6 Usability, bells and whistles
7 -----------------------------
8 * The Status tool was improved to better retain selected files when
9 the state changes and the display is refreshed.
10 (`#1130 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1130>`_)
11 (`#1131 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1131>`_)
13 * The Diff editor can now stage selected lines for untracked files.
14 Git Cola will detect when a file is untracked and will allow you to
15 partially stage it, just like existing tracked files.
16 (`#1146 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1146>`_)
17 (`#1084 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1084>`_)
19 * Diffing of staged files has been implemented for repositories that contain
21 (`#1149 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1149>`_)
22 (`#1110 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1110>`_)
24 * Documentation improvements and typofixes.
25 (`#1163 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1163>`_)
26 (`#1164 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1164>`_)
30 * The `FIPS security mode
31 <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/FIPS_Mode_-_an_explanation>`_
32 is now supported by Git Cola when running on FIPS-enabled Python
33 (Python 3.9+ or centos8/rhel8's patched Python 3.6).
34 (`#1157 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1157>`_)
38 * The `argparse` usage was adjusted to remain compatible with older Pythons.
39 (`#1155 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1155>`_)
41 * The window restoration logic was fixed to properly save/restore settings
42 when different languages are used.
43 (`#1071 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1071>`_)
44 (`#1161 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1161>`_)
45 (`#382 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/382>`_)
49 * The Windows installer was slimmed down by removing unused Qt DLLs.
50 (`#1152 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1152>`_)
59 * Patch release to fix a typo in the Interactive Rebase feature.
66 Usability, bells and whistles
67 -----------------------------
68 * The git config reader now supports the `include.path` directive
69 for including config files.
70 (`#1136 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1136>`_)
71 (`#1137 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1137>`_)
73 * The dialog for selecting commits now support filtering.
74 (`#1121 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1121>`_)
76 * The diff editor now wraps long lines by default. The diff options
77 menu can be used to enable/disable line wrapping.
78 (`#1123 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1123>`_)
80 * Git Cola now honors `core.hooksPath` for configuring custom Git hooks,
81 which was introduced in Git v2.9.
82 (`#1118 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1118>`_)
84 * A new `Ctrl + Shift + S` hotkey was added for staging/unstaging all
85 files, both modified and untracked.
87 * The `Status` tool now supports `Ctrl + A` for selecting all files and
88 it behaves more predictably when performing operations when multiple
89 categories of files are selected (eg. when both modified and untracked
90 header items are selected).
91 (`#1117 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1117>`_)
95 * Updated Hungarian translation.
96 (`#1135 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1135>`_)
100 * The "Interactive Rebase" feature was updated to work with Windows.
102 * `make install-man` was updated to support Sphinx 4.0.
103 (`#1141 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1141>`_)
105 * `git cola --help-commands` was updated for newer versions of argparse.
106 (`#1133 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1133>`_)
110 * Git Cola can now be started as a Python module.
111 (`#1119 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1119>`_)
118 Usability, bells and whistles
119 -----------------------------
120 * The startup dialog now detects when Recent and Favorite repositories no
121 longer exist on disk, and offers to remove these entries when selected.
122 (`#1089 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1089>`_)
124 * The startup dialog now includes a simpler and more condensed folder view
125 that can be used for selecting Favorites and Recent repositories.
126 (`#1086 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1086>`_)
128 * The "Commit" menu now includes an "Undo Last Commit" action.
129 (`#890 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/890>`_)
131 * The "Reset" menu was revamped to expose all of Git's reset modes alongside a
132 new "Restore Worktree" action that updates the worktree using "git read-tree".
133 (`#890 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/890>`_)
137 * Updated Polish translation.
138 (`#1107 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1107>`_)
140 * Updated Japanese translation.
141 (`#1098 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1098>`_)
143 * Updated Brazilian translation.
144 (`#1091 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1091>`_)
148 * The ``--use-env-python`` option for ``setup.py`` is now Python3 compatible.
149 (`#1102 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1102>`_)
156 Usability, bells and whistles
157 -----------------------------
158 * The submodules widget can now be used to add submodules.
159 Submodules are now updated recursively.
160 (`#534 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/534>`_)
162 * The image diff viewer can now be toggled between text and image modes.
163 This is helpful when, for example, diffing .svg files where it can be useful
164 to see diffs in both an image and text representation.
165 (`#859 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/859>`_)
166 (`#1035 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1035>`_)
168 * The default `ssh-askpass` username + password dialog included with Git Cola
169 can now toggle between showing and masking the password input field.
170 (`#1069 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1069>`_)
174 * Updated Polish translation.
175 (`#1076 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1076>`_)
177 * Updated Hungarian translation.
178 (`#1067 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1067>`_)
182 * The `share/appdata` AppStream data was renamed to `share/metainfo`
183 in accordance with `AppStream standard changes from 2016
184 <https://github.com/ximion/appstream/blob/master/NEWS#L1363>`_.
185 (`#1079 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1079>`_)
187 * The ``cola`` modules are now installed into the Python ``site-packages``
188 directory by default. This allows distributions to package ``git-cola`` for
189 multiple versions of Python. See the PACKAGING NOTES section in the README
190 for details about suppressing the installation of the private
191 ``share/git-cola/lib/cola`` modules when building cola.
192 (`#181 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/181>`_)
194 * Git Cola's rebase / sequence editor, formerly known as ``git-xbase`` and
195 installed as ``share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase``, has been renamed to
196 ``git-cola-sequence-editor`` and is now installed into the default
197 ``bin/git-cola-sequence-editor`` executable location to enable external
198 reuse of this general-purpose tool.
200 * A workaround used by the pynsist installer preamble script was obsoleted by
201 `takluyver/pynsist#149 <https://github.com/takluyver/pynsist/pull/149>`_
202 and has now been removed.
203 (`#1073 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1073>`_)
207 * `git dag` now uses integer widths when initializing its brushes.
208 (`#1080 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1080>`_)
215 Usability, bells and whistles
216 -----------------------------
217 * The ``git-xbase`` rebase editor now includes a file list for filtering
218 the changes displayed in the diff view.
219 (`#1051 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1051>`_)
221 * The fallback `ssh-askpass` script, which provides the Username/Password
222 login dialog when performing remote operations, previously presented both
223 the username and password input fields with ``***`` asterisks.
224 The dialog now uses asterisks for the password field only.
225 (`#1026 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1026>`_)
227 * Stashes can now be applied using the `Ctrl + Enter` hotkey, popped with the
228 `Ctrl + Backspace` hotkey, and dropped with the `Ctrl + Shift + Backspace`
229 hotkey when inside the stash dialog. This enables a keyboard-centric
230 mouse-free workflow when using the stash dialog.
232 * When amending a commit, `git cola` will check whether the commit has been
233 published to a remote branch using ``git branch -r --contains HEAD``.
234 This command can be slow when operating on a repository with many
235 remote branches. The new `cola.checkpublishedcommits` configuration
236 variable allows you to opt-out of this check, which improves performance
237 when amending a commit. The settings widget exposes this variable as,
238 "Check Published Commits when Amending".
239 (`#1021 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1021>`_)
240 (`#1027 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1027>`_)
244 * Updated Polish translation.
245 (`#1033 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1033>`_)
249 * ``git-dag.appdata.xml`` was updated to allow network access for author icons.
250 (`#1050 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1050>`_)
252 * The inotify filesystem monitor now handles
253 `OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files` errors by disabling inotify.
254 (`#1015 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1015>`_)
256 * Typos in various documentation files have been fixed.
257 (`#1025 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1025>`_)
259 * The "Recent Repositories" limit was off by one, and now correctly
260 remembers the configured number of repositories in the menu.
261 (`#1024 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1024>`_)
263 * The "revert" action in the DAG and other tools now uses
264 ``git revert --no-edit``, which avoids launching an editor
265 when reverting the commit. Use `Ctrl+m` in the commit message
266 editor after reverting a commit to rewrite its commit message.
267 (`#1020 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1020>`_)
274 Usability, bells and whistles
275 -----------------------------
276 * The remote editor is much faster since it no longer queries
277 remotes, and uses the cached information instead.
278 (`#986 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/986>`_)
280 * Commit message templates can now be loaded automatically by setting
281 ``git config cola.autoloadcommittemplate true``.
282 (`#1013 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1013>`_)
283 (`#735 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/735>`_)
285 * The UI layout can now be reset back to its initial state by selecting
286 the "Reset Layout" action. This reverts the layout to the same state
287 as when the app first launched.
288 (`#1008 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1008>`_)
289 (`#994 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/994>`_)
291 * Files can now be ignored in either the project's `.gitignore`, or in the
292 repository's private local `.git/info/exclude` ignore file.
293 (`#1006 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1006>`_)
294 (`#1000 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1000>`_)
296 * New remotes are now selected when they are added in the "Edit Remotes" tool.
297 (`#1002 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1002>`_)
299 * The "Recent" repositories list is now saved to disk when opening a
300 repository. Previously, this list was only updated when exiting the app.
301 (`#1001 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1001>`_)
303 * The bookmarks tool now has a "Delete" option in its right-click menu.
304 (`#999 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/999>`_)
306 * The current repository is no longer listed in the "File/Open Recent" menu.
307 (`#998 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/998>`_)
311 * Updated Hungarian translation.
312 (`#1005 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1005>`_)
313 (`#1018 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1018>`_)
315 * Updated Turkish translation.
316 (`#1003 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1003>`_)
317 (`#1011 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1011>`_)
321 * Better support for Python 3.8's line buffering modes.
322 (`#1014 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1014>`_)
324 * The default `ssh-askpass` script now uses a more generic `#!` shebang line.
325 (`#1012 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1012>`_)
327 * Fetch, push, and pull operations will now refresh the model and display when
329 (`#996 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/996>`_)
331 * The branches widget now refreshes its display when changing branches.
332 (`#992 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/992>`_)
336 * The `share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase` script will now have its `#!` lines
337 updated during installation.
338 (`#991 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/991>`_)
342 * The unit tests were made more platform-independent.
343 (`#993 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/993>`_)
350 Usability, bells and whistles
351 -----------------------------
352 * Auto-completion for filenames can now be disabled. This speeds up
353 revision completion when working in large repositories with many files.
354 (`#981 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/981>`_)
356 * The Stash dialog now shows the stash date as a tooltip when hovering
357 over a stashed change.
358 (`#982 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/982>`_)
360 * Qt HiDPI settings are overridden by the `git cola` HiDPI appearance settings.
361 These overrides can now be disabled by selecting the "Disable" mode.
362 This allows users to control Qt's HiDPI settings through environment
363 variables. Additionally, the "Auto" mode now detects the presence of
364 the Qt HiDPI variables and no longer overrides them when the user has
365 configured their environment explicitly.
366 (`#963 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/963>`_)
368 * Confirmation dialogs can now focus buttons using the Tab key.
369 Previously, the "Y" and "N" keys could be used to confirm or deny
370 using the keyboard, but "Tab" is more familiar.
371 (`#965 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/965>`_)
373 * Error dialogs (for example, when a commit hook fails) will now always
374 show the details. The details were previously hidden behind a toggle.
375 (`#968 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/968>`_)
379 * Updated Japanese translation.
380 (`#973 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/973>`_)
381 (`#974 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/974>`_)
383 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation.
384 (`#950 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/950>`_)
388 * The filesystem monitor no longer logs that it has been enabled after the
389 inotify watch limit is reached on Linux.
390 (`#984 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/984>`_)
392 * Better unicode robustness.
393 (`#990 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/990>`_)
394 (`#910 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/991>`_)
396 * The "Branches" widget did not always update itself when deleting branches
397 (for example, when inotify is disabled or unavailable).
398 (`#978 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/978>`_)
400 * Non-ascii unicode byte strings are more robustly handled by the log widget.
401 (`#977 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/977>`_)
403 * Non-unicode results from the `gettext` library are more robustly handled.
404 (`#969 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/969>`_)
406 * Launching `git cola` from within a directory that has since been deleted
407 would previously result in a traceback, and is now robustly handled.
408 (`#961 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/961>`_)
412 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.9`.
419 Usability, bells and whistles
420 -----------------------------
421 * The file browser now includes "Blame" in its context menu.
422 (`#953 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/953>`_)
424 * The "Push" action now uses "git push --force-with-lease" when using
425 the "Force" option with Git v1.8.5 and newer.
426 (`#946 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/946>`_)
428 * Updated German translation.
429 (`#936 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/936>`_)
431 * The `Status` widget learned to optionally display file counts in its
432 category headers, and indent the files displayed in each category.
