6 Usability, bells and whistles
7 -----------------------------
8 * You can now edit the diffs from the Diff Editor in your favorite editor.
9 The right-click context menu and ``Ctrl + Shift + D`` hotkeys can now be used to send
10 either the current diff hunk, or the selected diff, to your favorite editor for
11 editing before they are reverted or applied to the worktree or staging area.
12 (`#1290 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1290>`_)
13 (`#794 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/794>`_)
15 * Repositories within the Bookmarks and Favorites tools can now be searched with the
16 "Search" icon. Fast switching between repositories is supported with the new
17 `Alt-p` and "Quick Open..." File menu action.
18 (`#1282 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1282>`_)
20 * The startup dialog now has a right-click context menu that allows you to prune
21 stale entries and other operations that were not previously accessible from
23 (`#1199 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1199>`_)
24 (`#1280 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1280>`_)
26 * The Startup dialog, the Favorites widget and the Recents widgets now sort
27 their repositories using a case-insensitive sort.
28 (`#1047 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1047>`_)
30 * The "Copy Leading Paths" action in the Status widget's right-click "Copy" sub-menu
31 can now strip off an arbitrary number of leading paths.
32 (`#784 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/784>`_)
34 * The "Cherry-Pick" action now reports errors when "git cherry-pick" fails.
35 A new "Abort Cherry-Pick" action has been added for aborting a failed cherry-pick.
36 (`#1062 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1062>`_)
38 * The "Favorites" are now sorted with a case-insenstive search. The startup dialog
39 now uses a sorted list of repositories as well.
40 (`#1047 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1047>`_)
42 * The hotkeys documentation has been updated to clarify that the "Copy Commit ID"
43 action is availalbe in several tools.
44 (`#779 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/779>`_)
46 * The diff text can now be quickly zoomed using ctrl + mousewheel scroll.
47 This will quickly change the text size within the current session only.
48 (`#1029 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1029>`_)
50 * The Console widget learned to open URLs. Right click anywhere on a line
51 that includes links and a context menu action will appear that allows
52 opening the link using your default browser.
53 (`#1139 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1139>`_)
55 * Drag-and-drop has been improved when dragging filenames from the Status tool.
56 Dragging multiple files requires special handling to improve usability.
57 Some terminals (such as `kitty`) consume multiple file URLs by separating paths with
58 newlines. This is useful when you'd like to capture raw filenames but is less
59 convenient when dropping filenames onto a command-line. We can now drag with the
60 `Alt` button held down to drag-and-drop filenames for command-line use.
61 Using the `Alt` modifier omits URLs so that the drag-and-drop payload includes only
62 space-delimited, shell-quoted paths.
63 (`#719 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/719>`_)
65 * The "Unstage" menu item in the Status tool now uses a "Remove" icon.
66 (`#1289 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1289>`_)
68 * The DAG diff viewer learned to word-wrap the diff text.
69 (`#1242 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1242>`_)
71 * The Apply Patches dialog now reports errors when patches fail to apply.
72 (`#673 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/673>`_)
74 * The spelling dictionaries are now discovered dynamically at runtime.
75 `dict/words` and `dict/propernames` are now discovered via `$XDG_DATA_DIRS`
77 (`#873 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/873>`_)
79 * The File menu has a new "Patches" sub-menu with a full set of "git am" Patch actions.
81 * The Diff Editor and various diff widgets now have a "Copy Diff" action
82 with an `Alt+Shift+C` hotkey that copies the selected diff text to the clipboard
83 with the `+/-/<space>` diff prefix characters removed.
84 (`#1288 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1288>`_)
86 * The "Revert" action for reverting commits from the DAG tool now displays error
87 messages when `git revert` fails.
88 (`#885 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/885>`_)
90 * The "Status" tool now disables "Copy" actions in its context menu when no
91 files have been selected.
92 (`#697 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/697>`_)
94 * The Diff Editor now uses an easier-to-see *block cursor* by default.
95 Disable `cola.blockcursor <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#cola-blockcursor>`_
96 to continue using original *line cursor*.
101 * The vendored `qtpy` module was modified to sever its dependency on
102 `packaging.version`. This mostly affects users that want to run Git Cola directly from
103 the the source tree outside of any virtualenv.
104 (`#1286 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1286>`_)
112 Usability, bells and whistles
113 -----------------------------
114 * The rebase editor was taught to handle stacked branch workflows enabled by
115 ``git rebase --update-refs``. The `git cola rebase` sub-command now has
116 an `--update-refs` option and the menu actions display a prompt that allows
117 you to enable the updating of stacked branches.
118 (`#1261 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1261>`_)
119 (`#571 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/571>`_)
121 * The status widget now respects `diff.ignoreSubmodules`.
122 (`#1269 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1269>`_)
124 Packaging and Dependencies
125 --------------------------
126 * PyQt6 is now officially supported.
127 (`#1211 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1211>`_)
128 (`#1273 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1273>`_)
130 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v2.3.0`.
134 * Fixes and updates to Git Cola's CI actions.
135 (`#1278 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1278>`_)
136 (`#1277 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1277>`_)
146 * The "T" hotkey for "Find Files" was removed to avoid issues in some configurations.
147 (`#1270 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1270>`_)
149 * Some context menus entries were erroring out on binary files.
150 (`#1271 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1271>`_)
158 Usability, bells and whistles
159 -----------------------------
160 * The branches widget no longer loses its selection state in response to
161 notifications and UI actions.
162 (`#1221 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1221>`_)
164 * The use of ``gravatar.com`` to fetch icons associated with author emails
165 can now be disabled by setting `git config --global cola.gravatar false`.
166 (`#933 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/933>`_)
170 * The config reader has been revamped to better read settings when git config
171 files are located in unexpected locations.
172 (`#927 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/927>`_)
173 (`#1264 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1264>`_)
175 * The preferences dialog no longer throws an error when the editor has not
177 (`#1263 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1263>`_)
179 * Context menu actions for staging files has been added when diffing images.
180 (`#1265 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1265>`_)
182 * The stash editor now properly displays stashes with slashes ("/") in
183 their names or messsages.
184 (`#1267 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1267>`_)
186 * The settings file is now written-to and read-from in a robust manner to avoid data
187 loss when doing an ACPI shutdown or forced shutdown of a machine.
188 (`#1241 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1241>`_)
190 * Git Cola now displays an error message when attempting to open a repository that
191 cannot be accessed due to the new `safe.directory` protections in Git v2.30.3.
192 (`#1243 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1243>`_)
196 * The .po and .pot files now contain location information.
197 (`#880 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/880>`_)
205 Usability, bells and whistles
206 -----------------------------
207 * The Rebase editor (`git-cola-sequence-editor`) now supports multi-select.
208 Use `Shift-{Up,Down}` to select multiple lines and the keyboard hotkeys
209 listed in the `?` dialog to drive the UI.
210 (`#1257 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1257>`_)
212 * The `$GIT_VISUAL` and `$VISUAL` environment variable are now consulted in addition
213 to `$GIT_EDITOR` and `$EDITOR` when the `gui.editor` configuration is unset.
214 (`#1237 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1237>`_)
216 * The application window icon is now enabled when running on Wayland.
217 (`#1240 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1240>`_)
219 * The Status widget now has an "Open Worktree" action.
220 (`#1245 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1245>`_)
222 * The "Open Using Default Application", "Open Directory",
223 "Open Parent Directory" and "Open Worktree" actions are now available on Windows.
225 * The dialog for opening repositories is now a read-only dialog that omits the
226 ability to create folders and modify the filesystem.
227 (`#1168 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1168>`_)
229 * A few more `git` calls have been eliminated from the startup sequence.
230 This further improved the startup time for Git Cola.
231 (`#1259 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1259>`_)
235 * Documentation rendering errors have been fixed.
236 (`#1256 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1256>`_)
238 * Use of a `~/.config/git-cola/language` file to override the language has been fixed.
239 (`#1246 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1246>`_)
241 * We no longer write the `cola.spellcheck` configuration value on launch.
242 (`#1238 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1238>`_)
246 * Updated Spanish translation.
247 (`#1244 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1244>`_)
249 * Updated Japanese translation.
250 (`#1249 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1249>`_)
254 * Building documentation offline is supported again.
255 (`#1250 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1250>`_)
257 * The Appstream Metadata files were missing in the v4.0.0 release are included again.
258 (`#1254 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1254>`_)
259 (`#1253 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1253>`_)
267 Usability, bells and whistles
268 -----------------------------
269 * Double-clicking dock widgets no longer creates sub-windows when the layout is locked.
270 (`#1176 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1176>`_)
271 (`#1198 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1198>`_)
275 * We now guard against `locale.getdefaultlocale()` returning `None` in some
276 configurations, notably on macOS if none of 'LC_ALL', 'LC_CTYPE', 'LANG' or 'LANGUAGE'
278 (`#1234 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1234>`_)
280 * The preferences dialog has been fixed to properly handle booleans.
281 (`#1235 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1235>`_)
283 * The `docs/` directory was restructured to avoid missing `setup.py` errors.
284 `share/doc/git-cola` is now a symlink pointing to `docs/`.
285 (`#1230 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1230>`_)
287 * Message boxes could sometimes display off-screen or using geometry that is larger
288 than the current desktop. Message box sizes are now clamped to the desktop size.
289 (`#1228 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1228>`_)
299 These changes are primarily breaking changes for packagers of Git Cola.
300 For example, Linux distribution and Homebrew package maintainers may need to
301 be aware of these changes.
303 Changes have been made build infrastructure and the resulting filesystem artifacts.
305 * The build system is now Python3-only and has been modernized for PEP-517/518.
306 While Git Cola still builds and runs under Python2, it is no longer officially
307 supported and may stop working in a future release without notice.
308 (`#1201 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1201>`_)
310 * The `#!/usr/bin/env python` shebang lines in the `git-cola` and `git-dag` wrapper
311 scripts have been updated to use `python3`.
312 (`#1204 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1204>`_)
314 * The build system was switched to `setuptools` and no longer depends on `distutils`.
315 ``python setup.py {build,install,build_pot,build_mo}`` are no longer provided.
316 Use the https://pypa-build.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html
317 ``python -m build`` tool to generate sdist and wheel distributions,
318 and ``pip install .`` to install Git Cola from source.
319 (`#1204 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1204>`_)
321 * The `git-cola`, `git-dag` and `git-cola-sequence-editor` commands are now installed
322 using setuptools entry points.
324 * The `bin/` wrapper scripts in the source tree continue to be provided for convenience
325 but they are not the scripts that get installed.
327 * The `qtpy` Python package is no longer installed alongside the `cola` Python package.
329 * The `cola` package is now installed into the standard Python site-packages location.
331 * The `share/git-cola/lib` private Python modules directory no longer exists.
333 * The `NO_VENDOR_LIBS` and `NO_PRIVATE_LIBS` Makefile options are no longer necessary.
335 * The `share/git-cola` filesystem namespace no longer exists. All of cola's package data
336 is distributed alongside the `cola` module as package data.
338 * Building the Sphinx documentation now also requires the `jaraco.packaging` and
339 `rst.linker` packages. See `requirements/requirements-dev.txt` for the package
342 Usability, bells and whistles
343 -----------------------------
345 <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#custom-themes>`_
346 can be used by adding `*.qss` Qt stylesheet files to `~/.config/git-cola/themes/`.
347 (`#1222 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1222>`_)
348 (`#1226 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1226>`_)
350 * Git Cola now keeps track of child Browser windows and will close all of them when
351 the main window is closed.
352 (`#1200 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1200>`_)
356 * Staging conflicted binary files has been fixed to avoid Unicode decoding errors.
357 (`#1189 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1189>`_)
359 * Ensure that secure permissions are used when creating temporary files.
360 (`#1209 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1209>`_)
362 * The line numbering in the diff viewer was corrected when displaying merge diffs.
363 (`#1208 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1208>`_)
365 * Documentation typofixes.
366 (`#1193 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1193>`_)
368 * Git Cola was revamped to use Qt signals and slots for all of its notifications.
369 This made its notification system more robust.
370 (`#1202 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1202>`_)
371 (`#1203 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1203>`_)
372 (`#1205 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1205>`_)
373 (`#1206 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1206>`_)
377 * `vcruntime140.dll` and `msvcp140.dll` are now included in the Windows installation.
378 (`#1207 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1207>`_)
386 Usability, bells and whistles
387 -----------------------------
388 * The git config guitool action can now be grouped under user-defined menus.
389 This is done by using slash (``/``) delimiters in the action name.
390 Entries before the final slash are treated like submenus inside the
391 top-level ``Actions`` menu.
392 (`#1150 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1150>`_)
394 * Toolbars now have a full set of icons. The icons follow the system theme
395 and can be configured to display text, just icons, or text and icons.
396 (`#1177 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1177>`_)
398 * The startup dialog will now open the selected repository when the "enter"
400 (`#1162 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1162>`_)
402 * ``Shift+S`` will stage selected lines (in addition to ``s``).
403 (`#1187 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1187>`_)
407 * The vendored qtpy library was patched to retain Python2 compatibility.
409 * The "Unstage" toolbar action was fixed.
410 (`#1178 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1178>`_)
412 * We now avoid `setWidth(float)` for compatibility with newer Qt versions.
413 (`#1183 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1183>`_)
415 * Documentation typofixes.
416 (`#1185 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1185>`_)
420 * Updated Polish translation.
421 (`#1184 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1184>`_)
425 * Git Cola now uses Github Actions for running its continuous integration tests.
426 (`#1179 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1179>`_)
434 Usability, bells and whistles
435 -----------------------------
436 * The Status tool was improved to better retain selected files when
437 the state changes and the display is refreshed.
438 (`#1130 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1130>`_)
439 (`#1131 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1131>`_)
441 * The Diff editor can now stage selected lines for untracked files.
442 Git Cola will detect when a file is untracked and will allow you to
443 partially stage it, just like existing tracked files.
444 (`#1146 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1146>`_)
445 (`#1084 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1084>`_)
447 * Diffing of staged files has been implemented for repositories that contain
449 (`#1149 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1149>`_)
450 (`#1110 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1110>`_)
452 * Documentation improvements and typofixes.
453 (`#1163 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1163>`_)
454 (`#1164 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1164>`_)
458 * The `FIPS security mode
459 <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/FIPS_Mode_-_an_explanation>`_
460 is now supported by Git Cola when running on FIPS-enabled Python
461 (Python 3.9+ or centos8/rhel8's patched Python 3.6).
