6 Usability, bells and whistles
7 -----------------------------
8 * The image diff viewer can now be toggled between text and image modes.
9 This is helpful when, for example, diffing .svg files where it can be useful
10 to see diffs in both an image and text representation.
11 (`#859 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/859>`_)
12 (`#1035 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1035>`_)
14 * The default `ssh-askpass` username + password dialog included with Git Cola
15 can now toggle between showing and masking the password input field.
16 (`#1069 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1069>`_)
20 * Updated Hungarian translation.
21 (`#1067 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1067>`_)
25 * The ``cola`` modules are now installed into the Python ``site-packages``
26 directory by default. This allows distributions to package ``git-cola`` for
27 multiple versions of Python. See the PACKAGING NOTES section in the README
28 for details about suppressing the installation of the private
29 ``share/git-cola/lib/cola`` modules when building cola.
30 (`#181 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/181>`_)
32 * Git Cola's rebase / sequence editor, formerly known as ``git-xbase`` and
33 installed as ``share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase``, has been renamed to
34 ``git-cola-sequence-editor`` and is now installed into the default
35 ``bin/git-cola-sequence-editor`` executable location to enable external
36 reuse of this general-purpose tool.
38 * A workaround used by the pynsist installer preamble script was obsoleted by
39 `takluyver/pynsist#149 <https://github.com/takluyver/pynsist/pull/149>`_
40 and has now been removed.
41 (`#1073 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1073>`_)
48 Usability, bells and whistles
49 -----------------------------
50 * The ``git-xbase`` rebase editor now includes a file list for filtering
51 the changes displayed in the diff view.
52 (`#1051 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1051>`_)
54 * The fallback `ssh-askpass` script, which provides the Username/Password
55 login dialog when performing remote operations, previously presented both
56 the username and password input fields with ``***`` asterisks.
57 The dialog now uses asterisks for the password field only.
58 (`#1026 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1026>`_)
60 * Stashes can now be applied using the `Ctrl + Enter` hotkey, popped with the
61 `Ctrl + Backspace` hotkey, and dropped with the `Ctrl + Shift + Backspace`
62 hotkey when inside the stash dialog. This enables a keyboard-centric
63 mouse-free workflow when using the stash dialog.
65 * When amending a commit, `git cola` will check whether the commit has been
66 published to a remote branch using ``git branch -r --contains HEAD``.
67 This command can be slow when operating on a repository with many
68 remote branches. The new `cola.checkpublishedcommits` configuration
69 variable allows you to opt-out of this check, which improves performance
70 when amending a commit. The settings widget exposes this variable as,
71 "Check Published Commits when Amending".
72 (`#1021 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1021>`_)
73 (`#1027 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1027>`_)
77 * Updated Polish translation.
78 (`#1033 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1033>`_)
82 * ``git-dag.appdata.xml`` was updated to allow network access for author icons.
83 (`#1050 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1050>`_)
85 * The inotify filesystem monitor now handles
86 `OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files` errors by disabling inotify.
87 (`#1015 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1015>`_)
89 * Typos in various documentation files have been fixed.
90 (`#1025 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1025>`_)
92 * The "Recent Repositories" limit was off by one, and now correctly
93 remembers the configured number of repositories in the menu.
94 (`#1024 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1024>`_)
96 * The "revert" action in the DAG and other tools now uses
97 ``git revert --no-edit``, which avoids launching an editor
98 when reverting the commit. Use `Ctrl+m` in the commit message
99 editor after reverting a commit to rewrite its commit message.
100 (`#1020 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1020>`_)
107 Usability, bells and whistles
108 -----------------------------
109 * The remote editor is much faster since it no longer queries
110 remotes, and uses the cached information instead.
111 (`#986 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/986>`_)
113 * Commit message templates can now be loaded automatically by setting
114 ``git config cola.autoloadcommittemplate true``.
115 (`#1013 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1013>`_)
116 (`#735 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/735>`_)
118 * The UI layout can now be reset back to its initial state by selecting
119 the "Reset Layout" action. This reverts the layout to the same state
120 as when the app first launched.
121 (`#1008 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1008>`_)
122 (`#994 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/994>`_)
124 * Files can now be ignored in either the project's `.gitignore`, or in the
125 repository's private local `.git/info/exclude` ignore file.
126 (`#1006 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1006>`_)
127 (`#1000 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1000>`_)
129 * New remotes are now selected when they are added in the "Edit Remotes" tool.
130 (`#1002 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1002>`_)
132 * The "Recent" repositories list is now saved to disk when opening a
133 repository. Previously, this list was only updated when exiting the app.
134 (`#1001 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1001>`_)
136 * The bookmarks tool now has a "Delete" option in its right-click menu.
137 (`#999 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/999>`_)
139 * The current repository is no longer listed in the "File/Open Recent" menu.
140 (`#998 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/998>`_)
144 * Updated Hungarian translation.
145 (`#1005 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1005>`_)
146 (`#1018 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1018>`_)
148 * Updated Turkish translation.
149 (`#1003 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1003>`_)
150 (`#1011 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1011>`_)
154 * Better support for Python 3.8's line buffering modes.
155 (`#1014 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1014>`_)
157 * The default `ssh-askpass` script now uses a more generic `#!` shebang line.
158 (`#1012 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1012>`_)
160 * Fetch, push, and pull operations will now refresh the model and display when
162 (`#996 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/996>`_)
164 * The branches widget now refreshes its display when changing branches.
165 (`#992 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/992>`_)
169 * The `share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase` script will now have its `#!` lines
170 updated during installation.
171 (`#991 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/991>`_)
175 * The unit tests were made more platform-independent.
176 (`#993 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/993>`_)
183 Usability, bells and whistles
184 -----------------------------
185 * Auto-completion for filenames can now be disabled. This speeds up
186 revision completion when working in large repositories with many files.
187 (`#981 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/981>`_)
189 * The Stash dialog now shows the stash date as a tooltip when hovering
190 over a stashed change.
191 (`#982 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/982>`_)
193 * Qt HiDPI settings are overriden by the `git cola` HiDPI appearance settings.
194 These overrides can now be disabled by selecting the "Disable" mode.
195 This allows users to control Qt's HiDPI settings through environment
196 variables. Additionally, the "Auto" mode now detects the presence of
197 the Qt HiDPI variables and no longer overrides them when the user has
198 configured their environment explicitly.
199 (`#963 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/963>`_)
201 * Confirmation dialogs can now focus buttons using the Tab key.
202 Previously, the "Y" and "N" keys could be used to confirm or deny
203 using the keyboard, but "Tab" is more familiar.
204 (`#965 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/965>`_)
206 * Error dialogs (for example, when a commit hook fails) will now always
207 show the details. The details were previously hidden behind a toggle.
208 (`#968 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/968>`_)
212 * Updated Japanese translation.
213 (`#973 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/973>`_)
214 (`#974 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/974>`_)
216 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation.
217 (`#950 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/950>`_)
221 * The filesystem monitor no longer logs that it has been enabled after the
222 inotify watch limit is reached on Linux.
223 (`#984 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/984>`_)
225 * Better unicode robustness.
226 (`#990 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/990>`_)
227 (`#910 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/991>`_)
229 * The "Branches" widget did not always update itself when deleting branches
230 (for example, when inotify is disabled or unavailable).
231 (`#978 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/978>`_)
233 * Non-ascii unicode byte strings are more robustly handled by the log widget.
234 (`#977 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/977>`_)
236 * Non-unicode results from the `gettext` library are more robustly handled.
237 (`#969 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/969>`_)
239 * Launching `git cola` from within a directory that has since been deleted
240 would previously result in a traceback, and is now robustly handled.
241 (`#961 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/961>`_)
245 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.9`.
252 Usability, bells and whistles
253 -----------------------------
254 * The file browser now includes "Blame" in its context menu.
255 (`#953 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/953>`_)
257 * The "Push" action now uses "git push --force-with-lease" when using
258 the "Force" option with Git v1.8.5 and newer.
259 (`#946 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/946>`_)
261 * Updated German translation.
262 (`#936 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/936>`_)
264 * The `Status` widget learned to optionally display file counts in its
265 category headers, and indent the files displayed in each category.
266 (`#931 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/931>`_)
268 * The `Branches` widget can now sort branches by their most recent commit.
269 (`#930 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/930>`_)
271 * `git cola` now includes configurable GUI themes that can be used to style
272 the user interface. Enable the new themes by configuring `cola.theme`
273 in the preferences window. See the
274 `cola.theme documentation <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#cola-theme>`_
275 for more details. (`#924 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/924>`_)
277 * `git cola` now has built-in support for HiDPI displays by enabling
278 Qt's 5.6's `QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR` feature.
279 (`#938 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/938>`_)
281 * `git cola` now uses HiDPI pixmaps when rendering icons, and the builtin
282 icons have been updated to look sharp when displayed in HiDPI.
283 (`#932 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/932>`_)
287 * `git cola`'s "Revert Unstaged Edits" previously checked out from "HEAD^",
288 when in "Amend" mode, and removing staged changes. This behavior has been
289 changed to always checkout from the index, which avoids data loss.
290 (`#947 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/947>`_)
292 * `git cola` has been updated to work with newer versions of `gnome-terminal`
293 and no longer shell-quotes its arguments when launching `gnome-terminal`.
294 The `cola.terminalshellquote` configuration variable can be set to `true` to
295 get the old behavior, or to handle other terminals that take the command to run
296 as a single string instead of as arguments to `execv()`.
297 (`#935 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/935>`_)
299 * `git dag` now properly handles arbitrary input on Python3.
300 Previously, an exception would be raised when entering `--grep=xxx` where
301 `xxx` is a quoted string with a missing end-quote.
302 (`#941 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/941>`_)
306 * The contribution guidelines for contributors has been updated to mention
307 how to regenerate the `*.mo` message files.
308 (`#934 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/934>`_)
315 Usability, bells and whistles
316 -----------------------------
317 * `git dag` improved how it renders parent commits.
318 (`#921 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/921>`_)
320 * The `Branches` widget now checks out branches when double-clicked.
321 (`#920 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/920>`_)
323 * The new `Submodules` widget makes it easy to interact with submodules.
324 Additionally, submodules can now be updated using the `Status` widget.
325 (`#916 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/916>`_)
327 * Updated Japanese translation.
328 (`#914 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/914>`_)
330 * The "Open Terminal" action now launches a Git Bash shell on Windows.
331 (`#913 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/913>`_)
333 * New menu actions for updating all submodules.
334 (`#911 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/911>`_)
336 * The status widget can now update submodules.
337 (`#911 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/911>`_)
339 * The "Apply Patch" `git cola am` dialog now includes a diff viewer
340 to display the contents of the selected patch.
342 * The "Alt+D" diffstat hotkey now selects the staged/modified/etc.
343 header in the Status widget, which shows the totality of everything
344 that will be committed.
345 (`#771 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/771>`_)
347 * Running "Launch Editor" from the diff editor now opens the editor at the
349 (`#898 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/898>`_)
351 * The textwidth and tabwidth configuration values can now be set
352 per-repository, rather than globally only.
354 * Text entry widgets switched to using a block cursor in `v3.2`.
355 This has been reverted to the original line cursor for consistency
356 with other applications and user expectations.
357 (`#889 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/889>`_)
359 * The "edit at line" feature, used by the "Grep" tool, now supports
360 the Sublime text editor.
361 (`#894 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/894>`_)
365 * Launching external programs has been improved on Windows.
366 (`#925 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/925>`_)
368 * Improve compatibility when using PySide2.
369 (`#912 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/912>`_)
371 * The Diff Editor was not honoring the configured tab width on startup.
372 (`#900 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/900>`_)
374 * The "Delete Files" feature was creating an unreadable display when
375 many files were selected. Word-wrap the list of files so that the
376 display stays within a sensible size.
377 (`#895 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/895>`_)
379 * Spelling and grammar fixes.
380 (`#915 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/915>`_)
381 (`#891 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/891>`_)
385 * The logo was run through `tidy` to give it a consistent style.