433 (`#931 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/931>`_)
435 * The `Branches` widget can now sort branches by their most recent commit.
436 (`#930 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/930>`_)
438 * `git cola` now includes configurable GUI themes that can be used to style
439 the user interface. Enable the new themes by configuring `cola.theme`
440 in the preferences window. See the
441 `cola.theme documentation <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#cola-theme>`_
442 for more details. (`#924 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/924>`_)
444 * `git cola` now has built-in support for HiDPI displays by enabling
445 Qt's 5.6's `QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR` feature.
446 (`#938 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/938>`_)
448 * `git cola` now uses HiDPI pixmaps when rendering icons, and the builtin
449 icons have been updated to look sharp when displayed in HiDPI.
450 (`#932 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/932>`_)
454 * `git cola`'s "Revert Unstaged Edits" previously checked out from "HEAD^",
455 when in "Amend" mode, and removing staged changes. This behavior has been
456 changed to always checkout from the index, which avoids data loss.
457 (`#947 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/947>`_)
459 * `git cola` has been updated to work with newer versions of `gnome-terminal`
460 and no longer shell-quotes its arguments when launching `gnome-terminal`.
461 The `cola.terminalshellquote` configuration variable can be set to `true` to
462 get the old behavior, or to handle other terminals that take the command to run
463 as a single string instead of as arguments to `execv()`.
464 (`#935 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/935>`_)
466 * `git dag` now properly handles arbitrary input on Python3.
467 Previously, an exception would be raised when entering `--grep=xxx` where
468 `xxx` is a quoted string with a missing end-quote.
469 (`#941 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/941>`_)
473 * The contribution guidelines for contributors has been updated to mention
474 how to regenerate the `*.mo` message files.
475 (`#934 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/934>`_)
482 Usability, bells and whistles
483 -----------------------------
484 * `git dag` improved how it renders parent commits.
485 (`#921 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/921>`_)
487 * The `Branches` widget now checks out branches when double-clicked.
488 (`#920 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/920>`_)
490 * The new `Submodules` widget makes it easy to interact with submodules.
491 Additionally, submodules can now be updated using the `Status` widget.
492 (`#916 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/916>`_)
494 * Updated Japanese translation.
495 (`#914 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/914>`_)
497 * The "Open Terminal" action now launches a Git Bash shell on Windows.
498 (`#913 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/913>`_)
500 * New menu actions for updating all submodules.
501 (`#911 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/911>`_)
503 * The status widget can now update submodules.
504 (`#911 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/911>`_)
506 * The "Apply Patch" `git cola am` dialog now includes a diff viewer
507 to display the contents of the selected patch.
509 * The "Alt+D" diffstat hotkey now selects the staged/modified/etc.
510 header in the Status widget, which shows the totality of everything
511 that will be committed.
512 (`#771 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/771>`_)
514 * Running "Launch Editor" from the diff editor now opens the editor at the
516 (`#898 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/898>`_)
518 * The textwidth and tabwidth configuration values can now be set
519 per-repository, rather than globally only.
521 * Text entry widgets switched to using a block cursor in `v3.2`.
522 This has been reverted to the original line cursor for consistency
523 with other applications and user expectations.
524 (`#889 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/889>`_)
526 * The "edit at line" feature, used by the "Grep" tool, now supports
527 the Sublime text editor.
528 (`#894 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/894>`_)
532 * Launching external programs has been improved on Windows.
533 (`#925 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/925>`_)
535 * Improve compatibility when using PySide2.
536 (`#912 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/912>`_)
538 * The Diff Editor was not honoring the configured tab width on startup.
539 (`#900 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/900>`_)
541 * The "Delete Files" feature was creating an unreadable display when
542 many files were selected. Word-wrap the list of files so that the
543 display stays within a sensible size.
544 (`#895 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/895>`_)
546 * Spelling and grammar fixes.
547 (`#915 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/915>`_)
548 (`#891 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/891>`_)
552 * The logo was run through `tidy` to give it a consistent style.
553 Some technical issues with the logo were improved.
554 (`#877 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/877>`_)
556 * The entire codebase is now checked by `flake8`, rather than just
557 the module and test directories. This catches things like
558 the pynsist installer scripts.
559 (`#884 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/884>`_)
560 (`#882 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/882>`_)
561 (`#879 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/879>`_)
565 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.6`.
567 * The Windows installer's wrapper scripts were missing an import.
568 (`#878 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/878>`_)
575 Usability, bells and whistles
576 -----------------------------
577 * The `git cola dag` DAG window now supports `git revert`.
578 (`#843 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/843>`_)
580 * `git stash pop` is now supported by the stash dialog.
581 (`#844 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/844>`_)
583 * The status widget now ensures that each item is visible when selection
584 changes. Previously, if you scrolled to the right to see the name of
585 a long filename, and then selected a short filename above it, the widget
586 may not have shown the short filename in the viewport. We now ensure
587 that the filenames are visible when the selection changes.
588 (`#828 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/828>`_)
590 * The `git xbase` rebase editor no longer displays an error when
591 cancelling an interactive rebase.
592 (`#814 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814>`_)
594 * The dialog shown when renaming remotes has been simplified.
595 (`#840 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/840>`_)
596 (`#838 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/838>`_)
598 * The help dialog in the `git-xbase` Rebase editor is now scrollable.
599 (`#855 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/855>`_)
603 * Updated Brazilian translation.
604 (`#845 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/845>`_)
606 * Updated Czech translation.
607 (`#854 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/854>`_)
608 (`#853 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/853>`_)
609 (`#835 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/835>`_)
610 (`#813 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/813>`_)
612 * Update Spanish translation.
613 (`#862 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/862>`_)
614 (`#867 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/867>`_)
618 * The original `#!/usr/bin/env python` shebang lines can now be
619 retained by passing `USE_ENV_PYTHON=1` to `make` when installing.
620 (`#850 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/850>`_)
622 * The Makefile is now resilient to DESTDIR and prefix containing whitespace.
623 (`#858 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/858>`_)
625 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.4.2`.
627 * `python3-distutils` is needed to build cola on Debian.
628 (`#837 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/837>`_)
632 * The "C" key no longer closes the message dialogs, for example the
633 one that is shown when a commit fails its pre-commit hooks.
634 This allows "Ctrl+C" copy to work, rather than closing the dialog.
635 (`#734 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/734>`_)
637 * Dock widgets sizes are now properly saved and restored when the main
639 (`#848 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/848>`_)
641 * The spellcheck feature was broken under Python3.
642 (`#857 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/857>`_)
644 * A regression when saving stashes was fixed.
645 (`#847 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/847>`_)
647 * Diffing image files was not updating the available context menus,
648 which prevented the "Stage" action from being present in the menu.
649 (`#841 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/841>`_)
651 * `git cola` now detects when `git lfs uninstall` has been run. This allows
652 you to re-initialize "Git LFS" in an existing repository where it had been
653 previously uninstalled.
654 (`#842 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/842>`_)
656 * Custom color values that did not contain any hexadecimal digits in the
657 `a-f` range were being converted into integers by the config reader. This
658 then caused the configured colors to be ignored.
660 These color values are now interpreted correctly. Additionally, color
661 values can now use an optional HTML-like `#` prefix.
663 Example `.gitconfig` snippet::
668 (`#836 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/836>`_)
669 (`#849 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/849>`_)
671 * We now display an error message graphically when `Git` is not installed.
672 Previously, the message went to stderr only.
673 (`#830 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/830>`_)
675 * Changing diff options was causing resulting in an exception.
676 (`#833 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/833>`_)
677 (`#834 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/834>`_)
679 * The DAG window now updates itself when branches and tags are created.
680 (`#814 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814>`_)
682 * The user's `$PATH` environment variable can now contain utf-8
683 encoded paths. Previously, launching external commands could
685 (`#807 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/807>`_)
687 * Git Cola development sandboxes can now be stored on utf-8 encoded
688 filesystem paths. Previously, the interactive rebase feature
689 could be broken when running in that environment.
690 (`#825 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/825>`_)
692 * The log window now uses an ISO-8601 timestamp, which
693 avoids localized output in the log window.
694 (`#817 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/817>`_)
698 * The code base has been thoroughly sanitized using `pylint`, and
699 travis is now running pylint over the entire project.
701 * Miscellaneous improvements and code improvements.
702 (`#874 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/874>`_)
709 Usability, bells and whistles
710 -----------------------------
711 * The "Browser" widget learned to rename files using "git mv".
712 (`#239 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/239>`_)
714 * The "Diff" widget learned to diff images. Side-by-side and pixel diff
715 modes allow you to inspect changes to common images formats.
716 (`#444 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/444>`_)
717 (`#803 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/803>`_)
719 * Git LFS and Git Annex are natively supported by the image diff viewer.
721 * Git Annex operations are now included. `git annex init` can be performed on
722 repositories, and `git annex add` can be run on untracked files from the
723 status widget. Install `git-annex` to activate this feature.
725 * Git LFS operations are now included. `git lfs install` can be performed on
726 repositories, and `git lfs track` can be run on untracked files from the
727 status widget. Install `git-lfs` to activate this feature.
729 * The "Stash" tool learned to stash staged changes only. Select the
730 "Stage Index" option and only staged changes will be stashed away.
731 (`#413 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/413>`_)
733 * The "Stash" tool learned to use vim-like navigation keyboard shortcuts,
734 shows error messages when things go wrong, and now saves the "Stash Index"
735 and "Keep Index" options across sessions.
737 * The Edit menu's "Copy" and "Select All" actions now forward to either the
738 diff, status, recent, or favorites widgets, based on which widget has focus.
740 * The "File" and "Edit" menu can now be activated using `Alt-{f,e}` hotkeys.
741 (`#759 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/759>`_)
743 * It was easy to accidentally trigger the first action in the `Status` tool's
744 context menu when using a quick right-click to bring up the menu.
745 A short sub-second delay was added to ensure that the top-most action is not
746 triggered unless enough time has passed. This prevents accidental
747 activation of the first item (typically "Stage" or "Unstage") without
748 burdening common use cases.
749 (`#755 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/755>`_)
750 (`#643 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/643>`_)
752 * The "Ctrl+S" hotkey now works for the header items in the Status tool.
753 Selected the "Modified" header item and activating the "Stage" hotkey,
754 for example, will stage all modified files. This works for the "Staged",
755 "Modified", and "Untracked" headers. This is not enabled for the
756 "Unmerged" header by design.
757 (`#772 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/772>`_)
759 * The list of "Recent" repositories previously capped the number of
760 repositories shown to 8 repositories. This can be set to a higher
761 value by setting the `cola.maxrecent` configuration variable.
762 (`#752 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/752>`_)
764 * The "Create Branch" dialog now prevents invalid branch names.
765 (`#765 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/765>`_)
767 * Updated Turkish translation.
768 (`#756 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/756>`_)
770 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
771 (`#753 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/753>`_)
773 * Updated German translation.
774 (`#802 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/802>`_)
776 * Updated Czech translation
777 (`#792 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/792>`_)
778 (`#806 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/806>`_)
780 * The window title can be configured to not display the absolute path of the
782 (`#775 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/775>`_)
784 * The "Edit Remotes" editor learned to edit remote URLS.
786 * Bare repositories can now be created by selecting the
787 "New Bare Repository..." action from the `File` menu.
789 * The "Branches" widget learned to configure upstream branches.
791 * A new `git cola clone` sub-command was added for cloning repositories.
795 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.3.1`.
797 * The macOS installation was made simpler for better compatibility with
799 (`#636 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/636>`_)
801 * The Windows installer is now much simpler. Git Cola now bundles
802 Python and PyQt5, so users need only install the "Git for Windows"
803 and "Git Cola" installers to get things working.
807 * Uninitialized difftool errors will now be displayed graphically.
808 They were previously going to the shell.
809 (`#457 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/457>`_)
811 * Translations marked "fuzzy" will no longer be used when translating strings.
812 (`#782 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/782>`_)
814 * Deleted unmerged files will now correctly use a deleted icon.
815 (`#479 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/479>`_)
817 * The `Ctrl+C` "Copy" hotkey on the diff viewer has been fixed.
818 (`#767 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/767>`_)
820 * The "Create Tag" dialog did not correctly handle the case when a signed
821 tag is requested, but no message is provided, and the user chooses to
822 create an unannotated tag instead. This convenience fallback will now
823 properly create an unsigned, unannotated tag.
824 (`#696 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/696>`_)
826 * `.gitconfig` and `.git/config` values editable by the Preferences dialog
827 (aka `git cola config`) will now get unset when set to an empty value.