462 (`#1157 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1157>`_)
466 * The `argparse` usage was adjusted to remain compatible with older Pythons.
467 (`#1155 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1155>`_)
469 * The window restoration logic was fixed to properly save/restore settings
470 when different languages are used.
471 (`#1071 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1071>`_)
472 (`#1161 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1161>`_)
473 (`#382 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/382>`_)
475 * `git dag` no longer passes floats to `QPen::setWidth()` for better compatibility.
476 (`bz #2014950 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2014950>`_)
480 * The Windows installer was slimmed down by removing unused Qt DLLs.
481 (`#1152 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1152>`_)
491 * Patch release to fix a typo in the Interactive Rebase feature.
498 Usability, bells and whistles
499 -----------------------------
500 * The git config reader now supports the `include.path` directive
501 for including config files.
502 (`#1136 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1136>`_)
503 (`#1137 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1137>`_)
505 * The dialog for selecting commits now support filtering.
506 (`#1121 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1121>`_)
508 * The diff editor now wraps long lines by default. The diff options
509 menu can be used to enable/disable line wrapping.
510 (`#1123 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1123>`_)
512 * Git Cola now honors `core.hooksPath` for configuring custom Git hooks,
513 which was introduced in Git v2.9.
514 (`#1118 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1118>`_)
516 * A new `Ctrl + Shift + S` hotkey was added for staging/unstaging all
517 files, both modified and untracked.
519 * The `Status` tool now supports `Ctrl + A` for selecting all files and
520 it behaves more predictably when performing operations when multiple
521 categories of files are selected (eg. when both modified and untracked
522 header items are selected).
523 (`#1117 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1117>`_)
527 * Updated Hungarian translation.
528 (`#1135 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1135>`_)
532 * The "Interactive Rebase" feature was updated to work with Windows.
534 * `make install-man` was updated to support Sphinx 4.0.
535 (`#1141 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1141>`_)
537 * `git cola --help-commands` was updated for newer versions of argparse.
538 (`#1133 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1133>`_)
542 * Git Cola can now be started as a Python module.
543 (`#1119 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1119>`_)
551 Usability, bells and whistles
552 -----------------------------
553 * The startup dialog now detects when Recent and Favorite repositories no
554 longer exist on disk, and offers to remove these entries when selected.
555 (`#1089 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1089>`_)
557 * The startup dialog now includes a simpler and more condensed folder view
558 that can be used for selecting Favorites and Recent repositories.
559 (`#1086 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1086>`_)
561 * The "Commit" menu now includes an "Undo Last Commit" action.
562 (`#890 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/890>`_)
564 * The "Reset" menu was revamped to expose all of Git's reset modes alongside a
565 new "Restore Worktree" action that updates the worktree using "git read-tree".
566 (`#890 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/890>`_)
570 * Updated Polish translation.
571 (`#1107 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1107>`_)
573 * Updated Japanese translation.
574 (`#1098 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1098>`_)
576 * Updated Brazilian translation.
577 (`#1091 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1091>`_)
581 * The ``--use-env-python`` option for ``setup.py`` is now Python3 compatible.
582 (`#1102 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1102>`_)
590 Usability, bells and whistles
591 -----------------------------
592 * The submodules widget can now be used to add submodules.
593 Submodules are now updated recursively.
594 (`#534 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/534>`_)
596 * The image diff viewer can now be toggled between text and image modes.
597 This is helpful when, for example, diffing .svg files where it can be useful
598 to see diffs in both an image and text representation.
599 (`#859 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/859>`_)
600 (`#1035 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1035>`_)
602 * The default `ssh-askpass` username + password dialog included with Git Cola
603 can now toggle between showing and masking the password input field.
604 (`#1069 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1069>`_)
608 * Updated Polish translation.
609 (`#1076 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1076>`_)
611 * Updated Hungarian translation.
612 (`#1067 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1067>`_)
616 * The `share/appdata` AppStream data was renamed to `share/metainfo`
617 in accordance with `AppStream standard changes from 2016
618 <https://github.com/ximion/appstream/blob/master/NEWS#L1363>`_.
619 (`#1079 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1079>`_)
621 * The ``cola`` modules are now installed into the Python ``site-packages``
622 directory by default. This allows distributions to package ``git-cola`` for
623 multiple versions of Python. See the PACKAGING NOTES section in the README
624 for details about suppressing the installation of the private
625 ``share/git-cola/lib/cola`` modules when building cola.
626 (`#181 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/181>`_)
628 * Git Cola's rebase / sequence editor, formerly known as ``git-xbase`` and
629 installed as ``share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase``, has been renamed to
630 ``git-cola-sequence-editor`` and is now installed into the default
631 ``bin/git-cola-sequence-editor`` executable location to enable external
632 reuse of this general-purpose tool.
634 * A workaround used by the pynsist installer preamble script was obsoleted by
635 `takluyver/pynsist#149 <https://github.com/takluyver/pynsist/pull/149>`_
636 and has now been removed.
637 (`#1073 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1073>`_)
641 * `git dag` now uses integer widths when initializing its brushes.
642 (`#1080 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1080>`_)
650 Usability, bells and whistles
651 -----------------------------
652 * The ``git-xbase`` rebase editor now includes a file list for filtering
653 the changes displayed in the diff view.
654 (`#1051 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1051>`_)
656 * The fallback `ssh-askpass` script, which provides the Username/Password
657 login dialog when performing remote operations, previously presented both
658 the username and password input fields with ``***`` asterisks.
659 The dialog now uses asterisks for the password field only.
660 (`#1026 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1026>`_)
662 * Stashes can now be applied using the `Ctrl + Enter` hotkey, popped with the
663 `Ctrl + Backspace` hotkey, and dropped with the `Ctrl + Shift + Backspace`
664 hotkey when inside the stash dialog. This enables a keyboard-centric
665 mouse-free workflow when using the stash dialog.
667 * When amending a commit, `git cola` will check whether the commit has been
668 published to a remote branch using ``git branch -r --contains HEAD``.
669 This command can be slow when operating on a repository with many
670 remote branches. The new `cola.checkpublishedcommits` configuration
671 variable allows you to opt-out of this check, which improves performance
672 when amending a commit. The settings widget exposes this variable as,
673 "Check Published Commits when Amending".
674 (`#1021 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1021>`_)
675 (`#1027 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1027>`_)
679 * Updated Polish translation.
680 (`#1033 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1033>`_)
684 * ``git-dag.appdata.xml`` was updated to allow network access for author icons.
685 (`#1050 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1050>`_)
687 * The inotify filesystem monitor now handles
688 `OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files` errors by disabling inotify.
689 (`#1015 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1015>`_)
691 * Typos in various documentation files have been fixed.
692 (`#1025 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1025>`_)
694 * The "Recent Repositories" limit was off by one, and now correctly
695 remembers the configured number of repositories in the menu.
696 (`#1024 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1024>`_)
698 * The "revert" action in the DAG and other tools now uses
699 ``git revert --no-edit``, which avoids launching an editor
700 when reverting the commit. Use `Ctrl+m` in the commit message
701 editor after reverting a commit to rewrite its commit message.
702 (`#1020 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1020>`_)
710 Usability, bells and whistles
711 -----------------------------
712 * The remote editor is much faster since it no longer queries
713 remotes, and uses the cached information instead.
714 (`#986 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/986>`_)
716 * Commit message templates can now be loaded automatically by setting
717 ``git config cola.autoloadcommittemplate true``.
718 (`#1013 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1013>`_)
719 (`#735 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/735>`_)
721 * The UI layout can now be reset back to its initial state by selecting
722 the "Reset Layout" action. This reverts the layout to the same state
723 as when the app first launched.
724 (`#1008 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1008>`_)
725 (`#994 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/994>`_)
727 * Files can now be ignored in either the project's `.gitignore`, or in the
728 repository's private local `.git/info/exclude` ignore file.
729 (`#1006 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1006>`_)
730 (`#1000 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1000>`_)
732 * New remotes are now selected when they are added in the "Edit Remotes" tool.
733 (`#1002 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1002>`_)
735 * The "Recent" repositories list is now saved to disk when opening a
736 repository. Previously, this list was only updated when exiting the app.
737 (`#1001 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1001>`_)
739 * The bookmarks tool now has a "Delete" option in its right-click menu.
740 (`#999 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/999>`_)
742 * The current repository is no longer listed in the "File/Open Recent" menu.
743 (`#998 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/998>`_)
747 * Updated Hungarian translation.
748 (`#1005 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1005>`_)
749 (`#1018 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1018>`_)
751 * Updated Turkish translation.
752 (`#1003 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1003>`_)
753 (`#1011 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1011>`_)
757 * Better support for Python 3.8's line buffering modes.
758 (`#1014 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1014>`_)
760 * The default `ssh-askpass` script now uses a more generic `#!` shebang line.
761 (`#1012 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1012>`_)
763 * Fetch, push, and pull operations will now refresh the model and display when
765 (`#996 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/996>`_)
767 * The branches widget now refreshes its display when changing branches.
768 (`#992 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/992>`_)
772 * The `share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase` script will now have its `#!` lines
773 updated during installation.
774 (`#991 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/991>`_)
778 * The unit tests were made more platform-independent.
779 (`#993 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/993>`_)
787 Usability, bells and whistles
788 -----------------------------
789 * Auto-completion for filenames can now be disabled. This speeds up
790 revision completion when working in large repositories with many files.
791 (`#981 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/981>`_)
793 * The Stash dialog now shows the stash date as a tooltip when hovering
794 over a stashed change.
795 (`#982 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/982>`_)
797 * Qt HiDPI settings are overridden by the `git cola` HiDPI appearance settings.
798 These overrides can now be disabled by selecting the "Disable" mode.
799 This allows users to control Qt's HiDPI settings through environment
800 variables. Additionally, the "Auto" mode now detects the presence of
801 the Qt HiDPI variables and no longer overrides them when the user has
802 configured their environment explicitly.
803 (`#963 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/963>`_)
805 * Confirmation dialogs can now focus buttons using the Tab key.
806 Previously, the "Y" and "N" keys could be used to confirm or deny
807 using the keyboard, but "Tab" is more familiar.
808 (`#965 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/965>`_)
810 * Error dialogs (for example, when a commit hook fails) will now always
811 show the details. The details were previously hidden behind a toggle.
812 (`#968 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/968>`_)
816 * Updated Japanese translation.
817 (`#973 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/973>`_)
818 (`#974 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/974>`_)
820 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation.
821 (`#950 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/950>`_)
825 * The filesystem monitor no longer logs that it has been enabled after the
826 inotify watch limit is reached on Linux.
827 (`#984 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/984>`_)
829 * Better unicode robustness.
830 (`#990 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/990>`_)
831 (`#910 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/991>`_)
833 * The "Branches" widget did not always update itself when deleting branches
834 (for example, when inotify is disabled or unavailable).
835 (`#978 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/978>`_)
837 * Non-ascii unicode byte strings are more robustly handled by the log widget.
838 (`#977 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/977>`_)
840 * Non-unicode results from the `gettext` library are more robustly handled.
841 (`#969 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/969>`_)
843 * Launching `git cola` from within a directory that has since been deleted
844 would previously result in a traceback, and is now robustly handled.
845 (`#961 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/961>`_)
849 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.9`.
857 Usability, bells and whistles
858 -----------------------------
859 * The file browser now includes "Blame" in its context menu.
860 (`#953 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/953>`_)
862 * The "Push" action now uses "git push --force-with-lease" when using
863 the "Force" option with Git v1.8.5 and newer.
864 (`#946 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/946>`_)
866 * Updated German translation.
867 (`#936 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/936>`_)
869 * The `Status` widget learned to optionally display file counts in its
870 category headers, and indent the files displayed in each category.
871 (`#931 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/931>`_)
873 * The `Branches` widget can now sort branches by their most recent commit.
874 (`#930 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/930>`_)
876 * `git cola` now includes configurable GUI themes that can be used to style
877 the user interface. Enable the new themes by configuring `cola.theme`
878 in the preferences window. See the
879 `cola.theme documentation <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#cola-theme>`_
880 for more details. (`#924 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/924>`_)
882 * `git cola` now has built-in support for HiDPI displays by enabling
883 Qt's 5.6's `QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR` feature.
884 (`#938 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/938>`_)
886 * `git cola` now uses HiDPI pixmaps when rendering icons, and the builtin
887 icons have been updated to look sharp when displayed in HiDPI.
888 (`#932 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/932>`_)
892 * `git cola`'s "Revert Unstaged Edits" previously checked out from "HEAD^",
893 when in "Amend" mode, and removing staged changes. This behavior has been
894 changed to always checkout from the index, which avoids data loss.
895 (`#947 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/947>`_)
897 * `git cola` has been updated to work with newer versions of `gnome-terminal`
898 and no longer shell-quotes its arguments when launching `gnome-terminal`.
899 The `cola.terminalshellquote` configuration variable can be set to `true` to
900 get the old behavior, or to handle other terminals that take the command to run
901 as a single string instead of as arguments to `execv()`.
902 (`#935 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/935>`_)
904 * `git dag` now properly handles arbitrary input on Python3.
905 Previously, an exception would be raised when entering `--grep=xxx` where
906 `xxx` is a quoted string with a missing end-quote.
907 (`#941 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/941>`_)
911 * The contribution guidelines for contributors has been updated to mention
912 how to regenerate the `*.mo` message files.
913 (`#934 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/934>`_)
921 Usability, bells and whistles
922 -----------------------------
923 * `git dag` improved how it renders parent commits.
924 (`#921 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/921>`_)
926 * The `Branches` widget now checks out branches when double-clicked.
927 (`#920 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/920>`_)
929 * The new `Submodules` widget makes it easy to interact with submodules.
930 Additionally, submodules can now be updated using the `Status` widget.
931 (`#916 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/916>`_)
933 * Updated Japanese translation.
934 (`#914 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/914>`_)
936 * The "Open Terminal" action now launches a Git Bash shell on Windows.
937 (`#913 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/913>`_)
939 * New menu actions for updating all submodules.
940 (`#911 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/911>`_)
942 * The status widget can now update submodules.
943 (`#911 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/911>`_)
945 * The "Apply Patch" `git cola am` dialog now includes a diff viewer
946 to display the contents of the selected patch.