386 Some technical issues with the logo were improved.
387 (`#877 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/877>`_)
389 * The entire codebase is now checked by `flake8`, rather than just
390 the module and test directories. This catches things like
391 the pynsist installer scripts.
392 (`#884 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/884>`_)
393 (`#882 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/882>`_)
394 (`#879 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/879>`_)
398 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.6`.
400 * The Windows installer's wrapper scripts were missing an import.
401 (`#878 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/878>`_)
408 Usability, bells and whistles
409 -----------------------------
410 * The `git cola dag` DAG window now supports `git revert`.
411 (`#843 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/843>`_)
413 * `git stash pop` is now supported by the stash dialog.
414 (`#844 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/844>`_)
416 * The status widget now ensures that each item is visible when selection
417 changes. Previously, if you scrolled to the right to see the name of
418 a long filename, and then selected a short filename above it, the widget
419 may not have shown the short filename in the viewport. We now ensure
420 that the filenames are visible when the selection changes.
421 (`#828 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/828>`_)
423 * The `git xbase` rebase editor no longer displays an error when
424 cancelling an interactive rebase.
425 (`#814 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814>`_)
427 * The dialog shown when renaming remotes has been simplified.
428 (`#840 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/840>`_)
429 (`#838 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/838>`_)
431 * The help dialog in the `git-xbase` Rebase editor is now scrollable.
432 (`#855 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/855>`_)
436 * Updated Brazilian translation.
437 (`#845 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/845>`_)
439 * Updated Czech translation.
440 (`#854 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/854>`_)
441 (`#853 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/853>`_)
442 (`#835 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/835>`_)
443 (`#813 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/813>`_)
445 * Update Spanish translation.
446 (`#862 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/862>`_)
447 (`#867 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/867>`_)
451 * The original `#!/usr/bin/env python` shebang lines can now be
452 retained by passing `USE_ENV_PYTHON=1` to `make` when installing.
453 (`#850 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/850>`_)
455 * The Makefile is now resilient to DESTDIR and prefix containing whitespace.
456 (`#858 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/858>`_)
458 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.4.2`.
460 * `python3-distutils` is needed to build cola on Debian.
461 (`#837 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/837>`_)
465 * The "C" key no longer closes the message dialogs, for example the
466 one that is shown when a commit fails its pre-commit hooks.
467 This allows "Ctrl+C" copy to work, rather than closing the dialog.
468 (`#734 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/734>`_)
470 * Dock widgets sizes are now properly saved and restored when the main
472 (`#848 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/848>`_)
474 * The spellcheck feature was broken under Python3.
475 (`#857 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/857>`_)
477 * A regression when saving stashes was fixed.
478 (`#847 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/847>`_)
480 * Diffing image files was not updating the available context menus,
481 which prevented the "Stage" action from being present in the menu.
482 (`#841 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/841>`_)
484 * `git cola` now detects when `git lfs uninstall` has been run. This allows
485 you to re-initialize "Git LFS" in an existing repository where it had been
486 previously uninstalled.
487 (`#842 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/842>`_)
489 * Custom color values that did not contain any hexadecimal digits in the
490 `a-f` range were being converted into integers by the config reader. This
491 then caused the configured colors to be ignored.
493 These color values are now interpreted correctly. Additionally, color
494 values can now use an optional HTML-like `#` prefix.
496 Example `.gitconfig` snippet::
501 (`#836 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/836>`_)
502 (`#849 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/849>`_)
504 * We now display an error message graphically when `Git` is not installed.
505 Previously, the message went to stderr only.
506 (`#830 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/830>`_)
508 * Changing diff options was causing resulting in an exception.
509 (`#833 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/833>`_)
510 (`#834 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/834>`_)
512 * The DAG window now updates itself when branches and tags are created.
513 (`#814 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814>`_)
515 * The user's `$PATH` environment variable can now contain utf-8
516 encoded paths. Previously, launching external commands could
518 (`#807 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/807>`_)
520 * Git Cola development sandboxes can now be stored on utf-8 encoded
521 filesystem paths. Previously, the interactive rebase feature
522 could be broken when running in that environment.
523 (`#825 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/825>`_)
525 * The log window now uses an ISO-8601 timestamp, which
526 avoids localized output in the log window.
527 (`#817 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/817>`_)
531 * The code base has been thoroughly sanitized using `pylint`, and
532 travis is now running pylint over the entire project.
534 * Miscellaneous improvements and code improvements.
535 (`#874 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/874>`_)
542 Usability, bells and whistles
543 -----------------------------
544 * The "Browser" widget learned to rename files using "git mv".
545 (`#239 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/239>`_)
547 * The "Diff" widget learned to diff images. Side-by-side and pixel diff
548 modes allow you to inspect changes to common images formats.
549 (`#444 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/444>`_)
550 (`#803 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/803>`_)
552 * Git LFS and Git Annex are natively supported by the image diff viewer.
554 * Git Annex operations are now included. `git annex init` can be performed on
555 repositories, and `git annex add` can be run on untracked files from the
556 status widget. Install `git-annex` to activate this feature.
558 * Git LFS operations are now included. `git lfs install` can be performed on
559 repositories, and `git lfs track` can be run on untracked files from the
560 status widget. Install `git-lfs` to activate this feature.
562 * The "Stash" tool learned to stash staged changes only. Select the
563 "Stage Index" option and only staged changes will be stashed away.
564 (`#413 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/413>`_)
566 * The "Stash" tool learned to use vim-like navigation keyboard shortcuts,
567 shows error messages when things go wrong, and now saves the "Stash Index"
568 and "Keep Index" options across sessions.
570 * The Edit menu's "Copy" and "Select All" actions now forward to either the
571 diff, status, recent, or favorites widgets, based on which widget has focus.
573 * The "File" and "Edit" menu can now be activated using `Alt-{f,e}` hotkeys.
574 (`#759 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/759>`_)
576 * It was easy to accidentally trigger the first action in the `Status` tool's
577 context menu when using a quick right-click to bring up the menu.
578 A short sub-second delay was added to ensure that the top-most action is not
579 triggered unless enough time has passed. This prevents accidental
580 activation of the first item (typically "Stage" or "Unstage") without
581 burdening common use cases.
582 (`#755 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/755>`_)
583 (`#643 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/643>`_)
585 * The "Ctrl+S" hotkey now works for the header items in the Status tool.
586 Selected the "Modified" header item and activating the "Stage" hotkey,
587 for example, will stage all modified files. This works for the "Staged",
588 "Modified", and "Untracked" headers. This is not enabled for the
589 "Unmerged" header by design.
590 (`#772 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/772>`_)
592 * The list of "Recent" repositories previously capped the number of
593 repositories shown to 8 repositories. This can be set to a higher
594 value by setting the `cola.maxrecent` configuration variable.
595 (`#752 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/752>`_)
597 * The "Create Branch" dialog now prevents invalid branch names.
598 (`#765 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/765>`_)
600 * Updated Turkish translation.
601 (`#756 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/756>`_)
603 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
604 (`#753 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/753>`_)
606 * Updated German translation.
607 (`#802 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/802>`_)
609 * Updated Czech translation
610 (`#792 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/792>`_)
611 (`#806 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/806>`_)
613 * The window title can be configured to not display the absolute path of the
615 (`#775 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/775>`_)
617 * The "Edit Remotes" editor learned to edit remote URLS.
619 * Bare repositories can now be created by selecting the
620 "New Bare Repository..." action from the `File` menu.
622 * The "Branches" widget learned to configure upstream branches.
624 * A new `git cola clone` sub-command was added for cloning repositories.
628 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.3.1`.
630 * The macOS installation was made simpler for better compatibility with
632 (`#636 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/636>`_)
634 * The Windows installer is now much simpler. Git Cola now bundles
635 Python and PyQt5, so users need only install the "Git for Windows"
636 and "Git Cola" installers to get things working.
640 * Uninitialized difftool errors will now be displayed graphically.
641 They were previously going to the shell.
642 (`#457 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/457>`_)
644 * Translations marked "fuzzy" will no longer be used when translating strings.
645 (`#782 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/782>`_)
647 * Deleted unmerged files will now correctly use a deleted icon.
648 (`#479 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/479>`_)
650 * The `Ctrl+C` "Copy" hotkey on the diff viewer has been fixed.
651 (`#767 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/767>`_)
653 * The "Create Tag" dialog did not correctly handle the case when a signed
654 tag is requested, but no message is provided, and the user chooses to
655 create an unannotated tag instead. This convenience fallback will now
656 properly create an unsigned, unannotated tag.
657 (`#696 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/696>`_)
659 * `.gitconfig` and `.git/config` values editable by the Preferences dialog
660 (aka `git cola config`) will now get unset when set to an empty value.
661 For example, setting a different `user.email` in the current repository,
662 followed by a subsequent emptying of that field, would previously result in
663 an empty string getting stored in the config. This has been fixed so that
664 the value will now get unset in the config instead.
665 (`#406 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/406>`_)
667 * Spelling and typofixes.
668 (`#748 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/748>`_)
670 * `core.commentChar` is now honored when set in the local repository
672 (`#766 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/766>`_)
674 * The log window was using a format string that did not display
675 correctly in all locales. A locale-aware format is now used.
676 (`#800 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/800>`_)
678 * The dialog displayed when prompting for a reference could sometimes
680 (`#804 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/804>`_)
687 Usability, bells and whistles
688 -----------------------------
689 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation.
690 (`#726 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/726>`_)
692 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
693 (`#723 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/723>`_)
695 * New Czech translation.
696 (`#736 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/736>`_)
697 (`#737 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/737>`_)
698 (`#740 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/740>`_)
699 (`#743 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/743>`_)
701 * The "name" field in the "Create Tag" dialog now includes autocompletion,
702 which makes it easy to see which tags currently exist.
704 * `git cola` now has configurable toolbars. Use the `View -> Add toolbar`
705 menu item to add a toolbar.
707 * Setting `cola.expandtab` to `true` will now expand tabs into spaces
708 in the commit message editor. The number of spaces to insert is determined
709 by consulting `cola.tabwidth`, which defaults to `8`.
711 * The "Copy SHA-1" hotkey is now `Alt + Ctrl + C`, to avoid clobbering the
712 ability to copy text from the DAG window.
713 (`#705 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/705>`_)
715 * The "Prepare Commit Message" action can now be invoked via the
716 `Ctrl+Shift+Return` shortcut.
717 (`#707 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/707>`_)
719 * The `Branches` pane now has a filter field that highlights branches whose
720 names match the string entered into its text field.
721 (`#713 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/713>`_)
723 * Actions that are triggered in response to button presses were being
724 triggered when the button was pressed, rather than when it was released,
725 which was a usability flaw. All buttons now respond when clicked
726 rather than when pressed.
727 (`#715 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/715>`_)
729 * The DAG window will now only refresh when object IDs change.
730 Previously, the DAG would redraw itself in response to inotify events,
731 such as filesystem operations, which was disruptive when inspecting a large
732 diff in its diff viewer. The DAG will now only redraw when the object IDs
733 corresponding to its query input changes. Furthermore, when redrawing, the
734 scrollbar positions are retained to minimize disruption to the viewport
736 (`#620 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/620>`_)
737 (`#724 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/724>`_)
739 * The "About" dialog now includes the SHA-1 where Git Cola was built.
740 (`#530 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/530>`_)
742 * The "Status" widget now has "Copy Leading Path to Clipboard" and
743 "Copy Basename to Clipboard" actions.
744 (`#435 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/435>`_)
745 (`#436 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/436>`_)
747 * The "Status" widget now supports custom "Copy ... to Clipboard" actions.
748 (`#437 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/437>`_)
750 * The main menu now has an "Edit" menu.
751 (`#725 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/725>`_)
753 * `git dag` learned to checkout commits into a detached HEAD state.
754 (`#698 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/698>`_)
756 * The `status` widget's context menus now omit actions selection-dependent
757 actions when no file is selected.