828 For example, setting a different `user.email` in the current repository,
829 followed by a subsequent emptying of that field, would previously result in
830 an empty string getting stored in the config. This has been fixed so that
831 the value will now get unset in the config instead.
832 (`#406 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/406>`_)
834 * Spelling and typofixes.
835 (`#748 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/748>`_)
837 * `core.commentChar` is now honored when set in the local repository
839 (`#766 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/766>`_)
841 * The log window was using a format string that did not display
842 correctly in all locales. A locale-aware format is now used.
843 (`#800 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/800>`_)
845 * The dialog displayed when prompting for a reference could sometimes
847 (`#804 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/804>`_)
854 Usability, bells and whistles
855 -----------------------------
856 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation.
857 (`#726 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/726>`_)
859 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
860 (`#723 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/723>`_)
862 * New Czech translation.
863 (`#736 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/736>`_)
864 (`#737 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/737>`_)
865 (`#740 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/740>`_)
866 (`#743 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/743>`_)
868 * The "name" field in the "Create Tag" dialog now includes autocompletion,
869 which makes it easy to see which tags currently exist.
871 * `git cola` now has configurable toolbars. Use the `View -> Add toolbar`
872 menu item to add a toolbar.
874 * Setting `cola.expandtab` to `true` will now expand tabs into spaces
875 in the commit message editor. The number of spaces to insert is determined
876 by consulting `cola.tabwidth`, which defaults to `8`.
878 * The "Copy SHA-1" hotkey is now `Alt + Ctrl + C`, to avoid clobbering the
879 ability to copy text from the DAG window.
880 (`#705 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/705>`_)
882 * The "Prepare Commit Message" action can now be invoked via the
883 `Ctrl+Shift+Return` shortcut.
884 (`#707 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/707>`_)
886 * The `Branches` pane now has a filter field that highlights branches whose
887 names match the string entered into its text field.
888 (`#713 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/713>`_)
890 * Actions that are triggered in response to button presses were being
891 triggered when the button was pressed, rather than when it was released,
892 which was a usability flaw. All buttons now respond when clicked
893 rather than when pressed.
894 (`#715 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/715>`_)
896 * The DAG window will now only refresh when object IDs change.
897 Previously, the DAG would redraw itself in response to inotify events,
898 such as filesystem operations, which was disruptive when inspecting a large
899 diff in its diff viewer. The DAG will now only redraw when the object IDs
900 corresponding to its query input changes. Furthermore, when redrawing, the
901 scrollbar positions are retained to minimize disruption to the viewport
903 (`#620 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/620>`_)
904 (`#724 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/724>`_)
906 * The "About" dialog now includes the SHA-1 where Git Cola was built.
907 (`#530 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/530>`_)
909 * The "Status" widget now has "Copy Leading Path to Clipboard" and
910 "Copy Basename to Clipboard" actions.
911 (`#435 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/435>`_)
912 (`#436 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/436>`_)
914 * The "Status" widget now supports custom "Copy ... to Clipboard" actions.
915 (`#437 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/437>`_)
917 * The main menu now has an "Edit" menu.
918 (`#725 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/725>`_)
920 * `git dag` learned to checkout commits into a detached HEAD state.
921 (`#698 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/698>`_)
923 * The `status` widget's context menus now omit actions selection-dependent
924 actions when no file is selected.
925 (`#731 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/731>`_)
927 * The startup dialog now focuses the repository list so that repositories
928 can be selected with the keyboard without mouse intervention.
929 (`#741 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/741>`_)
933 * `git dag` now prevents nodes from overlapping in more situations.
934 (`#689 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/689>`_)
936 * Adding untracked Git submodule repo directories previously ran
937 `git add submodule/` but we now call `git add submodule` without
938 the trailing slash (`/`) to avoid staging files that belong to the
939 submodule (which is possibly a `git` bug). By working around the
940 buggy behavior we allow users to recover by issuing the appropriate
941 `git submodule add` command to properly register the submodule.
942 (`#681 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/681>`_)
944 * We now avoid `git for-each-ref --sort=version:refname` on versions
945 of `git` older than `v2.7.0`. Previously we only avoided it for
946 versions older than `v2.0.0`, which was a mistake.
947 (`#686 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686>`_)
949 * The error message displayed when `git` is not installed has been fixed.
950 (`#686 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686>`_)
952 * Adding new remotes was silently broken.
953 (`#684 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/684>`_)
954 (`#685 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/685>`_)
956 * The repo selection dialog had errors during startup when the
957 `cola.refreshonfocus` feature was enabled, as reported on Ubuntu 16.04.
958 (`#690 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/690>`_)
960 * Restored support for PyQt 4.6 (Centos 6.8)
961 (`#692 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/692>`_)
963 * Switching repositories now resets the "Amend Mode" and other settings
965 (`#710 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/710>`_)
967 * `git rebase` error messages now displayed when rebasing fails or stops
968 via the standalone `git cola rebase` front-end.
969 (`#721 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/721>`_)
971 * `git cola` learned to stage broken symlinks.
972 (`#727 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/727>`_)
974 * The "View History" feature in the `Browser` tool was fixed, and now
975 disambiguates between refs and paths.
976 (`#732 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/732>`_)
978 * The diff editor now has better support for files with CRLF `\r\n`
980 (`#730 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/730>`_)
982 * `cola.inotify` in a repo-local config is now honored
983 when `git cola` is launched from a desktop entry (`git cola --prompt`).
984 (`#695 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/695>`_)
991 Usability, bells and whistles
992 -----------------------------
993 * New Ukrainian translation.
994 (`#670 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/670>`_)
995 (`#672 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/672>`_)
997 * New and improved French translations.
999 * The new `Branches` widget makes it easier to checkout, merge, push,
1000 and pull branches from a single interface.
1002 * `git cola` now includes a dark icon theme. The dark icon theme can be
1003 activated either by setting the `GIT_COLA_ICON_THEME` environment variable
1004 to `dark`, by configuring `cola.icontheme` to `dark`, or by specifying
1005 `--icon-theme=dark` on the command line.
1006 (`#638 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/638>`_)
1008 * Autocompletion was added to the `Fetch`, `Push`, and `Pull` dialogs.
1010 * The commit message editor now remembers the "Spellcheck" setting
1012 (`#645 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/645>`_)
1014 * `git dag` now uses an improved algorithm for laying out the graph,
1015 which avoids collisions under certain graph configurations, and
1016 avoids overlapping tag with commits.
1017 (`#648 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/648>`_)
1018 (`#651 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/651>`_)
1019 (`#654 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/654>`_)
1020 (`#656 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/656>`_)
1021 (`#659 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/659>`_)
1023 * `git dag` now remembers its column sizes across sessions.
1024 (`#674 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/674>`_)
1026 * `Grep` now shows a preview of the selected file's content in a split window
1027 below the grep results.
1029 * `Grep` now includes line numbers in the preview pane's output.
1031 * `Edit Remotes` now remembers its window settings after exiting.
1033 * `Diff` now has an option to display line numbers in the editor.
1034 (`#136 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/136>`_)
1036 * `Amend Last Commit` can now be triggered via the `Commit` menu in addition
1037 to the commit message editor's options.
1038 (`#640 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/640>`_)
1040 * The `File Browser` tool was made much faster and can now operate on
1041 much larger repositories.
1042 (`#499 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/499>`_)
1044 * A new "turbo" mode was added that allows you to opt-out of operations
1045 that can slow `git cola` on large repositories. The turbo mode is
1046 enabled by configuring `git config cola.turbo true`. Turbo mode
1047 disables the background loading of Git commit messages and other
1048 details in the `File Browser` widget.
1050 * A new GitIgnore dialog allows adding custom gitignore patterns.
1051 (`#653 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/653>`_)
1053 * The spellchecker in `git cola` can now use an additional dictionary
1054 by configuring `cola.dictionary` to the path to a file containing
1055 a newline-separated list of words.
1056 (`#663 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663>`_)
1058 * The stash, export patches, diff, and gitignore dialogs now remember
1061 * A new `git cola recent` sub-command was added for finding recently
1064 * The `Fetch` dialog now allows pruning remote branches.
1065 (`#639 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/639>`_)
1066 (`#680 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/680>`_)
1070 * `git cola`'s spellchecker now supports the new `dict-common` filesystem
1071 layout, and prefers the `/usr/share/dict/cracklib-small` file over the
1072 `/usr/share/dict/words` provided on older distributions.
1073 This makes the spellchecker compatible with Arch, which does not provide
1074 a `words` symlink like Debian.
1075 (`#663 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663>`_)
1077 * Properly handle the case where an existing file is untracked using
1080 * Fix a quirk where the "Create Branch" dialog sometimes required clicking
1081 twice on the radio buttons.
1082 (`#662 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/662>`_)
1084 * Fixed a focus issue to ensure that "Push", "Fetch", and "Pull" can
1085 be executed with the press of a single enter key after being shown.
1086 (`#661 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/661>`_)
1088 * Committing is now allowed in when resolving a merge results in no
1089 changes. This state was previously prevented by the commit message editor,
1090 which prevented users from resolving merges that result in no changes.
1091 (`#679 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/679>`_)
1093 * The filesystem monitor would sometimes emit backtraces when directories
1094 are modified. This has been fixed.
1095 (`bz #1438522 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438522>`_)
1097 * Absolute paths are now returned when querying for `.git`-relative paths
1098 from within a submodule, which uses `.git`-files.
1099 This fixes launching `git cola` from within a subdirectory of a submodule.
1100 (`#675 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/675>`_)
1107 Usability, bells and whistles
1108 -----------------------------
1109 * `git cola` can now invoke the `.git/hooks/cola-prepare-commit-msg`
1110 hook to update the commit message. This hook takes the same parameters
1111 as Git's `prepare-commit-message` hook. The default path to this hook
1112 can be overridden by setting the `cola.prepareCommitMessageHook`
1113 configuration variable.
1114 (`Documentation <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#prepare-commit-message>`_)
1116 * `git cola diff` (and the corresponding `Diff` menu actions) can now
1117 launch difftool with the standard `Ctrl+D` hotkey. The `Ctrl+E` hotkey was
1118 also added for launching an editor.
1120 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
1124 * `git cola` now works when installed in non-ascii, utf8-encoded paths.
1125 (`#629 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/629>`_)
1127 * Styling issues that caused black backgrounds in various widgets when using
1128 PyQ5 on Mac OS X have been fixed.
1129 (`#624 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/624>`_)
1131 * The "Open Recent" menu action was broken and has been fixed.
1132 (`#634 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/634>`_)
1134 * Exiting `git cola` with a maximized main window would hang when reopened
1136 (`#641 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/641>`_)
1140 * `appdata.xml` files are now provided at
1141 `share/appdata/git-cola.xml` and `share/appdata/git-dag.xml`
1142 for use by the Linux software gallery.
1143 (`#627 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/627>`_)
1144 (`Appdata <https://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/>`_)
1153 * The "Open Recent" menu was updated to new bookmarks format.
1154 (`#628 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/628>`_)
1161 Usability, bells and whistles
1162 -----------------------------
1163 * New Polish translation thanks to Łukasz Wojniłowicz
1164 (`#598 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/598>`_)
1166 * The `Bypass Commit Hooks` feature now disables itself automatically
1167 when a new commit is created. The new behavior turns the option into a
1168 single-use flag, which helps prevent users from accidentally leaving it
1169 active longer than intended.
1170 (`#595 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/595>`_)
1172 * `git dag` learned to launch an external diff viewer on selected commits.
1173 The standard `Ctrl+D` shortcut can be used to view diffs.
1174 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1176 * `git dag` learned to launch directory diffs via `git difftool --dir-diff`.
1177 The `Ctrl+Shift+D` shortcut launches difftool in directory-diff mode.
1178 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1180 * Items in the "Favorites" list can now be renamed, which makes it
1181 easier to differentiate between several checkouts of the same repository.
1182 (`#599 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/599>`_)
1183 (`#601 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/601>`_)
1185 * The startup screen now includes a logo and `git cola` version information.
1186 (`#526 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/526>`_)
1188 * The `About` page was revamped to contain multiple tabs. A new tab was added
1189 that provides details about `git cola`''s dependencies. New tabs were also
1190 added for giving credit to `git cola`'s authors and translators.
1192 * The `About` page can now be accessed via `git cola about`.
1194 * The "Fast-forward only" and "No fast-forward" options supported by
1195 `git pull` are now accessible via `git cola pull`.
1197 * Doing a forced push no longer requires selecting the remote branch.
1198 (`#618 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/618>`_)
1200 * `git cola push` now has an option to suppress the prompt that is shown
1201 when pushing would create new remote branches.
