to parse the list of remotes
2341 instead of parsing the output of `git remote`, which
2342 is a Git porcelain and should not be used by scripts.
2344 * Avoid "C++ object has been deleted" errors from PyQt4.
2345 (`#346 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/346>`_)
2349 * The `make install` target now uses `install` instead of `cp`.
2356 Usability, bells and whistles
2357 -----------------------------
2358 * Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation.
2360 * The status and browse widgets now allow drag-and-drop into
2361 external applications.
2362 (`#335 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/335>`_)
2364 * We now show a progress bar when cloning repositories.
2365 (`#312 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/312>`_)
2367 * The bookmarks widget was simplified to not need a
2369 (`#289 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/289>`_)
2371 * Updated Traditional Chinese translation.
2373 * We now display a warning when trying to rebase with uncommitted changes.
2374 (`#338 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/338>`_)
2376 * The status widget learned to filter paths.
2377 `Ctrl+Shift+S` toggles the filter widget.
2378 (`#337 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/337>`_)
2379 (`#339 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/339>`_)
2381 * The status widget learned to move files to the trash
2382 when the `send2trash <https://github.com/hsoft/send2trash>`_
2383 module is installed.
2384 (`#341 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/341>`_)
2386 * "Recent repositories" is now a dedicated widget.
2387 (`#342 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/342>`_)
2389 * New Spanish translation thanks to Pilar Molina Lopez.
2390 (`#344 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/344>`_)
2394 * Newly added remotes are now properly seen by the fetch/push/pull dialogs.
2395 (`#343 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/343>`_)
2402 Usability, bells and whistles
2403 -----------------------------
2404 * New Brazilian Portuguese translation thanks to Vitor Lobo.
2406 * New Indonesian translation thanks to Samsul Ma'arif.
2408 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation thanks to Zhang Han.
2410 * `Ctrl+Backspace` is now a hotkey for "delete untracked files" in
2413 * Fetch/Push/Pull dialogs now use the configured remote of the current
2415 (`#324 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/324>`_)
2419 * We now use `os.getcwd()` on Python3.
2420 (`#316 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/316>`_)
2421 (`#326 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/326>`_)
2423 * The `Ctrl+P` hotkey was overloaded to both "push" and "cherry-pick",
2424 so "cherry-pick" was moved to `Ctrl+Shift+C`.
2426 * Custom GUI tools with mixed-case names are now properly supported.
2428 * "Diff Region" is now referred to as "Diff Hunk" for consistency
2429 with common terminology from diff/patch tools.
2430 (`#328 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/328>`_)
2432 * git-cola's test suite is now portable to MS Windows.
2433 (`#332 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/332>`_)
2440 Usability, bells and whistles
2441 -----------------------------
2442 * We now handle the case when inotify `add_watch()` fails
2443 and display instructions on how to increase the number of watches.
2444 (`#263 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/263>`_)
2446 * New and improved zh_TW localization thanks to V字龍(Vdragon).
2447 (`#265 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/265>`_)
2448 (`#267 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/267>`_)
2449 (`#268 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/268>`_)
2450 (`#269 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/269>`_)
2451 (`#270 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/270>`_)
2452 (`#271 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/271>`_)
2453 (`#272 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/272>`_)
2455 * New hotkeys: `Ctrl+F` for fetch, `Ctrl+P` for push,
2456 and `Ctrl+Shift+P` for pull.
2458 * The bookmarks widget's context menu actions were made clearer.
2459 (`#281 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/281>`_)
2461 * The term "Staging Area" is used consistently in the UI
2462 to allow for better localization.
2463 (`#283 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/283>`_)
2465 * The "Section" term is now referred to as "Diff Region"
2467 (`#297 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/297>`_)
2469 * The localization documentation related to the LANGUAGE
2470 environment variable was improved.
2471 (`#293 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/293>`_)
2473 * The "Actions" panel now contains tooltips for each button
2474 in case the button labels gets truncated by Qt.
2475 (`#292 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/292>`_)
2477 * Custom `git config`-defined actions can now be run in the
2478 background by setting `guitool.<name>.background` to `true`.
2482 * We now use bold fonts instead of SmallCaps to avoid
2483 artifacts on several configurations.
2485 * We now pickup `user.email`, `cola.tabwidth`, and similar settings
2486 when defined in /etc/gitconfig.
2487 (`#259 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/259>`_)
2489 * Better support for unicode paths when using inotify.
2490 (`bz #1104181 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104181>`_)
2492 * Unicode fixes for non-ascii locales.
2493 (`#266 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/266>`_)
2494 (`#273 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/273>`_)
2495 (`#276 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/276>`_)
2496 (`#282 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/282>`_)
2497 (`#298 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/298>`_)
2498 (`#302 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/302>`_)
2499 (`#303 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/303>`_)
2500 (`#305 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/305>`_)
2502 * Viewing history from the file browser was fixed for Python3.
2503 (`#274 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/274>`_)
2505 * setup.py was fixed to install the `*.rst` documentation.
2506 (`#279 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/279>`_)
2508 * Patch export was fixed for Python3.
2509 (`#290 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/290>`_)
2511 * Fixed adding a bookmark with trailing slashes.
2512 (`#295 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/295>`_)
2514 * The default `git dag` layout is now setup so that its widgets
2515 can be freely resized on Linux.
2516 (`#299 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/299>`_)
2518 * Invalid tag names are now reported when creating tags.
2519 (`#296 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/296>`_)
2526 Usability, bells and whistles
2527 -----------------------------
2528 * `git cola` no longer prompts after successfully creating a new branch.