948 * The "Alt+D" diffstat hotkey now selects the staged/modified/etc.
949 header in the Status widget, which shows the totality of everything
950 that will be committed.
951 (`#771 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/771>`_)
953 * Running "Launch Editor" from the diff editor now opens the editor at the
955 (`#898 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/898>`_)
957 * The textwidth and tabwidth configuration values can now be set
958 per-repository, rather than globally only.
960 * Text entry widgets switched to using a block cursor in `v3.2`.
961 This has been reverted to the original line cursor for consistency
962 with other applications and user expectations.
963 (`#889 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/889>`_)
965 * The "edit at line" feature, used by the "Grep" tool, now supports
966 the Sublime text editor.
967 (`#894 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/894>`_)
971 * Launching external programs has been improved on Windows.
972 (`#925 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/925>`_)
974 * Improve compatibility when using PySide2.
975 (`#912 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/912>`_)
977 * The Diff Editor was not honoring the configured tab width on startup.
978 (`#900 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/900>`_)
980 * The "Delete Files" feature was creating an unreadable display when
981 many files were selected. Word-wrap the list of files so that the
982 display stays within a sensible size.
983 (`#895 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/895>`_)
985 * Spelling and grammar fixes.
986 (`#915 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/915>`_)
987 (`#891 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/891>`_)
991 * The logo was run through `tidy` to give it a consistent style.
992 Some technical issues with the logo were improved.
993 (`#877 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/877>`_)
995 * The entire codebase is now checked by `flake8`, rather than just
996 the module and test directories. This catches things like
997 the pynsist installer scripts.
998 (`#884 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/884>`_)
999 (`#882 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/882>`_)
1000 (`#879 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/879>`_)
1004 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.6`.
1006 * The Windows installer's wrapper scripts were missing an import.
1007 (`#878 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/878>`_)
1015 Usability, bells and whistles
1016 -----------------------------
1017 * The `git cola dag` DAG window now supports `git revert`.
1018 (`#843 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/843>`_)
1020 * `git stash pop` is now supported by the stash dialog.
1021 (`#844 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/844>`_)
1023 * The status widget now ensures that each item is visible when selection
1024 changes. Previously, if you scrolled to the right to see the name of
1025 a long filename, and then selected a short filename above it, the widget
1026 may not have shown the short filename in the viewport. We now ensure
1027 that the filenames are visible when the selection changes.
1028 (`#828 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/828>`_)
1030 * The `git xbase` rebase editor no longer displays an error when
1031 cancelling an interactive rebase.
1032 (`#814 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814>`_)
1034 * The dialog shown when renaming remotes has been simplified.
1035 (`#840 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/840>`_)
1036 (`#838 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/838>`_)
1038 * The help dialog in the `git-xbase` Rebase editor is now scrollable.
1039 (`#855 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/855>`_)
1043 * Updated Brazilian translation.
1044 (`#845 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/845>`_)
1046 * Updated Czech translation.
1047 (`#854 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/854>`_)
1048 (`#853 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/853>`_)
1049 (`#835 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/835>`_)
1050 (`#813 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/813>`_)
1052 * Update Spanish translation.
1053 (`#862 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/862>`_)
1054 (`#867 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/867>`_)
1058 * The original `#!/usr/bin/env python` shebang lines can now be
1059 retained by passing `USE_ENV_PYTHON=1` to `make` when installing.
1060 (`#850 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/850>`_)
1062 * The Makefile is now resilient to DESTDIR and prefix containing whitespace.
1063 (`#858 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/858>`_)
1065 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.4.2`.
1067 * `python3-distutils` is needed to build cola on Debian.
1068 (`#837 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/837>`_)
1072 * The "C" key no longer closes the message dialogs, for example the
1073 one that is shown when a commit fails its pre-commit hooks.
1074 This allows "Ctrl+C" copy to work, rather than closing the dialog.
1075 (`#734 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/734>`_)
1077 * Dock widgets sizes are now properly saved and restored when the main
1078 window is maximized.
1079 (`#848 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/848>`_)
1081 * The spellcheck feature was broken under Python3.
1082 (`#857 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/857>`_)
1084 * A regression when saving stashes was fixed.
1085 (`#847 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/847>`_)
1087 * Diffing image files was not updating the available context menus,
1088 which prevented the "Stage" action from being present in the menu.
1089 (`#841 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/841>`_)
1091 * `git cola` now detects when `git lfs uninstall` has been run. This allows
1092 you to re-initialize "Git LFS" in an existing repository where it had been
1093 previously uninstalled.
1094 (`#842 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/842>`_)
1096 * Custom color values that did not contain any hexadecimal digits in the
1097 `a-f` range were being converted into integers by the config reader. This
1098 then caused the configured colors to be ignored.
1100 These color values are now interpreted correctly. Additionally, color
1101 values can now use an optional HTML-like `#` prefix.
1103 Example `.gitconfig` snippet::
1108 (`#836 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/836>`_)
1109 (`#849 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/849>`_)
1111 * We now display an error message graphically when `Git` is not installed.
1112 Previously, the message went to stderr only.
1113 (`#830 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/830>`_)
1115 * Changing diff options was causing resulting in an exception.
1116 (`#833 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/833>`_)
1117 (`#834 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/834>`_)
1119 * The DAG window now updates itself when branches and tags are created.
1120 (`#814 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814>`_)
1122 * The user's `$PATH` environment variable can now contain utf-8
1123 encoded paths. Previously, launching external commands could
1125 (`#807 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/807>`_)
1127 * Git Cola development sandboxes can now be stored on utf-8 encoded
1128 filesystem paths. Previously, the interactive rebase feature
1129 could be broken when running in that environment.
1130 (`#825 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/825>`_)
1132 * The log window now uses an ISO-8601 timestamp, which
1133 avoids localized output in the log window.
1134 (`#817 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/817>`_)
1138 * The code base has been thoroughly sanitized using `pylint`, and
1139 travis is now running pylint over the entire project.
1141 * Miscellaneous improvements and code improvements.
1142 (`#874 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/874>`_)
1150 Usability, bells and whistles
1151 -----------------------------
1152 * The "Browser" widget learned to rename files using "git mv".
1153 (`#239 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/239>`_)
1155 * The "Diff" widget learned to diff images. Side-by-side and pixel diff
1156 modes allow you to inspect changes to common images formats.
1157 (`#444 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/444>`_)
1158 (`#803 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/803>`_)
1160 * Git LFS and Git Annex are natively supported by the image diff viewer.
1162 * Git Annex operations are now included. `git annex init` can be performed on
1163 repositories, and `git annex add` can be run on untracked files from the
1164 status widget. Install `git-annex` to activate this feature.
1166 * Git LFS operations are now included. `git lfs install` can be performed on
1167 repositories, and `git lfs track` can be run on untracked files from the
1168 status widget. Install `git-lfs` to activate this feature.
1170 * The "Stash" tool learned to stash staged changes only. Select the
1171 "Stage Index" option and only staged changes will be stashed away.
1172 (`#413 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/413>`_)
1174 * The "Stash" tool learned to use vim-like navigation keyboard shortcuts,
1175 shows error messages when things go wrong, and now saves the "Stash Index"
1176 and "Keep Index" options across sessions.
1178 * The Edit menu's "Copy" and "Select All" actions now forward to either the
1179 diff, status, recent, or favorites widgets, based on which widget has focus.
1181 * The "File" and "Edit" menu can now be activated using `Alt-{f,e}` hotkeys.
1182 (`#759 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/759>`_)
1184 * It was easy to accidentally trigger the first action in the `Status` tool's
1185 context menu when using a quick right-click to bring up the menu.
1186 A short sub-second delay was added to ensure that the top-most action is not
1187 triggered unless enough time has passed. This prevents accidental
1188 activation of the first item (typically "Stage" or "Unstage") without
1189 burdening common use cases.
1190 (`#755 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/755>`_)
1191 (`#643 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/643>`_)
1193 * The "Ctrl+S" hotkey now works for the header items in the Status tool.
1194 Selected the "Modified" header item and activating the "Stage" hotkey,
1195 for example, will stage all modified files. This works for the "Staged",
1196 "Modified", and "Untracked" headers. This is not enabled for the
1197 "Unmerged" header by design.
1198 (`#772 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/772>`_)
1200 * The list of "Recent" repositories previously capped the number of
1201 repositories shown to 8 repositories. This can be set to a higher
1202 value by setting the `cola.maxrecent` configuration variable.
1203 (`#752 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/752>`_)
1205 * The "Create Branch" dialog now prevents invalid branch names.
1206 (`#765 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/765>`_)
1208 * Updated Turkish translation.
1209 (`#756 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/756>`_)
1211 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
1212 (`#753 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/753>`_)
1214 * Updated German translation.
1215 (`#802 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/802>`_)
1217 * Updated Czech translation
1218 (`#792 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/792>`_)
1219 (`#806 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/806>`_)
1221 * The window title can be configured to not display the absolute path of the
1223 (`#775 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/775>`_)
1225 * The "Edit Remotes" editor learned to edit remote URLS.
1227 * Bare repositories can now be created by selecting the
1228 "New Bare Repository..." action from the `File` menu.
1230 * The "Branches" widget learned to configure upstream branches.
1232 * A new `git cola clone` sub-command was added for cloning repositories.
1236 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.3.1`.
1238 * The macOS installation was made simpler for better compatibility with
1240 (`#636 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/636>`_)
1242 * The Windows installer is now much simpler. Git Cola now bundles
1243 Python and PyQt5, so users need only install the "Git for Windows"
1244 and "Git Cola" installers to get things working.
1248 * Uninitialized difftool errors will now be displayed graphically.
1249 They were previously going to the shell.
1250 (`#457 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/457>`_)
1252 * Translations marked "fuzzy" will no longer be used when translating strings.
1253 (`#782 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/782>`_)
1255 * Deleted unmerged files will now correctly use a deleted icon.
1256 (`#479 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/479>`_)
1258 * The `Ctrl+C` "Copy" hotkey on the diff viewer has been fixed.
1259 (`#767 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/767>`_)
1261 * The "Create Tag" dialog did not correctly handle the case when a signed
1262 tag is requested, but no message is provided, and the user chooses to
1263 create an unannotated tag instead. This convenience fallback will now
1264 properly create an unsigned, unannotated tag.
1265 (`#696 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/696>`_)
1267 * `.gitconfig` and `.git/config` values editable by the Preferences dialog
1268 (aka `git cola config`) will now get unset when set to an empty value.
1269 For example, setting a different `user.email` in the current repository,
1270 followed by a subsequent emptying of that field, would previously result in
1271 an empty string getting stored in the config. This has been fixed so that
1272 the value will now get unset in the config instead.
1273 (`#406 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/406>`_)
1275 * Spelling and typofixes.
1276 (`#748 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/748>`_)
1278 * `core.commentChar` is now honored when set in the local repository
1280 (`#766 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/766>`_)
1282 * The log window was using a format string that did not display
1283 correctly in all locales. A locale-aware format is now used.
1284 (`#800 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/800>`_)
1286 * The dialog displayed when prompting for a reference could sometimes
1288 (`#804 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/804>`_)
1296 Usability, bells and whistles
1297 -----------------------------
1298 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation.
1299 (`#726 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/726>`_)
1301 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
1302 (`#723 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/723>`_)
1304 * New Czech translation.
1305 (`#736 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/736>`_)
1306 (`#737 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/737>`_)
1307 (`#740 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/740>`_)
1308 (`#743 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/743>`_)
1310 * The "name" field in the "Create Tag" dialog now includes autocompletion,
1311 which makes it easy to see which tags currently exist.
1313 * `git cola` now has configurable toolbars. Use the `View -> Add toolbar`
1314 menu item to add a toolbar.
1316 * Setting `cola.expandtab` to `true` will now expand tabs into spaces
1317 in the commit message editor. The number of spaces to insert is determined
1318 by consulting `cola.tabwidth`, which defaults to `8`.
1320 * The "Copy SHA-1" hotkey is now `Alt + Ctrl + C`, to avoid clobbering the
1321 ability to copy text from the DAG window.
1322 (`#705 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/705>`_)
1324 * The "Prepare Commit Message" action can now be invoked via the
1325 `Ctrl+Shift+Return` shortcut.
1326 (`#707 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/707>`_)
1328 * The `Branches` pane now has a filter field that highlights branches whose
1329 names match the string entered into its text field.
1330 (`#713 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/713>`_)
1332 * Actions that are triggered in response to button presses were being
1333 triggered when the button was pressed, rather than when it was released,
1334 which was a usability flaw. All buttons now respond when clicked
1335 rather than when pressed.
1336 (`#715 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/715>`_)
1338 * The DAG window will now only refresh when object IDs change.
1339 Previously, the DAG would redraw itself in response to inotify events,
1340 such as filesystem operations, which was disruptive when inspecting a large
1341 diff in its diff viewer. The DAG will now only redraw when the object IDs
1342 corresponding to its query input changes. Furthermore, when redrawing, the
1343 scrollbar positions are retained to minimize disruption to the viewport
1345 (`#620 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/620>`_)
1346 (`#724 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/724>`_)
1348 * The "About" dialog now includes the SHA-1 where Git Cola was built.
1349 (`#530 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/530>`_)
1351 * The "Status" widget now has "Copy Leading Path to Clipboard" and
1352 "Copy Basename to Clipboard" actions.
1353 (`#435 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/435>`_)
1354 (`#436 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/436>`_)
1356 * The "Status" widget now supports custom "Copy ... to Clipboard" actions.
1357 (`#437 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/437>`_)
1359 * The main menu now has an "Edit" menu.
1360 (`#725 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/725>`_)
1362 * `git dag` learned to checkout commits into a detached HEAD state.
1363 (`#698 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/698>`_)
1365 * The `status` widget's context menus now omit actions selection-dependent
1366 actions when no file is selected.
1367 (`#731 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/731>`_)
1369 * The startup dialog now focuses the repository list so that repositories
1370 can be selected with the keyboard without mouse intervention.
1371 (`#741 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/741>`_)
1375 * `git dag` now prevents nodes from overlapping in more situations.