1202 (`#605 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/605>`_)
1204 * `git dag` now shows commit messages in a more readable color.
1205 (`#574 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/574>`_)
1207 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch the OS-specified
1208 default action for a file. When used on directories via `git cola browse`,
1209 or when "Open Parent Directory" is used on files, the OS-specified
1210 file browser will typically be used.
1212 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch terminals.
1216 * `git cola browse` was not updating when expanding items.
1217 (`#588 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/588>`_)
1219 * Typofixes in comments, naming, and strings have been applied.
1220 (`#593 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/593>`_)
1222 * The inotify and win32 filesystem monitoring no longer refreshes
1223 when updates are made to ignored files.
1224 (`#517 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/517>`_)
1225 (`#516 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/516>`_)
1227 * The `Refresh` button on the actions panel no longer raises an
1228 exception when using PyQt5.
1229 (`#604 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/604>`_)
1231 * Fixed a typo in the inotify backend that is triggered when files are removed.
1232 (`#607 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/607>`_)
1234 * Fixed a typo when recovering from a failed attempt to open a repository.
1235 (`#606 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/606>`_)
1237 * `git dag` now properly updates itself when launched from the menubar.
1238 (`#613 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/613>`_)
1240 * If git-cola is invoked on Windows using `start pythonw git-cola`,
1241 a console window will briefly flash on the screen each time
1242 `git cola` invokes `git`. The console window is now suppressed.
1244 * We now avoid some problematic Popen flags on Windows which were
1245 breaking the `git rebase` feature on Windows.
1247 * The `Save` button in `git dag`'s "Grab File..." feature now properly
1248 prompts for a filename when saving files.
1249 (`#617 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/617>`_)
1253 * The `qtpy` symlink in the source tree has been removed to allow for easier
1254 development on Windows.
1255 (`#626 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/626>`_)
1262 Usability, bells and whistles
1263 -----------------------------
1264 * `git cola push` learned to configure upstream branches.
1265 (`#563 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/563>`_)
1269 * The diffstat view is now properly updated when notifications are
1270 received via inotify filesystem monitoring.
1271 (`#577 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/577>`_)
1273 * Python3 with PyQt5 had a bug that prevented `git cola` from starting.
1274 (`#589 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/589>`_)
1284 * When repositories stored in non-ASCII, UTF-8-encoded filesystem paths
1285 were operated upon with `LC_ALL=C` set in the environment, unicode errors
1286 would occur when using `python2`. `git cola` was made more robust and will
1287 now operate correctly within this environment.
1288 (`#581 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/581>`_)
1290 * Support for the `GIT_WORK_TREE` environment variable was fixed.
1291 (`#582 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/582>`_)
1296 * The `unittest.mock` module is now used instead of the original `mock` module
1297 when running the `git cola` test suite using Python3.
1298 (`#569 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/569>`_)
1303 * `git cola` is now compatible with *PyQt5*, *PyQt4*, and *Pyside*.
1304 `git cola` previously supported *PyQt4* only, but will now use whichever
1305 library is available. Users are not required to upgrade at this time,
1306 but *PyQt5* support can be enabled anytime by making its python
1308 (`#232 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/232>`_)
1310 *NOTE*: We do not yet recommend using *PyQt5* because there are known
1311 exit-on-segfault bugs in *Qt5* that have not yet been addressed.
1312 `git cola` is sensitive to this bug and is known to crash on exit
1313 when using `git dag` or the interactive rebase feature on *PyQt5*.
1315 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-52988
1317 *PyQt4* is stable and there are no known issues when using it so
1318 we recommend using it until the Qt5 bugs have been resolved.
1320 * `git cola` now depends on *QtPy* and includes a bundled copy of the
1321 `qtpy` library. If you are packaging `git cola` and would prefer to use
1322 `qtpy` from your distribution instead of the built-in version then use
1323 `make NO_VENDOR_LIBS=1` when building `git cola`. This will prevent
1324 vendored libraries from being installed.
1331 Usability, bells and whistles
1332 -----------------------------
1334 * A new "Reset" sub-menu provides access to running "git reset --mixed"
1335 when resetting branch heads and "git reset --merge" when resetting
1337 (`#542 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/542>`_)
1339 * `git cola` now supports linked worktrees, i.e. worktrees created by
1341 (`#554 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/554>`_)
1346 * Diff highlighting is now robust to the user having
1347 diff.supressBlankEmpty=true in their git config.
1348 (`#541 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/541>`_)
1350 * The filesystem monitor now properly handles repositories that use
1351 `.git`-files, e.g. when using submodules.
1352 (`#545 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/545>`_)
1353 (`#546 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pulls/546>`_)
1355 * Per-repository git configuration is now properly detected when launching
1356 `git cola` from an application launcher.
1357 (`#548 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/548>`_)
1359 * `git cola` now cleans up after itself immediately to avoid leaving behind
1360 empty `/tmp/git-cola-XXXXXX` directories when the user uses `Ctrl+C`
1362 (`#566 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/566>`_)
1367 * It is now possible to install `git cola` to and from utf8-encoded filesystem
1368 paths. Previously, Python's stdlib would throw an encoding error during
1369 installation. We workaround the stdlib by forcing python2 to use utf-8,
1370 thus fixing assumptions in the stdlib library code.
1371 (`#551 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/551>`_)
1378 Usability, bells and whistles
1379 -----------------------------
1381 * The icon for untracked files was adjusted to better differentiate
1382 between files and the "Untracked" header.
1383 (`#509 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/509>`_)
1385 * Ctrl+O was added as a hotkey for opening repositories.
1386 (`#507 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/507>`_)
1388 * `git dag` now uses consistent edge colors across updates.
1389 (`#512 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/512>`_)
1391 * `git cola`'s Bookmarks widget can now be used to set a "Default Repository".
1392 Under the hood, we set the `cola.defaultrepo` configuration variable.
1393 The default repository is used whenever `git cola` is launched outside of
1394 a Git repository. When unset, or when set to a bogus value, `git cola`
1395 will prompt for a repository, as it previously did.
1396 (`#513 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/513>`_)
1398 * `git cola`'s Russian and Spanish translations were improved
1399 thanks to Vaiz and Zeioth.
1400 (`#514 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/514>`_)
1401 (`#515 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/515>`_)
1402 (`#523 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/523>`_)
1404 * `git cola` was translated to Turkish thanks to Barış ÇELİK.
1405 (`#520 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/520>`_)
1407 * The status view now supports launching `git gui blame`. It can be
1408 configured to use a different command by setting `cola.blameviewer`.
1409 (`#521 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/521>`_)
1411 * `git dag` now allows selecting non-contiguous ranges in the log widget.
1412 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1414 * Any font can now be chosen for the diff editor, not just monospace fonts.
1415 (`#525 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/525>`_)
1420 * `xfce4-terminal` and `gnome-terminal` are now supported when launching
1421 `git mergetool` to resolve merges. These terminals require that the command
1422 to execute is shell-quoted and passed as a single string argument to `-e`
1423 rather than as additional command line arguments.
1424 (`#524 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/524>`_)
1426 * Fixed a unicode problem when formatting the error message that is shown
1427 when `gitk` is not installed. We now handle unicode data in tracebacks
1428 generated by python itself.
1429 (`#528 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/528>`_)
1431 * The `New repository` feature was fixed.
1432 (`#533 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/533>`_)
1434 * We now use omit the extended description when creating "fixup!" commits,
1435 for consistency with the Git CLI. We now include only the one-line summary
1436 in the final commit message.
1437 (`#522 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/522>`_)
1444 Usability, bells and whistles
1445 -----------------------------
1447 * The user interface is now HiDPI-capable. git-cola now uses SVG
1448 icons, and its interface can be scaled by setting the `GIT_COLA_SCALE`
1449 environment variable.
1451 * `git dag` now supports the standard editor, difftool, and history hotkeys.
1452 It is now possible to invoke these actions from file widget's context
1453 menu and through the standard hotkeys.
1454 (`#473 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/473>`_)
1456 * The `Status` tool also learned about the history hotkey.
1457 Additionally, the `Alt-{j,k}` aliases are also supported in the `Status`
1458 tool for consistency with the other tools where the non-Alt hotkeys are not
1460 (`#488 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/488>`_)
1462 * The `File Browser` tool now has better default column sizes,
1463 and remembers its window size and placement.
1465 * The `File Browser` now supports the refresh hotkey, and has better
1466 behavior when refreshing. The selection is now retained, and new and
1467 removed files are found when refreshing.
1469 * A new `git-cola-completion.bash` completion script is provided in the
1470 `contrib/` directory. It must be used alongside Git's completion script.
1471 Source it from your `~/.bashrc` (or `~/.zshrc`, etc) after sourcing
1472 the `git-completion.bash` script and you will have command-line completion
1473 support for the `git cola` and `git dag` sub-commands.
1475 * The "checkout" dialog now offers completion for remote branches and other
1476 git refs. This makes it easier to checkout remote branches in a detached
1477 head state. Additionally, the checkout dialog also offers completion for
1478 remote branches that have not yet been checked out, which makes it easier to
1479 create a local tracking branch by just completing for that potential name.
1480 (`#390 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/390>`_)
1482 * The "create branch" and "create tag" dialogs now save and restore their
1485 * The "status" widget can now be configured to use a bold font with a darker
1486 background for the header items.
1487 (`#506 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/506>`_)
1489 * The "status" widget now remembers its horizontol scrollbar position across
1490 updates. This is helpful when working on projects with long paths.
1491 (`#494 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/494>`_)
1496 * When using *Git for Windows*, a `git` window would appear
1497 when running *Windows 8*. We now pass additional flags to
1498 `subprocess.Popen` to prevent a `git` window from appearing.
1499 (`#477 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/477>`_)
1500 (`#486 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/486>`_)
1502 * Launching difftool with `.PY` in `$PATHEXT` on Windows was fixed.
1503 (`#492 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/492>`_)
1505 * Creating a local branch tracking a remote branch that contains
1506 slashes in its name is now properly handled.
1507 (`#496 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/496>`_)
1509 * The "Browse Other Branch" feature was broken by Python3, and is now fixed.
1510 (`#501 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/501>`_)
1512 * We now avoid `long` for better Python3 compatibility.
1513 (`#502 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/502>`_)
1515 * We now use Git's default merge message when merging branches.
1516 (`#508 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/508>`_)
1518 * Miscellaneous fixes
1519 (`#485 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/485>`_)
1524 * git-cola's documentation no longer uses an intersphinx link mapping
1525 to docs.python.org. This fixes warnings when building rpms using koji,
1526 where network access is prevented.
1528 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231812
1535 Usability, bells and whistles
1536 -----------------------------
1538 * The Interactive Rebase feature now works on Windows!
1539 (`#463 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/463>`_)
1541 * The `diff` editor now understands vim-style `hjkl` navigation hotkeys.
1542 (`#476 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/476>`_)
1544 * `Alt-{j,k}` navigation hotkeys were added to allow changing to the
1545 next/previous file from the diff and commit editors.
1547 * The `Rename branch` menu action is now disabled in empty repositories.
1548 (`#475 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/475>`_)
1549 (`#459 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/459>`_)
1551 * `git cola` now checks unmerged files for conflict markers before
1552 staging them. This feature can be disabled in the preferences.
1553 (`#464 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/464>`_)
1555 * `git dag` now remembers which commits were selected when refreshing
1556 so that it can restore the selection afterwards.
1557 (`#480 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/480>`_)
1559 * "Launch Editor", "Launch Difftool", "Stage/Unstage",
1560 and "Move Up/Down" hotkeys now work when the commit message
1562 (`#453 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453>`_)
1564 * The diff editor now supports the `Ctrl+u` hotkey for reverting
1565 diff hunks and selected lines.
1567 * The `core.commentChar` Git configuration value is now honored.
1568 Commit messages and rebase instruction sheets will now use
1569 the configured character for comments. This allows having
1570 commit messages that start with `#` when `core.commentChar`
1571 is configured to its non-default value.
1572 (`#446 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/446>`_)
1577 * Diff syntax highlighting was improved to handle more edge cases
1578 and false positives.
1579 (`#467 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/467>`_)
1581 * Setting commands in the interactive rebase editor was fixed.
1582 (`#472 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/472>`_)
1584 * git-cola no longer clobbers the Ctrl+Backspace text editing shortcut
1585 in the commit message editor.
1586 (`#453 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453>`_)
1588 * The copy/paste clipboard now persists after `git cola` exits.