2529 (`#251 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/251>`_)
2531 * Hitting enter on simple dialogs now accepts them.
2532 (`#255 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/255>`_)
2536 * `git dag` no longer relies on `sys.maxint`, which is
2537 not available in Python3.
2538 (`#249 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/249>`_)
2540 * Python3-related fixes.
2541 (`#254 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/254>`_)
2543 * Python3-on-Windows-related fixes.
2544 (`#250 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/250>`_)
2545 (`#252 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/252>`_)
2546 (`#253 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/253>`_)
2548 * Switching repositories using the bookmarks widget was not
2549 refreshing the inotify watcher.
2550 (`#256 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/256>`_)
2552 * Special commit messages trailers (e.g. "Acked-by:") are now special-cased to
2553 fix word wrapping lines that start with "foo:".
2554 (`#257 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/257>`_)
2556 * `git dag` sometimes left behind selection artifacts.
2557 We now refresh the view to avoid them.
2558 (`#204 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/204>`_)
2565 Usability, bells and whistles
2566 -----------------------------
2567 * Better inotify support for file creation and deletion.
2568 (`#240 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/240>`_)
2570 * `git cola` now supports the X11 Session Management Protocol
2571 and remembers its state across logout/reboot.
2572 (`#164 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/164>`_)
2574 * `git cola` has a new icon.
2575 (`#190 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/190>`_)
2579 * Building the documentation no longer requires `asciidoc`.
2580 We now use `Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/>`_ for building
2581 html documentation and man pages.
2585 * Reworked the git-dag gravatar icon code to avoid a unicode
2588 * Commit message line-wrapping was made to better match the GUI editor.
2589 (`#242 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/242>`_)
2591 * Better support for Python3 on Windows
2592 (`#246 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/246>`_)
2596 * git-cola no longer depends on Asciidoc for building its documentation
2597 and man-pages. We now depend on [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/) only.
2604 Usability, bells and whistles
2605 -----------------------------
2606 * Some context menu actions are now hidden when selected
2608 (`#238 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/238>`_)
2612 * The build-git-cola.sh contrib script was improved.
2613 (`#235 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/235>`_)
2615 * Non-ascii worktrees work properly again.
2616 (`#234 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/234>`_)
2618 * The browser now guards itself against missing files.
2619 (`bz #1041378 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071378>`_)
2621 * Saving widget state now works under Python3.
2622 (`#236 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/236>`_)
2631 * git-cola now runs on Python 3 thanks to Virgil Dupras.
2632 (`#233 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/233>`_)
2634 * Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2+ are now supported.
2635 Python 2.5 is no longer supported.
2639 * i18n test fixes thanks to Virgil Dupras.
2640 (`#231 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/231>`_)
2642 * git-cola.app build fixes thanks to Maicon D. Filippsen.
2643 (`#230 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/230>`_)
2645 * Lots of pylint improvements thanks to Alex Chernetz.
2646 (`#229 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/229>`_)
2653 Usability, bells and whistles
2654 -----------------------------
2655 * The new `Bookmarks` tool makes it really easy to switch between repositories.
2657 * There is now a dedicated dialog for applying patches.
2658 See the ``File -> Apply Patches`` menu item.
2659 (`#215 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/215>`_)
2661 * A new `git cola am` sub-command was added for applying patches.
2665 * Fixed a typo that caused inotify events to be silently ignored.
2667 * Fixed the sys.path setup for Mac OS X (Homebrew).
2668 (`#221 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/221>`_)
2670 * Lots of pylint fixes thanks to Alex Chernetz.
2677 Usability, bells and whistles
2678 -----------------------------
2679 * `git cola --amend` now starts the editor in `amend` mode.
2680 (`#187 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/187>`_)
2682 * Multiple lines of text can now be pasted into the `summary` field.
2683 All text beyond the first newline will be automatically moved to the
2684 `extended description` field.
2685 (`#212 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/212>`_)
2689 * Stray whitespace in `.git` files is now ignored.
2690 (`#213 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/213>`_)
2692 * Fix "known incorrect sRGB profile" in `staged-item.png`.
2693 (`gentoo-devel message #85066
2694 <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/85066>`_)
2703 * Fix a traceback when `git push` fails.
2704 (`bz #1034778 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034778>`_)
2708 * Most of the git-cola sub-packages have been removed.
2709 The only remaining packages are `cola`, `cola.models`,
2712 * The translation file for Simplified Chinese was renamed
2714 (`#209 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/209>`_)
2723 * `git cola version --brief` now prints the brief version number.
2727 * Resurrected the "make dist" target, for those that prefer to create
2730 * Fixed the typo that broke the preferences dialog.
2737 Usability, bells and whistles
2738 -----------------------------
2739 * We now ship a full-featured interactive `git rebase` editor.
2740 The rebase todo file is edited using the `git xbase` script which
2741 is provided at `$prefix/share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase`.
2742 This script can be used standalone by setting the `$GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR`
2743 before running `git rebase --interactive`.
2744 (`#1 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1>`_)
2746 * Fixup commit messages can now be loaded from the commit message editor.
2748 * Tool widgets can be locked in place by using the "Tools/Lock Layout"
2750 (`#202 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/202>`_)
2752 * You can now push to several remotes simultaneously by selecting
2753 multiple remotes in the "Push" dialog.
2754 (`#148 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/148>`_)
2756 * The `grep` tool learned to search using three different modes:
2757 basic regular expressions (default), extended regular expressions,
2762 * `git cola` now depends on the `argparse` Python module.