1376 (`#689 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/689>`_)
1378 * Adding untracked Git submodule repo directories previously ran
1379 `git add submodule/` but we now call `git add submodule` without
1380 the trailing slash (`/`) to avoid staging files that belong to the
1381 submodule (which is possibly a `git` bug). By working around the
1382 buggy behavior we allow users to recover by issuing the appropriate
1383 `git submodule add` command to properly register the submodule.
1384 (`#681 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/681>`_)
1386 * We now avoid `git for-each-ref --sort=version:refname` on versions
1387 of `git` older than `v2.7.0`. Previously we only avoided it for
1388 versions older than `v2.0.0`, which was a mistake.
1389 (`#686 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686>`_)
1391 * The error message displayed when `git` is not installed has been fixed.
1392 (`#686 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686>`_)
1394 * Adding new remotes was silently broken.
1395 (`#684 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/684>`_)
1396 (`#685 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/685>`_)
1398 * The repo selection dialog had errors during startup when the
1399 `cola.refreshonfocus` feature was enabled, as reported on Ubuntu 16.04.
1400 (`#690 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/690>`_)
1402 * Restored support for PyQt 4.6 (Centos 6.8)
1403 (`#692 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/692>`_)
1405 * Switching repositories now resets the "Amend Mode" and other settings
1407 (`#710 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/710>`_)
1409 * `git rebase` error messages now displayed when rebasing fails or stops
1410 via the standalone `git cola rebase` front-end.
1411 (`#721 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/721>`_)
1413 * `git cola` learned to stage broken symlinks.
1414 (`#727 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/727>`_)
1416 * The "View History" feature in the `Browser` tool was fixed, and now
1417 disambiguates between refs and paths.
1418 (`#732 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/732>`_)
1420 * The diff editor now has better support for files with CRLF `\r\n`
1422 (`#730 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/730>`_)
1424 * `cola.inotify` in a repo-local config is now honored
1425 when `git cola` is launched from a desktop entry (`git cola --prompt`).
1426 (`#695 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/695>`_)
1434 Usability, bells and whistles
1435 -----------------------------
1436 * New Ukrainian translation.
1437 (`#670 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/670>`_)
1438 (`#672 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/672>`_)
1440 * New and improved French translations.
1442 * The new `Branches` widget makes it easier to checkout, merge, push,
1443 and pull branches from a single interface.
1445 * `git cola` now includes a dark icon theme. The dark icon theme can be
1446 activated either by setting the `GIT_COLA_ICON_THEME` environment variable
1447 to `dark`, by configuring `cola.icontheme` to `dark`, or by specifying
1448 `--icon-theme=dark` on the command line.
1449 (`#638 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/638>`_)
1451 * Autocompletion was added to the `Fetch`, `Push`, and `Pull` dialogs.
1453 * The commit message editor now remembers the "Spellcheck" setting
1455 (`#645 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/645>`_)
1457 * `git dag` now uses an improved algorithm for laying out the graph,
1458 which avoids collisions under certain graph configurations, and
1459 avoids overlapping tag with commits.
1460 (`#648 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/648>`_)
1461 (`#651 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/651>`_)
1462 (`#654 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/654>`_)
1463 (`#656 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/656>`_)
1464 (`#659 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/659>`_)
1466 * `git dag` now remembers its column sizes across sessions.
1467 (`#674 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/674>`_)
1469 * `Grep` now shows a preview of the selected file's content in a split window
1470 below the grep results.
1472 * `Grep` now includes line numbers in the preview pane's output.
1474 * `Edit Remotes` now remembers its window settings after exiting.
1476 * `Diff` now has an option to display line numbers in the editor.
1477 (`#136 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/136>`_)
1479 * `Amend Last Commit` can now be triggered via the `Commit` menu in addition
1480 to the commit message editor's options.
1481 (`#640 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/640>`_)
1483 * The `File Browser` tool was made much faster and can now operate on
1484 much larger repositories.
1485 (`#499 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/499>`_)
1487 * A new "turbo" mode was added that allows you to opt-out of operations
1488 that can slow `git cola` on large repositories. The turbo mode is
1489 enabled by configuring `git config cola.turbo true`. Turbo mode
1490 disables the background loading of Git commit messages and other
1491 details in the `File Browser` widget.
1493 * A new GitIgnore dialog allows adding custom gitignore patterns.
1494 (`#653 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/653>`_)
1496 * The spellchecker in `git cola` can now use an additional dictionary
1497 by configuring `cola.dictionary` to the path to a file containing
1498 a newline-separated list of words.
1499 (`#663 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663>`_)
1501 * The stash, export patches, diff, and gitignore dialogs now remember
1504 * A new `git cola recent` sub-command was added for finding recently
1507 * The `Fetch` dialog now allows pruning remote branches.
1508 (`#639 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/639>`_)
1509 (`#680 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/680>`_)
1513 * `git cola`'s spellchecker now supports the new `dict-common` filesystem
1514 layout, and prefers the `/usr/share/dict/cracklib-small` file over the
1515 `/usr/share/dict/words` provided on older distributions.
1516 This makes the spellchecker compatible with Arch, which does not provide
1517 a `words` symlink like Debian.
1518 (`#663 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663>`_)
1520 * Properly handle the case where an existing file is untracked using
1523 * Fix a quirk where the "Create Branch" dialog sometimes required clicking
1524 twice on the radio buttons.
1525 (`#662 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/662>`_)
1527 * Fixed a focus issue to ensure that "Push", "Fetch", and "Pull" can
1528 be executed with the press of a single enter key after being shown.
1529 (`#661 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/661>`_)
1531 * Committing is now allowed in when resolving a merge results in no
1532 changes. This state was previously prevented by the commit message editor,
1533 which prevented users from resolving merges that result in no changes.
1534 (`#679 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/679>`_)
1536 * The filesystem monitor would sometimes emit backtraces when directories
1537 are modified. This has been fixed.
1538 (`bz #1438522 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438522>`_)
1540 * Absolute paths are now returned when querying for `.git`-relative paths
1541 from within a submodule, which uses `.git`-files.
1542 This fixes launching `git cola` from within a subdirectory of a submodule.
1543 (`#675 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/675>`_)
1551 Usability, bells and whistles
1552 -----------------------------
1553 * `git cola` can now invoke the `.git/hooks/cola-prepare-commit-msg`
1554 hook to update the commit message. This hook takes the same parameters
1555 as Git's `prepare-commit-message` hook. The default path to this hook
1556 can be overridden by setting the `cola.prepareCommitMessageHook`
1557 configuration variable.
1558 (`Documentation <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#prepare-commit-message>`_)
1560 * `git cola diff` (and the corresponding `Diff` menu actions) can now
1561 launch difftool with the standard `Ctrl+D` hotkey. The `Ctrl+E` hotkey was
1562 also added for launching an editor.
1564 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
1568 * `git cola` now works when installed in non-ascii, utf8-encoded paths.
1569 (`#629 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/629>`_)
1571 * Styling issues that caused black backgrounds in various widgets when using
1572 PyQ5 on Mac OS X have been fixed.
1573 (`#624 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/624>`_)
1575 * The "Open Recent" menu action was broken and has been fixed.
1576 (`#634 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/634>`_)
1578 * Exiting `git cola` with a maximized main window would hang when reopened
1580 (`#641 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/641>`_)
1584 * `appdata.xml` files are now provided at
1585 `share/appdata/git-cola.xml` and `share/appdata/git-dag.xml`
1586 for use by the Linux software gallery.
1587 (`#627 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/627>`_)
1588 (`Appdata <https://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/>`_)
1598 * The "Open Recent" menu was updated to new bookmarks format.
1599 (`#628 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/628>`_)
1607 Usability, bells and whistles
1608 -----------------------------
1609 * New Polish translation thanks to Łukasz Wojniłowicz
1610 (`#598 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/598>`_)
1612 * The `Bypass Commit Hooks` feature now disables itself automatically
1613 when a new commit is created. The new behavior turns the option into a
1614 single-use flag, which helps prevent users from accidentally leaving it
1615 active longer than intended.
1616 (`#595 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/595>`_)
1618 * `git dag` learned to launch an external diff viewer on selected commits.
1619 The standard `Ctrl+D` shortcut can be used to view diffs.
1620 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1622 * `git dag` learned to launch directory diffs via `git difftool --dir-diff`.
1623 The `Ctrl+Shift+D` shortcut launches difftool in directory-diff mode.
1624 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1626 * Items in the "Favorites" list can now be renamed, which makes it
1627 easier to differentiate between several checkouts of the same repository.
1628 (`#599 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/599>`_)
1629 (`#601 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/601>`_)
1631 * The startup screen now includes a logo and `git cola` version information.
1632 (`#526 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/526>`_)
1634 * The `About` page was revamped to contain multiple tabs. A new tab was added
1635 that provides details about `git cola`''s dependencies. New tabs were also
1636 added for giving credit to `git cola`'s authors and translators.
1638 * The `About` page can now be accessed via `git cola about`.
1640 * The "Fast-forward only" and "No fast-forward" options supported by
1641 `git pull` are now accessible via `git cola pull`.
1643 * Doing a forced push no longer requires selecting the remote branch.
1644 (`#618 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/618>`_)
1646 * `git cola push` now has an option to suppress the prompt that is shown
1647 when pushing would create new remote branches.
1648 (`#605 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/605>`_)
1650 * `git dag` now shows commit messages in a more readable color.
1651 (`#574 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/574>`_)
1653 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch the OS-specified
1654 default action for a file. When used on directories via `git cola browse`,
1655 or when "Open Parent Directory" is used on files, the OS-specified
1656 file browser will typically be used.
1658 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch terminals.
1662 * `git cola browse` was not updating when expanding items.
1663 (`#588 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/588>`_)
1665 * Typofixes in comments, naming, and strings have been applied.
1666 (`#593 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/593>`_)
1668 * The inotify and win32 filesystem monitoring no longer refreshes
1669 when updates are made to ignored files.
1670 (`#517 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/517>`_)
1671 (`#516 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/516>`_)
1673 * The `Refresh` button on the actions panel no longer raises an
1674 exception when using PyQt5.
1675 (`#604 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/604>`_)
1677 * Fixed a typo in the inotify backend that is triggered when files are removed.
1678 (`#607 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/607>`_)
1680 * Fixed a typo when recovering from a failed attempt to open a repository.
1681 (`#606 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/606>`_)
1683 * `git dag` now properly updates itself when launched from the menubar.
1684 (`#613 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/613>`_)
1686 * If git-cola is invoked on Windows using `start pythonw git-cola`,
1687 a console window will briefly flash on the screen each time
1688 `git cola` invokes `git`. The console window is now suppressed.
1690 * We now avoid some problematic Popen flags on Windows which were
1691 breaking the `git rebase` feature on Windows.
1693 * The `Save` button in `git dag`'s "Grab File..." feature now properly
1694 prompts for a filename when saving files.
1695 (`#617 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/617>`_)
1699 * The `qtpy` symlink in the source tree has been removed to allow for easier
1700 development on Windows.
1701 (`#626 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/626>`_)
1709 Usability, bells and whistles
1710 -----------------------------
1711 * `git cola push` learned to configure upstream branches.
1712 (`#563 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/563>`_)
1716 * The diffstat view is now properly updated when notifications are
1717 received via inotify filesystem monitoring.
1718 (`#577 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/577>`_)
1720 * Python3 with PyQt5 had a bug that prevented `git cola` from starting.
1721 (`#589 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/589>`_)
1732 * When repositories stored in non-ASCII, UTF-8-encoded filesystem paths
1733 were operated upon with `LC_ALL=C` set in the environment, unicode errors
1734 would occur when using `python2`. `git cola` was made more robust and will
1735 now operate correctly within this environment.
1736 (`#581 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/581>`_)
1738 * Support for the `GIT_WORK_TREE` environment variable was fixed.
1739 (`#582 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/582>`_)
1744 * The `unittest.mock` module is now used instead of the original `mock` module
1745 when running the `git cola` test suite using Python3.
1746 (`#569 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/569>`_)
1751 * `git cola` is now compatible with *PyQt5*, *PyQt4*, and *Pyside*.
1752 `git cola` previously supported *PyQt4* only, but will now use whichever
1753 library is available. Users are not required to upgrade at this time,
1754 but *PyQt5* support can be enabled anytime by making its python
1756 (`#232 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/232>`_)
1758 *NOTE*: We do not yet recommend using *PyQt5* because there are known
1759 exit-on-segfault bugs in *Qt5* that have not yet been addressed.
1760 `git cola` is sensitive to this bug and is known to crash on exit
1761 when using `git dag` or the interactive rebase feature on *PyQt5*.
1763 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-52988
1765 *PyQt4* is stable and there are no known issues when using it so
1766 we recommend using it until the Qt5 bugs have been resolved.
1768 * `git cola` now depends on *QtPy* and includes a bundled copy of the
1769 `qtpy` library. If you are packaging `git cola` and would prefer to use
1770 `qtpy` from your distribution instead of the built-in version then use
1771 `make NO_VENDOR_LIBS=1` when building `git cola`. This will prevent
1772 vendored libraries from being installed.
1780 Usability, bells and whistles
1781 -----------------------------
1783 * A new "Reset" sub-menu provides access to running "git reset --mixed"
1784 when resetting branch heads and "git reset --merge" when resetting
1786 (`#542 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/542>`_)
1788 * `git cola` now supports linked worktrees, i.e. worktrees created by
1790 (`#554 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/554>`_)
1795 * Diff highlighting is now robust to the user having
1796 diff.supressBlankEmpty=true in their git config.
1797 (`#541 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/541>`_)
1799 * The filesystem monitor now properly handles repositories that use
1800 `.git`-files, e.g. when using submodules.
1801 (`#545 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/545>`_)
1802 (`#546 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pulls/546>`_)
1804 * Per-repository git configuration is now properly detected when launching
1805 `git cola` from an application launcher.
1806 (`#548 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/548>`_)
1808 * `git cola` now cleans up after itself immediately to avoid leaving behind
1809 empty `/tmp/git-cola-XXXXXX` directories when the user uses `Ctrl+C`
1811 (`#566 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/566>`_)
1816 * It is now possible to install `git cola` to and from utf8-encoded filesystem
1817 paths. Previously, Python's stdlib would throw an encoding error during
1818 installation. We workaround the stdlib by forcing python2 to use utf-8,
1819 thus fixing assumptions in the stdlib library code.