1589 (`#484 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/484>`_)
1598 * Fixed the "Sign off" feature in the commit message editor.
1605 Usability, bells and whistles
1606 -----------------------------
1607 * Double-click will now choose a commit in the "Select commit" dialog.
1609 * `git cola` has a feature that reads `.git/MERGE_MSG` and friends for the
1610 commit message when a merge is in-progress. Upon refresh, `git cola` will
1611 now detect when a merge has completed and reset the commit message back to
1612 its previous state. It is only reset if the editor contains a message
1613 that was read from the file and has not been manually edited by the user.
1615 * The commit message editor's context menu now has a "Clear..." action for
1616 clearing the message across both the summary and description fields.
1618 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
1620 * The system theme's icons are now used wherever possible.
1621 (`#458 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/458>`_)
1625 * The stash viewer now uses ``git show --no-ext-diff`` to avoid running
1626 user-configured diff tools.
1628 * `git cola` now uses the `setsid()` system call to ensure that the
1629 `GIT_ASKPASS` and `SSH_ASKPASS` helper programs are used when pushing
1630 changes using `git`. The askpass helpers will now be used even when
1631 `git cola` is launched from a terminal.
1633 The behavior without `setsid()` is that `git cola` can appear to hang while
1634 pushing changes. The hang happens when `git` prompts the user for a
1635 password using the terminal, but the user never sees the prompt. `setsid()`
1636 detaches the terminal, which ensures that the askpass helpers are used.
1637 (`#218 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/218>`_)
1638 (`#262 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/262>`_)
1639 (`#377 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/377>`_)
1641 * `git dag`'s file list tool was updated to properly handle unicode paths.
1643 * `gnome-terminal` is no longer used by default when `cola.terminal` is unset.
1644 It is broken, as was detailed in #456.
1645 (`#456 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/456>`_)
1647 * The interactive rebase feature was not always setting `$GIT_EDITOR`
1648 to the value of `gui.editor`, thus there could be instances where rebase
1649 will seem to not stop, or hang, when performing "reword" actions.
1651 We now set the `$GIT_EDITOR` environment variable when performing the
1652 "Continue", "Skip", and "Edit Todo" rebase actions so that the correct
1653 editor is used during the rebase.
1654 (`#445 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/445>`_)
1658 * `git cola` moved from a 3-part version number to a simpler 2-part "vX.Y"
1659 version number. Most of our releases tend to contain new features.
1665 Usability, bells and whistles
1666 -----------------------------
1667 * Updated zh_TW translations.
1669 * `git cola rebase` now defaults to `@{upstream}`, and generally uses the same
1670 CLI syntax as `git rebase`.
1672 * The commit message editor now allows you to bypass commit hooks by selecting
1673 the "Bypass Commit Hooks" option. This is equivalent to passing the
1674 `--no-verify` option to `git commit`.
1675 (`#357 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/357>`_)
1677 * We now prevent the "Delete Files" action from creating a dialog that does
1679 (`#378 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/378>`_)
1681 * `git xbase` learned to edit rebase instruction sheets that contain
1684 * The diff colors are now configurable. `cola.color.{text,add,remove,header}`
1685 can now be set with 6-digit hexadecimal colors.
1686 See the `git cola manual <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#configuration-variables>_`
1689 * Improved hotkey documentation.
1693 * `git cola` will now allow starting an interactive rebase with a dirty
1694 worktree when `rebase.autostash` is set.
1695 (`#360 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/360>`_)
1701 Usability, bells and whistles
1702 -----------------------------
1703 * A new "Find files" widget was added, and can be activated by
1704 using the `Ctrl+t` or `t` hotkeys.
1706 * A new `git cola find` sub-command was added for finding files.
1708 * `git cola` now remembers the text cursor's position when staging
1709 interactively with the keyboard. This makes it easier to use the keyboard
1710 arrows to select and stage lines.
1712 * The completion widgets will now select the top completion item
1713 when `Enter` or `Return` are pressed.
1715 * You can now refresh using `F5` in addition to the existing `Ctrl+R` hotkey.
1719 * `git cola` now passes `--no-abbrev-commit` to `git log` to override
1720 having `log.abbrevCommit = true` set in `.gitconfig`.
1726 Usability, bells and whistles
1727 -----------------------------
1728 * `git dag` now forwards all unknown arguments along to `git log`.
1729 (`#389 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/389>`_)
1731 * Line-by-line interactive staging was made more robust.
1732 (`#399 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/399>`_)
1734 * "Bookmarks" was renamed to "Favorites".
1735 (`#392 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/392>`_)
1737 * Untracked files are now displayed using a unique icon.
1738 (`#388 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/388>`_)
1742 * `git dag` was triggering a traceback on Fedora when parsing Git logs.
1743 (`bz #181676 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181686>`_)
1745 * inotify expects unicode paths on Python3.
1746 (`#393 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/393>`_)
1748 * Untracked files are now assumed to be utf-8 encoded.
1749 (`#401 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/401>`_)
1755 Usability, bells and whistles
1756 -----------------------------
1757 * `git cola` can now create GPG-signed commits and merges.
1758 See the documentation for details about setting up a GPG agent.
1759 (`#149 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/149>`_)
1761 * The status widget learned to copy relative paths when `Ctrl+x` is pressed.
1762 (`#358 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/358>`_)
1764 * Custom GUI actions can now define their own keyboard shortcuts by
1765 setting `guitool.$name.shortcut` to a string understood by Qt's
1766 `QAction::setShortcut()` API, e.g. `Alt+X`.
1768 `Qt docs <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qkeysequence.html#QKeySequence-2>`_
1769 for more details about the supported values.
1771 * `git cola` learned to rename branches.
1772 (`#364 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/364>`_)
1773 (`#278 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/278>`_)
1775 * `git dag` now has a "Show history" context menu which can be used to filter
1776 history using the selected paths.
1780 * `sphinxtogithub.py` was fixed for Python3.
1781 (`#353 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/353>`_)
1783 * The commit that changed how we read remotes from `git remote`
1784 to parsing `git config` was reverted since it created problems
1787 * Fixed a crash when using the `rebase edit` feature.
1788 (`#351 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/351>`_)
1790 * Better drag-and-drop behavior when dropping into gnome-terminal.
1791 (`#373 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/373>`_)
1795 * The `git-cola-folder-handler.desktop` file handler was fixed
1796 to pass validation by `desktop-file-validate`.
1797 (`#356 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/356>`_)
1799 * The `git.svg` icon was renamed to `git-cola.svg`, and `git cola` was taught
1800 to prefer icons from the desktop theme when available.
1806 Usability, bells and whistles
1807 -----------------------------
1808 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+Shift+M` merges branches.
1810 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+R` refreshes the DAG viewer.
1811 (`#347 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/347>`_)
1815 * We now use `git config` to parse the list of remotes
1816 instead of parsing the output of `git remote`, which
1817 is a Git porcelain and should not be used by scripts.
1819 * Avoid "C++ object has been deleted" errors from PyQt4.
1820 (`#346 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/346>`_)
1824 * The `make install` target now uses `install` instead of `cp`.
1830 Usability, bells and whistles
1831 -----------------------------
1832 * Updated Brazillian Portuguese translation.
1834 * The status and browse widgets now allow drag-and-drop into
1835 external applications.
1836 (`#335 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/335>`_)
1838 * We now show a progress bar when cloning repositories.
1839 (`#312 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/312>`_)
1841 * The bookmarks widget was simplified to not need a
1843 (`#289 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/289>`_)
1845 * Updated Traditional Chinese translation.
1847 * We now display a warning when trying to rebase with uncommitted changes.
1848 (`#338 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/338>`_)
1850 * The status widget learned to filter paths.
1851 `Ctrl+Shift+S` toggles the filter widget.
1852 (`#337 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/337>`_)
1853 (`#339 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/339>`_)
1855 * The status widget learned to move files to the trash
1856 when the `send2trash <https://github.com/hsoft/send2trash>`_
1857 module is installed.
1858 (`#341 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/341>`_)
1860 * "Recent repositories" is now a dedicated widget.
1861 (`#342 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/342>`_)
1863 * New Spanish translation thanks to Pilar Molina Lopez.
1864 (`#344 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/344>`_)
1868 * Newly added remotes are now properly seen by the fetch/push/pull dialogs.
1869 (`#343 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/343>`_)
1875 Usability, bells and whistles
1876 -----------------------------
1877 * New Brazillian Portuguese translation thanks to Vitor Lobo.
1879 * New Indonesian translation thanks to Samsul Ma'arif.
1881 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation thanks to Zhang Han.
1883 * `Ctrl+Backspace` is now a hotkey for "delete untracked files" in
1886 * Fetch/Push/Pull dialogs now use the configured remote of the current
1888 (`#324 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/324>`_)
1892 * We now use `os.getcwd()` on Python3.
1893 (`#316 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/316>`_)
1894 (`#326 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/326>`_)
1896 * The `Ctrl+P` hotkey was overloaded to both "push" and "cherry-pick",
1897 so "cherry-pick" was moved to `Ctrl+Shift+C`.
1899 * Custom GUI tools with mixed-case names are now properly supported.
1901 * "Diff Region" is now referred to as "Diff Hunk" for consistency
1902 with common terminology from diff/patch tools.
1903 (`#328 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/328>`_)
1905 * git-cola's test suite is now portable to MS Windows.
1906 (`#332 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/332>`_)
1912 Usability, bells and whistles
1913 -----------------------------
1914 * We now handle the case when inotify `add_watch()` fails
1915 and display instructions on how to increase the number of watches.
1916 (`#263 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/263>`_)
1918 * New and improved zh_TW localization thanks to V字龍(Vdragon).
1919 (`#265 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/265>`_)
1920 (`#267 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/267>`_)
1921 (`#268 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/268>`_)
1922 (`#269 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/269>`_)
1923 (`#270 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/270>`_)
1924 (`#271 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/271>`_)
1925 (`#272 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/272>`_)
1927 * New hotkeys: `Ctrl+F` for fetch, `Ctrl+P` for push,
1928 and `Ctrl+Shift+P` for pull.
1930 * The bookmarks widget's context menu actions were made clearer.
1931 (`#281 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/281>`_)
1933 * The term "Staging Area" is used consistently in the UI
1934 to allow for better localization.
1935 (`#283 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/283>`_)
1937 * The "Section" term is now referred to as "Diff Region"
1939 (`#297 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/297>`_)
1941 * The localization documentation related to the LANGUAGE
1942 environment variable was improved.
1943 (`#293 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/293>`_)
1945 * The "Actions" panel now contains tooltips for each button
1946 in case the button labels gets truncated by Qt.
1947 (`#292 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/292>`_)
1949 * Custom `git config`-defined actions can now be run in the
1950 background by setting `guitool.<name>.background` to `true`.
1954 * We now use bold fonts instead of SmallCaps to avoid
1955 artifacts on several configurations.
1957 * We now pickup `user.email`, `cola.tabwidth`, and similar settings
1958 when defined in /etc/gitconfig.
1959 (`#259 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/259>`_)
1961 * Better support for unicode paths when using inotify.
1962 (`bz #1104181 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104181>`_)
1964 * Unicode fixes for non-ascii locales.
1965 (`#266 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/266>`_)
1966 (`#273 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/273>`_)
1967 (`#276 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/276>`_)
1968 (`#282 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/282>`_)
1969 (`#298 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/298>`_)
1970 (`#302 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/302>`_)
1971 (`#303 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/303>`_)
1972 (`#305 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/305>`_)
1974 * Viewing history from the file browser was fixed for Python3.
1975 (`#274 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/274>`_)
1977 * setup.py was fixed to install the `*.rst` documentation.
1978 (`#279 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/279>`_)
1980 * Patch export was fixed for Python3.
1981 (`#290 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/290>`_)
1983 * Fixed adding a bookmark with trailing slashes.
1984 (`#295 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/295>`_)
1986 * The default `git dag` layout is now setup so that its widgets
1987 can be freely resized on Linux.
1988 (`#299 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/299>`_)
1990 * Invalid tag names are now reported when creating tags.
1991 (`#296 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/296>`_)
1997 Usability, bells and whistles
1998 -----------------------------
1999 * `git cola` no longer prompts after successfully creating a new branch.
2000 (`#251 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/251>`_)
2002 * Hitting enter on simple dialogs now accepts them.
2003 (`#255 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/255>`_)
2007 * `git dag` no longer relies on `sys.maxint`, which is
2008 not available in Python3.
2009 (`#249 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/249>`_)
2011 * Python3-related fixes.
2012 (`#254 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/254>`_)
2014 * Python3-on-Windows-related fixes.