2763 This module is part of the stdlib in Python 2.7 and must
2764 be installed separately when using Python 2.6 and below.
2768 * Support unicode in the output from `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`.
2775 Usability, bells and whistles
2776 -----------------------------
2777 * We now detect when the editor or history browser are misconfigured.
2778 (`#197 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/197>`_)
2779 (`bz #886826 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886826>`_)
2781 * Display of untracked files can be disabled from the Preferences dialog
2782 or by setting the `gui.displayuntracked` configuration variable to `false`.
2783 (`Git Mailing List on 2013-08-21
2784 <https://public-inbox.org/git/20130821032913.GA6092@wheezy.local/>`_)
2788 * Unicode stash names are now supported
2789 (`#198 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/198>`_)
2791 * The diffs produced when reverting workspace changes were made more robust.
2798 Usability, bells and whistles
2799 -----------------------------
2800 * Brand new German translation thanks to Sven Claussner.
2802 * The "File" menu now provides a "New Repository..." menu action.
2804 * `git dag` now uses a dock-widget interface so that its widgets can
2805 be laid-out and arranged. Customizations are saved and restored
2806 the next time `git dag` is launched.
2808 * `git dag` now has a "Zoom Best Fit" button next alongside the
2809 "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" buttons.
2811 * `Ctrl+L` now focuses the "Search" field in the `git dag` tool.
2813 * Right-clicking in the "diff" viewer now updates the cursor position
2814 before performing actions, which makes it much easier to click around
2815 and selectively stage sections. Previously, the current cursor position
2816 was used which meant that it required two clicks (left-click to update
2817 the position followed by right-click to get the context menu) for the
2818 desired section to be used. This is now a single right-click operation.
2820 * The `Ctrl+D` "Launch Diff Tool" action learned to automatically choose
2821 between `git difftool` and `git mergetool`. If the file is unmerged then
2822 we automatically launch `git mergetool` on the path, otherwise we use
2823 `git difftool`. We do this because `git difftool` is not intended to
2824 be used on unmerged paths. Automatically using `git mergetool` when
2825 appropriate is the most intuitive and muscle-memory-friendly thing to do.
2827 * You can now right-click on folders in your standard file browser
2828 and choose "Open With -> Git Cola" (Linux-only).
2832 * Python 2.6 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard does not provide a namedtuple
2833 at `sys.version_info`. We now avoid using that variable for better
2836 * We now read the user's Git configuration from `~/.config/git/config`
2837 if that file is available, otherwise we use the traditional `~/.gitconfig`
2838 path, just like Git itself.
2840 * Some edge cases were fixed when applying partial/selected diffs.
2842 * The diff viewer is now properly cleared when refreshing.
2843 (`#194 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/194>`_)
2850 Usability, bells and whistles
2851 -----------------------------
2852 * The diff viewer now has an "Options" menu which can be
2853 used to set "git diff" options. This can be used to
2854 ignore whitespace changes or to show a change with its
2855 surrounding function as context.
2856 (`#150 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/150>`_)
2858 * `git cola` now remembers your commit message and will restore it
2859 when `git cola` is restarted.
2860 (`#175 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/175>`_)
2862 * `Ctrl+M` can now be used to toggle the "Amend last commit"
2863 checkbox in the commit message editor.
2864 (`#161 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/161>`_)
2866 * Deleting remote branches can now be done from the "Branch" menu.
2867 (`#152 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/152>`_)
2869 * The commit message editor now has a built-in spell checker.
2873 * We now avoid invoking external diffs when showing diffstats.
2874 (`#163 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/163>`_)
2876 * The `Status` tool learned to reselect files when refreshing.
2877 (`#165 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/165>`_)
2879 * `git cola` now remembers whether it has been maximized and will restore the
2880 maximized state when `git cola` is restarted.
2881 (`#172 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/172>`_)
2883 * Performance is now vastly improved when staging hundreds or
2886 * `git cola` was not correctly saving repo-specific configuration.
2887 (`#174 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/174>`_)
2889 * Fix a UnicodeDecode in sphinxtogithub when building from source.
2897 Usability, bells and whistles
2898 -----------------------------
2899 * We now automatically remove missing repositories from the
2900 "Select Repository" dialog.
2901 (`#145 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/145>`_)
2903 * A new `git cola diff` sub-command was added for diffing changed files.
2907 * The inotify auto-refresh feature makes it difficult to select text in
2908 the "diff" editor when files are being continually modified by another
2909 process. The auto-refresh causes it to lose the currently selected text,
2910 which is not wanted. We now avoid this problem by saving and restoring
2911 the selection when refreshing the editor.
2912 (`#155 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/155>`_)
2914 * More strings have been marked for l10n.
2915 (`#157 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/157>`_)
2917 * Fixed the Alt+D Diffstat shortcut.
2918 (`#159 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/159>`_)
2922 * Better error handling when cloning repositories.
2924 We were not handling the case where a git URL has
2925 no basename, e.g. `https://git.example.com/`.
2926 `git cola` originally rejected these URLs instead of
2927 allowing users to clone them. It now allows these URLs
2928 when they point to valid git repositories.
2930 Additionally, `git cola` learned to echo the errors
2931 reported by `git clone` when it fails.
2932 (`#156 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/156>`_)
2940 Usability, bells and whistles
2941 -----------------------------
2942 * `git dag` got a big visual upgrade.
2944 * `Ctrl+G` now launches the "Grep" tool.
2946 * `Ctrl+D` launches difftool and `Ctrl+E` launches your editor
2947 when in the diff panel.