1820 (`#551 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/551>`_)
1828 Usability, bells and whistles
1829 -----------------------------
1831 * The icon for untracked files was adjusted to better differentiate
1832 between files and the "Untracked" header.
1833 (`#509 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/509>`_)
1835 * Ctrl+O was added as a hotkey for opening repositories.
1836 (`#507 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/507>`_)
1838 * `git dag` now uses consistent edge colors across updates.
1839 (`#512 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/512>`_)
1841 * `git cola`'s Bookmarks widget can now be used to set a "Default Repository".
1842 Under the hood, we set the `cola.defaultrepo` configuration variable.
1843 The default repository is used whenever `git cola` is launched outside of
1844 a Git repository. When unset, or when set to a bogus value, `git cola`
1845 will prompt for a repository, as it previously did.
1846 (`#513 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/513>`_)
1848 * `git cola`'s Russian and Spanish translations were improved
1849 thanks to Vaiz and Zeioth.
1850 (`#514 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/514>`_)
1851 (`#515 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/515>`_)
1852 (`#523 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/523>`_)
1854 * `git cola` was translated to Turkish thanks to Barış ÇELİK.
1855 (`#520 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/520>`_)
1857 * The status view now supports launching `git gui blame`. It can be
1858 configured to use a different command by setting `cola.blameviewer`.
1859 (`#521 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/521>`_)
1861 * `git dag` now allows selecting non-contiguous ranges in the log widget.
1862 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1864 * Any font can now be chosen for the diff editor, not just monospace fonts.
1865 (`#525 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/525>`_)
1870 * `xfce4-terminal` and `gnome-terminal` are now supported when launching
1871 `git mergetool` to resolve merges. These terminals require that the command
1872 to execute is shell-quoted and passed as a single string argument to `-e`
1873 rather than as additional command line arguments.
1874 (`#524 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/524>`_)
1876 * Fixed a unicode problem when formatting the error message that is shown
1877 when `gitk` is not installed. We now handle unicode data in tracebacks
1878 generated by python itself.
1879 (`#528 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/528>`_)
1881 * The `New repository` feature was fixed.
1882 (`#533 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/533>`_)
1884 * We now use omit the extended description when creating "fixup!" commits,
1885 for consistency with the Git CLI. We now include only the one-line summary
1886 in the final commit message.
1887 (`#522 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/522>`_)
1895 Usability, bells and whistles
1896 -----------------------------
1898 * The user interface is now HiDPI-capable. git-cola now uses SVG
1899 icons, and its interface can be scaled by setting the `GIT_COLA_SCALE`
1900 environment variable.
1902 * `git dag` now supports the standard editor, difftool, and history hotkeys.
1903 It is now possible to invoke these actions from file widget's context
1904 menu and through the standard hotkeys.
1905 (`#473 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/473>`_)
1907 * The `Status` tool also learned about the history hotkey.
1908 Additionally, the `Alt-{j,k}` aliases are also supported in the `Status`
1909 tool for consistency with the other tools where the non-Alt hotkeys are not
1911 (`#488 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/488>`_)
1913 * The `File Browser` tool now has better default column sizes,
1914 and remembers its window size and placement.
1916 * The `File Browser` now supports the refresh hotkey, and has better
1917 behavior when refreshing. The selection is now retained, and new and
1918 removed files are found when refreshing.
1920 * A new `git-cola-completion.bash` completion script is provided in the
1921 `contrib/` directory. It must be used alongside Git's completion script.
1922 Source it from your `~/.bashrc` (or `~/.zshrc`, etc) after sourcing
1923 the `git-completion.bash` script and you will have command-line completion
1924 support for the `git cola` and `git dag` sub-commands.
1926 * The "checkout" dialog now offers completion for remote branches and other
1927 git refs. This makes it easier to checkout remote branches in a detached
1928 head state. Additionally, the checkout dialog also offers completion for
1929 remote branches that have not yet been checked out, which makes it easier to
1930 create a local tracking branch by just completing for that potential name.
1931 (`#390 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/390>`_)
1933 * The "create branch" and "create tag" dialogs now save and restore their
1936 * The "status" widget can now be configured to use a bold font with a darker
1937 background for the header items.
1938 (`#506 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/506>`_)
1940 * The "status" widget now remembers its horizontol scrollbar position across
1941 updates. This is helpful when working on projects with long paths.
1942 (`#494 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/494>`_)
1947 * When using *Git for Windows*, a `git` window would appear
1948 when running *Windows 8*. We now pass additional flags to
1949 `subprocess.Popen` to prevent a `git` window from appearing.
1950 (`#477 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/477>`_)
1951 (`#486 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/486>`_)
1953 * Launching difftool with `.PY` in `$PATHEXT` on Windows was fixed.
1954 (`#492 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/492>`_)
1956 * Creating a local branch tracking a remote branch that contains
1957 slashes in its name is now properly handled.
1958 (`#496 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/496>`_)
1960 * The "Browse Other Branch" feature was broken by Python3, and is now fixed.
1961 (`#501 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/501>`_)
1963 * We now avoid `long` for better Python3 compatibility.
1964 (`#502 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/502>`_)
1966 * We now use Git's default merge message when merging branches.
1967 (`#508 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/508>`_)
1969 * Miscellaneous fixes
1970 (`#485 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/485>`_)
1975 * git-cola's documentation no longer uses an intersphinx link mapping
1976 to docs.python.org. This fixes warnings when building rpms using koji,
1977 where network access is prevented.
1979 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231812
1987 Usability, bells and whistles
1988 -----------------------------
1990 * The Interactive Rebase feature now works on Windows!
1991 (`#463 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/463>`_)
1993 * The `diff` editor now understands vim-style `hjkl` navigation hotkeys.
1994 (`#476 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/476>`_)
1996 * `Alt-{j,k}` navigation hotkeys were added to allow changing to the
1997 next/previous file from the diff and commit editors.
1999 * The `Rename branch` menu action is now disabled in empty repositories.
2000 (`#475 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/475>`_)
2001 (`#459 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/459>`_)
2003 * `git cola` now checks unmerged files for conflict markers before
2004 staging them. This feature can be disabled in the preferences.
2005 (`#464 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/464>`_)
2007 * `git dag` now remembers which commits were selected when refreshing
2008 so that it can restore the selection afterwards.
2009 (`#480 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/480>`_)
2011 * "Launch Editor", "Launch Difftool", "Stage/Unstage",
2012 and "Move Up/Down" hotkeys now work when the commit message
2014 (`#453 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453>`_)
2016 * The diff editor now supports the `Ctrl+u` hotkey for reverting
2017 diff hunks and selected lines.
2019 * The `core.commentChar` Git configuration value is now honored.
2020 Commit messages and rebase instruction sheets will now use
2021 the configured character for comments. This allows having
2022 commit messages that start with `#` when `core.commentChar`
2023 is configured to its non-default value.
2024 (`#446 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/446>`_)
2029 * Diff syntax highlighting was improved to handle more edge cases
2030 and false positives.
2031 (`#467 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/467>`_)
2033 * Setting commands in the interactive rebase editor was fixed.
2034 (`#472 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/472>`_)
2036 * git-cola no longer clobbers the Ctrl+Backspace text editing shortcut
2037 in the commit message editor.
2038 (`#453 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453>`_)
2040 * The copy/paste clipboard now persists after `git cola` exits.
2041 (`#484 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/484>`_)
2051 * Fixed the "Sign off" feature in the commit message editor.
2059 Usability, bells and whistles
2060 -----------------------------
2061 * Double-click will now choose a commit in the "Select commit" dialog.
2063 * `git cola` has a feature that reads `.git/MERGE_MSG` and friends for the
2064 commit message when a merge is in-progress. Upon refresh, `git cola` will
2065 now detect when a merge has completed and reset the commit message back to
2066 its previous state. It is only reset if the editor contains a message
2067 that was read from the file and has not been manually edited by the user.
2069 * The commit message editor's context menu now has a "Clear..." action for
2070 clearing the message across both the summary and description fields.
2072 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
2074 * The system theme's icons are now used wherever possible.
2075 (`#458 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/458>`_)
2079 * The stash viewer now uses ``git show --no-ext-diff`` to avoid running
2080 user-configured diff tools.
2082 * `git cola` now uses the `setsid()` system call to ensure that the
2083 `GIT_ASKPASS` and `SSH_ASKPASS` helper programs are used when pushing
2084 changes using `git`. The askpass helpers will now be used even when
2085 `git cola` is launched from a terminal.
2087 The behavior without `setsid()` is that `git cola` can appear to hang while
2088 pushing changes. The hang happens when `git` prompts the user for a
2089 password using the terminal, but the user never sees the prompt. `setsid()`
2090 detaches the terminal, which ensures that the askpass helpers are used.
2091 (`#218 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/218>`_)
2092 (`#262 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/262>`_)
2093 (`#377 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/377>`_)
2095 * `git dag`'s file list tool was updated to properly handle unicode paths.
2097 * `gnome-terminal` is no longer used by default when `cola.terminal` is unset.
2098 It is broken, as was detailed in #456.
2099 (`#456 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/456>`_)
2101 * The interactive rebase feature was not always setting `$GIT_EDITOR`
2102 to the value of `gui.editor`, thus there could be instances where rebase
2103 will seem to not stop, or hang, when performing "reword" actions.
2105 We now set the `$GIT_EDITOR` environment variable when performing the
2106 "Continue", "Skip", and "Edit Todo" rebase actions so that the correct
2107 editor is used during the rebase.
2108 (`#445 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/445>`_)
2112 * `git cola` moved from a 3-part version number to a simpler 2-part "vX.Y"
2113 version number. Most of our releases tend to contain new features.
2120 Usability, bells and whistles
2121 -----------------------------
2122 * Updated zh_TW translations.
2124 * `git cola rebase` now defaults to `@{upstream}`, and generally uses the same
2125 CLI syntax as `git rebase`.
2127 * The commit message editor now allows you to bypass commit hooks by selecting
2128 the "Bypass Commit Hooks" option. This is equivalent to passing the
2129 `--no-verify` option to `git commit`.
2130 (`#357 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/357>`_)
2132 * We now prevent the "Delete Files" action from creating a dialog that does
2134 (`#378 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/378>`_)
2136 * `git xbase` learned to edit rebase instruction sheets that contain
2139 * The diff colors are now configurable. `cola.color.{text,add,remove,header}`
2140 can now be set with 6-digit hexadecimal colors.
2141 See the `git cola manual <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#configuration-variables>_`
2144 * Improved hotkey documentation.
2148 * `git cola` will now allow starting an interactive rebase with a dirty
2149 worktree when `rebase.autostash` is set.
2150 (`#360 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/360>`_)
2157 Usability, bells and whistles
2158 -----------------------------
2159 * A new "Find files" widget was added, and can be activated by
2160 using the `Ctrl+t` or `t` hotkeys.
2162 * A new `git cola find` sub-command was added for finding files.
2164 * `git cola` now remembers the text cursor's position when staging
2165 interactively with the keyboard. This makes it easier to use the keyboard
2166 arrows to select and stage lines.
2168 * The completion widgets will now select the top completion item
2169 when `Enter` or `Return` are pressed.
2171 * You can now refresh using `F5` in addition to the existing `Ctrl+R` hotkey.
2175 * `git cola` now passes `--no-abbrev-commit` to `git log` to override
2176 having `log.abbrevCommit = true` set in `.gitconfig`.
2183 Usability, bells and whistles
2184 -----------------------------
2185 * `git dag` now forwards all unknown arguments along to `git log`.
2186 (`#389 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/389>`_)
2188 * Line-by-line interactive staging was made more robust.
2189 (`#399 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/399>`_)
2191 * "Bookmarks" was renamed to "Favorites".
2192 (`#392 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/392>`_)
2194 * Untracked files are now displayed using a unique icon.
2195 (`#388 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/388>`_)
2199 * `git dag` was triggering a traceback on Fedora when parsing Git logs.
2200 (`bz #181676 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181686>`_)
2202 * inotify expects unicode paths on Python3.
2203 (`#393 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/393>`_)
2205 * Untracked files are now assumed to be utf-8 encoded.
2206 (`#401 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/401>`_)
2213 Usability, bells and whistles
2214 -----------------------------
2215 * `git cola` can now create GPG-signed commits and merges.
2216 See the documentation for details about setting up a GPG agent.
2217 (`#149 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/149>`_)
2219 * The status widget learned to copy relative paths when `Ctrl+x` is pressed.
2220 (`#358 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/358>`_)
2222 * Custom GUI actions can now define their own keyboard shortcuts by
2223 setting `guitool.$name.shortcut` to a string understood by Qt's
2224 `QAction::setShortcut()` API, e.g. `Alt+X`.
2226 `Qt docs <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qkeysequence.html#QKeySequence-2>`_
2227 for more details about the supported values.
2229 * `git cola` learned to rename branches.
2230 (`#364 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/364>`_)
2231 (`#278 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/278>`_)
2233 * `git dag` now has a "Show history" context menu which can be used to filter
2234 history using the selected paths.
2238 * `sphinxtogithub.py` was fixed for Python3.
2239 (`#353 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/353>`_)
2241 * The commit that changed how we read remotes from `git remote`
2242 to parsing `git config` was reverted since it created problems
2245 * Fixed a crash when using the `rebase edit` feature.
2246 (`#351 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/351>`_)
2248 * Better drag-and-drop behavior when dropping into gnome-terminal.
2249 (`#373 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/373>`_)
2253 * The `git-cola-folder-handler.desktop` file handler was fixed
2254 to pass validation by `desktop-file-validate`.
2255 (`#356 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/356>`_)
2257 * The `git.svg` icon was renamed to `git-cola.svg`, and `git cola` was taught
2258 to prefer icons from the desktop theme when available.
2265 Usability, bells and whistles
2266 -----------------------------
2267 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+Shift+M` merges branches.
2269 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+R` refreshes the DAG viewer.
2270 (`#347 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/347>`_)
2274 * We now use `git config` to parse the list of remotes
2275 instead of parsing the output of `git remote`, which
2276 is a Git porcelain and should not be used by scripts.
2278 * Avoid "C++ object has been deleted" errors from PyQt4.
2279 (`#346 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/346>`_)
2283 * The `make install` target now uses `install` instead of `cp`.
2290 Usability, bells and whistles
2291 -----------------------------
2292 * Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation.
2294 * The status and browse widgets now allow drag-and-drop into
2295 external applications.