2015 (`#250 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/250>`_)
2016 (`#252 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/252>`_)
2017 (`#253 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/253>`_)
2019 * Switching repositories using the bookmarks widget was not
2020 refreshing the inotify watcher.
2021 (`#256 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/256>`_)
2023 * Special commit messages trailers (e.g. "Acked-by:") are now special-cased to
2024 fix word wrapping lines that start with "foo:".
2025 (`#257 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/257>`_)
2027 * `git dag` sometimes left behind selection artifacts.
2028 We now refresh the view to avoid them.
2029 (`#204 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/204>`_)
2035 Usability, bells and whistles
2036 -----------------------------
2037 * Better inotify support for file creation and deletion.
2038 (`#240 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/240>`_)
2040 * `git cola` now supports the X11 Session Management Protocol
2041 and remembers its state across logout/reboot.
2042 (`#164 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/164>`_)
2044 * `git cola` has a new icon.
2045 (`#190 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/190>`_)
2049 * Building the documentation no longer requires `asciidoc`.
2050 We now use `Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/>`_ for building
2051 html documentation and man pages.
2055 * Reworked the git-dag gravatar icon code to avoid a unicode
2058 * Commit message line-wrapping was made to better match the GUI editor.
2059 (`#242 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/242>`_)
2061 * Better support for Python3 on Windows
2062 (`#246 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/246>`_)
2066 * git-cola no longer depends on Asciidoc for building its documentation
2067 and man-pages. We now depend on [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/) only.
2073 Usability, bells and whistles
2074 -----------------------------
2075 * Some context menu actions are now hidden when selected
2077 (`#238 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/238>`_)
2081 * The build-git-cola.sh contrib script was improved.
2082 (`#235 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/235>`_)
2084 * Non-ascii worktrees work properly again.
2085 (`#234 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/234>`_)
2087 * The browser now guards itself against missing files.
2088 (`bz #1041378 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071378>`_)
2090 * Saving widget state now works under Python3.
2091 (`#236 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/236>`_)
2099 * git-cola now runs on Python 3 thanks to Virgil Dupras.
2100 (`#233 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/233>`_)
2102 * Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2+ are now supported.
2103 Python 2.5 is no longer supported.
2107 * i18n test fixes thanks to Virgil Dupras.
2108 (`#231 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/231>`_)
2110 * git-cola.app build fixes thanks to Maicon D. Filippsen.
2111 (`#230 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/230>`_)
2113 * Lots of pylint improvements thanks to Alex Chernetz.
2114 (`#229 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/229>`_)
2120 Usability, bells and whistles
2121 -----------------------------
2122 * The new `Bookmarks` tool makes it really easy to switch between repositories.
2124 * There is now a dedicated dialog for applying patches.
2125 See the ``File -> Apply Patches`` menu item.
2126 (`#215 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/215>`_)
2128 * A new `git cola am` sub-command was added for applying patches.
2132 * Fixed a typo that caused inotify events to be silently ignored.
2134 * Fixed the sys.path setup for Mac OS X (Homebrew).
2135 (`#221 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/221>`_)
2137 * Lots of pylint fixes thanks to Alex Chernetz.
2143 Usability, bells and whistles
2144 -----------------------------
2145 * `git cola --amend` now starts the editor in `amend` mode.
2146 (`#187 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/187>`_)
2148 * Multiple lines of text can now be pasted into the `summary` field.
2149 All text beyond the first newline will be automatically moved to the
2150 `extended description` field.
2151 (`#212 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/212>`_)
2155 * Stray whitespace in `.git` files is now ignored.
2156 (`#213 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/213>`_)
2158 * Fix "known incorrect sRGB profile" in `staged-item.png`.
2159 (`gentoo-devel message #85066
2160 <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/85066>`_)
2168 * Fix a traceback when `git push` fails.
2169 (`bz #1034778 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034778>`_)
2173 * Most of the git-cola sub-packages have been removed.
2174 The only remaining packages are `cola`, `cola.models`,
2177 * The translation file for Simplified Chinese was renamed
2179 (`#209 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/209>`_)
2187 * `git cola version --brief` now prints the brief version number.
2191 * Resurrected the "make dist" target, for those that prefer to create
2194 * Fixed the typo that broke the preferences dialog.
2200 Usability, bells and whistles
2201 -----------------------------
2202 * We now ship a full-featured interactive `git rebase` editor.
2203 The rebase todo file is edited using the `git xbase` script which
2204 is provided at `$prefix/share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase`.
2205 This script can be used standalone by setting the `$GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR`
2206 before running `git rebase --interactive`.
2207 (`#1 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1>`_)
2209 * Fixup commit messages can now be loaded from the commit message editor.
2211 * Tool widgets can be locked in place by using the "Tools/Lock Layout"
2213 (`#202 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/202>`_)
2215 * You can now push to several remotes simultaneously by selecting
2216 multiple remotes in the "Push" dialog.
2217 (`#148 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/148>`_)
2219 * The `grep` tool learned to search using three different modes:
2220 basic regular expressions (default), extended regular expressions,
2225 * `git cola` now depends on the `argparse` Python module.
2226 This module is part of the stdlib in Python 2.7 and must
2227 be installed separately when using Python 2.6 and below.
2231 * Support unicode in the output from `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`.
2237 Usability, bells and whistles
2238 -----------------------------
2239 * We now detect when the editor or history browser are misconfigured.
2240 (`#197 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/197>`_)
2241 (`bz #886826 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886826>`_)
2243 * Display of untracked files can be disabled from the Preferences dialog
2244 or by setting the `gui.displayuntracked` configuration variable to `false`.
2245 (`Git Mailing List on 2013-08-21
2246 <https://public-inbox.org/git/20130821032913.GA6092@wheezy.local/>`_)
2250 * Unicode stash names are now supported
2251 (`#198 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/198>`_)
2253 * The diffs produced when reverting workspace changes were made more robust.
2259 Usability, bells and whistles
2260 -----------------------------
2261 * Brand new German translation thanks to Sven Claussner.
2263 * The "File" menu now provides a "New Repository..." menu action.
2265 * `git dag` now uses a dock-widget interface so that its widgets can
2266 be laid-out and arranged. Customizations are saved and restored
2267 the next time `git dag` is launched.
2269 * `git dag` now has a "Zoom Best Fit" button next alongside the
2270 "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" buttons.
2272 * `Ctrl+L` now focuses the "Search" field in the `git dag` tool.
2274 * Right-clicking in the "diff" viewer now updates the cursor position
2275 before performing actions, which makes it much easier to click around
2276 and selectively stage sections. Previously, the current cursor position
2277 was used which meant that it required two clicks (left-click to update
2278 the position followed by right-click to get the context menu) for the
2279 desired section to be used. This is now a single right-click operation.
2281 * The `Ctrl+D` "Launch Diff Tool" action learned to automatically choose
2282 between `git difftool` and `git mergetool`. If the file is unmerged then
2283 we automatically launch `git mergetool` on the path, otherwise we use
2284 `git difftool`. We do this because `git difftool` is not intended to
2285 be used on unmerged paths. Automatically using `git mergetool` when
2286 appropriate is the most intuitive and muscle-memory-friendly thing to do.
2288 * You can now right-click on folders in your standard file browser
2289 and choose "Open With -> Git Cola" (Linux-only).
2293 * Python 2.6 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard does not provide a namedtuple
2294 at `sys.version_info`. We now avoid using that variable for better
2297 * We now read the user's Git configuration from `~/.config/git/config`
2298 if that file is available, otherwise we use the traditional `~/.gitconfig`
2299 path, just like Git itself.
2301 * Some edge cases were fixed when applying partial/selected diffs.
2303 * The diff viewer is now properly cleared when refreshing.
2304 (`#194 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/194>`_)
2310 Usability, bells and whistles
2311 -----------------------------
2312 * The diff viewer now has an "Options" menu which can be
2313 used to set "git diff" options. This can be used to
2314 ignore whitespace changes or to show a change with its
2315 surrounding function as context.
2316 (`#150 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/150>`_)
2318 * `git cola` now remembers your commit message and will restore it
2319 when `git cola` is restarted.
2320 (`#175 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/175>`_)
2322 * `Ctrl+M` can now be used to toggle the "Amend last commit"
2323 checkbox in the commit message editor.
2324 (`#161 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/161>`_)
2326 * Deleting remote branches can now be done from the "Branch" menu.
2327 (`#152 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/152>`_)
2329 * The commit message editor now has a built-in spell checker.
2333 * We now avoid invoking external diffs when showing diffstats.
2334 (`#163 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/163>`_)
2336 * The `Status` tool learned to reselect files when refreshing.
2337 (`#165 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/165>`_)
2339 * `git cola` now remembers whether it has been maximized and will restore the
2340 maximized state when `git cola` is restarted.
2341 (`#172 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/172>`_)
2343 * Performance is now vastly improved when staging hundreds or
2346 * `git cola` was not correctly saving repo-specific configuration.
2347 (`#174 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/174>`_)
2349 * Fix a UnicodeDecode in sphinxtogithub when building from source.
2356 Usability, bells and whistles
2357 -----------------------------
2358 * We now automatically remove missing repositories from the
2359 "Select Repository" dialog.
2360 (`#145 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/145>`_)
2362 * A new `git cola diff` sub-command was added for diffing changed files.
2366 * The inotify auto-refresh feature makes it difficult to select text in
2367 the "diff" editor when files are being continually modified by another
2368 process. The auto-refresh causes it to lose the currently selected text,
2369 which is not wanted. We now avoid this problem by saving and restoring
2370 the selection when refreshing the editor.
2371 (`#155 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/155>`_)
2373 * More strings have been marked for l10n.
2374 (`#157 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/157>`_)
2376 * Fixed the Alt+D Diffstat shortcut.
2377 (`#159 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/159>`_)
2381 * Better error handling when cloning repositories.
2383 We were not handling the case where a git URL has
2384 no basename, e.g. `https://git.example.com/`.
2385 `git cola` originally rejected these URLs instead of
2386 allowing users to clone them. It now allows these URLs
2387 when they point to valid git repositories.
2389 Additionally, `git cola` learned to echo the errors
2390 reported by `git clone` when it fails.
2391 (`#156 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/156>`_)
2398 Usability, bells and whistles
2399 -----------------------------
2400 * `git dag` got a big visual upgrade.
2402 * `Ctrl+G` now launches the "Grep" tool.
2404 * `Ctrl+D` launches difftool and `Ctrl+E` launches your editor
2405 when in the diff panel.
2407 * git-cola can now be told to use an alternative language.
2408 For example, if the native language is German and we want git-cola to
2409 use English then we can create a `~/.config/git-cola/language` file with
2410 "en" as its contents: ``echo en >~/.config/git-cola/language``
2411 (`#140 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/140>`_)
2413 * A new `git cola merge` sub-command was added for merging branches.
2415 * Less blocking in the main UI
2419 * Autocomplete issues on KDE
2420 (`#144 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/144>`_)
2422 * The "recently opened repositories" startup dialog did not
2423 display itself in the absence of bookmarks.
2424 (`#139 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/139>`_)
2431 Usability, bells and whistles
2432 -----------------------------
2433 * `git cola` learned to honor `.gitattributes` when showing and
2434 interactively applying diffs. This makes it possible to store
2435 files in git using a non-utf-8 encoding and `git cola` will
2436 properly accept them. This must be enabled by settings
2437 `cola.fileattributes` to true, as it incurs a small performance
2439 (`#96 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/96>`_)
2441 * `git cola` now wraps commit messages at 72 columns automatically.
2442 This is configurable using the `cola.linebreak` variable to enable/disable
2443 the feature, and `cola.textwidth` to configure the limit.
2444 (`#133 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/133>`_)
2446 * A new "Open Recent" sub-menu was added to the "File" menu.
2447 This makes it easy to open a recently-edited repository.
2448 (`#135 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/135>`_)
2450 * We now show a preview for untracked files when they are clicked
2451 using the `Status` tool.
2452 * A new "Open Using Default Application" action was added to the
2453 `Status` tool. It is activated using either `Spacebar` or through
2454 the context menu. This action uses `xdg-open` on Linux and
2456 * A new "Open Parent Directory" action was added to the `Status` tool.
2457 It is activated using either `Shift+Spacebar` or through the
2459 * `git dag` learned to honor the `log.date` git configuration variable.
2460 This makes the date display follow whatever format the user has
2462 * A new `git cola config` sub-command was added for quickly
2463 tweaking `git cola`'s git configuration settings.