2949 * git-cola can now be told to use an alternative language.
2950 For example, if the native language is German and we want git-cola to
2951 use English then we can create a `~/.config/git-cola/language` file with
2952 "en" as its contents: ``echo en >~/.config/git-cola/language``
2953 (`#140 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/140>`_)
2955 * A new `git cola merge` sub-command was added for merging branches.
2957 * Less blocking in the main UI
2961 * Autocomplete issues on KDE
2962 (`#144 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/144>`_)
2964 * The "recently opened repositories" startup dialog did not
2965 display itself in the absence of bookmarks.
2966 (`#139 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/139>`_)
2974 Usability, bells and whistles
2975 -----------------------------
2976 * `git cola` learned to honor `.gitattributes` when showing and
2977 interactively applying diffs. This makes it possible to store
2978 files in git using a non-utf-8 encoding and `git cola` will
2979 properly accept them. This must be enabled by settings
2980 `cola.fileattributes` to true, as it incurs a small performance
2982 (`#96 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/96>`_)
2984 * `git cola` now wraps commit messages at 72 columns automatically.
2985 This is configurable using the `cola.linebreak` variable to enable/disable
2986 the feature, and `cola.textwidth` to configure the limit.
2987 (`#133 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/133>`_)
2989 * A new "Open Recent" sub-menu was added to the "File" menu.
2990 This makes it easy to open a recently-edited repository.
2991 (`#135 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/135>`_)
2993 * We now show a preview for untracked files when they are clicked
2994 using the `Status` tool.
2995 * A new "Open Using Default Application" action was added to the
2996 `Status` tool. It is activated using either `Spacebar` or through
2997 the context menu. This action uses `xdg-open` on Linux and
2999 * A new "Open Parent Directory" action was added to the `Status` tool.
3000 It is activated using either `Shift+Spacebar` or through the
3002 * `git dag` learned to honor the `log.date` git configuration variable.
3003 This makes the date display follow whatever format the user has
3005 * A new `git cola config` sub-command was added for quickly
3006 tweaking `git cola`'s git configuration settings.
3007 * Some small usability tweaks -- some user confirmation prompts
3008 were defaulting to "Cancel" when they should have been defaulting
3009 to the affirmative option instead.
3013 * Properly handle arbitrarily-named branches.
3014 * We went back to launching `git mergetool` using an xterm.
3015 The reason is that there are a couple of places where `git mergetool`
3016 requires a terminal for user interaction not covered by `--no-prompt`.
3017 * We now properly handle an edge case when applying short diffs at
3018 the start of a file.
3026 Usability, bells and whistles
3027 -----------------------------
3028 * New and improved `grep` mode lets you instantly find and edit files.
3029 * New `git cola grep` standalone mode.
3030 * Support for passing arguments to the configured editors, e.g. `gvim -p`
3031 This makes it possible to select multiple files in the status
3032 window and use `Ctrl + E` to edit them all at once.
3033 * Remote operations now prompt on errors only.
3034 * The `Tab` key now jumps to the extended description when editing the summary.
3035 * More shortcut key labels and misc. UX improvements.
3039 * Selecting an item no longer copies its filename to the copy/paste buffer.
3040 `Ctrl + C` or the "Copy" context-menu action can be used instead.
3041 * The repository monitoring feature on Windows learned to ignore
3042 changes within the ".git" directory. Thanks to Andreas Sommer.
3043 (`#120 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/120>`_)
3051 Usability, bells and whistles
3052 -----------------------------
3053 * `git dag` learned to color-code branchy edges.
3054 The edge colors change when a new branch is detected,
3055 which makes the history much easier to follow.
3056 A huge thanks to Uri Okrent for making it happen.
3058 * New GUI for editing remote repositories.
3060 * New `git cola archive` and `git cola remote` sub-commands.
3062 * `git cola browser` learned an 'Untrack' command.
3064 * The diff editor learned to staged/unstaged while amending.
3066 * The status tool can now scroll horizontally.
3068 * New git repositories can be created by clicking 'New' on the
3069 `git cola --prompt` startup screen.
3077 Usability, bells and whistles
3078 -----------------------------
3079 * Auto-completion was added to more tools.
3081 * `git dag` is easier to use on smaller displays -- the author
3082 field elides its text which allows for a more compact display.
3084 * Selected commits in `git dag` were made more prominent and
3087 * 'Create Branch' learned to fetch remote branches and uses a
3088 background thread to do so.
3090 * User-configured GUI tools are listed alphabetically in the 'Actions' menu.
3092 * The 'Pull' dialog remembers the value of the 'Rebase' checkbox
3093 between invocations.
3103 * Detect Homebrew so that OS X users do not need to set PYTHONPATH.
3105 * `git dag` can export patches again.
3113 Usability, bells and whistles
3114 -----------------------------
3115 * The 'Classic' tool was renamed to 'Browser' and learned to
3116 limit history to the current branch.
3118 * `git dag` learned about gravatar and uses it to show images
3121 * `git dag` learned to use OpenGL for rendering resulting in
3122 much faster rendering.
3124 * More dialogs learned vim-style keyboard shortcuts.
3126 * The commit message editor learned better arrow key navigation.
3134 Usability, bells and whistles
3135 -----------------------------
3136 * `git cola` learned a few new sub commands:
3144 * `Return` in the summary field jumps to the extended description.
3146 * `Ctrl+Return` is now a shortcut for 'Commit'.
3148 * Better French translation for 'Sign-off'.
3150 * The 'Search' widget now has a much simpler and streamlined
3153 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the DAG widget.