758 (`#731 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/731>`_)
760 * The startup dialog now focuses the repository list so that repositories
761 can be selected with the keyboard without mouse intervention.
762 (`#741 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/741>`_)
766 * `git dag` now prevents nodes from overlapping in more situations.
767 (`#689 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/689>`_)
769 * Adding untracked Git submodule repo directories previously ran
770 `git add submodule/` but we now call `git add submodule` without
771 the trailing slash (`/`) to avoid staging files that belong to the
772 submodule (which is possibly a `git` bug). By working around the
773 buggy behavior we allow users to recover by issuing the appropriate
774 `git submodule add` command to properly register the submodule.
775 (`#681 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/681>`_)
777 * We now avoid `git for-each-ref --sort=version:refname` on versions
778 of `git` older than `v2.7.0`. Previously we only avoided it for
779 versions older than `v2.0.0`, which was a mistake.
780 (`#686 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686>`_)
782 * The error message displayed when `git` is not installed has been fixed.
783 (`#686 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686>`_)
785 * Adding new remotes was silently broken.
786 (`#684 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/684>`_)
787 (`#685 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/685>`_)
789 * The repo selection dialog had errors during startup when the
790 `cola.refreshonfocus` feature was enabled, as reported on Ubuntu 16.04.
791 (`#690 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/690>`_)
793 * Restored support for PyQt 4.6 (Centos 6.8)
794 (`#692 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/692>`_)
796 * Switching repositories now resets the "Amend Mode" and other settings
798 (`#710 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/710>`_)
800 * `git rebase` error messages now displayed when rebasing fails or stops
801 via the standalone `git cola rebase` front-end.
802 (`#721 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/721>`_)
804 * `git cola` learned to stage broken symlinks.
805 (`#727 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/727>`_)
807 * The "View History" feature in the `Browser` tool was fixed, and now
808 disambiguates between refs and paths.
809 (`#732 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/732>`_)
811 * The diff editor now has better support for files with CRLF `\r\n`
813 (`#730 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/730>`_)
815 * `cola.inotify` in a repo-local config is now honored
816 when `git cola` is launched from a desktop entry (`git cola --prompt`).
817 (`#695 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/695>`_)
824 Usability, bells and whistles
825 -----------------------------
826 * New Ukrainian translation.
827 (`#670 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/670>`_)
828 (`#672 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/672>`_)
830 * New and improved French translations.
832 * The new `Branches` widget makes it easier to checkout, merge, push,
833 and pull branches from a single interface.
835 * `git cola` now includes a dark icon theme. The dark icon theme can be
836 activated either by setting the `GIT_COLA_ICON_THEME` environment variable
837 to `dark`, by configuring `cola.icontheme` to `dark`, or by specifying
838 `--icon-theme=dark` on the command line.
839 (`#638 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/638>`_)
841 * Autocompletion was added to the `Fetch`, `Push`, and `Pull` dialogs.
843 * The commit message editor now remembers the "Spellcheck" setting
845 (`#645 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/645>`_)
847 * `git dag` now uses an improved algorithm for laying out the graph,
848 which avoids collisions under certain graph configurations, and
849 avoids overlapping tag with commits.
850 (`#648 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/648>`_)
851 (`#651 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/651>`_)
852 (`#654 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/654>`_)
853 (`#656 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/656>`_)
854 (`#659 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/659>`_)
856 * `git dag` now remembers its column sizes across sessions.
857 (`#674 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/674>`_)
859 * `Grep` now shows a preview of the selected file's content in a split window
860 below the grep results.
862 * `Grep` now includes line numbers in the preview pane's output.
864 * `Edit Remotes` now remembers its window settings after exiting.
866 * `Diff` now has an option to display line numbers in the editor.
867 (`#136 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/136>`_)
869 * `Amend Last Commit` can now be triggered via the `Commit` menu in addition
870 to the commit message editor's options.
871 (`#640 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/640>`_)
873 * The `File Browser` tool was made much faster and can now operate on
874 much larger repositories.
875 (`#499 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/499>`_)
877 * A new "turbo" mode was added that allows you to opt-out of operations
878 that can slow `git cola` on large repositories. The turbo mode is
879 enabled by configuring `git config cola.turbo true`. Turbo mode
880 disables the background loading of Git commit messages and other
881 details in the `File Browser` widget.
883 * A new GitIgnore dialog allows adding custom gitignore patterns.
884 (`#653 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/653>`_)
886 * The spellchecker in `git cola` can now use an additional dictionary
887 by configuring `cola.dictionary` to the path to a file containing
888 a newline-separated list of words.
889 (`#663 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663>`_)
891 * The stash, export patches, diff, and gitignore dialogs now remember
894 * A new `git cola recent` sub-command was added for finding recently
897 * The `Fetch` dialog now allows pruning remote branches.
898 (`#639 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/639>`_)
899 (`#680 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/680>`_)
903 * `git cola`'s spellchecker now supports the new `dict-common` filesystem
904 layout, and prefers the `/usr/share/dict/cracklib-small` file over the
905 `/usr/share/dict/words` provided on older distributions.
906 This makes the spellchecker compatible with Arch, which does not provide
907 a `words` symlink like Debian.
908 (`#663 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663>`_)
910 * Properly handle the case where an existing file is untracked using
913 * Fix a quirk where the "Create Branch" dialog sometimes required clicking
914 twice on the radio buttons.
915 (`#662 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/662>`_)
917 * Fixed a focus issue to ensure that "Push", "Fetch", and "Pull" can
918 be executed with the press of a single enter key after being shown.
919 (`#661 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/661>`_)
921 * Committing is now allowed in when resolving a merge results in no
922 changes. This state was previously prevented by the commit message editor,
923 which prevented users from resolving merges that result in no changes.
924 (`#679 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/679>`_)
926 * The filesystem monitor would sometimes emit backtraces when directories
927 are modified. This has been fixed.
928 (`bz #1438522 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438522>`_)
930 * Absolute paths are now returned when querying for `.git`-relative paths
931 from within a submodule, which uses `.git`-files.
932 This fixes launching `git cola` from within a subdirectory of a submodule.
933 (`#675 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/675>`_)
940 Usability, bells and whistles
941 -----------------------------
942 * `git cola` can now invoke the `.git/hooks/cola-prepare-commit-msg`
943 hook to update the commit message. This hook takes the same parameters
944 as Git's `prepare-commit-message` hook. The default path to this hook
945 can be overridden by setting the `cola.prepareCommitMessageHook`
946 configuration variable.
947 (`Documentation <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#prepare-commit-message>`_)
949 * `git cola diff` (and the corresponding `Diff` menu actions) can now
950 launch difftool with the standard `Ctrl+D` hotkey. The `Ctrl+E` hotkey was
951 also added for launching an editor.
953 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
957 * `git cola` now works when installed in non-ascii, utf8-encoded paths.
958 (`#629 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/629>`_)
960 * Styling issues that caused black backgrounds in various widgets when using
961 PyQ5 on Mac OS X have been fixed.
962 (`#624 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/624>`_)
964 * The "Open Recent" menu action was broken and has been fixed.
965 (`#634 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/634>`_)
967 * Exiting `git cola` with a maximized main window would hang when reopened
969 (`#641 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/641>`_)
973 * `appdata.xml` files are now provided at
974 `share/appdata/git-cola.xml` and `share/appdata/git-dag.xml`
975 for use by the Linux software gallery.
976 (`#627 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/627>`_)
977 (`Appdata <https://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/>`_)
986 * The "Open Recent" menu was updated to new bookmarks format.
987 (`#628 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/628>`_)
994 Usability, bells and whistles
995 -----------------------------
996 * New Polish translation thanks to Łukasz Wojniłowicz
997 (`#598 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/598>`_)
999 * The `Bypass Commit Hooks` feature now disables itself automatically
1000 when a new commit is created. The new behavior turns the option into a
1001 single-use flag, which helps prevent users from accidentally leaving it
1002 active longer than intended.
1003 (`#595 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/595>`_)
1005 * `git dag` learned to launch an external diff viewer on selected commits.
1006 The standard `Ctrl+D` shortcut can be used to view diffs.
1007 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1009 * `git dag` learned to launch directory diffs via `git difftool --dir-diff`.
1010 The `Ctrl+Shift+D` shortcut launches difftool in directory-diff mode.
1011 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1013 * Items in the "Favorites" list can now be renamed, which makes it
1014 easier to differentiate between several checkouts of the same repository.
1015 (`#599 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/599>`_)
1016 (`#601 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/601>`_)
1018 * The startup screen now includes a logo and `git cola` version information.
1019 (`#526 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/526>`_)
1021 * The `About` page was revamped to contain multiple tabs. A new tab was added
1022 that provides details about `git cola`''s dependencies. New tabs were also
1023 added for giving credit to `git cola`'s authors and translators.
1025 * The `About` page can now be accessed via `git cola about`.
1027 * The "Fast-forward only" and "No fast-forward" options supported by
1028 `git pull` are now accessible via `git cola pull`.
1030 * Doing a forced push no longer requires selecting the remote branch.
1031 (`#618 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/618>`_)
1033 * `git cola push` now has an option to suppress the prompt that is shown
1034 when pushing would create new remote branches.
1035 (`#605 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/605>`_)
1037 * `git dag` now shows commit messages in a more readable color.
1038 (`#574 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/574>`_)
1040 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch the OS-specified
1041 default action for a file. When used on directories via `git cola browse`,
1042 or when "Open Parent Directory" is used on files, the OS-specified
1043 file browser will typically be used.
1045 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch terminals.
1049 * `git cola browse` was not updating when expanding items.
1050 (`#588 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/588>`_)
1052 * Typofixes in comments, naming, and strings have been applied.
1053 (`#593 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/593>`_)
1055 * The inotify and win32 filesystem monitoring no longer refreshes
1056 when updates are made to ignored files.
1057 (`#517 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/517>`_)
1058 (`#516 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/516>`_)
1060 * The `Refresh` button on the actions panel no longer raises an
1061 exception when using PyQt5.
1062 (`#604 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/604>`_)
1064 * Fixed a typo in the inotify backend that is triggered when files are removed.
1065 (`#607 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/607>`_)
1067 * Fixed a typo when recovering from a failed attempt to open a repository.
1068 (`#606 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/606>`_)
1070 * `git dag` now properly updates itself when launched from the menubar.
1071 (`#613 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/613>`_)
1073 * If git-cola is invoked on Windows using `start pythonw git-cola`,
1074 a console window will briefly flash on the screen each time
1075 `git cola` invokes `git`. The console window is now suppressed.
1077 * We now avoid some problematic Popen flags on Windows which were
1078 breaking the `git rebase` feature on Windows.
1080 * The `Save` button in `git dag`'s "Grab File..." feature now properly
1081 prompts for a filename when saving files.
1082 (`#617 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/617>`_)
1086 * The `qtpy` symlink in the source tree has been removed to allow for easier
1087 development on Windows.
1088 (`#626 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/626>`_)
1095 Usability, bells and whistles
1096 -----------------------------
1097 * `git cola push` learned to configure upstream branches.
1098 (`#563 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/563>`_)
1102 * The diffstat view is now properly updated when notifications are
1103 received via inotify filesystem monitoring.
1104 (`#577 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/577>`_)
1106 * Python3 with PyQt5 had a bug that prevented `git cola` from starting.
1107 (`#589 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/589>`_)
1117 * When repositories stored in non-ASCII, UTF-8-encoded filesystem paths
1118 were operated upon with `LC_ALL=C` set in the environment, unicode errors
1119 would occur when using `python2`. `git cola` was made more robust and will
1120 now operate correctly within this environment.
1121 (`#581 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/581>`_)
1123 * Support for the `GIT_WORK_TREE` environment variable was fixed.
1124 (`#582 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/582>`_)
1129 * The `unittest.mock` module is now used instead of the original `mock` module
1130 when running the `git cola` test suite using Python3.
1131 (`#569 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/569>`_)
1136 * `git cola` is now compatible with *PyQt5*, *PyQt4*, and *Pyside*.