2296 (`#335 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/335>`_)
2298 * We now show a progress bar when cloning repositories.
2299 (`#312 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/312>`_)
2301 * The bookmarks widget was simplified to not need a
2303 (`#289 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/289>`_)
2305 * Updated Traditional Chinese translation.
2307 * We now display a warning when trying to rebase with uncommitted changes.
2308 (`#338 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/338>`_)
2310 * The status widget learned to filter paths.
2311 `Ctrl+Shift+S` toggles the filter widget.
2312 (`#337 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/337>`_)
2313 (`#339 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/339>`_)
2315 * The status widget learned to move files to the trash
2316 when the `send2trash <https://github.com/hsoft/send2trash>`_
2317 module is installed.
2318 (`#341 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/341>`_)
2320 * "Recent repositories" is now a dedicated widget.
2321 (`#342 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/342>`_)
2323 * New Spanish translation thanks to Pilar Molina Lopez.
2324 (`#344 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/344>`_)
2328 * Newly added remotes are now properly seen by the fetch/push/pull dialogs.
2329 (`#343 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/343>`_)
2336 Usability, bells and whistles
2337 -----------------------------
2338 * New Brazilian Portuguese translation thanks to Vitor Lobo.
2340 * New Indonesian translation thanks to Samsul Ma'arif.
2342 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation thanks to Zhang Han.
2344 * `Ctrl+Backspace` is now a hotkey for "delete untracked files" in
2347 * Fetch/Push/Pull dialogs now use the configured remote of the current
2349 (`#324 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/324>`_)
2353 * We now use `os.getcwd()` on Python3.
2354 (`#316 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/316>`_)
2355 (`#326 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/326>`_)
2357 * The `Ctrl+P` hotkey was overloaded to both "push" and "cherry-pick",
2358 so "cherry-pick" was moved to `Ctrl+Shift+C`.
2360 * Custom GUI tools with mixed-case names are now properly supported.
2362 * "Diff Region" is now referred to as "Diff Hunk" for consistency
2363 with common terminology from diff/patch tools.
2364 (`#328 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/328>`_)
2366 * git-cola's test suite is now portable to MS Windows.
2367 (`#332 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/332>`_)
2374 Usability, bells and whistles
2375 -----------------------------
2376 * We now handle the case when inotify `add_watch()` fails
2377 and display instructions on how to increase the number of watches.
2378 (`#263 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/263>`_)
2380 * New and improved zh_TW localization thanks to V字龍(Vdragon).
2381 (`#265 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/265>`_)
2382 (`#267 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/267>`_)
2383 (`#268 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/268>`_)
2384 (`#269 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/269>`_)
2385 (`#270 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/270>`_)
2386 (`#271 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/271>`_)
2387 (`#272 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/272>`_)
2389 * New hotkeys: `Ctrl+F` for fetch, `Ctrl+P` for push,
2390 and `Ctrl+Shift+P` for pull.
2392 * The bookmarks widget's context menu actions were made clearer.
2393 (`#281 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/281>`_)
2395 * The term "Staging Area" is used consistently in the UI
2396 to allow for better localization.
2397 (`#283 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/283>`_)
2399 * The "Section" term is now referred to as "Diff Region"
2401 (`#297 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/297>`_)
2403 * The localization documentation related to the LANGUAGE
2404 environment variable was improved.
2405 (`#293 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/293>`_)
2407 * The "Actions" panel now contains tooltips for each button
2408 in case the button labels gets truncated by Qt.
2409 (`#292 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/292>`_)
2411 * Custom `git config`-defined actions can now be run in the
2412 background by setting `guitool.<name>.background` to `true`.
2416 * We now use bold fonts instead of SmallCaps to avoid
2417 artifacts on several configurations.
2419 * We now pickup `user.email`, `cola.tabwidth`, and similar settings
2420 when defined in /etc/gitconfig.
2421 (`#259 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/259>`_)
2423 * Better support for unicode paths when using inotify.
2424 (`bz #1104181 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104181>`_)
2426 * Unicode fixes for non-ascii locales.
2427 (`#266 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/266>`_)
2428 (`#273 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/273>`_)
2429 (`#276 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/276>`_)
2430 (`#282 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/282>`_)
2431 (`#298 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/298>`_)
2432 (`#302 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/302>`_)
2433 (`#303 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/303>`_)
2434 (`#305 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/305>`_)
2436 * Viewing history from the file browser was fixed for Python3.
2437 (`#274 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/274>`_)
2439 * setup.py was fixed to install the `*.rst` documentation.
2440 (`#279 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/279>`_)
2442 * Patch export was fixed for Python3.
2443 (`#290 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/290>`_)
2445 * Fixed adding a bookmark with trailing slashes.
2446 (`#295 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/295>`_)
2448 * The default `git dag` layout is now setup so that its widgets
2449 can be freely resized on Linux.
2450 (`#299 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/299>`_)
2452 * Invalid tag names are now reported when creating tags.
2453 (`#296 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/296>`_)
2460 Usability, bells and whistles
2461 -----------------------------
2462 * `git cola` no longer prompts after successfully creating a new branch.
2463 (`#251 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/251>`_)
2465 * Hitting enter on simple dialogs now accepts them.
2466 (`#255 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/255>`_)
2470 * `git dag` no longer relies on `sys.maxint`, which is
2471 not available in Python3.
2472 (`#249 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/249>`_)
2474 * Python3-related fixes.
2475 (`#254 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/254>`_)
2477 * Python3-on-Windows-related fixes.
2478 (`#250 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/250>`_)
2479 (`#252 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/252>`_)
2480 (`#253 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/253>`_)
2482 * Switching repositories using the bookmarks widget was not
2483 refreshing the inotify watcher.
2484 (`#256 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/256>`_)
2486 * Special commit messages trailers (e.g. "Acked-by:") are now special-cased to
2487 fix word wrapping lines that start with "foo:".
2488 (`#257 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/257>`_)
2490 * `git dag` sometimes left behind selection artifacts.
2491 We now refresh the view to avoid them.
2492 (`#204 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/204>`_)
2499 Usability, bells and whistles
2500 -----------------------------
2501 * Better inotify support for file creation and deletion.
2502 (`#240 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/240>`_)
2504 * `git cola` now supports the X11 Session Management Protocol
2505 and remembers its state across logout/reboot.
2506 (`#164 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/164>`_)
2508 * `git cola` has a new icon.
2509 (`#190 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/190>`_)
2513 * Building the documentation no longer requires `asciidoc`.
2514 We now use `Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/>`_ for building
2515 html documentation and man pages.
2519 * Reworked the git-dag gravatar icon code to avoid a unicode
2522 * Commit message line-wrapping was made to better match the GUI editor.
2523 (`#242 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/242>`_)
2525 * Better support for Python3 on Windows
2526 (`#246 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/246>`_)
2530 * git-cola no longer depends on Asciidoc for building its documentation
2531 and man-pages. We now depend on [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/) only.
2538 Usability, bells and whistles
2539 -----------------------------
2540 * Some context menu actions are now hidden when selected
2542 (`#238 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/238>`_)
2546 * The build-git-cola.sh contrib script was improved.
2547 (`#235 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/235>`_)
2549 * Non-ascii worktrees work properly again.
2550 (`#234 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/234>`_)
2552 * The browser now guards itself against missing files.
2553 (`bz #1041378 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071378>`_)
2555 * Saving widget state now works under Python3.
2556 (`#236 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/236>`_)
2565 * git-cola now runs on Python 3 thanks to Virgil Dupras.
2566 (`#233 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/233>`_)
2568 * Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2+ are now supported.
2569 Python 2.5 is no longer supported.
2573 * i18n test fixes thanks to Virgil Dupras.
2574 (`#231 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/231>`_)
2576 * git-cola.app build fixes thanks to Maicon D. Filippsen.
2577 (`#230 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/230>`_)
2579 * Lots of pylint improvements thanks to Alex Chernetz.
2580 (`#229 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/229>`_)
2587 Usability, bells and whistles
2588 -----------------------------
2589 * The new `Bookmarks` tool makes it really easy to switch between repositories.
2591 * There is now a dedicated dialog for applying patches.
2592 See the ``File -> Apply Patches`` menu item.
2593 (`#215 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/215>`_)
2595 * A new `git cola am` sub-command was added for applying patches.
2599 * Fixed a typo that caused inotify events to be silently ignored.
2601 * Fixed the sys.path setup for Mac OS X (Homebrew).
2602 (`#221 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/221>`_)
2604 * Lots of pylint fixes thanks to Alex Chernetz.
2611 Usability, bells and whistles
2612 -----------------------------
2613 * `git cola --amend` now starts the editor in `amend` mode.
2614 (`#187 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/187>`_)
2616 * Multiple lines of text can now be pasted into the `summary` field.
2617 All text beyond the first newline will be automatically moved to the
2618 `extended description` field.
2619 (`#212 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/212>`_)
2623 * Stray whitespace in `.git` files is now ignored.
2624 (`#213 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/213>`_)
2626 * Fix "known incorrect sRGB profile" in `staged-item.png`.
2627 (`gentoo-devel message #85066
2628 <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/85066>`_)
2637 * Fix a traceback when `git push` fails.
2638 (`bz #1034778 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034778>`_)
2642 * Most of the git-cola sub-packages have been removed.
2643 The only remaining packages are `cola`, `cola.models`,
2646 * The translation file for Simplified Chinese was renamed
2648 (`#209 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/209>`_)
2657 * `git cola version --brief` now prints the brief version number.
2661 * Resurrected the "make dist" target, for those that prefer to create
2664 * Fixed the typo that broke the preferences dialog.
2671 Usability, bells and whistles
2672 -----------------------------
2673 * We now ship a full-featured interactive `git rebase` editor.
2674 The rebase todo file is edited using the `git xbase` script which
2675 is provided at `$prefix/share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase`.
2676 This script can be used standalone by setting the `$GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR`
2677 before running `git rebase --interactive`.
2678 (`#1 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1>`_)
2680 * Fixup commit messages can now be loaded from the commit message editor.
2682 * Tool widgets can be locked in place by using the "Tools/Lock Layout"
2684 (`#202 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/202>`_)
2686 * You can now push to several remotes simultaneously by selecting
2687 multiple remotes in the "Push" dialog.
2688 (`#148 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/148>`_)
2690 * The `grep` tool learned to search using three different modes:
2691 basic regular expressions (default), extended regular expressions,
2696 * `git cola` now depends on the `argparse` Python module.
2697 This module is part of the stdlib in Python 2.7 and must
2698 be installed separately when using Python 2.6 and below.
2702 * Support unicode in the output from `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`.
2709 Usability, bells and whistles
2710 -----------------------------
2711 * We now detect when the editor or history browser are misconfigured.
2712 (`#197 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/197>`_)
2713 (`bz #886826 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886826>`_)
2715 * Display of untracked files can be disabled from the Preferences dialog
2716 or by setting the `gui.displayuntracked` configuration variable to `false`.
2717 (`Git Mailing List on 2013-08-21
2718 <https://public-inbox.org/git/20130821032913.GA6092@wheezy.local/>`_)
2722 * Unicode stash names are now supported
2723 (`#198 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/198>`_)
2725 * The diffs produced when reverting workspace changes were made more robust.
2732 Usability, bells and whistles
2733 -----------------------------
2734 * Brand new German translation thanks to Sven Claussner.
2736 * The "File" menu now provides a "New Repository..." menu action.
2738 * `git dag` now uses a dock-widget interface so that its widgets can
2739 be laid-out and arranged. Customizations are saved and restored
2740 the next time `git dag` is launched.
2742 * `git dag` now has a "Zoom Best Fit" button next alongside the
2743 "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" buttons.
2745 * `Ctrl+L` now focuses the "Search" field in the `git dag` tool.
2747 * Right-clicking in the "diff" viewer now updates the cursor position
2748 before performing actions, which makes it much easier to click around
2749 and selectively stage sections. Previously, the current cursor position
2750 was used which meant that it required two clicks (left-click to update
2751 the position followed by right-click to get the context menu) for the
2752 desired section to be used. This is now a single right-click operation.
2754 * The `Ctrl+D` "Launch Diff Tool" action learned to automatically choose
2755 between `git difftool` and `git mergetool`. If the file is unmerged then
2756 we automatically launch `git mergetool` on the path, otherwise we use
2757 `git difftool`. We do this because `git difftool` is not intended to
2758 be used on unmerged paths. Automatically using `git mergetool` when
2759 appropriate is the most intuitive and muscle-memory-friendly thing to do.
2761 * You can now right-click on folders in your standard file browser
2762 and choose "Open With -> Git Cola" (Linux-only).
2766 * Python 2.6 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard does not provide a namedtuple
2767 at `sys.version_info`. We now avoid using that variable for better
2770 * We now read the user's Git configuration from `~/.config/git/config`
2771 if that file is available, otherwise we use the traditional `~/.gitconfig`
2772 path, just like Git itself.
2774 * Some edge cases were fixed when applying partial/selected diffs.
2776 * The diff viewer is now properly cleared when refreshing.
2777 (`#194 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/194>`_)
2784 Usability, bells and whistles
2785 -----------------------------
2786 * The diff viewer now has an "Options" menu which can be
2787 used to set "git diff" options. This can be used to
2788 ignore whitespace changes or to show a change with its
2789 surrounding function as context.
2790 (`#150 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/150>`_)
2792 * `git cola` now remembers your commit message and will restore it
2793 when `git cola` is restarted.
2794 (`#175 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/175>`_)
2796 * `Ctrl+M` can now be used to toggle the "Amend last commit"
2797 checkbox in the commit message editor.
2798 (`#161 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/161>`_)
2800 * Deleting remote branches can now be done from the "Branch" menu.
2801 (`#152 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/152>`_)
2803 * The commit message editor now has a built-in spell checker.
2807 * We now avoid invoking external diffs when showing diffstats.
2808 (`#163 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/163>`_)
2810 * The `Status` tool learned to reselect files when refreshing.
2811 (`#165 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/165>`_)
2813 * `git cola` now remembers whether it has been maximized and will restore the
2814 maximized state when `git cola` is restarted.
2815 (`#172 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/172>`_)
2817 * Performance is now vastly improved when staging hundreds or
2820 * `git cola` was not correctly saving repo-specific configuration.
2821 (`#174 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/174>`_)
2823 * Fix a UnicodeDecode in sphinxtogithub when building from source.