3155 * `git dag` no longer prompts for files when diffing commits if the
3156 text field contains paths.
3158 * General user interface and performance improvements.
3162 * The diff viewer no longer changes font size when holding `Control`
3163 while scrolling with the mouse wheel.
3165 * Files with a typechange (e.g. symlinks that become files, etc.)
3166 are now correctly identified as being modified.
3170 * The `cola.controllers` and `cola.views` packages were removed.
3178 Usability, bells and whistles
3179 -----------------------------
3180 * `git cola` can now launch sub commands, e.g.:
3191 * `git dag` is more responsive when gathering auto-completions.
3193 * Keyboard shortcuts are displayed when the '?' key is pressed.
3195 * Various keyboard shortcuts were added for improved usability.
3197 * The status widget now lists unmerged files before modified files.
3199 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the status widget.
3201 * A 'Recently Modified Files...' tool was added.
3203 * Tools can now be hidden with `Alt + #` (where `#` is a keyboard number)
3204 and focused with `Alt + Shift + #`.
3206 * The syntax highlighting colors for diffs was made less intrusive.
3208 * The commit message editor was redesigned to have a more compact
3209 and keyboard-convenient user interface.
3211 * Keyboard shortcuts for adding a Signed-off-by (`Ctrl + i`)
3212 and creating a commit (`Ctrl + m`) were added.
3214 * The status widget was adjusted to use less screen real-estate.
3218 * Avoid updating the index when responding to inotify events.
3219 This avoids interfering with operations such as `git rebase --interactive`.
3220 (`#99 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/99>`_)
3224 * Create `git-dag.pyw` in the win32 installer.
3226 * win32 shortcuts now contain explicit calls to `pythonw.exe` instead of
3227 calling the `.pyw` file directly.
3231 * The 'Apply Changes from Branch...' feature was removed.
3232 `git dag`'s 'Grab File...' feature used alongside the index/worktree editor
3233 is a simpler alternative.
3243 * Further enhanced the staging/unstaging behavior in the status widget.
3244 (`#97 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97>`_)
3246 * Unmerged files are no longer listed as modified.
3250 The `cola-$version` tarballs on github were originally setup to
3251 have the same contents as the old tarballs hosted on tuxfamily.
3252 The `make dist` target was changed to write files to a
3253 `git-cola-$version` subdirectory and tarball.
3255 This makes the filenames consistent for the source tarball,
3256 the darwin .app tarball, and the win32 .exe installer.
3264 Usability, bells and whistles
3265 -----------------------------
3266 * Refined the staging/unstaging behavior for code reviews.
3267 (`#97 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97>`_)
3269 * Added more styling and icons to menus and buttons.
3271 * Adjusted some terminology to more closely match the git CLI.
3275 * Boolean `git config` settings with no value are now supported
3276 (these are not created by git these days but exist in legacy repositories).
3278 * Unicode branches and tags are supported in the "branch diff" tool.
3280 * Guard against low-memory conditions and more interrupted system calls.
3284 * Added desktop launchers for git-cola.desktop and git-dag.desktop.
3285 This replaces the old cola.desktop, so some adjustments to RPM .spec
3286 and debian/ files will be needed.
3288 * Fixed the darwin app-tarball Makefile target to create relative paths.
3292 * The `--style` option was removed. `git cola` follows the system theme
3293 so there's no need for this option these days.
3301 Usability, bells and whistles
3302 -----------------------------
3303 * Export a patch series from `git dag` into a `patches/` directory.
3305 * `git dag` learned to diff commits, slice history along paths, etc.
3307 * Added instant-preview to the `git stash` widget.
3309 * A simpler preferences editor is used to edit `git config` values.
3310 (`#90 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90>`_)
3311 (`#89 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/89>`_)
3313 * Previous commit messages can be re-loaded from the message editor.
3314 (`#33 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/33>`_)
3318 * Display commits with no file changes.
3319 (`#82 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82>`_)
3321 * Improved the diff editor's copy/paste behavior
3322 (`#90 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90>`_)
3326 * Bumped version number to ceil(minimum git version).
3327 `git cola` now requires `git` >= 1.6.3.
3329 * Simplified git-cola's versioning when building from tarballs
3330 outside of git. We no longer check for a 'version' file at
3331 the root of the repository. We instead keep a default version
3332 in `cola/version.py` and use it when `git cola`'s `.git` repository
3341 Usability, bells and whistles
3342 -----------------------------
3343 * inotify is much snappier and available on Windows
3344 thanks to Karl Bielefeldt.
3346 * New right-click command to add untracked files to .gitignore
3347 thanks to Audrius Karabanovas.
3349 * Stash, fetch, push, and pull usability improvements
3351 * General usability improvements
3353 * stderr is logged when applying partial diffs.
3357 * Files can be unstaged when amending.
3358 (`#82 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82>`_)
3360 * Show the configured remote.$remote.pushurl in the GUI
3361 (`#83 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/83>`_)
3363 * Removed usage of the "user" module.
3364 (`#86 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/86>`_)
3366 * Avoids an extra `git update-index` call during startup.
3374 Usability, bells and whistles
3375 -----------------------------
3376 * We now provide better feedback when `git push` fails.
3377 (`#69 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/69>`_)
3379 * The Fetch, Push, and Pull dialogs now give better feedback
3380 when interacting with remotes. The dialogs are modal and
3381 a progress dialog is used.
3385 * More unicode fixes, again. It is now possible to have
3386 unicode branch names, repository paths, home directories, etc.