1137 `git cola` previously supported *PyQt4* only, but will now use whichever
1138 library is available. Users are not required to upgrade at this time,
1139 but *PyQt5* support can be enabled anytime by making its python
1141 (`#232 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/232>`_)
1143 *NOTE*: We do not yet recommend using *PyQt5* because there are known
1144 exit-on-segfault bugs in *Qt5* that have not yet been addressed.
1145 `git cola` is sensitive to this bug and is known to crash on exit
1146 when using `git dag` or the interactive rebase feature on *PyQt5*.
1148 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-52988
1150 *PyQt4* is stable and there are no known issues when using it so
1151 we recommend using it until the Qt5 bugs have been resolved.
1153 * `git cola` now depends on *QtPy* and includes a bundled copy of the
1154 `qtpy` library. If you are packaging `git cola` and would prefer to use
1155 `qtpy` from your distribution instead of the built-in version then use
1156 `make NO_VENDOR_LIBS=1` when building `git cola`. This will prevent
1157 vendored libraries from being installed.
1164 Usability, bells and whistles
1165 -----------------------------
1167 * A new "Reset" sub-menu provides access to running "git reset --mixed"
1168 when resetting branch heads and "git reset --merge" when resetting
1170 (`#542 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/542>`_)
1172 * `git cola` now supports linked worktrees, i.e. worktrees created by
1174 (`#554 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/554>`_)
1179 * Diff highlighting is now robust to the user having
1180 diff.supressBlankEmpty=true in their git config.
1181 (`#541 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/541>`_)
1183 * The filesystem monitor now properly handles repositories that use
1184 `.git`-files, e.g. when using submodules.
1185 (`#545 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/545>`_)
1186 (`#546 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pulls/546>`_)
1188 * Per-repository git configuration is now properly detected when launching
1189 `git cola` from an application launcher.
1190 (`#548 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/548>`_)
1192 * `git cola` now cleans up after itself immediately to avoid leaving behind
1193 empty `/tmp/git-cola-XXXXXX` directories when the user uses `Ctrl+C`
1195 (`#566 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/566>`_)
1200 * It is now possible to install `git cola` to and from utf8-encoded filesystem
1201 paths. Previously, Python's stdlib would throw an encoding error during
1202 installation. We workaround the stdlib by forcing python2 to use utf-8,
1203 thus fixing assumptions in the stdlib library code.
1204 (`#551 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/551>`_)
1211 Usability, bells and whistles
1212 -----------------------------
1214 * The icon for untracked files was adjusted to better differentiate
1215 between files and the "Untracked" header.
1216 (`#509 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/509>`_)
1218 * Ctrl+O was added as a hotkey for opening repositories.
1219 (`#507 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/507>`_)
1221 * `git dag` now uses consistent edge colors across updates.
1222 (`#512 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/512>`_)
1224 * `git cola`'s Bookmarks widget can now be used to set a "Default Repository".
1225 Under the hood, we set the `cola.defaultrepo` configuration variable.
1226 The default repository is used whenever `git cola` is launched outside of
1227 a Git repository. When unset, or when set to a bogus value, `git cola`
1228 will prompt for a repository, as it previously did.
1229 (`#513 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/513>`_)
1231 * `git cola`'s Russian and Spanish translations were improved
1232 thanks to Vaiz and Zeioth.
1233 (`#514 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/514>`_)
1234 (`#515 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/515>`_)
1235 (`#523 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/523>`_)
1237 * `git cola` was translated to Turkish thanks to Barış ÇELİK.
1238 (`#520 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/520>`_)
1240 * The status view now supports launching `git gui blame`. It can be
1241 configured to use a different command by setting `cola.blameviewer`.
1242 (`#521 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/521>`_)
1244 * `git dag` now allows selecting non-contiguous ranges in the log widget.
1245 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1247 * Any font can now be chosen for the diff editor, not just monospace fonts.
1248 (`#525 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/525>`_)
1253 * `xfce4-terminal` and `gnome-terminal` are now supported when launching
1254 `git mergetool` to resolve merges. These terminals require that the command
1255 to execute is shell-quoted and passed as a single string argument to `-e`
1256 rather than as additional command line arguments.
1257 (`#524 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/524>`_)
1259 * Fixed a unicode problem when formatting the error message that is shown
1260 when `gitk` is not installed. We now handle unicode data in tracebacks
1261 generated by python itself.
1262 (`#528 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/528>`_)
1264 * The `New repository` feature was fixed.
1265 (`#533 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/533>`_)
1267 * We now use omit the extended description when creating "fixup!" commits,
1268 for consistency with the Git CLI. We now include only the one-line summary
1269 in the final commit message.
1270 (`#522 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/522>`_)
1277 Usability, bells and whistles
1278 -----------------------------
1280 * The user interface is now HiDPI-capable. git-cola now uses SVG
1281 icons, and its interface can be scaled by setting the `GIT_COLA_SCALE`
1282 environment variable.
1284 * `git dag` now supports the standard editor, difftool, and history hotkeys.
1285 It is now possible to invoke these actions from file widget's context
1286 menu and through the standard hotkeys.
1287 (`#473 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/473>`_)
1289 * The `Status` tool also learned about the history hotkey.
1290 Additionally, the `Alt-{j,k}` aliases are also supported in the `Status`
1291 tool for consistency with the other tools where the non-Alt hotkeys are not
1293 (`#488 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/488>`_)
1295 * The `File Browser` tool now has better default column sizes,
1296 and remembers its window size and placement.
1298 * The `File Browser` now supports the refresh hotkey, and has better
1299 behavior when refreshing. The selection is now retained, and new and
1300 removed files are found when refreshing.
1302 * A new `git-cola-completion.bash` completion script is provided in the
1303 `contrib/` directory. It must be used alongside Git's completion script.
1304 Source it from your `~/.bashrc` (or `~/.zshrc`, etc) after sourcing
1305 the `git-completion.bash` script and you will have command-line completion
1306 support for the `git cola` and `git dag` sub-commands.
1308 * The "checkout" dialog now offers completion for remote branches and other
1309 git refs. This makes it easier to checkout remote branches in a detached
1310 head state. Additionally, the checkout dialog also offers completion for
1311 remote branches that have not yet been checked out, which makes it easier to
1312 create a local tracking branch by just completing for that potential name.
1313 (`#390 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/390>`_)
1315 * The "create branch" and "create tag" dialogs now save and restore their
1318 * The "status" widget can now be configured to use a bold font with a darker
1319 background for the header items.
1320 (`#506 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/506>`_)
1322 * The "status" widget now remembers its horizontol scrollbar position across
1323 updates. This is helpful when working on projects with long paths.
1324 (`#494 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/494>`_)
1329 * When using *Git for Windows*, a `git` window would appear
1330 when running *Windows 8*. We now pass additional flags to
1331 `subprocess.Popen` to prevent a `git` window from appearing.
1332 (`#477 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/477>`_)
1333 (`#486 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/486>`_)
1335 * Launching difftool with `.PY` in `$PATHEXT` on Windows was fixed.
1336 (`#492 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/492>`_)
1338 * Creating a local branch tracking a remote branch that contains
1339 slashes in its name is now properly handled.
1340 (`#496 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/496>`_)
1342 * The "Browse Other Branch" feature was broken by Python3, and is now fixed.
1343 (`#501 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/501>`_)
1345 * We now avoid `long` for better Python3 compatibility.
1346 (`#502 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/502>`_)
1348 * We now use Git's default merge message when merging branches.
1349 (`#508 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/508>`_)
1351 * Miscellaneous fixes
1352 (`#485 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/485>`_)
1357 * git-cola's documentation no longer uses an intersphinx link mapping
1358 to docs.python.org. This fixes warnings when building rpms using koji,
1359 where network access is prevented.
1361 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231812
1368 Usability, bells and whistles
1369 -----------------------------
1371 * The Interactive Rebase feature now works on Windows!
1372 (`#463 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/463>`_)
1374 * The `diff` editor now understands vim-style `hjkl` navigation hotkeys.
1375 (`#476 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/476>`_)
1377 * `Alt-{j,k}` navigation hotkeys were added to allow changing to the
1378 next/previous file from the diff and commit editors.
1380 * The `Rename branch` menu action is now disabled in empty repositories.
1381 (`#475 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/475>`_)
1382 (`#459 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/459>`_)
1384 * `git cola` now checks unmerged files for conflict markers before
1385 staging them. This feature can be disabled in the preferences.
1386 (`#464 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/464>`_)
1388 * `git dag` now remembers which commits were selected when refreshing
1389 so that it can restore the selection afterwards.
1390 (`#480 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/480>`_)
1392 * "Launch Editor", "Launch Difftool", "Stage/Unstage",
1393 and "Move Up/Down" hotkeys now work when the commit message
1395 (`#453 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453>`_)
1397 * The diff editor now supports the `Ctrl+u` hotkey for reverting
1398 diff hunks and selected lines.
1400 * The `core.commentChar` Git configuration value is now honored.
1401 Commit messages and rebase instruction sheets will now use
1402 the configured character for comments. This allows having
1403 commit messages that start with `#` when `core.commentChar`
1404 is configured to its non-default value.
1405 (`#446 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/446>`_)
1410 * Diff syntax highlighting was improved to handle more edge cases
1411 and false positives.
1412 (`#467 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/467>`_)
1414 * Setting commands in the interactive rebase editor was fixed.
1415 (`#472 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/472>`_)
1417 * git-cola no longer clobbers the Ctrl+Backspace text editing shortcut
1418 in the commit message editor.
1419 (`#453 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453>`_)
1421 * The copy/paste clipboard now persists after `git cola` exits.
1422 (`#484 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/484>`_)
1431 * Fixed the "Sign off" feature in the commit message editor.
1438 Usability, bells and whistles
1439 -----------------------------
1440 * Double-click will now choose a commit in the "Select commit" dialog.
1442 * `git cola` has a feature that reads `.git/MERGE_MSG` and friends for the
1443 commit message when a merge is in-progress. Upon refresh, `git cola` will
1444 now detect when a merge has completed and reset the commit message back to
1445 its previous state. It is only reset if the editor contains a message
1446 that was read from the file and has not been manually edited by the user.
1448 * The commit message editor's context menu now has a "Clear..." action for
1449 clearing the message across both the summary and description fields.
1451 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
1453 * The system theme's icons are now used wherever possible.
1454 (`#458 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/458>`_)
1458 * The stash viewer now uses ``git show --no-ext-diff`` to avoid running
1459 user-configured diff tools.
1461 * `git cola` now uses the `setsid()` system call to ensure that the
1462 `GIT_ASKPASS` and `SSH_ASKPASS` helper programs are used when pushing
1463 changes using `git`. The askpass helpers will now be used even when
1464 `git cola` is launched from a terminal.
1466 The behavior without `setsid()` is that `git cola` can appear to hang while
1467 pushing changes. The hang happens when `git` prompts the user for a
1468 password using the terminal, but the user never sees the prompt. `setsid()`
1469 detaches the terminal, which ensures that the askpass helpers are used.
1470 (`#218 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/218>`_)
1471 (`#262 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/262>`_)
1472 (`#377 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/377>`_)
1474 * `git dag`'s file list tool was updated to properly handle unicode paths.
1476 * `gnome-terminal` is no longer used by default when `cola.terminal` is unset.
1477 It is broken, as was detailed in #456.
1478 (`#456 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/456>`_)
1480 * The interactive rebase feature was not always setting `$GIT_EDITOR`
1481 to the value of `gui.editor`, thus there could be instances where rebase
1482 will seem to not stop, or hang, when performing "reword" actions.
1484 We now set the `$GIT_EDITOR` environment variable when performing the
1485 "Continue", "Skip", and "Edit Todo" rebase actions so that the correct
1486 editor is used during the rebase.
1487 (`#445 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/445>`_)
1491 * `git cola` moved from a 3-part version number to a simpler 2-part "vX.Y"
1492 version number. Most of our releases tend to contain new features.