2831 Usability, bells and whistles
2832 -----------------------------
2833 * We now automatically remove missing repositories from the
2834 "Select Repository" dialog.
2835 (`#145 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/145>`_)
2837 * A new `git cola diff` sub-command was added for diffing changed files.
2841 * The inotify auto-refresh feature makes it difficult to select text in
2842 the "diff" editor when files are being continually modified by another
2843 process. The auto-refresh causes it to lose the currently selected text,
2844 which is not wanted. We now avoid this problem by saving and restoring
2845 the selection when refreshing the editor.
2846 (`#155 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/155>`_)
2848 * More strings have been marked for l10n.
2849 (`#157 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/157>`_)
2851 * Fixed the Alt+D Diffstat shortcut.
2852 (`#159 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/159>`_)
2856 * Better error handling when cloning repositories.
2858 We were not handling the case where a git URL has
2859 no basename, e.g. `https://git.example.com/`.
2860 `git cola` originally rejected these URLs instead of
2861 allowing users to clone them. It now allows these URLs
2862 when they point to valid git repositories.
2864 Additionally, `git cola` learned to echo the errors
2865 reported by `git clone` when it fails.
2866 (`#156 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/156>`_)
2874 Usability, bells and whistles
2875 -----------------------------
2876 * `git dag` got a big visual upgrade.
2878 * `Ctrl+G` now launches the "Grep" tool.
2880 * `Ctrl+D` launches difftool and `Ctrl+E` launches your editor
2881 when in the diff panel.
2883 * git-cola can now be told to use an alternative language.
2884 For example, if the native language is German and we want git-cola to
2885 use English then we can create a `~/.config/git-cola/language` file with
2886 "en" as its contents: ``echo en >~/.config/git-cola/language``
2887 (`#140 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/140>`_)
2889 * A new `git cola merge` sub-command was added for merging branches.
2891 * Less blocking in the main UI
2895 * Autocomplete issues on KDE
2896 (`#144 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/144>`_)
2898 * The "recently opened repositories" startup dialog did not
2899 display itself in the absence of bookmarks.
2900 (`#139 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/139>`_)
2908 Usability, bells and whistles
2909 -----------------------------
2910 * `git cola` learned to honor `.gitattributes` when showing and
2911 interactively applying diffs. This makes it possible to store
2912 files in git using a non-utf-8 encoding and `git cola` will
2913 properly accept them. This must be enabled by settings
2914 `cola.fileattributes` to true, as it incurs a small performance
2916 (`#96 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/96>`_)
2918 * `git cola` now wraps commit messages at 72 columns automatically.
2919 This is configurable using the `cola.linebreak` variable to enable/disable
2920 the feature, and `cola.textwidth` to configure the limit.
2921 (`#133 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/133>`_)
2923 * A new "Open Recent" sub-menu was added to the "File" menu.
2924 This makes it easy to open a recently-edited repository.
2925 (`#135 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/135>`_)
2927 * We now show a preview for untracked files when they are clicked
2928 using the `Status` tool.
2929 * A new "Open Using Default Application" action was added to the
2930 `Status` tool. It is activated using either `Spacebar` or through
2931 the context menu. This action uses `xdg-open` on Linux and
2933 * A new "Open Parent Directory" action was added to the `Status` tool.
2934 It is activated using either `Shift+Spacebar` or through the
2936 * `git dag` learned to honor the `log.date` git configuration variable.
2937 This makes the date display follow whatever format the user has
2939 * A new `git cola config` sub-command was added for quickly
2940 tweaking `git cola`'s git configuration settings.
2941 * Some small usability tweaks -- some user confirmation prompts
2942 were defaulting to "Cancel" when they should have been defaulting
2943 to the affirmative option instead.
2947 * Properly handle arbitrarily-named branches.
2948 * We went back to launching `git mergetool` using an xterm.
2949 The reason is that there are a couple of places where `git mergetool`
2950 requires a terminal for user interaction not covered by `--no-prompt`.
2951 * We now properly handle an edge case when applying short diffs at
2952 the start of a file.
2960 Usability, bells and whistles
2961 -----------------------------
2962 * New and improved `grep` mode lets you instantly find and edit files.
2963 * New `git cola grep` standalone mode.
2964 * Support for passing arguments to the configured editors, e.g. `gvim -p`
2965 This makes it possible to select multiple files in the status
2966 window and use `Ctrl-e` to edit them all at once.
2967 * Remote operations now prompt on errors only.
2968 * The `Tab` key now jumps to the extended description when editing the summary.
2969 * More shortcut key labels and misc. UX improvements.
2973 * Selecting an item no longer copies its filename to the copy/paste buffer.
2974 `Ctrl-c` or the "Copy" context-menu action can be used instead.
2975 * The repository monitoring feature on Windows learned to ignore
2976 changes within the ".git" directory. Thanks to Andreas Sommer.
2977 (`#120 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/120>`_)
2985 Usability, bells and whistles
2986 -----------------------------
2987 * `git dag` learned to color-code branchy edges.
2988 The edge colors change when a new branch is detected,
2989 which makes the history much easier to follow.
2990 A huge thanks to Uri Okrent for making it happen.
2992 * New GUI for editing remote repositories.
2994 * New `git cola archive` and `git cola remote` sub-commands.
2996 * `git cola browser` learned an 'Untrack' command.
2998 * The diff editor learned to staged/unstaged while amending.
3000 * The status tool can now scroll horizontally.
3002 * New git repositories can be created by clicking 'New' on the
3003 `git cola --prompt` startup screen.
3011 Usability, bells and whistles
3012 -----------------------------
3013 * Auto-completion was added to more tools.
3015 * `git dag` is easier to use on smaller displays -- the author
3016 field elides its text which allows for a more compact display.
3018 * Selected commits in `git dag` were made more prominent and
3021 * 'Create Branch' learned to fetch remote branches and uses a
3022 background thread to do so.
3024 * User-configured GUI tools are listed alphabetically in the 'Actions' menu.
3026 * The 'Pull' dialog remembers the value of the 'Rebase' checkbox
3027 between invocations.
3037 * Detect Homebrew so that OS X users do not need to set PYTHONPATH.
3039 * `git dag` can export patches again.
3047 Usability, bells and whistles
3048 -----------------------------
3049 * The 'Classic' tool was renamed to 'Browser' and learned to
3050 limit history to the current branch.
3052 * `git dag` learned about gravatar and uses it to show images
3055 * `git dag` learned to use OpenGL for rendering resulting in
3056 much faster rendering.
3058 * More dialogs learned vim-style keyboard shortcuts.
3060 * The commit message editor learned better arrow key navigation.
3068 Usability, bells and whistles
3069 -----------------------------
3070 * `git cola` learned a few new sub commands:
3078 * `Return` in the summary field jumps to the extended description.
3080 * `Ctrl+Return` is now a shortcut for 'Commit'.
3082 * Better French translation for 'Sign-off'.
3084 * The 'Search' widget now has a much simpler and streamlined
3087 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the DAG widget.
3089 * `git dag` no longer prompts for files when diffing commits if the
3090 text field contains paths.
3092 * General user interface and performance improvements.
3096 * The diff viewer no longer changes font size when holding `Control`
3097 while scrolling with the mouse wheel.
3099 * Files with a typechange (e.g. symlinks that become files, etc.)
3100 are now correctly identified as being modified.
3104 * The `cola.controllers` and `cola.views` packages were removed.
3112 Usability, bells and whistles
3113 -----------------------------
3114 * `git cola` can now launch sub commands, e.g.:
3125 * `git dag` is more responsive when gathering auto-completions.
3127 * Keyboard shortcuts are displayed when the '?' key is pressed.
3129 * Various keyboard shortcuts were added for improved usability.
3131 * The status widget now lists unmerged files before modified files.
3133 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the status widget.
3135 * A 'Recently Modified Files...' tool was added.
3137 * Tools can now be hidden with `Alt + #` (where `#` is a keyboard number)
3138 and focused with `Alt + Shift + #`.
3140 * The syntax highlighting colors for diffs was made less intrusive.
3142 * The commit message editor was redesigned to have a more compact
3143 and keyboard-convenient user interface.
3145 * Keyboard shortcuts for adding a Signed-off-by (`Ctrl + i`)
3146 and creating a commit (`Ctrl + m`) were added.
3148 * The status widget was adjusted to use less screen real-estate.
3152 * Avoid updating the index when responding to inotify events.
3153 This avoids interfering with operations such as `git rebase --interactive`.
3154 (`#99 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/99>`_)
3158 * Create `git-dag.pyw` in the win32 installer.
3160 * win32 shortcuts now contain explicit calls to `pythonw.exe` instead of
3161 calling the `.pyw` file directly.
3165 * The 'Apply Changes from Branch...' feature was removed.
3166 `git dag`'s 'Grab File...' feature used alongside the index/worktree editor
3167 is a simpler alternative.
3177 * Further enhanced the staging/unstaging behavior in the status widget.
3178 (`#97 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97>`_)
3180 * Unmerged files are no longer listed as modified.
3184 The `cola-$version` tarballs on github were originally setup to
3185 have the same contents as the old tarballs hosted on tuxfamily.
3186 The `make dist` target was changed to write files to a
3187 `git-cola-$version` subdirectory and tarball.
3189 This makes the filenames consistent for the source tarball,
3190 the darwin .app tarball, and the win32 .exe installer.
3198 Usability, bells and whistles
3199 -----------------------------
3200 * Refined the staging/unstaging behavior for code reviews.
3201 (`#97 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97>`_)
3203 * Added more styling and icons to menus and buttons.
3205 * Adjusted some terminology to more closely match the git CLI.
3209 * Boolean `git config` settings with no value are now supported
3210 (these are not created by git these days but exist in legacy repositories).
3212 * Unicode branches and tags are supported in the "branch diff" tool.
3214 * Guard against low-memory conditions and more interrupted system calls.
3218 * Added desktop launchers for git-cola.desktop and git-dag.desktop.
3219 This replaces the old cola.desktop, so some adjustments to RPM .spec
3220 and debian/ files will be needed.
3222 * Fixed the darwin app-tarball Makefile target to create relative paths.
3226 * The `--style` option was removed. `git cola` follows the system theme
3227 so there's no need for this option these days.
3235 Usability, bells and whistles
3236 -----------------------------
3237 * Export a patch series from `git dag` into a `patches/` directory.
3239 * `git dag` learned to diff commits, slice history along paths, etc.
3241 * Added instant-preview to the `git stash` widget.
3243 * A simpler preferences editor is used to edit `git config` values.
3244 (`#90 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90>`_)
3245 (`#89 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/89>`_)
3247 * Previous commit messages can be re-loaded from the message editor.
3248 (`#33 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/33>`_)
3252 * Display commits with no file changes.
3253 (`#82 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82>`_)
3255 * Improved the diff editor's copy/paste behavior
3256 (`#90 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90>`_)
3260 * Bumped version number to ceil(minimum git version).
3261 `git cola` now requires `git` >= 1.6.3.
3263 * Simplified git-cola's versioning when building from tarballs
3264 outside of git. We no longer check for a 'version' file at
3265 the root of the repository. We instead keep a default version
3266 in `cola/version.py` and use it when `git cola`'s `.git` repository
3275 Usability, bells and whistles
3276 -----------------------------
3277 * inotify is much snappier and available on Windows
3278 thanks to Karl Bielefeldt.
3280 * New right-click command to add untracked files to .gitignore
3281 thanks to Audrius Karabanovas.
3283 * Stash, fetch, push, and pull usability improvements
3285 * General usability improvements
3287 * stderr is logged when applying partial diffs.
3291 * Files can be unstaged when amending.
3292 (`#82 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82>`_)
3294 * Show the configured remote.$remote.pushurl in the GUI
3295 (`#83 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/83>`_)
3297 * Removed usage of the "user" module.
3298 (`#86 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/86>`_)
3300 * Avoids an extra `git update-index` call during startup.
3308 Usability, bells and whistles
3309 -----------------------------
3310 * We now provide better feedback when `git push` fails.
3311 (`#69 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/69>`_)
3313 * The Fetch, Push, and Pull dialogs now give better feedback
3314 when interacting with remotes. The dialogs are modal and
3315 a progress dialog is used.
3319 * More unicode fixes, again. It is now possible to have
3320 unicode branch names, repository paths, home directories, etc.
3321 This continued the work initiated by Redhat's bugzilla #694806.
3323 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806
3331 Usability, bells and whistles
3332 -----------------------------
3333 * The `git cola` desktop launchers now prompt for a repo
3334 by default. This is done by using the new `--prompt`
3335 flag which tells `git cola` to ignore any git repositories
3336 in the current directory and prompt for one instead.
3340 * More Unicode fixes for repositories and home directories with
3341 embedded unicode characters. Thanks to Christian Jann for
3342 patience and helpful bug reports.
3344 * Fix the 'Clone' button in the startup dialog.
3352 Usability, bells and whistles
3353 -----------------------------
3354 * Faster startup time! `git cola` now offloads initialization
3355 to a background thread so that the GUI appears almost instantly.
3357 * Specialized diff options for p4merge, vimdiff, araxis, emerge,
3358 and ecmerge in difftool (backported from git.git).
3362 * Fix launching commands in the background on Windows
3363 (e.g. when launching `git difftool`).
3365 * Fix unicode errors when home or repository directories contain
3367 (`#74 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/74>`_)
3368 (`bz #694806 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806>`_)
3376 Usability, bells and whistles
3377 -----------------------------
3378 * The `cola classic` tool can be now configured to be dockable.
3379 (`#56 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/56>`_)
3381 * The `cola classic` tool now uses visual sigils to indicate a file's status.
3382 The idea and icons were provided by Uri Okrent.
3384 * Include the 'Rescan' button in the 'Actions' widget regardless
3385 of whether inotify is installed.
3389 * Fix installation of translations per Fedora
3390 This incorporates Fedora's fix for the translations path
3391 which originally appeared in cola-1.4.3-translations.patch.
3393 * Mac OS X git-cola developers can now generate git-cola.app
3394 application bundles using 'make app-bundle'.
3398 * Fixed a stacktrace when trying to use "Get Commit Message Template"
3399 with an unconfigured "commit.template" git config variable.
3400 (`bz #67521 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675721>`_)
3401 (`#72 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/72>`_)
3403 * Properly raise the main window on Mac OS X.