3387 This continued the work initiated by Redhat's bugzilla #694806.
3389 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806
3397 Usability, bells and whistles
3398 -----------------------------
3399 * The `git cola` desktop launchers now prompt for a repo
3400 by default. This is done by using the new `--prompt`
3401 flag which tells `git cola` to ignore any git repositories
3402 in the current directory and prompt for one instead.
3406 * More Unicode fixes for repositories and home directories with
3407 embedded unicode characters. Thanks to Christian Jann for
3408 patience and helpful bug reports.
3410 * Fix the 'Clone' button in the startup dialog.
3418 Usability, bells and whistles
3419 -----------------------------
3420 * Faster startup time! `git cola` now offloads initialization
3421 to a background thread so that the GUI appears almost instantly.
3423 * Specialized diff options for p4merge, vimdiff, araxis, emerge,
3424 and ecmerge in difftool (backported from git.git).
3428 * Fix launching commands in the background on Windows
3429 (e.g. when launching `git difftool`).
3431 * Fix unicode errors when home or repository directories contain
3433 (`#74 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/74>`_)
3434 (`bz #694806 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806>`_)
3442 Usability, bells and whistles
3443 -----------------------------
3444 * The `cola classic` tool can be now configured to be dockable.
3445 (`#56 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/56>`_)
3447 * The `cola classic` tool now uses visual sigils to indicate a file's status.
3448 The idea and icons were provided by Uri Okrent.
3450 * Include the 'Rescan' button in the 'Actions' widget regardless
3451 of whether inotify is installed.
3455 * Fix installation of translations per Fedora
3456 This incorporates Fedora's fix for the translations path
3457 which originally appeared in cola-1.4.3-translations.patch.
3459 * Mac OS X git-cola developers can now generate git-cola.app
3460 application bundles using 'make app-bundle'.
3464 * Fixed a stacktrace when trying to use "Get Commit Message Template"
3465 with an unconfigured "commit.template" git config variable.
3466 (`bz #67521 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675721>`_)
3467 (`#72 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/72>`_)
3469 * Properly raise the main window on Mac OS X.
3471 * Properly handle staging a huge numbers of files at once.
3473 * Speed up 'git config' usage by fixing cola's caching proxy.
3475 * Guard against damaged ~/.cola files.
3483 Usability, bells and whistles
3484 -----------------------------
3485 * `git dag` now has a separate display area
3486 for displaying commit metadata. This area will soon
3487 grow additional functionality such as cherry-picking,
3492 * Fixed tests from a previous refactoring.
3494 * Guard against 'diff.external' configuration by always
3495 calling 'git diff' with the '--no-ext-diff' option.
3496 (`#67 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/67>`_)
3498 * Respect 'gui.diffcontext' so that cola's diff display
3499 shows the correct number of context lines.
3501 * Raise the GUI so that it is in the foreground on OS X.
3505 * We now allow distutils to rewrite cola's shebang line.
3506 This allows us to run on systems where "which python"
3507 is Python3k. This is exposed by setting the `PYTHON`
3508 Makefile variable to the location of python2.x.
3510 * git-cola.app is now a tiny download because it no longer
3511 contains Qt and PyQt. These libraries are provided as a
3513 (`Link <http://code.google.com/p/git-cola/downloads/list>`_)
3521 Usability, bells and whistles
3522 -----------------------------
3523 * Clicking on paths in the status widget copies them into the
3524 copy/paste buffer for easy middle-clicking into terminals.
3526 * `Ctrl+C` in diff viewer copies the selected diff to the clipboard.
3530 * Fixed the disappearing actions buttons on PyQt 4.7.4
3531 as reported by Arch and Ubuntu 10.10.
3532 (`#62 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62>`_)
3534 * Fixed mouse interaction with the status widget where some
3535 items could not be de-selected.
3539 * Removed hard-coded reference to lib/ when calculating Python's
3540 site-packages directory.
3548 Usability, bells and whistles
3549 -----------------------------
3550 * Removed "single-click to (un)stage" in the status view.
3551 This is a usability improvement since we no longer perform
3552 different actions depending on where a row is clicked.
3554 * Added ability to create unsigned, annotated tags.
3558 * Updated documentation to use `cola.git` instead of `cola.gitcmd`.
3566 Usability, bells and whistles
3567 -----------------------------
3568 * Allow un/staging by right-clicking top-level items
3569 (`#57 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/57>`_)
3571 * Running 'commit' with no staged changes prompts to allow
3573 (`#55 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/55>`_)
3575 * Fetch, Push, and Pull are now available via the menus
3576 (`#58 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/58>`_)
3580 * Simplified the actions widget to work around a regression
3582 (`#62 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62>`_)
3590 Usability, bells and whistles
3591 -----------------------------
3592 * `git dag` interaction was made faster.
3596 * Added '...' indicators to the buttons for
3597 'Fetch...', 'Push...', 'Pull...', and 'Stash...'.
3598 (`#51 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/51>`_)
3600 * Fixed a hang-on-exit bug in the cola-provided
3601 'ssh-askpass' implementation.
3609 Usability, bells and whistles
3610 -----------------------------
3611 * Staging and unstaging is faster.
3612 (`#48 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/48>`_)
3614 * `git dag` reads history in a background thread.
3618 * Added :data:`cola.compat.hashlib` for `Python 2.4` compatibility
3619 * Improved `PyQt 4.1.x` compatibility.
3623 * Configured menu actions use ``sh -c`` for Windows portability.
3631 Usability, bells and whistles
3632 -----------------------------
3633 * Added support for the configurable ``guitool.<tool>.*``
3634 actions as described in the ``git config`` documentation.