2464 * Some small usability tweaks -- some user confirmation prompts
2465 were defaulting to "Cancel" when they should have been defaulting
2466 to the affirmative option instead.
2470 * Properly handle arbitrarily-named branches.
2471 * We went back to launching `git mergetool` using an xterm.
2472 The reason is that there are a couple of places where `git mergetool`
2473 requires a terminal for user interaction not covered by `--no-prompt`.
2474 * We now properly handle an edge case when applying short diffs at
2475 the start of a file.
2482 Usability, bells and whistles
2483 -----------------------------
2484 * New and improved `grep` mode lets you instantly find and edit files.
2485 * New `git cola grep` standalone mode.
2486 * Support for passing arguments to the configured editors, e.g. `gvim -p`
2487 This makes it possible to select multiple files in the status
2488 window and use `Ctrl-e` to edit them all at once.
2489 * Remote operations now prompt on errors only.
2490 * The `Tab` key now jumps to the extended description when editing the summary.
2491 * More shortcut key labels and misc. UX improvements.
2495 * Selecting an item no longer copies its filename to the copy/paste buffer.
2496 `Ctrl-c` or the "Copy" context-menu action can be used instead.
2497 * The repository monitoring feature on Windows learned to ignore
2498 changes within the ".git" directory. Thanks to Andreas Sommer.
2499 (`#120 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/120>`_)
2506 Usability, bells and whistles
2507 -----------------------------
2508 * `git dag` learned to color-code branchy edges.
2509 The edge colors change when a new branch is detected,
2510 which makes the history much easier to follow.
2511 A huge thanks to Uri Okrent for making it happen.
2513 * New GUI for editing remote repositories.
2515 * New `git cola archive` and `git cola remote` sub-commands.
2517 * `git cola browser` learned an 'Untrack' command.
2519 * The diff editor learned to staged/unstaged while amending.
2521 * The status tool can now scroll horizontally.
2523 * New git repositories can be created by clicking 'New' on the
2524 `git cola --prompt` startup screen.
2531 Usability, bells and whistles
2532 -----------------------------
2533 * Auto-completion was added to more tools.
2535 * `git dag` is easier to use on smaller displays -- the author
2536 field elides its text which allows for a more compact display.
2538 * Selected commits in `git dag` were made more prominent and
2541 * 'Create Branch' learned to fetch remote branches and uses a
2542 background thread to do so.
2544 * User-configured GUI tools are listed alphabetically in the 'Actions' menu.
2546 * The 'Pull' dialog remembers the value of the 'Rebase' checkbox
2547 between invocations.
2556 * Detect Homebrew so that OS X users do not need to set PYTHONPATH.
2558 * `git dag` can export patches again.
2565 Usability, bells and whistles
2566 -----------------------------
2567 * The 'Classic' tool was renamed to 'Browser' and learned to
2568 limit history to the current branch.
2570 * `git dag` learned about gravatar and uses it to show images
2573 * `git dag` learned to use OpenGL for rendering resulting in
2574 much faster rendering.
2576 * More dialogs learned vim-style keyboard shortcuts.
2578 * The commit message editor learned better arrow key navigation.
2585 Usability, bells and whistles
2586 -----------------------------
2587 * `git cola` learned a few new sub commands:
2595 * `Return` in the summary field jumps to the extended description.
2597 * `Ctrl+Return` is now a shortcut for 'Commit'.
2599 * Better French translation for 'Sign-off'.
2601 * The 'Search' widget now has a much simpler and streamlined
2604 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the DAG widget.
2606 * `git dag` no longer prompts for files when diffing commits if the
2607 text field contains paths.
2609 * General user interface and performance improvements.
2613 * The diff viewer no longer changes font size when holding `Control`
2614 while scrolling with the mouse wheel.
2616 * Files with a typechange (e.g. symlinks that become files, etc.)
2617 are now correctly identified as being modified.
2621 * The `cola.controllers` and `cola.views` packages were removed.
2628 Usability, bells and whistles
2629 -----------------------------
2630 * `git cola` can now launch sub commands, e.g.:
2641 * `git dag` is more responsive when gathering auto-completions.
2643 * Keyboard shortcuts are displayed when the '?' key is pressed.
2645 * Various keyboard shortcuts were added for improved usability.
2647 * The status widget now lists unmerged files before modified files.
2649 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the status widget.
2651 * A 'Recently Modified Files...' tool was added.
2653 * Tools can now be hidden with `Alt + #` (where `#` is a keyboard number)
2654 and focused with `Alt + Shift + #`.
2656 * The syntax highlighting colors for diffs was made less intrusive.
2658 * The commit message editor was redesigned to have a more compact
2659 and keyboard-convenient user interface.
2661 * Keyboard shortcuts for adding a Signed-off-by (`Ctrl + i`)
2662 and creating a commit (`Ctrl + m`) were added.
2664 * The status widget was adjusted to use less screen real-estate.
2668 * Avoid updating the index when responding to inotify events.
2669 This avoids interfering with operations such as `git rebase --interactive`.
2670 (`#99 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/99>`_)
2674 * Create `git-dag.pyw` in the win32 installer.
2676 * win32 shortcuts now contain explicit calls to `pythonw.exe` instead of
2677 calling the `.pyw` file directly.
2681 * The 'Apply Changes from Branch...' feature was removed.
2682 `git dag`'s 'Grab File...' feature used alongside the index/worktree editor
2683 is a simpler alternative.
2692 * Further enhanced the staging/unstaging behavior in the status widget.
2693 (`#97 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97>`_)
2695 * Unmerged files are no longer listed as modified.
2699 The `cola-$version` tarballs on github were originally setup to
2700 have the same contents as the old tarballs hosted on tuxfamily.
2701 The `make dist` target was changed to write files to a
2702 `git-cola-$version` subdirectory and tarball.
2704 This makes the filenames consistent for the source tarball,
2705 the darwin .app tarball, and the win32 .exe installer.
2712 Usability, bells and whistles
2713 -----------------------------
2714 * Refined the staging/unstaging behavior for code reviews.
2715 (`#97 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97>`_)
2717 * Added more styling and icons to menus and buttons.
2719 * Adjusted some terminology to more closely match the git CLI.
2723 * Boolean `git config` settings with no value are now supported
2724 (these are not created by git these days but exist in legacy repositories).
2726 * Unicode branches and tags are supported in the "branch diff" tool.
2728 * Guard against low-memory conditions and more interrupted system calls.
2732 * Added desktop launchers for git-cola.desktop and git-dag.desktop.
2733 This replaces the old cola.desktop, so some adjustments to RPM .spec
2734 and debian/ files will be needed.
2736 * Fixed the darwin app-tarball Makefile target to create relative paths.
2740 * The `--style` option was removed. `git cola` follows the system theme
2741 so there's no need for this option these days.
2748 Usability, bells and whistles
2749 -----------------------------
2750 * Export a patch series from `git dag` into a `patches/` directory.
2752 * `git dag` learned to diff commits, slice history along paths, etc.
2754 * Added instant-preview to the `git stash` widget.
2756 * A simpler preferences editor is used to edit `git config` values.
2757 (`#90 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90>`_)
2758 (`#89 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/89>`_)
2760 * Previous commit messages can be re-loaded from the message editor.
2761 (`#33 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/33>`_)
2765 * Display commits with no file changes.
2766 (`#82 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82>`_)
2768 * Improved the diff editor's copy/paste behavior
2769 (`#90 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90>`_)
2773 * Bumped version number to ceil(minimum git version).
2774 `git cola` now requires `git` >= 1.6.3.
2776 * Simplified git-cola's versioning when building from tarballs
2777 outside of git. We no longer check for a 'version' file at
2778 the root of the repository. We instead keep a default version
2779 in `cola/version.py` and use it when `git cola`'s `.git` repository
2787 Usability, bells and whistles
2788 -----------------------------
2789 * inotify is much snappier and available on Windows
2790 thanks to Karl Bielefeldt.
2792 * New right-click command to add untracked files to .gitignore
2793 thanks to Audrius Karabanovas.
2795 * Stash, fetch, push, and pull usability improvements
2797 * General usability improvements
2799 * stderr is logged when applying partial diffs.
2803 * Files can be unstaged when amending.
2804 (`#82 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82>`_)
2806 * Show the configured remote.$remote.pushurl in the GUI
2807 (`#83 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/83>`_)
2809 * Removed usage of the "user" module.
2810 (`#86 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/86>`_)
2812 * Avoids an extra `git update-index` call during startup.
2820 Usability, bells and whistles
2821 -----------------------------
2822 * We now provide better feedback when `git push` fails.
2823 (`#69 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/69>`_)
2825 * The Fetch, Push, and Pull dialogs now give better feedback
2826 when interacting with remotes. The dialogs are modal and
2827 a progress dialog is used.
2831 * More unicode fixes, again. It is now possible to have
2832 unicode branch names, repository paths, home directories, etc.
2833 This continued the work initiated by Redhat's bugzilla #694806.
2835 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806
2842 Usability, bells and whistles
2843 -----------------------------
2844 * The `git cola` desktop launchers now prompt for a repo
2845 by default. This is done by using the new `--prompt`
2846 flag which tells `git cola` to ignore any git repositories
2847 in the current directory and prompt for one instead.
2851 * More Unicode fixes for repositories and home directories with
2852 embedded unicode characters. Thanks to Christian Jann for
2853 patience and helpful bug reports.
2855 * Fix the 'Clone' button in the startup dialog.
2862 Usability, bells and whistles
2863 -----------------------------
2864 * Faster startup time! `git cola` now offloads initialization
2865 to a background thread so that the GUI appears almost instantly.
2867 * Specialized diff options for p4merge, vimdiff, araxis, emerge,
2868 and ecmerge in difftool (backported from git.git).
2872 * Fix launching commands in the background on Windows
2873 (e.g. when launching `git difftool`).
2875 * Fix unicode errors when home or repository directories contain
2877 (`#74 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/74>`_)
2878 (`bz #694806 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806>`_)
2885 Usability, bells and whistles
2886 -----------------------------
2887 * The `cola classic` tool can be now configured to be dockable.
2888 (`#56 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/56>`_)
2890 * The `cola classic` tool now uses visual sigils to indicate a file's status.
2891 The idea and icons were provided by Uri Okrent.
2893 * Include the 'Rescan' button in the 'Actions' widget regardless
2894 of whether inotify is installed.
2898 * Fix installation of translations per Fedora
2899 This incorporates Fedora's fix for the translations path
2900 which originally appeared in cola-1.4.3-translations.patch.
2902 * Mac OS X git-cola developers can now generate git-cola.app
2903 application bundles using 'make app-bundle'.
2907 * Fixed a stacktrace when trying to use "Get Commit Message Template"
2908 with an unconfigured "commit.template" git config variable.
2909 (`bz #67521 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675721>`_)
2910 (`#72 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/72>`_)
2912 * Properly raise the main window on Mac OS X.
2914 * Properly handle staging a huge numbers of files at once.
2916 * Speed up 'git config' usage by fixing cola's caching proxy.
2918 * Guard against damaged ~/.cola files.
2925 Usability, bells and whistles
2926 -----------------------------
2927 * `git dag` now has a separate display area
2928 for displaying commit metadata. This area will soon
2929 grow additional functionality such as cherry-picking,
2934 * Fixed tests from a previous refactoring.
2936 * Guard against 'diff.external' configuration by always
2937 calling 'git diff' with the '--no-ext-diff' option.
2938 (`#67 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/67>`_)
2940 * Respect 'gui.diffcontext' so that cola's diff display
2941 shows the correct number of context lines.
2943 * Raise the GUI so that it is in the foreground on OS X.
2947 * We now allow distutils to rewrite cola's shebang line.
2948 This allows us to run on systems where "which python"
2949 is Python3k. This is exposed by setting the `PYTHON`
2950 Makefile variable to the location of python2.x.
2952 * git-cola.app is now a tiny download because it no longer
2953 contains Qt and PyQt. These libraries are provided as a
2955 (`Link <http://code.google.com/p/git-cola/downloads/list>`_)
2962 Usability, bells and whistles
2963 -----------------------------
2964 * Clicking on paths in the status widget copies them into the
2965 copy/paste buffer for easy middle-clicking into terminals.
2967 * `Ctrl+C` in diff viewer copies the selected diff to the clipboard.
2971 * Fixed the disappearing actions buttons on PyQt 4.7.4
2972 as reported by Arch and Ubuntu 10.10.
2973 (`#62 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62>`_)
2975 * Fixed mouse interaction with the status widget where some
2976 items could not be de-selected.
2980 * Removed hard-coded reference to lib/ when calculating Python's
2981 site-packages directory.