3405 * Properly handle staging a huge numbers of files at once.
3407 * Speed up 'git config' usage by fixing cola's caching proxy.
3409 * Guard against damaged ~/.cola files.
3417 Usability, bells and whistles
3418 -----------------------------
3419 * `git dag` now has a separate display area
3420 for displaying commit metadata. This area will soon
3421 grow additional functionality such as cherry-picking,
3426 * Fixed tests from a previous refactoring.
3428 * Guard against 'diff.external' configuration by always
3429 calling 'git diff' with the '--no-ext-diff' option.
3430 (`#67 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/67>`_)
3432 * Respect 'gui.diffcontext' so that cola's diff display
3433 shows the correct number of context lines.
3435 * Raise the GUI so that it is in the foreground on OS X.
3439 * We now allow distutils to rewrite cola's shebang line.
3440 This allows us to run on systems where "which python"
3441 is Python3k. This is exposed by setting the `PYTHON`
3442 Makefile variable to the location of python2.x.
3444 * git-cola.app is now a tiny download because it no longer
3445 contains Qt and PyQt. These libraries are provided as a
3447 (`Link <http://code.google.com/p/git-cola/downloads/list>`_)
3455 Usability, bells and whistles
3456 -----------------------------
3457 * Clicking on paths in the status widget copies them into the
3458 copy/paste buffer for easy middle-clicking into terminals.
3460 * `Ctrl+C` in diff viewer copies the selected diff to the clipboard.
3464 * Fixed the disappearing actions buttons on PyQt 4.7.4
3465 as reported by Arch and Ubuntu 10.10.
3466 (`#62 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62>`_)
3468 * Fixed mouse interaction with the status widget where some
3469 items could not be de-selected.
3473 * Removed hard-coded reference to lib/ when calculating Python's
3474 site-packages directory.
3482 Usability, bells and whistles
3483 -----------------------------
3484 * Removed "single-click to (un)stage" in the status view.
3485 This is a usability improvement since we no longer perform
3486 different actions depending on where a row is clicked.
3488 * Added ability to create unsigned, annotated tags.
3492 * Updated documentation to use `cola.git` instead of `cola.gitcmd`.
3500 Usability, bells and whistles
3501 -----------------------------
3502 * Allow un/staging by right-clicking top-level items
3503 (`#57 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/57>`_)
3505 * Running 'commit' with no staged changes prompts to allow
3507 (`#55 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/55>`_)
3509 * Fetch, Push, and Pull are now available via the menus
3510 (`#58 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/58>`_)
3514 * Simplified the actions widget to work around a regression
3516 (`#62 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62>`_)
3524 Usability, bells and whistles
3525 -----------------------------
3526 * `git dag` interaction was made faster.
3530 * Added '...' indicators to the buttons for
3531 'Fetch...', 'Push...', 'Pull...', and 'Stash...'.
3532 (`#51 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/51>`_)
3534 * Fixed a hang-on-exit bug in the cola-provided
3535 'ssh-askpass' implementation.
3543 Usability, bells and whistles
3544 -----------------------------
3545 * Staging and unstaging is faster.
3546 (`#48 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/48>`_)
3548 * `git dag` reads history in a background thread.
3552 * Added :data:`cola.compat.hashlib` for `Python 2.4` compatibility
3553 * Improved `PyQt 4.1.x` compatibility.
3557 * Configured menu actions use ``sh -c`` for Windows portability.
3565 Usability, bells and whistles
3566 -----------------------------
3567 * Added support for the configurable ``guitool.<tool>.*``
3568 actions as described in the ``git config`` documentation.
3569 (`git-config(1) <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config>`_)
3570 (`#44 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/44>`_)
3572 This makes it possible to add new actions to `git cola`
3573 by simply editing ``~/.gitconfig``. This implements the
3574 same guitool support as `git gui`.
3576 * Introduced a stat cache to speed up `git config` and
3577 repository status checks.
3579 * Added Alt-key shortcuts to the main `git cola` interface.
3581 * The `Actions` dock widget switches between a horizontal
3582 and vertical layout when resized.
3584 * We now use ``git diff --submodule`` for submodules
3585 (used when git >= 1.6.6).
3587 * The context menu for modified submodules includes an option
3588 to launch `git cola`.
3589 (`#17 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/17>`_)
3591 * Prefer ``$VISUAL`` over ``$EDITOR`` when both are defined.
3592 These are used to set a default editor in lieu of `core.editor`
3595 * Force the editor to be ``gvim`` when we see ``vim``.
3596 This prevents us from launching an editor in the (typically
3597 unattached) parent terminal and creating zombie editors
3598 that cannot be easily killed.
3600 * Selections are remembered and restored across updates.
3601 This makes the `partial-staging` workflow easier since the
3602 diff view will show the updated diff after staging.
3604 * Show the path to the current repository in a tooltip
3605 over the commit message editor.
3606 (`#45 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/45>`_)
3608 * Log internal ``git`` commands when ``GIT_COLA_TRACE`` is defined.
3609 (`#39 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/39>`_)
3613 * Improved backwards compatibility for Python 2.4.
3615 * `Review mode` can now review the current branch; it no longer
3616 requires you to checkout the branch into which the reviewed
3617 branch will be merged.
3619 * Guard against `color.ui = always` configuration when using
3620 `git log` by passing ``--no-color``.
3622 * ``yes`` and ``no`` are now supported as valid booleans
3623 by the `git config` parser.
3625 * Better defaults are used for `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`..
3626 (`#43 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/43>`_)
3630 * Removed colon (`:`) from the applilcation name on Windows
3631 (`#41 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/41>`_)
3633 * Fixed bugs with the Windows installer
3634 (`#40 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/40>`_)
3636 * Added a more standard i18n infrastructure. The install
3637 tree now has the common ``share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/git-cola.mo``
3638 layout in use by several projects.
3640 * Started trying to accommodate Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
3641 in the ``darwin/`` build scripts but our tester is yet to
3642 report success building a `.app` bundle.
3644 * Replaced use of ``perl`` in Sphinx/documentation Makefile
3645 with more-portable ``sed`` constructs. Thanks to
3646 Stefan Naewe for discovering the portability issues and
3647 providing msysgit-friendly patches.
3655 Usability, bells and whistles
3656 -----------------------------
3657 * It is now possible to checkout from the index as well
3658 as from `HEAD`. This corresponds to the
3659 `Removed Unstaged Changes` action in the `Repository Status` tool.
3661 * The `remote` dialogs (fetch, push, pull) are now slightly
3664 * Bookmarks can be selected when `git cola` is run outside of a git repository.
3666 * Added more user documentation. We now include many links to
3667 external git resources.
3669 * Added `git dag` to the available tools.
3670 `git dag` is a node-based DAG history browser.
3671 It doesn't do much yet, but it's been merged so that we can start
3672 building and improving upon it.
3676 * Fixed a missing ``import`` when showing `right-click` actions
3677 for unmerged files in the `Repository Status` tool.
3679 * ``git update-index --refresh`` is no longer run every time
3680 ``git cola version`` is run.
3682 * Don't try to watch non-existent directories when using `inotify`.
3684 * Use ``git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name`` plumbing to find
3685 the name of the current branch.
3689 * The ``Makefile`` will now conditionally include a ``config.mak``
3690 file located at the root of the project. This allows for user
3691 customizations such as changes to the `prefix` variable
3692 to be stored in a file so that custom settings do not need to
3693 be specified every time on the command-line.
3695 * The build scripts no longer require a ``.git`` directory to
3696 generate the ``builtin_version.py`` module. The release tarballs
3697 now include a ``version`` file at the root of the project which
3698 is used in lieu of having the git repository available.
3699 This allows for ``make clean && make`` to function outside of
3702 * Added maintainer's ``make dist`` target to the ``Makefile``.
3704 * The built-in `simplejson` and `jsonpickle` libraries can be
3705 excluded from ``make install`` by specifying the ``standalone=true``
3706 `make` variable. For example, ``make standalone=true install``.
3707 This corresponds to the ``--standalone`` option to ``setup.py``.
3715 Usability, bells and whistles
3716 -----------------------------
3717 * We now use patience diff by default when it is available via
3718 `git diff --patience`.
3720 * Allow closing the `cola classic` tool with `Ctrl+W`.
3724 * Fixed an unbound variable error in the `push` dialog.
3728 * Don't include `simplejson` in MANIFEST.in.
3730 * Update desktop entry to read `Cola Git GUI`.
3738 This feature release adds two new features directly from
3739 `git cola`'s github issues backlog. On the developer
3740 front, further work was done towards modularizing the code base.
3742 Usability, bells and whistles
3743 -----------------------------
3744 * Dragging and dropping patches invokes `git am`
3745 (`#3 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/3>`_)
3747 * A dialog to allow opening or cloning a repository
3748 is presented when `git cola` is launched outside of a git repository.
3749 (`#22 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/22>`_)
3751 * Warn when `push` is used to create a new branch
3752 (`#35 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/35>`_)
3754 * Optimized startup time by removing several calls to `git`.
3759 * `git cola` is once again compatible with PyQt 4.3.x.
3763 * `cola.gitcmds` was added to factor out git command-line utilities
3765 * `cola.gitcfg` was added for interacting with `git config`
3767 * `cola.models.browser` was added to factor out repobrowser data
3779 * Fix launching external applications on Windows
3781 * Ensure that the `amend` checkbox is unchecked when switching modes
3783 * Update the status tree when amending commits
3793 * Fix Lintian warnings
3803 * Fix X11 warnings on application startup
3813 * Added missing 'Exit Diff Mode' button for 'Diff Expression' mode
3814 (`#31 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/31>`_)
3816 * Fix a bug when initializing fonts on Windows
3817 (`#32 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/32>`_)
3827 * Keep entries in sorted order in the `cola classic` tool
3829 * Fix staging untracked files
3830 (`#27 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/27>`_)
3832 * Fix the `show` command in the Stash dialog
3833 (`#29 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/29>`_)
3835 * Fix a typo when loading merge commit messages
3836 (`#30 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/30>`_)
3844 This release focuses on a redesign of the git-cola user interface,
3845 a tags interface, and better integration of the `cola classic` tool.
3846 A flexible interface based on configurable docks is used to manage the
3847 various cola widgets.
3849 Usability, bells and whistles
3850 -----------------------------
3851 * New GUI is flexible and user-configurable
3853 * Individual widgets can be detached and rearranged arbitrarily
3855 * Add an interface for creating tags
3857 * Provide a fallback `SSH_ASKPASS` implementation to prompt for
3858 SSH passwords on fetch/push/pull
3860 * The commit message editor displays the current row/column and
3861 warns when lines get too long
3863 * The `cola classic` tool displays upstream changes
3865 * `git cola --classic` launches `cola classic` in standalone mode
3867 * Provide more information in log messages
3871 * Inherit the window manager's font settings
3873 * Miscellaneous PyQt4 bug fixes and workarounds
3877 * Removed all usage of Qt Designer `.ui` files
3879 * Simpler model/view architecture
3881 * Selection is now shared across tools
3883 * Centralized notifications are used to keep views in sync
3885 * The `cola.git` command class was made thread-safe
3887 * Less coupling between model and view actions
3889 * The status view was rewritten to use the MVC architecture
3891 * Added more documentation and tests
3899 Usability, bells and whistles
3900 -----------------------------
3901 * Added a `cola classic` tool for browsing the entire repository
3903 * Handle diff expressions with spaces
3905 * Handle renamed files
3909 * Handle carat `^` characters in diff expressions on Windows
3911 * Worked around a PyQt 4.5/4.6 QThreadPool bug
3915 * Added a keyboard shortcuts reference page
3917 * Added developer API documentation
3921 * Fix the diff expression used when reviewing branches
3923 * Fix a bug when pushing branches
3925 * Fix X11 warnings at startup
3927 * Fix more interrupted system calls on Mac OS X
3935 Usability, bells and whistles
3936 -----------------------------
3937 * Fresh and tasty SVG logos
3939 * Added `Branch Review` mode for reviewing topic branches
3941 * Added diff modes for diffing between tags, branches,
3942 or arbitrary `git diff` expressions
3944 * The push dialog selects the current branch by default.
3945 This is in preparation for `git 1.7.0` where unconfigured `git push`
3946 will refuse to push when run without specifying the remote name
3947 and branch. See the `git` release notes for more information
3949 * Support `open` and `clone` commands on Windows
3951 * Allow saving cola UI layouts
3953 * Re-enabled `double-click-to-stage` for unmerged entries.
3954 Disabling it for unmerged items was inconsistent, though safer.
3956 * Show diffs when navigating the status tree with the keyboard
3960 * Worked around `pyuic4` bugs in the `setup.py` build script
3962 * Added Mac OSX application bundles to the download page
3972 * `git difftool` became an official git command in `git 1.6.3`.
3974 * `git difftool` learned `--no-prompt` / `-y` and a corresponding
3975 `difftool.prompt` configuration variable
3977 Usability, bells and whistles
3978 -----------------------------
3979 * Warn when `non-fast-forward` is used with fetch, push or pull
3981 * Allow `Ctrl+C` to exit cola when run from the command line
3985 * Support Unicode font names
3987 * Handle interrupted system calls
3991 * `PEP-8`-ified more of the cola code base
3997 * All resources are now installed into `$prefix/share/git-cola`.
3998 Closed Debian bug #519972
4000 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519972
4010 * Added support for Kompare in `git difftool`
4012 * Added a separate configuration namespace for `git difftool`
4014 * Added the `diff.tool` configuration variable to define the default diff tool
4016 Usability, bells and whistles
4017 -----------------------------
4018 * The stash dialog allows passing the `--keep-index` option to `git stash`
4020 * Amending a published commit warns at commit time
4022 * Simplified the file-across-revisions comparison dialog
4024 * `origin` is selected by default in fetch/push/pull
4026 * Removed the search field from the log widget
4028 * The log window moved into a drawer widget at the bottom of the UI
4030 * Log window display can be configured with
4031 `cola.showoutput` = `{never, always, errors}`. `errors` is the default.
4033 * `NOTE` -- `cola.showoutput` was removed with the GUI rewrite in 1.4.0.
4037 * Improved nose unittest usage
4041 * Added a Windows/msysGit installer
4043 * Included private versions of `simplejson` and `jsonpickle`
4044 for ease of installation and development