3635 (`git-config(1) <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config>`_)
3636 (`#44 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/44>`_)
3638 This makes it possible to add new actions to `git cola`
3639 by simply editing ``~/.gitconfig``. This implements the
3640 same guitool support as `git gui`.
3642 * Introduced a stat cache to speed up `git config` and
3643 repository status checks.
3645 * Added Alt-key shortcuts to the main `git cola` interface.
3647 * The `Actions` dock widget switches between a horizontal
3648 and vertical layout when resized.
3650 * We now use ``git diff --submodule`` for submodules
3651 (used when git >= 1.6.6).
3653 * The context menu for modified submodules includes an option
3654 to launch `git cola`.
3655 (`#17 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/17>`_)
3657 * Prefer ``$VISUAL`` over ``$EDITOR`` when both are defined.
3658 These are used to set a default editor in lieu of `core.editor`
3661 * Force the editor to be ``gvim`` when we see ``vim``.
3662 This prevents us from launching an editor in the (typically
3663 unattached) parent terminal and creating zombie editors
3664 that cannot be easily killed.
3666 * Selections are remembered and restored across updates.
3667 This makes the `partial-staging` workflow easier since the
3668 diff view will show the updated diff after staging.
3670 * Show the path to the current repository in a tooltip
3671 over the commit message editor.
3672 (`#45 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/45>`_)
3674 * Log internal ``git`` commands when ``GIT_COLA_TRACE`` is defined.
3675 (`#39 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/39>`_)
3679 * Improved backwards compatibility for Python 2.4.
3681 * `Review mode` can now review the current branch; it no longer
3682 requires you to checkout the branch into which the reviewed
3683 branch will be merged.
3685 * Guard against `color.ui = always` configuration when using
3686 `git log` by passing ``--no-color``.
3688 * ``yes`` and ``no`` are now supported as valid booleans
3689 by the `git config` parser.
3691 * Better defaults are used for `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`..
3692 (`#43 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/43>`_)
3696 * Removed colon (`:`) from the applilcation name on Windows
3697 (`#41 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/41>`_)
3699 * Fixed bugs with the Windows installer
3700 (`#40 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/40>`_)
3702 * Added a more standard i18n infrastructure. The install
3703 tree now has the common ``share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/git-cola.mo``
3704 layout in use by several projects.
3706 * Started trying to accommodate Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
3707 in the ``darwin/`` build scripts but our tester is yet to
3708 report success building a `.app` bundle.
3710 * Replaced use of ``perl`` in Sphinx/documentation Makefile
3711 with more-portable ``sed`` constructs. Thanks to
3712 Stefan Naewe for discovering the portability issues and
3713 providing msysgit-friendly patches.
3721 Usability, bells and whistles
3722 -----------------------------
3723 * It is now possible to checkout from the index as well
3724 as from `HEAD`. This corresponds to the
3725 `Removed Unstaged Changes` action in the `Repository Status` tool.
3727 * The `remote` dialogs (fetch, push, pull) are now slightly
3730 * Bookmarks can be selected when `git cola` is run outside of a git repository.
3732 * Added more user documentation. We now include many links to
3733 external git resources.
3735 * Added `git dag` to the available tools.
3736 `git dag` is a node-based DAG history browser.
3737 It doesn't do much yet, but it's been merged so that we can start
3738 building and improving upon it.
3742 * Fixed a missing ``import`` when showing `right-click` actions
3743 for unmerged files in the `Repository Status` tool.
3745 * ``git update-index --refresh`` is no longer run every time
3746 ``git cola version`` is run.
3748 * Don't try to watch non-existent directories when using `inotify`.
3750 * Use ``git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name`` plumbing to find
3751 the name of the current branch.
3755 * The ``Makefile`` will now conditionally include a ``config.mak``
3756 file located at the root of the project. This allows for user
3757 customizations such as changes to the `prefix` variable
3758 to be stored in a file so that custom settings do not need to
3759 be specified every time on the command-line.
3761 * The build scripts no longer require a ``.git`` directory to
3762 generate the ``builtin_version.py`` module. The release tarballs
3763 now include a ``version`` file at the root of the project which
3764 is used in lieu of having the git repository available.
3765 This allows for ``make clean && make`` to function outside of
3768 * Added maintainer's ``make dist`` target to the ``Makefile``.
3770 * The built-in `simplejson` and `jsonpickle` libraries can be
3771 excluded from ``make install`` by specifying the ``standalone=true``
3772 `make` variable. For example, ``make standalone=true install``.
3773 This corresponds to the ``--standalone`` option to ``setup.py``.
3781 Usability, bells and whistles
3782 -----------------------------
3783 * We now use patience diff by default when it is available via
3784 `git diff --patience`.
3786 * Allow closing the `cola classic` tool with `Ctrl+W`.
3790 * Fixed an unbound variable error in the `push` dialog.
3794 * Don't include `simplejson` in MANIFEST.in.
3796 * Update desktop entry to read `Cola Git GUI`.
3804 This feature release adds two new features directly from
3805 `git cola`'s github issues backlog. On the developer
3806 front, further work was done towards modularizing the code base.
3808 Usability, bells and whistles
3809 -----------------------------
3810 * Dragging and dropping patches invokes `git am`
3811 (`#3 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/3>`_)
3813 * A dialog to allow opening or cloning a repository
3814 is presented when `git cola` is launched outside of a git repository.
3815 (`#22 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/22>`_)
3817 * Warn when `push` is used to create a new branch
3818 (`#35 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/35>`_)
3820 * Optimized startup time by removing several calls to `git`.