1498 Usability, bells and whistles
1499 -----------------------------
1500 * Updated zh_TW translations.
1502 * `git cola rebase` now defaults to `@{upstream}`, and generally uses the same
1503 CLI syntax as `git rebase`.
1505 * The commit message editor now allows you to bypass commit hooks by selecting
1506 the "Bypass Commit Hooks" option. This is equivalent to passing the
1507 `--no-verify` option to `git commit`.
1508 (`#357 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/357>`_)
1510 * We now prevent the "Delete Files" action from creating a dialog that does
1512 (`#378 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/378>`_)
1514 * `git xbase` learned to edit rebase instruction sheets that contain
1517 * The diff colors are now configurable. `cola.color.{text,add,remove,header}`
1518 can now be set with 6-digit hexadecimal colors.
1519 See the `git cola manual <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#configuration-variables>_`
1522 * Improved hotkey documentation.
1526 * `git cola` will now allow starting an interactive rebase with a dirty
1527 worktree when `rebase.autostash` is set.
1528 (`#360 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/360>`_)
1534 Usability, bells and whistles
1535 -----------------------------
1536 * A new "Find files" widget was added, and can be activated by
1537 using the `Ctrl+t` or `t` hotkeys.
1539 * A new `git cola find` sub-command was added for finding files.
1541 * `git cola` now remembers the text cursor's position when staging
1542 interactively with the keyboard. This makes it easier to use the keyboard
1543 arrows to select and stage lines.
1545 * The completion widgets will now select the top completion item
1546 when `Enter` or `Return` are pressed.
1548 * You can now refresh using `F5` in addition to the existing `Ctrl+R` hotkey.
1552 * `git cola` now passes `--no-abbrev-commit` to `git log` to override
1553 having `log.abbrevCommit = true` set in `.gitconfig`.
1559 Usability, bells and whistles
1560 -----------------------------
1561 * `git dag` now forwards all unknown arguments along to `git log`.
1562 (`#389 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/389>`_)
1564 * Line-by-line interactive staging was made more robust.
1565 (`#399 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/399>`_)
1567 * "Bookmarks" was renamed to "Favorites".
1568 (`#392 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/392>`_)
1570 * Untracked files are now displayed using a unique icon.
1571 (`#388 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/388>`_)
1575 * `git dag` was triggering a traceback on Fedora when parsing Git logs.
1576 (`bz #181676 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181686>`_)
1578 * inotify expects unicode paths on Python3.
1579 (`#393 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/393>`_)
1581 * Untracked files are now assumed to be utf-8 encoded.
1582 (`#401 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/401>`_)
1588 Usability, bells and whistles
1589 -----------------------------
1590 * `git cola` can now create GPG-signed commits and merges.
1591 See the documentation for details about setting up a GPG agent.
1592 (`#149 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/149>`_)
1594 * The status widget learned to copy relative paths when `Ctrl+x` is pressed.
1595 (`#358 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/358>`_)
1597 * Custom GUI actions can now define their own keyboard shortcuts by
1598 setting `guitool.$name.shortcut` to a string understood by Qt's
1599 `QAction::setShortcut()` API, e.g. `Alt+X`.
1601 `Qt docs <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qkeysequence.html#QKeySequence-2>`_
1602 for more details about the supported values.
1604 * `git cola` learned to rename branches.
1605 (`#364 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/364>`_)
1606 (`#278 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/278>`_)
1608 * `git dag` now has a "Show history" context menu which can be used to filter
1609 history using the selected paths.
1613 * `sphinxtogithub.py` was fixed for Python3.
1614 (`#353 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/353>`_)
1616 * The commit that changed how we read remotes from `git remote`
1617 to parsing `git config` was reverted since it created problems
1620 * Fixed a crash when using the `rebase edit` feature.
1621 (`#351 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/351>`_)
1623 * Better drag-and-drop behavior when dropping into gnome-terminal.
1624 (`#373 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/373>`_)
1628 * The `git-cola-folder-handler.desktop` file handler was fixed
1629 to pass validation by `desktop-file-validate`.
1630 (`#356 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/356>`_)
1632 * The `git.svg` icon was renamed to `git-cola.svg`, and `git cola` was taught
1633 to prefer icons from the desktop theme when available.
1639 Usability, bells and whistles
1640 -----------------------------
1641 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+Shift+M` merges branches.
1643 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+R` refreshes the DAG viewer.
1644 (`#347 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/347>`_)
1648 * We now use `git config` to parse the list of remotes
1649 instead of parsing the output of `git remote`, which
1650 is a Git porcelain and should not be used by scripts.
1652 * Avoid "C++ object has been deleted" errors from PyQt4.
1653 (`#346 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/346>`_)
1657 * The `make install` target now uses `install` instead of `cp`.
1663 Usability, bells and whistles
1664 -----------------------------
1665 * Updated Brazillian Portuguese translation.
1667 * The status and browse widgets now allow drag-and-drop into
1668 external applications.
1669 (`#335 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/335>`_)
1671 * We now show a progress bar when cloning repositories.
1672 (`#312 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/312>`_)
1674 * The bookmarks widget was simplified to not need a
1676 (`#289 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/289>`_)
1678 * Updated Traditional Chinese translation.
1680 * We now display a warning when trying to rebase with uncommitted changes.
1681 (`#338 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/338>`_)
1683 * The status widget learned to filter paths.
1684 `Ctrl+Shift+S` toggles the filter widget.
1685 (`#337 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/337>`_)
1686 (`#339 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/339>`_)
1688 * The status widget learned to move files to the trash
1689 when the `send2trash <https://github.com/hsoft/send2trash>`_
1690 module is installed.
1691 (`#341 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/341>`_)
1693 * "Recent repositories" is now a dedicated widget.
1694 (`#342 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/342>`_)
1696 * New Spanish translation thanks to Pilar Molina Lopez.
1697 (`#344 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/344>`_)
1701 * Newly added remotes are now properly seen by the fetch/push/pull dialogs.
1702 (`#343 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/343>`_)
1708 Usability, bells and whistles
1709 -----------------------------
1710 * New Brazillian Portuguese translation thanks to Vitor Lobo.
1712 * New Indonesian translation thanks to Samsul Ma'arif.
1714 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation thanks to Zhang Han.
1716 * `Ctrl+Backspace` is now a hotkey for "delete untracked files" in
1719 * Fetch/Push/Pull dialogs now use the configured remote of the current
1721 (`#324 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/324>`_)
1725 * We now use `os.getcwd()` on Python3.
1726 (`#316 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/316>`_)
1727 (`#326 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/326>`_)
1729 * The `Ctrl+P` hotkey was overloaded to both "push" and "cherry-pick",
1730 so "cherry-pick" was moved to `Ctrl+Shift+C`.
1732 * Custom GUI tools with mixed-case names are now properly supported.
1734 * "Diff Region" is now referred to as "Diff Hunk" for consistency
1735 with common terminology from diff/patch tools.
1736 (`#328 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/328>`_)
1738 * git-cola's test suite is now portable to MS Windows.
1739 (`#332 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/332>`_)
1745 Usability, bells and whistles
1746 -----------------------------
1747 * We now handle the case when inotify `add_watch()` fails
1748 and display instructions on how to increase the number of watches.
1749 (`#263 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/263>`_)
1751 * New and improved zh_TW localization thanks to V字龍(Vdragon).
1752 (`#265 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/265>`_)
1753 (`#267 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/267>`_)
1754 (`#268 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/268>`_)
1755 (`#269 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/269>`_)
1756 (`#270 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/270>`_)
1757 (`#271 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/271>`_)
1758 (`#272 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/272>`_)
1760 * New hotkeys: `Ctrl+F` for fetch, `Ctrl+P` for push,
1761 and `Ctrl+Shift+P` for pull.
1763 * The bookmarks widget's context menu actions were made clearer.
1764 (`#281 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/281>`_)
1766 * The term "Staging Area" is used consistently in the UI
1767 to allow for better localization.
1768 (`#283 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/283>`_)
1770 * The "Section" term is now referred to as "Diff Region"
1772 (`#297 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/297>`_)
1774 * The localization documentation related to the LANGUAGE
1775 environment variable was improved.
1776 (`#293 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/293>`_)
1778 * The "Actions" panel now contains tooltips for each button
1779 in case the button labels gets truncated by Qt.
1780 (`#292 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/292>`_)
1782 * Custom `git config`-defined actions can now be run in the
1783 background by setting `guitool.<name>.background` to `true`.
1787 * We now use bold fonts instead of SmallCaps to avoid
1788 artifacts on several configurations.
1790 * We now pickup `user.email`, `cola.tabwidth`, and similar settings
1791 when defined in /etc/gitconfig.
1792 (`#259 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/259>`_)
1794 * Better support for unicode paths when using inotify.
1795 (`bz #1104181 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104181>`_)
1797 * Unicode fixes for non-ascii locales.
1798 (`#266 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/266>`_)
1799 (`#273 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/273>`_)
1800 (`#276 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/276>`_)
1801 (`#282 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/282>`_)
1802 (`#298 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/298>`_)
1803 (`#302 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/302>`_)
1804 (`#303 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/303>`_)
1805 (`#305 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/305>`_)
1807 * Viewing history from the file browser was fixed for Python3.
1808 (`#274 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/274>`_)
1810 * setup.py was fixed to install the `*.rst` documentation.
1811 (`#279 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/279>`_)
1813 * Patch export was fixed for Python3.
1814 (`#290 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/290>`_)
1816 * Fixed adding a bookmark with trailing slashes.
1817 (`#295 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/295>`_)
1819 * The default `git dag` layout is now setup so that its widgets
1820 can be freely resized on Linux.
1821 (`#299 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/299>`_)
1823 * Invalid tag names are now reported when creating tags.
1824 (`#296 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/296>`_)
1830 Usability, bells and whistles
1831 -----------------------------
1832 * `git cola` no longer prompts after successfully creating a new branch.
1833 (`#251 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/251>`_)
1835 * Hitting enter on simple dialogs now accepts them.
1836 (`#255 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/255>`_)
1840 * `git dag` no longer relies on `sys.maxint`, which is
1841 not available in Python3.
1842 (`#249 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/249>`_)
1844 * Python3-related fixes.
1845 (`#254 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/254>`_)
1847 * Python3-on-Windows-related fixes.
1848 (`#250 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/250>`_)
1849 (`#252 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/252>`_)
1850 (`#253 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/253>`_)
1852 * Switching repositories using the bookmarks widget was not
1853 refreshing the inotify watcher.
1854 (`#256 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/256>`_)
1856 * Special commit messages trailers (e.g. "Acked-by:") are now special-cased to
1857 fix word wrapping lines that start with "foo:".
1858 (`#257 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/257>`_)
1860 * `git dag` sometimes left behind selection artifacts.
1861 We now refresh the view to avoid them.
1862 (`#204 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/204>`_)
1868 Usability, bells and whistles
1869 -----------------------------
1870 * Better inotify support for file creation and deletion.
1871 (`#240 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/240>`_)
1873 * `git cola` now supports the X11 Session Management Protocol
1874 and remembers its state across logout/reboot.
1875 (`#164 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/164>`_)
1877 * `git cola` has a new icon.
1878 (`#190 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/190>`_)
1882 * Building the documentation no longer requires `asciidoc`.
1883 We now use `Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/>`_ for building
1884 html documentation and man pages.
1888 * Reworked the git-dag gravatar icon code to avoid a unicode
1891 * Commit message line-wrapping was made to better match the GUI editor.
1892 (`#242 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/242>`_)
1894 * Better support for Python3 on Windows
1895 (`#246 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/246>`_)
1899 * git-cola no longer depends on Asciidoc for building its documentation
1900 and man-pages. We now depend on [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/) only.
1906 Usability, bells and whistles
1907 -----------------------------
1908 * Some context menu actions are now hidden when selected
1910 (`#238 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/238>`_)
1914 * The build-git-cola.sh contrib script was improved.
1915 (`#235 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/235>`_)
1917 * Non-ascii worktrees work properly again.