2988 Usability, bells and whistles
2989 -----------------------------
2990 * Removed "single-click to (un)stage" in the status view.
2991 This is a usability improvement since we no longer perform
2992 different actions depending on where a row is clicked.
2994 * Added ability to create unsigned, annotated tags.
2998 * Updated documentation to use `cola.git` instead of `cola.gitcmd`.
3005 Usability, bells and whistles
3006 -----------------------------
3007 * Allow un/staging by right-clicking top-level items
3008 (`#57 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/57>`_)
3010 * Running 'commit' with no staged changes prompts to allow
3012 (`#55 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/55>`_)
3014 * Fetch, Push, and Pull are now available via the menus
3015 (`#58 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/58>`_)
3019 * Simplified the actions widget to work around a regression
3021 (`#62 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62>`_)
3028 Usability, bells and whistles
3029 -----------------------------
3030 * `git dag` interaction was made faster.
3034 * Added '...' indicators to the buttons for
3035 'Fetch...', 'Push...', 'Pull...', and 'Stash...'.
3036 (`#51 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/51>`_)
3038 * Fixed a hang-on-exit bug in the cola-provided
3039 'ssh-askpass' implementation.
3046 Usability, bells and whistles
3047 -----------------------------
3048 * Staging and unstaging is faster.
3049 (`#48 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/48>`_)
3051 * `git dag` reads history in a background thread.
3055 * Added :data:`cola.compat.hashlib` for `Python 2.4` compatibility
3056 * Improved `PyQt 4.1.x` compatibility.
3060 * Configured menu actions use ``sh -c`` for Windows portability.
3068 Usability, bells and whistles
3069 -----------------------------
3070 * Added support for the configurable ``guitool.<tool>.*``
3071 actions as described in the ``git config`` documentation.
3072 (`git-config(1) <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config>`_)
3073 (`#44 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/44>`_)
3075 This makes it possible to add new actions to `git cola`
3076 by simply editing ``~/.gitconfig``. This implements the
3077 same guitool support as `git gui`.
3079 * Introduced a stat cache to speed up `git config` and
3080 repository status checks.
3082 * Added Alt-key shortcuts to the main `git cola` interface.
3084 * The `Actions` dock widget switches between a horizontal
3085 and vertical layout when resized.
3087 * We now use ``git diff --submodule`` for submodules
3088 (used when git >= 1.6.6).
3090 * The context menu for modified submodules includes an option
3091 to launch `git cola`.
3092 (`#17 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/17>`_)
3094 * Prefer ``$VISUAL`` over ``$EDITOR`` when both are defined.
3095 These are used to set a default editor in lieu of `core.editor`
3098 * Force the editor to be ``gvim`` when we see ``vim``.
3099 This prevents us from launching an editor in the (typically
3100 unattached) parent terminal and creating zombie editors
3101 that cannot be easily killed.
3103 * Selections are remembered and restored across updates.
3104 This makes the `partial-staging` workflow easier since the
3105 diff view will show the updated diff after staging.
3107 * Show the path to the current repository in a tooltip
3108 over the commit message editor.
3109 (`#45 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/45>`_)
3111 * Log internal ``git`` commands when ``GIT_COLA_TRACE`` is defined.
3112 (`#39 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/39>`_)
3116 * Improved backwards compatibility for Python 2.4.
3118 * `Review mode` can now review the current branch; it no longer
3119 requires you to checkout the branch into which the reviewed
3120 branch will be merged.
3122 * Guard against `color.ui = always` configuration when using
3123 `git log` by passing ``--no-color``.
3125 * ``yes`` and ``no`` are now supported as valid booleans
3126 by the `git config` parser.
3128 * Better defaults are used for `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`..
3129 (`#43 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/43>`_)
3133 * Removed colon (`:`) from the applilcation name on Windows
3134 (`#41 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/41>`_)
3136 * Fixed bugs with the Windows installer
3137 (`#40 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/40>`_)
3139 * Added a more standard i18n infrastructure. The install
3140 tree now has the common ``share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/git-cola.mo``
3141 layout in use by several projects.
3143 * Started trying to accommodate Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
3144 in the ``darwin/`` build scripts but our tester is yet to
3145 report success building a `.app` bundle.
3147 * Replaced use of ``perl`` in Sphinx/documentation Makefile
3148 with more-portable ``sed`` constructs. Thanks to
3149 Stefan Naewe for discovering the portability issues and
3150 providing msysgit-friendly patches.
3157 Usability, bells and whistles
3158 -----------------------------
3159 * It is now possible to checkout from the index as well
3160 as from `HEAD`. This corresponds to the
3161 `Removed Unstaged Changes` action in the `Repository Status` tool.
3163 * The `remote` dialogs (fetch, push, pull) are now slightly
3166 * Bookmarks can be selected when `git cola` is run outside of a git repository.
3168 * Added more user documentation. We now include many links to
3169 external git resources.
3171 * Added `git dag` to the available tools.
3172 `git dag` is a node-based DAG history browser.
3173 It doesn't do much yet, but it's been merged so that we can start
3174 building and improving upon it.
3178 * Fixed a missing ``import`` when showing `right-click` actions
3179 for unmerged files in the `Repository Status` tool.
3181 * ``git update-index --refresh`` is no longer run every time
3182 ``git cola version`` is run.
3184 * Don't try to watch non-existent directories when using `inotify`.
3186 * Use ``git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name`` plumbing to find
3187 the name of the current branch.
3191 * The ``Makefile`` will now conditionally include a ``config.mak``
3192 file located at the root of the project. This allows for user
3193 customizations such as changes to the `prefix` variable
3194 to be stored in a file so that custom settings do not need to
3195 be specified every time on the command-line.
3197 * The build scripts no longer require a ``.git`` directory to
3198 generate the ``builtin_version.py`` module. The release tarballs
3199 now include a ``version`` file at the root of the project which
3200 is used in lieu of having the git repository available.
3201 This allows for ``make clean && make`` to function outside of
3204 * Added maintainer's ``make dist`` target to the ``Makefile``.
3206 * The built-in `simplejson` and `jsonpickle` libraries can be
3207 excluded from ``make install`` by specifying the ``standalone=true``
3208 `make` variable. For example, ``make standalone=true install``.
3209 This corresponds to the ``--standalone`` option to ``setup.py``.
3217 Usability, bells and whistles
3218 -----------------------------
3219 * We now use patience diff by default when it is available via
3220 `git diff --patience`.
3222 * Allow closing the `cola classic` tool with `Ctrl+W`.
3226 * Fixed an unbound variable error in the `push` dialog.
3230 * Don't include `simplejson` in MANIFEST.in.
3232 * Update desktop entry to read `Cola Git GUI`.
3240 This feature release adds two new features directly from
3241 `git cola`'s github issues backlog. On the developer
3242 front, further work was done towards modularizing the code base.
3244 Usability, bells and whistles
3245 -----------------------------
3246 * Dragging and dropping patches invokes `git am`
3247 (`#3 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/3>`_)
3249 * A dialog to allow opening or cloning a repository
3250 is presented when `git cola` is launched outside of a git repository.
3251 (`#22 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/22>`_)
3253 * Warn when `push` is used to create a new branch
3254 (`#35 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/35>`_)
3256 * Optimized startup time by removing several calls to `git`.
3261 * `git cola` is once again compatible with PyQt 4.3.x.
3265 * `cola.gitcmds` was added to factor out git command-line utilities
3267 * `cola.gitcfg` was added for interacting with `git config`
3269 * `cola.models.browser` was added to factor out repobrowser data
3281 * Fix launching external applications on Windows
3283 * Ensure that the `amend` checkbox is unchecked when switching modes
3285 * Update the status tree when amending commits
3295 * Fix Lintian warnings
3305 * Fix X11 warnings on application startup
3315 * Added missing 'Exit Diff Mode' button for 'Diff Expression' mode
3316 (`#31 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/31>`_)
3318 * Fix a bug when initializing fonts on Windows
3319 (`#32 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/32>`_)
3329 * Keep entries in sorted order in the `cola classic` tool
3331 * Fix staging untracked files
3332 (`#27 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/27>`_)
3334 * Fix the `show` command in the Stash dialog
3335 (`#29 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/29>`_)
3337 * Fix a typo when loading merge commit messages
3338 (`#30 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/30>`_)
3346 This release focuses on a redesign of the git-cola user interface,
3347 a tags interface, and better integration of the `cola classic` tool.
3348 A flexible interface based on configurable docks is used to manage the
3349 various cola widgets.
3351 Usability, bells and whistles
3352 -----------------------------
3353 * New GUI is flexible and user-configurable
3355 * Individual widgets can be detached and rearranged arbitrarily
3357 * Add an interface for creating tags
3359 * Provide a fallback `SSH_ASKPASS` implementation to prompt for
3360 SSH passwords on fetch/push/pull
3362 * The commit message editor displays the current row/column and
3363 warns when lines get too long
3365 * The `cola classic` tool displays upstream changes
3367 * `git cola --classic` launches `cola classic` in standalone mode
3369 * Provide more information in log messages
3373 * Inherit the window manager's font settings
3375 * Miscellaneous PyQt4 bug fixes and workarounds
3379 * Removed all usage of Qt Designer `.ui` files
3381 * Simpler model/view architecture
3383 * Selection is now shared across tools
3385 * Centralized notifications are used to keep views in sync
3387 * The `cola.git` command class was made thread-safe
3389 * Less coupling between model and view actions
3391 * The status view was rewritten to use the MVC architecture
3393 * Added more documentation and tests
3401 Usability, bells and whistles
3402 -----------------------------
3403 * Added a `cola classic` tool for browsing the entire repository
3405 * Handle diff expressions with spaces
3407 * Handle renamed files
3411 * Handle carat `^` characters in diff expressions on Windows
3413 * Worked around a PyQt 4.5/4.6 QThreadPool bug
3417 * Added a keyboard shortcuts reference page
3419 * Added developer API documentation
3423 * Fix the diff expression used when reviewing branches
3425 * Fix a bug when pushing branches
3427 * Fix X11 warnings at startup
3429 * Fix more interrupted system calls on Mac OS X
3437 Usability, bells and whistles
3438 -----------------------------
3439 * Fresh and tasty SVG logos
3441 * Added `Branch Review` mode for reviewing topic branches
3443 * Added diff modes for diffing between tags, branches,
3444 or arbitrary `git diff` expressions
3446 * The push dialog selects the current branch by default.
3447 This is in preparation for `git 1.7.0` where unconfigured `git push`
3448 will refuse to push when run without specifying the remote name
3449 and branch. See the `git` release notes for more information
3451 * Support `open` and `clone` commands on Windows
3453 * Allow saving cola UI layouts
3455 * Re-enabled `double-click-to-stage` for unmerged entries.
3456 Disabling it for unmerged items was inconsistent, though safer.
3458 * Show diffs when navigating the status tree with the keyboard
3462 * Worked around `pyuic4` bugs in the `setup.py` build script
3464 * Added Mac OSX application bundles to the download page
3474 * `git difftool` became an official git command in `git 1.6.3`.
3476 * `git difftool` learned `--no-prompt` / `-y` and a corresponding
3477 `difftool.prompt` configuration variable
3479 Usability, bells and whistles
3480 -----------------------------
3481 * Warn when `non-fast-forward` is used with fetch, push or pull
3483 * Allow `Ctrl+C` to exit cola when run from the command line
3487 * Support Unicode font names
3489 * Handle interrupted system calls
3493 * `PEP-8`-ified more of the cola code base
3499 * All resources are now installed into `$prefix/share/git-cola`.
3500 Closed Debian bug #519972
3502 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519972
3512 * Added support for Kompare in `git difftool`
3514 * Added a separate configuration namespace for `git difftool`
3516 * Added the `diff.tool` configuration variable to define the default diff tool
3518 Usability, bells and whistles
3519 -----------------------------
3520 * The stash dialog allows passing the `--keep-index` option to `git stash`
3522 * Amending a published commit warns at commit time
3524 * Simplified the file-across-revisions comparison dialog
3526 * `origin` is selected by default in fetch/push/pull
3528 * Removed the search field from the log widget
3530 * The log window moved into a drawer widget at the bottom of the UI
3532 * Log window display can be configured with
3533 `cola.showoutput` = `{never, always, errors}`. `errors` is the default.
3535 * `NOTE` -- `cola.showoutput` was removed with the GUI rewrite in 1.4.0.
3539 * Improved nose unittest usage
3543 * Added a Windows/msysGit installer
3545 * Included private versions of `simplejson` and `jsonpickle`
3546 for ease of installation and development