3825 * `git cola` is once again compatible with PyQt 4.3.x.
3829 * `cola.gitcmds` was added to factor out git command-line utilities
3831 * `cola.gitcfg` was added for interacting with `git config`
3833 * `cola.models.browser` was added to factor out repobrowser data
3845 * Fix launching external applications on Windows
3847 * Ensure that the `amend` checkbox is unchecked when switching modes
3849 * Update the status tree when amending commits
3859 * Fix Lintian warnings
3869 * Fix X11 warnings on application startup
3879 * Added missing 'Exit Diff Mode' button for 'Diff Expression' mode
3880 (`#31 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/31>`_)
3882 * Fix a bug when initializing fonts on Windows
3883 (`#32 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/32>`_)
3893 * Keep entries in sorted order in the `cola classic` tool
3895 * Fix staging untracked files
3896 (`#27 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/27>`_)
3898 * Fix the `show` command in the Stash dialog
3899 (`#29 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/29>`_)
3901 * Fix a typo when loading merge commit messages
3902 (`#30 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/30>`_)
3910 This release focuses on a redesign of the git-cola user interface,
3911 a tags interface, and better integration of the `cola classic` tool.
3912 A flexible interface based on configurable docks is used to manage the
3913 various cola widgets.
3915 Usability, bells and whistles
3916 -----------------------------
3917 * New GUI is flexible and user-configurable
3919 * Individual widgets can be detached and rearranged arbitrarily
3921 * Add an interface for creating tags
3923 * Provide a fallback `SSH_ASKPASS` implementation to prompt for
3924 SSH passwords on fetch/push/pull
3926 * The commit message editor displays the current row/column and
3927 warns when lines get too long
3929 * The `cola classic` tool displays upstream changes
3931 * `git cola --classic` launches `cola classic` in standalone mode
3933 * Provide more information in log messages
3937 * Inherit the window manager's font settings
3939 * Miscellaneous PyQt4 bug fixes and workarounds
3943 * Removed all usage of Qt Designer `.ui` files
3945 * Simpler model/view architecture
3947 * Selection is now shared across tools
3949 * Centralized notifications are used to keep views in sync
3951 * The `cola.git` command class was made thread-safe
3953 * Less coupling between model and view actions
3955 * The status view was rewritten to use the MVC architecture
3957 * Added more documentation and tests
3965 Usability, bells and whistles
3966 -----------------------------
3967 * Added a `cola classic` tool for browsing the entire repository
3969 * Handle diff expressions with spaces
3971 * Handle renamed files
3975 * Handle carat `^` characters in diff expressions on Windows
3977 * Worked around a PyQt 4.5/4.6 QThreadPool bug
3981 * Added a keyboard shortcuts reference page
3983 * Added developer API documentation
3987 * Fix the diff expression used when reviewing branches
3989 * Fix a bug when pushing branches
3991 * Fix X11 warnings at startup
3993 * Fix more interrupted system calls on Mac OS X
4001 Usability, bells and whistles
4002 -----------------------------
4003 * Fresh and tasty SVG logos
4005 * Added `Branch Review` mode for reviewing topic branches
4007 * Added diff modes for diffing between tags, branches,
4008 or arbitrary `git diff` expressions
4010 * The push dialog selects the current branch by default.
4011 This is in preparation for `git 1.7.0` where unconfigured `git push`
4012 will refuse to push when run without specifying the remote name
4013 and branch. See the `git` release notes for more information
4015 * Support `open` and `clone` commands on Windows
4017 * Allow saving cola UI layouts
4019 * Re-enabled `double-click-to-stage` for unmerged entries.
4020 Disabling it for unmerged items was inconsistent, though safer.
4022 * Show diffs when navigating the status tree with the keyboard
4026 * Worked around `pyuic4` bugs in the `setup.py` build script
4028 * Added Mac OSX application bundles to the download page
4038 * `git difftool` became an official git command in `git 1.6.3`.
4040 * `git difftool` learned `--no-prompt` / `-y` and a corresponding
4041 `difftool.prompt` configuration variable
4043 Usability, bells and whistles
4044 -----------------------------
4045 * Warn when `non-fast-forward` is used with fetch, push or pull
4047 * Allow `Ctrl+C` to exit cola when run from the command line
4051 * Support Unicode font names
4053 * Handle interrupted system calls
4057 * `PEP-8`-ified more of the cola code base
4063 * All resources are now installed into `$prefix/share/git-cola`.
4064 Closed Debian bug #519972
4066 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519972
4076 * Added support for Kompare in `git difftool`
4078 * Added a separate configuration namespace for `git difftool`
4080 * Added the `diff.tool` configuration variable to define the default diff tool
4082 Usability, bells and whistles
4083 -----------------------------
4084 * The stash dialog allows passing the `--keep-index` option to `git stash`
4086 * Amending a published commit warns at commit time
4088 * Simplified the file-across-revisions comparison dialog
4090 * `origin` is selected by default in fetch/push/pull
4092 * Removed the search field from the log widget
4094 * The log window moved into a drawer widget at the bottom of the UI
4096 * Log window display can be configured with
4097 `cola.showoutput` = `{never, always, errors}`. `errors` is the default.
4099 * `NOTE` -- `cola.showoutput` was removed with the GUI rewrite in 1.4.0.
4103 * Improved nose unittest usage
4107 * Added a Windows/msysGit installer
4109 * Included private versions of `simplejson` and `jsonpickle`
4110 for ease of installation and development