1918 (`#234 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/234>`_)
1920 * The browser now guards itself against missing files.
1921 (`bz #1041378 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071378>`_)
1923 * Saving widget state now works under Python3.
1924 (`#236 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/236>`_)
1932 * git-cola now runs on Python 3 thanks to Virgil Dupras.
1933 (`#233 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/233>`_)
1935 * Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2+ are now supported.
1936 Python 2.5 is no longer supported.
1940 * i18n test fixes thanks to Virgil Dupras.
1941 (`#231 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/231>`_)
1943 * git-cola.app build fixes thanks to Maicon D. Filippsen.
1944 (`#230 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/230>`_)
1946 * Lots of pylint improvements thanks to Alex Chernetz.
1947 (`#229 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/229>`_)
1953 Usability, bells and whistles
1954 -----------------------------
1955 * The new `Bookmarks` tool makes it really easy to switch between repositories.
1957 * There is now a dedicated dialog for applying patches.
1958 See the ``File -> Apply Patches`` menu item.
1959 (`#215 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/215>`_)
1961 * A new `git cola am` sub-command was added for applying patches.
1965 * Fixed a typo that caused inotify events to be silently ignored.
1967 * Fixed the sys.path setup for Mac OS X (Homebrew).
1968 (`#221 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/221>`_)
1970 * Lots of pylint fixes thanks to Alex Chernetz.
1976 Usability, bells and whistles
1977 -----------------------------
1978 * `git cola --amend` now starts the editor in `amend` mode.
1979 (`#187 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/187>`_)
1981 * Multiple lines of text can now be pasted into the `summary` field.
1982 All text beyond the first newline will be automatically moved to the
1983 `extended description` field.
1984 (`#212 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/212>`_)
1988 * Stray whitespace in `.git` files is now ignored.
1989 (`#213 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/213>`_)
1991 * Fix "known incorrect sRGB profile" in `staged-item.png`.
1992 (`gentoo-devel message #85066
1993 <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/85066>`_)
2001 * Fix a traceback when `git push` fails.
2002 (`bz #1034778 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034778>`_)
2006 * Most of the git-cola sub-packages have been removed.
2007 The only remaining packages are `cola`, `cola.models`,
2010 * The translation file for Simplified Chinese was renamed
2012 (`#209 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/209>`_)
2020 * `git cola version --brief` now prints the brief version number.
2024 * Resurrected the "make dist" target, for those that prefer to create
2027 * Fixed the typo that broke the preferences dialog.
2033 Usability, bells and whistles
2034 -----------------------------
2035 * We now ship a full-featured interactive `git rebase` editor.
2036 The rebase todo file is edited using the `git xbase` script which
2037 is provided at `$prefix/share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase`.
2038 This script can be used standalone by setting the `$GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR`
2039 before running `git rebase --interactive`.
2040 (`#1 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1>`_)
2042 * Fixup commit messages can now be loaded from the commit message editor.
2044 * Tool widgets can be locked in place by using the "Tools/Lock Layout"
2046 (`#202 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/202>`_)
2048 * You can now push to several remotes simultaneously by selecting
2049 multiple remotes in the "Push" dialog.
2050 (`#148 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/148>`_)
2052 * The `grep` tool learned to search using three different modes:
2053 basic regular expressions (default), extended regular expressions,
2058 * `git cola` now depends on the `argparse` Python module.
2059 This module is part of the stdlib in Python 2.7 and must
2060 be installed separately when using Python 2.6 and below.
2064 * Support unicode in the output from `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`.
2070 Usability, bells and whistles
2071 -----------------------------
2072 * We now detect when the editor or history browser are misconfigured.
2073 (`#197 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/197>`_)
2074 (`bz #886826 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886826>`_)
2076 * Display of untracked files can be disabled from the Preferences dialog
2077 or by setting the `gui.displayuntracked` configuration variable to `false`.
2078 (`Git Mailing List on 2013-08-21
2079 <https://public-inbox.org/git/20130821032913.GA6092@wheezy.local/>`_)
2083 * Unicode stash names are now supported
2084 (`#198 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/198>`_)
2086 * The diffs produced when reverting workspace changes were made more robust.
2092 Usability, bells and whistles
2093 -----------------------------
2094 * Brand new German translation thanks to Sven Claussner.
2096 * The "File" menu now provides a "New Repository..." menu action.
2098 * `git dag` now uses a dock-widget interface so that its widgets can
2099 be laid-out and arranged. Customizations are saved and restored
2100 the next time `git dag` is launched.
2102 * `git dag` now has a "Zoom Best Fit" button next alongside the
2103 "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" buttons.
2105 * `Ctrl+L` now focuses the "Search" field in the `git dag` tool.
2107 * Right-clicking in the "diff" viewer now updates the cursor position
2108 before performing actions, which makes it much easier to click around
2109 and selectively stage sections. Previously, the current cursor position
2110 was used which meant that it required two clicks (left-click to update
2111 the position followed by right-click to get the context menu) for the
2112 desired section to be used. This is now a single right-click operation.
2114 * The `Ctrl+D` "Launch Diff Tool" action learned to automatically choose
2115 between `git difftool` and `git mergetool`. If the file is unmerged then
2116 we automatically launch `git mergetool` on the path, otherwise we use
2117 `git difftool`. We do this because `git difftool` is not intended to
2118 be used on unmerged paths. Automatically using `git mergetool` when
2119 appropriate is the most intuitive and muscle-memory-friendly thing to do.
2121 * You can now right-click on folders in your standard file browser
2122 and choose "Open With -> Git Cola" (Linux-only).
2126 * Python 2.6 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard does not provide a namedtuple
2127 at `sys.version_info`. We now avoid using that variable for better
2130 * We now read the user's Git configuration from `~/.config/git/config`
2131 if that file is available, otherwise we use the traditional `~/.gitconfig`
2132 path, just like Git itself.
2134 * Some edge cases were fixed when applying partial/selected diffs.
2136 * The diff viewer is now properly cleared when refreshing.
2137 (`#194 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/194>`_)
2143 Usability, bells and whistles
2144 -----------------------------
2145 * The diff viewer now has an "Options" menu which can be
2146 used to set "git diff" options. This can be used to
2147 ignore whitespace changes or to show a change with its
2148 surrounding function as context.
2149 (`#150 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/150>`_)
2151 * `git cola` now remembers your commit message and will restore it
2152 when `git cola` is restarted.
2153 (`#175 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/175>`_)
2155 * `Ctrl+M` can now be used to toggle the "Amend last commit"
2156 checkbox in the commit message editor.
2157 (`#161 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/161>`_)
2159 * Deleting remote branches can now be done from the "Branch" menu.
2160 (`#152 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/152>`_)
2162 * The commit message editor now has a built-in spell checker.
2166 * We now avoid invoking external diffs when showing diffstats.
2167 (`#163 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/163>`_)
2169 * The `Status` tool learned to reselect files when refreshing.
2170 (`#165 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/165>`_)
2172 * `git cola` now remembers whether it has been maximized and will restore the
2173 maximized state when `git cola` is restarted.
2174 (`#172 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/172>`_)
2176 * Performance is now vastly improved when staging hundreds or
2179 * `git cola` was not correctly saving repo-specific configuration.
2180 (`#174 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/174>`_)
2182 * Fix a UnicodeDecode in sphinxtogithub when building from source.
2189 Usability, bells and whistles
2190 -----------------------------
2191 * We now automatically remove missing repositories from the
2192 "Select Repository" dialog.
2193 (`#145 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/145>`_)
2195 * A new `git cola diff` sub-command was added for diffing changed files.
2199 * The inotify auto-refresh feature makes it difficult to select text in
2200 the "diff" editor when files are being continually modified by another
2201 process. The auto-refresh causes it to lose the currently selected text,
2202 which is not wanted. We now avoid this problem by saving and restoring
2203 the selection when refreshing the editor.
2204 (`#155 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/155>`_)
2206 * More strings have been marked for l10n.
2207 (`#157 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/157>`_)
2209 * Fixed the Alt+D Diffstat shortcut.
2210 (`#159 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/159>`_)
2214 * Better error handling when cloning repositories.
2216 We were not handling the case where a git URL has
2217 no basename, e.g. `https://git.example.com/`.
2218 `git cola` originally rejected these URLs instead of
2219 allowing users to clone them. It now allows these URLs
2220 when they point to valid git repositories.
2222 Additionally, `git cola` learned to echo the errors
2223 reported by `git clone` when it fails.
2224 (`#156 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/156>`_)
2231 Usability, bells and whistles
2232 -----------------------------
2233 * `git dag` got a big visual upgrade.
2235 * `Ctrl+G` now launches the "Grep" tool.
2237 * `Ctrl+D` launches difftool and `Ctrl+E` launches your editor
2238 when in the diff panel.
2240 * git-cola can now be told to use an alternative language.
2241 For example, if the native language is German and we want git-cola to
2242 use English then we can create a `~/.config/git-cola/language` file with
2243 "en" as its contents: ``echo en >~/.config/git-cola/language``
2244 (`#140 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/140>`_)
2246 * A new `git cola merge` sub-command was added for merging branches.
2248 * Less blocking in the main UI
2252 * Autocomplete issues on KDE
2253 (`#144 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/144>`_)
2255 * The "recently opened repositories" startup dialog did not
2256 display itself in the absence of bookmarks.
2257 (`#139 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/139>`_)
2264 Usability, bells and whistles
2265 -----------------------------
2266 * `git cola` learned to honor `.gitattributes` when showing and
2267 interactively applying diffs. This makes it possible to store
2268 files in git using a non-utf-8 encoding and `git cola` will
2269 properly accept them. This must be enabled by settings
2270 `cola.fileattributes` to true, as it incurs a small performance
2272 (`#96 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/96>`_)
2274 * `git cola` now wraps commit messages at 72 columns automatically.
2275 This is configurable using the `cola.linebreak` variable to enable/disable
2276 the feature, and `cola.textwidth` to configure the limit.
2277 (`#133 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/133>`_)
2279 * A new "Open Recent" sub-menu was added to the "File" menu.
2280 This makes it easy to open a recently-edited repository.
2281 (`#135 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/135>`_)
2283 * We now show a preview for untracked files when they are clicked
2284 using the `Status` tool.
2285 * A new "Open Using Default Application" action was added to the
2286 `Status` tool. It is activated using either `Spacebar` or through
2287 the context menu. This action uses `xdg-open` on Linux and
2289 * A new "Open Parent Directory" action was added to the `Status` tool.
2290 It is activated using either `Shift+Spacebar` or through the
2292 * `git dag` learned to honor the `log.date` git configuration variable.
2293 This makes the date display follow whatever format the user has
2295 * A new `git cola config` sub-command was added for quickly
2296 tweaking `git cola`'s git configuration settings.
2297 * Some small usability tweaks -- some user confirmation prompts
2298 were defaulting to "Cancel" when they should have been defaulting
2299 to the affirmative option instead.
2303 * Properly handle arbitrarily-named branches.
2304 * We went back to launching `git mergetool` using an xterm.
2305 The reason is that there are a couple of places where `git mergetool`
2306 requires a terminal for user interaction not covered by `--no-prompt`.
2307 * We now properly handle an edge case when applying short diffs at
2308 the start of a file.
2315 Usability, bells and whistles
2316 -----------------------------
2317 * New and improved `grep` mode lets you instantly find and edit files.
2318 * New `git cola grep` standalone mode.
2319 * Support for passing arguments to the configured editors, e.g. `gvim -p`
2320 This makes it possible to select multiple files in the status
2321 window and use `Ctrl-e` to edit them all at once.
2322 * Remote operations now prompt on errors only.
2323 * The `Tab` key now jumps to the extended description when editing the summary.
2324 * More shortcut key labels and misc. UX improvements.
2328 * Selecting an item no longer copies its filename to the copy/paste buffer.
2329 `Ctrl-c` or the "Copy" context-menu action can be used instead.
2330 * The repository monitoring feature on Windows learned to ignore
2331 changes within the ".git" directory. Thanks to Andreas Sommer.
2332 (`#120 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/120>`_)
2339 Usability, bells and whistles
2340 -----------------------------
2341 * `git dag` learned to color-code branchy edges.
2342 The edge colors change when a new branch is detected,
2343 which makes the history much easier to follow.
2344 A huge thanks to Uri Okrent for making it happen.
2346 * New GUI for editing remote repositories.
2348 * New `git cola archive` and `git cola remote` sub-commands.
2350 * `git cola browser` learned an 'Untrack' command.
2352 * The diff editor learned to staged/unstaged while amending.
2354 * The status tool can now scroll horizontally.
2356 * New git repositories can be created by clicking 'New' on the
2357 `git cola --prompt` startup screen.
2364 Usability, bells and whistles
2365 -----------------------------
2366 * Auto-completion was added to more tools.
2368 * `git dag` is easier to use on smaller displays -- the author
2369 field elides its text which allows for a more compact display.
2371 * Selected commits in `git dag` were made more prominent and
2374 * 'Create Branch' learned to fetch remote branches and uses a
2375 background thread to do so.
2377 * User-configured GUI tools are listed alphabetically in the 'Actions' menu.
2379 * The 'Pull' dialog remembers the value of the 'Rebase' checkbox
2380 between invocations.
2389 * Detect Homebrew so that OS X users do not need to set PYTHONPATH.
2391 * `git dag` can export patches again.
2398 Usability, bells and whistles
2399 -----------------------------
2400 * The 'Classic' tool was renamed to 'Browser' and learned to
2401 limit history to the current branch.
2403 * `git dag` learned about gravatar and uses it to show images
2406 * `git dag` learned to use OpenGL for rendering resulting in
2407 much faster rendering.
2409 * More dialogs learned vim-style keyboard shortcuts.
2411 * The commit message editor learned better arrow key navigation.
2418 Usability, bells and whistles
2419 -----------------------------
2420 * `git cola` learned a few new sub commands:
2428 * `Return` in the summary field jumps to the extended description.
2430 * `Ctrl+Return` is now a shortcut for 'Commit'.
2432 * Better French translation for 'Sign-off'.
2434 * The 'Search' widget now has a much simpler and streamlined
2437 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the DAG widget.
2439 * `git dag` no longer prompts for files when diffing commits if the
2440 text field contains paths.
2442 * General user interface and performance improvements.
2446 * The diff viewer no longer changes font size when holding `Control`
2447 while scrolling with the mouse wheel.
2449 * Files with a typechange (e.g. symlinks that become files, etc.)
2450 are now correctly identified as being modified.
2454 * The `cola.controllers` and `cola.views` packages were removed.
2461 Usability, bells and whistles
2462 -----------------------------
2463 * `git cola` can now launch sub commands, e.g.:
2474 * `git dag` is more responsive when gathering auto-completions.
2476 * Keyboard shortcuts are displayed when the '?' key is pressed.
2478 * Various keyboard shortcuts were added for improved usability.
2480 * The status widget now lists unmerged files before modified files.
2482 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the status widget.
2484 * A 'Recently Modified Files...' tool was added.
2486 * Tools can now be hidden with `Alt + #` (where `#` is a keyboard number)
2487 and focused with `Alt + Shift + #`.
2489 * The syntax highlighting colors for diffs was made less intrusive.
2491 * The commit message editor was redesigned to have a more compact
2492 and keyboard-convenient user interface.
2494 * Keyboard shortcuts for adding a Signed-off-by (`Ctrl + i`)
2495 and creating a commit (`Ctrl + m`) were added.
2497 * The status widget was adjusted to use less screen real-estate.
2501 * Avoid updating the index when responding to inotify events.
2502 This avoids interfering with operations such as `git rebase --interactive`.
2503 (`#99 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/99>`_)
2507 * Create `git-dag.pyw` in the win32 installer.
2509 * win32 shortcuts now contain explicit calls to `pythonw.exe` instead of
2510 calling the `.pyw` file directly.
2514 * The 'Apply Changes from Branch...' feature was removed.
2515 `git dag`'s 'Grab File...' feature used alongside the index/worktree editor
2516 is a simpler alternative.
2525 * Further enhanced the staging/unstaging behavior in the status widget.
2526 (`#97 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97>`_)
2528 * Unmerged files are no longer listed as modified.
2532 The `cola-$version` tarballs on github were originally setup to
2533 have the same contents as the old tarballs hosted on tuxfamily.
2534 The `make dist` target was changed to write files to a
2535 `git-cola-$version` subdirectory and tarball.
2537 This makes the filenames consistent for the source tarball,
2538 the darwin .app tarball, and the win32 .exe installer.
2545 Usability, bells and whistles
2546 -----------------------------
2547 * Refined the staging/unstaging behavior for code reviews.
2548 (`#97 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97>`_)
2550 * Added more styling and icons to menus and buttons.
2552 * Adjusted some terminology to more closely match the git CLI.
2556 * Boolean `git config` settings with no value are now supported
2557 (these are not created by git these days but exist in legacy repositories).
2559 * Unicode branches and tags are supported in the "branch diff" tool.
2561 * Guard against low-memory conditions and more interrupted system calls.
2565 * Added desktop launchers for git-cola.desktop and git-dag.desktop.
2566 This replaces the old cola.desktop, so some adjustments to RPM .spec
2567 and debian/ files will be needed.
2569 * Fixed the darwin app-tarball Makefile target to create relative paths.
2573 * The `--style` option was removed. `git cola` follows the system theme
2574 so there's no need for this option these days.
2581 Usability, bells and whistles
2582 -----------------------------
2583 * Export a patch series from `git dag` into a `patches/` directory.
2585 * `git dag` learned to diff commits, slice history along paths, etc.
2587 * Added instant-preview to the `git stash` widget.
2589 * A simpler preferences editor is used to edit `git config` values.
2590 (`#90 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90>`_)
2591 (`#89 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/89>`_)
2593 * Previous commit messages can be re-loaded from the message editor.
2594 (`#33 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/33>`_)
2598 * Display commits with no file changes.
2599 (`#82 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82>`_)
2601 * Improved the diff editor's copy/paste behavior
2602 (`#90 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90>`_)
2606 * Bumped version number to ceil(minimum git version).
2607 `git cola` now requires `git` >= 1.6.3.
2609 * Simplified git-cola's versioning when building from tarballs
2610 outside of git. We no longer check for a 'version' file at
2611 the root of the repository. We instead keep a default version
2612 in `cola/version.py` and use it when `git cola`'s `.git` repository
2620 Usability, bells and whistles
2621 -----------------------------
2622 * inotify is much snappier and available on Windows
2623 thanks to Karl Bielefeldt.
2625 * New right-click command to add untracked files to .gitignore
2626 thanks to Audrius Karabanovas.
2628 * Stash, fetch, push, and pull usability improvements
2630 * General usability improvements
2632 * stderr is logged when applying partial diffs.
2636 * Files can be unstaged when amending.
2637 (`#82 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82>`_)
2639 * Show the configured remote.$remote.pushurl in the GUI
2640 (`#83 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/83>`_)
2642 * Removed usage of the "user" module.
2643 (`#86 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/86>`_)
2645 * Avoids an extra `git update-index` call during startup.
2653 Usability, bells and whistles
2654 -----------------------------
2655 * We now provide better feedback when `git push` fails.
2656 (`#69 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/69>`_)
2658 * The Fetch, Push, and Pull dialogs now give better feedback
2659 when interacting with remotes. The dialogs are modal and
2660 a progress dialog is used.
2664 * More unicode fixes, again. It is now possible to have
2665 unicode branch names, repository paths, home directories, etc.
2666 This continued the work initiated by Redhat's bugzilla #694806.
2668 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806
2675 Usability, bells and whistles
2676 -----------------------------
2677 * The `git cola` desktop launchers now prompt for a repo
2678 by default. This is done by using the new `--prompt`
2679 flag which tells `git cola` to ignore any git repositories
2680 in the current directory and prompt for one instead.
2684 * More Unicode fixes for repositories and home directories with
2685 embedded unicode characters. Thanks to Christian Jann for
2686 patience and helpful bug reports.
2688 * Fix the 'Clone' button in the startup dialog.
2695 Usability, bells and whistles
2696 -----------------------------
2697 * Faster startup time! `git cola` now offloads initialization
2698 to a background thread so that the GUI appears almost instantly.
2700 * Specialized diff options for p4merge, vimdiff, araxis, emerge,
2701 and ecmerge in difftool (backported from git.git).
2705 * Fix launching commands in the background on Windows
2706 (e.g. when launching `git difftool`).
2708 * Fix unicode errors when home or repository directories contain
2710 (`#74 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/74>`_)
2711 (`bz #694806 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806>`_)
2718 Usability, bells and whistles
2719 -----------------------------
2720 * The `cola classic` tool can be now configured to be dockable.
2721 (`#56 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/56>`_)
2723 * The `cola classic` tool now uses visual sigils to indicate a file's status.
2724 The idea and icons were provided by Uri Okrent.
2726 * Include the 'Rescan' button in the 'Actions' widget regardless
2727 of whether inotify is installed.
2731 * Fix installation of translations per Fedora
2732 This incorporates Fedora's fix for the translations path
2733 which originally appeared in cola-1.4.3-translations.patch.
2735 * Mac OS X git-cola developers can now generate git-cola.app
2736 application bundles using 'make app-bundle'.
2740 * Fixed a stacktrace when trying to use "Get Commit Message Template"
2741 with an unconfigured "commit.template" git config variable.
2742 (`bz #67521 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675721>`_)
2743 (`#72 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/72>`_)
2745 * Properly raise the main window on Mac OS X.
2747 * Properly handle staging a huge numbers of files at once.
2749 * Speed up 'git config' usage by fixing cola's caching proxy.
2751 * Guard against damaged ~/.cola files.
2758 Usability, bells and whistles
2759 -----------------------------
2760 * `git dag` now has a separate display area
2761 for displaying commit metadata. This area will soon
2762 grow additional functionality such as cherry-picking,
2767 * Fixed tests from a previous refactoring.
2769 * Guard against 'diff.external' configuration by always
2770 calling 'git diff' with the '--no-ext-diff' option.
2771 (`#67 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/67>`_)
2773 * Respect 'gui.diffcontext' so that cola's diff display
2774 shows the correct number of context lines.
2776 * Raise the GUI so that it is in the foreground on OS X.
2780 * We now allow distutils to rewrite cola's shebang line.
2781 This allows us to run on systems where "which python"
2782 is Python3k. This is exposed by setting the `PYTHON`
2783 Makefile variable to the location of python2.x.
2785 * git-cola.app is now a tiny download because it no longer
2786 contains Qt and PyQt. These libraries are provided as a
2788 (`Link <http://code.google.com/p/git-cola/downloads/list>`_)
2795 Usability, bells and whistles
2796 -----------------------------
2797 * Clicking on paths in the status widget copies them into the
2798 copy/paste buffer for easy middle-clicking into terminals.
2800 * `Ctrl+C` in diff viewer copies the selected diff to the clipboard.
2804 * Fixed the disappearing actions buttons on PyQt 4.7.4
2805 as reported by Arch and Ubuntu 10.10.
2806 (`#62 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62>`_)
2808 * Fixed mouse interaction with the status widget where some
2809 items could not be de-selected.
2813 * Removed hard-coded reference to lib/ when calculating Python's
2814 site-packages directory.
2821 Usability, bells and whistles
2822 -----------------------------
2823 * Removed "single-click to (un)stage" in the status view.
2824 This is a usability improvement since we no longer perform
2825 different actions depending on where a row is clicked.
2827 * Added ability to create unsigned, annotated tags.
2831 * Updated documentation to use `cola.git` instead of `cola.gitcmd`.
2838 Usability, bells and whistles
2839 -----------------------------
2840 * Allow un/staging by right-clicking top-level items
2841 (`#57 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/57>`_)
2843 * Running 'commit' with no staged changes prompts to allow
2845 (`#55 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/55>`_)
2847 * Fetch, Push, and Pull are now available via the menus
2848 (`#58 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/58>`_)
2852 * Simplified the actions widget to work around a regression
2854 (`#62 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62>`_)
2861 Usability, bells and whistles
2862 -----------------------------
2863 * `git dag` interaction was made faster.
2867 * Added '...' indicators to the buttons for
2868 'Fetch...', 'Push...', 'Pull...', and 'Stash...'.
2869 (`#51 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/51>`_)
2871 * Fixed a hang-on-exit bug in the cola-provided
2872 'ssh-askpass' implementation.
2879 Usability, bells and whistles
2880 -----------------------------
2881 * Staging and unstaging is faster.
2882 (`#48 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/48>`_)
2884 * `git dag` reads history in a background thread.
2888 * Added :data:`cola.compat.hashlib` for `Python 2.4` compatibility
2889 * Improved `PyQt 4.1.x` compatibility.
2893 * Configured menu actions use ``sh -c`` for Windows portability.
2901 Usability, bells and whistles
2902 -----------------------------
2903 * Added support for the configurable ``guitool.<tool>.*``
2904 actions as described in the ``git config`` documentation.
2905 (`git-config(1) <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config>`_)
2906 (`#44 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/44>`_)
2908 This makes it possible to add new actions to `git cola`
2909 by simply editing ``~/.gitconfig``. This implements the
2910 same guitool support as `git gui`.
2912 * Introduced a stat cache to speed up `git config` and
2913 repository status checks.
2915 * Added Alt-key shortcuts to the main `git cola` interface.
2917 * The `Actions` dock widget switches between a horizontal
2918 and vertical layout when resized.
2920 * We now use ``git diff --submodule`` for submodules
2921 (used when git >= 1.6.6).
2923 * The context menu for modified submodules includes an option
2924 to launch `git cola`.
2925 (`#17 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/17>`_)
2927 * Prefer ``$VISUAL`` over ``$EDITOR`` when both are defined.
2928 These are used to set a default editor in lieu of `core.editor`
2931 * Force the editor to be ``gvim`` when we see ``vim``.
2932 This prevents us from launching an editor in the (typically
2933 unattached) parent terminal and creating zombie editors
2934 that cannot be easily killed.
2936 * Selections are remembered and restored across updates.
2937 This makes the `partial-staging` workflow easier since the
2938 diff view will show the updated diff after staging.
2940 * Show the path to the current repository in a tooltip
2941 over the commit message editor.
2942 (`#45 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/45>`_)
2944 * Log internal ``git`` commands when ``GIT_COLA_TRACE`` is defined.
2945 (`#39 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/39>`_)
2949 * Improved backwards compatibility for Python 2.4.
2951 * `Review mode` can now review the current branch; it no longer
2952 requires you to checkout the branch into which the reviewed
2953 branch will be merged.
2955 * Guard against `color.ui = always` configuration when using
2956 `git log` by passing ``--no-color``.
2958 * ``yes`` and ``no`` are now supported as valid booleans
2959 by the `git config` parser.
2961 * Better defaults are used for `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`..
2962 (`#43 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/43>`_)
2966 * Removed colon (`:`) from the applilcation name on Windows
2967 (`#41 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/41>`_)
2969 * Fixed bugs with the Windows installer
2970 (`#40 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/40>`_)
2972 * Added a more standard i18n infrastructure. The install
2973 tree now has the common ``share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/git-cola.mo``
2974 layout in use by several projects.
2976 * Started trying to accommodate Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
2977 in the ``darwin/`` build scripts but our tester is yet to
2978 report success building a `.app` bundle.
2980 * Replaced use of ``perl`` in Sphinx/documentation Makefile
2981 with more-portable ``sed`` constructs. Thanks to
2982 Stefan Naewe for discovering the portability issues and
2983 providing msysgit-friendly patches.
2990 Usability, bells and whistles
2991 -----------------------------
2992 * It is now possible to checkout from the index as well
2993 as from `HEAD`. This corresponds to the
2994 `Removed Unstaged Changes` action in the `Repository Status` tool.
2996 * The `remote` dialogs (fetch, push, pull) are now slightly
2999 * Bookmarks can be selected when `git cola` is run outside of a git repository.
3001 * Added more user documentation. We now include many links to
3002 external git resources.
3004 * Added `git dag` to the available tools.
3005 `git dag` is a node-based DAG history browser.
3006 It doesn't do much yet, but it's been merged so that we can start
3007 building and improving upon it.
3011 * Fixed a missing ``import`` when showing `right-click` actions
3012 for unmerged files in the `Repository Status` tool.
3014 * ``git update-index --refresh`` is no longer run every time
3015 ``git cola version`` is run.
3017 * Don't try to watch non-existent directories when using `inotify`.
3019 * Use ``git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name`` plumbing to find
3020 the name of the current branch.
3024 * The ``Makefile`` will now conditionally include a ``config.mak``
3025 file located at the root of the project. This allows for user
3026 customizations such as changes to the `prefix` variable
3027 to be stored in a file so that custom settings do not need to
3028 be specified every time on the command-line.
3030 * The build scripts no longer require a ``.git`` directory to
3031 generate the ``builtin_version.py`` module. The release tarballs
3032 now include a ``version`` file at the root of the project which
3033 is used in lieu of having the git repository available.
3034 This allows for ``make clean && make`` to function outside of
3037 * Added maintainer's ``make dist`` target to the ``Makefile``.
3039 * The built-in `simplejson` and `jsonpickle` libraries can be
3040 excluded from ``make install`` by specifying the ``standalone=true``
3041 `make` variable. For example, ``make standalone=true install``.
3042 This corresponds to the ``--standalone`` option to ``setup.py``.
3050 Usability, bells and whistles
3051 -----------------------------
3052 * We now use patience diff by default when it is available via
3053 `git diff --patience`.
3055 * Allow closing the `cola classic` tool with `Ctrl+W`.
3059 * Fixed an unbound variable error in the `push` dialog.
3063 * Don't include `simplejson` in MANIFEST.in.
3065 * Update desktop entry to read `Cola Git GUI`.
3073 This feature release adds two new features directly from
3074 `git cola`'s github issues backlog. On the developer
3075 front, further work was done towards modularizing the code base.
3077 Usability, bells and whistles
3078 -----------------------------
3079 * Dragging and dropping patches invokes `git am`
3080 (`#3 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/3>`_)
3082 * A dialog to allow opening or cloning a repository
3083 is presented when `git cola` is launched outside of a git repository.
3084 (`#22 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/22>`_)
3086 * Warn when `push` is used to create a new branch
3087 (`#35 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/35>`_)
3089 * Optimized startup time by removing several calls to `git`.
3094 * `git cola` is once again compatible with PyQt 4.3.x.
3098 * `cola.gitcmds` was added to factor out git command-line utilities
3100 * `cola.gitcfg` was added for interacting with `git config`
3102 * `cola.models.browser` was added to factor out repobrowser data
3114 * Fix launching external applications on Windows
3116 * Ensure that the `amend` checkbox is unchecked when switching modes
3118 * Update the status tree when amending commits
3128 * Fix Lintian warnings
3138 * Fix X11 warnings on application startup
3148 * Added missing 'Exit Diff Mode' button for 'Diff Expression' mode
3149 (`#31 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/31>`_)
3151 * Fix a bug when initializing fonts on Windows
3152 (`#32 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/32>`_)
3162 * Keep entries in sorted order in the `cola classic` tool
3164 * Fix staging untracked files
3165 (`#27 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/27>`_)
3167 * Fix the `show` command in the Stash dialog
3168 (`#29 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/29>`_)
3170 * Fix a typo when loading merge commit messages
3171 (`#30 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/30>`_)
3179 This release focuses on a redesign of the git-cola user interface,
3180 a tags interface, and better integration of the `cola classic` tool.
3181 A flexible interface based on configurable docks is used to manage the
3182 various cola widgets.
3184 Usability, bells and whistles
3185 -----------------------------
3186 * New GUI is flexible and user-configurable
3188 * Individual widgets can be detached and rearranged arbitrarily
3190 * Add an interface for creating tags
3192 * Provide a fallback `SSH_ASKPASS` implementation to prompt for
3193 SSH passwords on fetch/push/pull
3195 * The commit message editor displays the current row/column and
3196 warns when lines get too long
3198 * The `cola classic` tool displays upstream changes
3200 * `git cola --classic` launches `cola classic` in standalone mode
3202 * Provide more information in log messages
3206 * Inherit the window manager's font settings
3208 * Miscellaneous PyQt4 bug fixes and workarounds
3212 * Removed all usage of Qt Designer `.ui` files
3214 * Simpler model/view architecture
3216 * Selection is now shared across tools
3218 * Centralized notifications are used to keep views in sync
3220 * The `cola.git` command class was made thread-safe
3222 * Less coupling between model and view actions
3224 * The status view was rewritten to use the MVC architecture
3226 * Added more documentation and tests
3234 Usability, bells and whistles
3235 -----------------------------
3236 * Added a `cola classic` tool for browsing the entire repository
3238 * Handle diff expressions with spaces
3240 * Handle renamed files
3244 * Handle carat `^` characters in diff expressions on Windows
3246 * Worked around a PyQt 4.5/4.6 QThreadPool bug
3250 * Added a keyboard shortcuts reference page
3252 * Added developer API documentation
3256 * Fix the diff expression used when reviewing branches
3258 * Fix a bug when pushing branches
3260 * Fix X11 warnings at startup
3262 * Fix more interrupted system calls on Mac OS X
3270 Usability, bells and whistles
3271 -----------------------------
3272 * Fresh and tasty SVG logos
3274 * Added `Branch Review` mode for reviewing topic branches
3276 * Added diff modes for diffing between tags, branches,
3277 or arbitrary `git diff` expressions
3279 * The push dialog selects the current branch by default.
3280 This is in preparation for `git 1.7.0` where unconfigured `git push`
3281 will refuse to push when run without specifying the remote name
3282 and branch. See the `git` release notes for more information
3284 * Support `open` and `clone` commands on Windows
3286 * Allow saving cola UI layouts
3288 * Re-enabled `double-click-to-stage` for unmerged entries.
3289 Disabling it for unmerged items was inconsistent, though safer.
3291 * Show diffs when navigating the status tree with the keyboard
3295 * Worked around `pyuic4` bugs in the `setup.py` build script
3297 * Added Mac OSX application bundles to the download page
3307 * `git difftool` became an official git command in `git 1.6.3`.
3309 * `git difftool` learned `--no-prompt` / `-y` and a corresponding
3310 `difftool.prompt` configuration variable
3312 Usability, bells and whistles
3313 -----------------------------
3314 * Warn when `non-fast-forward` is used with fetch, push or pull
3316 * Allow `Ctrl+C` to exit cola when run from the command line
3320 * Support Unicode font names
3322 * Handle interrupted system calls
3326 * `PEP-8`-ified more of the cola code base
3332 * All resources are now installed into `$prefix/share/git-cola`.
3333 Closed Debian bug #519972
3335 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519972
3345 * Added support for Kompare in `git difftool`
3347 * Added a separate configuration namespace for `git difftool`
3349 * Added the `diff.tool` configuration variable to define the default diff tool
3351 Usability, bells and whistles
3352 -----------------------------
3353 * The stash dialog allows passing the `--keep-index` option to `git stash`
3355 * Amending a published commit warns at commit time
3357 * Simplified the file-across-revisions comparison dialog
3359 * `origin` is selected by default in fetch/push/pull
3361 * Removed the search field from the log widget
3363 * The log window moved into a drawer widget at the bottom of the UI
3365 * Log window display can be configured with
3366 `cola.showoutput` = `{never, always, errors}`. `errors` is the default.
3368 * `NOTE` -- `cola.showoutput` was removed with the GUI rewrite in 1.4.0.
3372 * Improved nose unittest usage
3376 * Added a Windows/msysGit installer
3378 * Included private versions of `simplejson` and `jsonpickle`
3379 for ease of installation and development