6 Usability, bells and whistles
7 -----------------------------
8 * The image diff viewer can now be toggled between text and image modes.
9 This is helpful when, for example, diffing .svg files where it can be useful
10 to see diffs in both an image and text representation.
11 (`#859 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/859>`_)
12 (`#1035 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1035>`_)
16 * The ``cola`` modules are now installed into the Python ``site-packages``
17 directory by default. This allows distributions to package ``git-cola`` for
18 multiple versions of Python. See the PACKAGING NOTES section in the README
19 for details about suppressing the installation of the private
20 ``share/git-cola/lib/cola`` modules when building cola.
21 (`#181 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/181>`_)
23 * Git Cola's rebase / sequence editor, formerly known as ``git-xbase`` and
24 installed as ``share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase``, has been renamed to
25 ``git-cola-sequence-editor`` and is now installed into the default
26 ``bin/git-cola-sequence-editor`` executable location to enable external
27 reuse of this general-purpose tool.
34 Usability, bells and whistles
35 -----------------------------
36 * The ``git-xbase`` rebase editor now includes a file list for filtering
37 the changes displayed in the diff view.
38 (`#1051 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1051>`_)
40 * The fallback `ssh-askpass` script, which provides the Username/Password
41 login dialog when performing remote operations, previously presented both
42 the username and password input fields with ``***`` asterisks.
43 The dialog now uses asterisks for the password field only.
44 (`#1026 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1026>`_)
46 * Stashes can now be applied using the `Ctrl + Enter` hotkey, popped with the
47 `Ctrl + Backspace` hotkey, and dropped with the `Ctrl + Shift + Backspace`
48 hotkey when inside the stash dialog. This enables a keyboard-centric
49 mouse-free workflow when using the stash dialog.
51 * When amending a commit, `git cola` will check whether the commit has been
52 published to a remote branch using ``git branch -r --contains HEAD``.
53 This command can be slow when operating on a repository with many
54 remote branches. The new `cola.checkpublishedcommits` configuration
55 variable allows you to opt-out of this check, which improves performance
56 when amending a commit. The settings widget exposes this variable as,
57 "Check Published Commits when Amending".
58 (`#1021 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1021>`_)
59 (`#1027 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1027>`_)
63 * Updated Polish translation.
64 (`#1033 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1033>`_)
68 * ``git-dag.appdata.xml`` was updated to allow network access for author icons.
69 (`#1050 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1050>`_)
71 * The inotify filesystem monitor now handles
72 `OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files` errors by disabling inotify.
73 (`#1015 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1015>`_)
75 * Typos in various documentation files have been fixed.
76 (`#1025 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1025>`_)
78 * The "Recent Repositories" limit was off by one, and now correctly
79 remembers the configured number of repositories in the menu.
80 (`#1024 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1024>`_)
82 * The "revert" action in the DAG and other tools now uses
83 ``git revert --no-edit``, which avoids launching an editor
84 when reverting the commit. Use `Ctrl+m` in the commit message
85 editor after reverting a commit to rewrite its commit message.
86 (`#1020 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1020>`_)
93 Usability, bells and whistles
94 -----------------------------
95 * The remote editor is much faster since it no longer queries
96 remotes, and uses the cached information instead.
97 (`#986 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/986>`_)
99 * Commit message templates can now be loaded automatically by setting
100 ``git config cola.autoloadcommittemplate true``.
101 (`#1013 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1013>`_)
102 (`#735 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/735>`_)
104 * The UI layout can now be reset back to its initial state by selecting
105 the "Reset Layout" action. This reverts the layout to the same state
106 as when the app first launched.
107 (`#1008 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1008>`_)
108 (`#994 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/994>`_)
110 * Files can now be ignored in either the project's `.gitignore`, or in the
111 repository's private local `.git/info/exclude` ignore file.
112 (`#1006 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1006>`_)
113 (`#1000 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1000>`_)
115 * New remotes are now selected when they are added in the "Edit Remotes" tool.
116 (`#1002 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1002>`_)
118 * The "Recent" repositories list is now saved to disk when opening a
119 repository. Previously, this list was only updated when exiting the app.
120 (`#1001 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1001>`_)
122 * The bookmarks tool now has a "Delete" option in its right-click menu.
123 (`#999 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/999>`_)
125 * The current repository is no longer listed in the "File/Open Recent" menu.
126 (`#998 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/998>`_)
130 * Updated Hungarian translation.
131 (`#1005 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1005>`_)
132 (`#1018 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1018>`_)
134 * Updated Turkish translation.
135 (`#1003 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1003>`_)
136 (`#1011 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1011>`_)
140 * Better support for Python 3.8's line buffering modes.
141 (`#1014 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1014>`_)
143 * The default `ssh-askpass` script now uses a more generic `#!` shebang line.
144 (`#1012 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/1012>`_)
146 * Fetch, push, and pull operations will now refresh the model and display when
148 (`#996 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/996>`_)
150 * The branches widget now refreshes its display when changing branches.
151 (`#992 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/992>`_)
155 * The `share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase` script will now have its `#!` lines
156 updated during installation.
157 (`#991 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/991>`_)
161 * The unit tests were made more platform-independent.
162 (`#993 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/993>`_)
169 Usability, bells and whistles
170 -----------------------------
171 * Auto-completion for filenames can now be disabled. This speeds up
172 revision completion when working in large repositories with many files.
173 (`#981 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/981>`_)
175 * The Stash dialog now shows the stash date as a tooltip when hovering
176 over a stashed change.
177 (`#982 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/982>`_)
179 * Qt HiDPI settings are overriden by the `git cola` HiDPI appearance settings.
180 These overrides can now be disabled by selecting the "Disable" mode.
181 This allows users to control Qt's HiDPI settings through environment
182 variables. Additionally, the "Auto" mode now detects the presence of
183 the Qt HiDPI variables and no longer overrides them when the user has
184 configured their environment explicitly.
185 (`#963 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/963>`_)
187 * Confirmation dialogs can now focus buttons using the Tab key.
188 Previously, the "Y" and "N" keys could be used to confirm or deny
189 using the keyboard, but "Tab" is more familiar.
190 (`#965 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/965>`_)
192 * Error dialogs (for example, when a commit hook fails) will now always
193 show the details. The details were previously hidden behind a toggle.
194 (`#968 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/968>`_)
198 * Updated Japanese translation.
199 (`#973 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/973>`_)
200 (`#974 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/974>`_)
202 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation.
203 (`#950 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/950>`_)
207 * The filesystem monitor no longer logs that it has been enabled after the
208 inotify watch limit is reached on Linux.
209 (`#984 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/984>`_)
211 * Better unicode robustness.
212 (`#990 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/990>`_)
213 (`#910 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/991>`_)
215 * The "Branches" widget did not always update itself when deleting branches
216 (for example, when inotify is disabled or unavailable).
217 (`#978 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/978>`_)
219 * Non-ascii unicode byte strings are more robustly handled by the log widget.
220 (`#977 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/977>`_)
222 * Non-unicode results from the `gettext` library are more robustly handled.
223 (`#969 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/969>`_)
225 * Launching `git cola` from within a directory that has since been deleted
226 would previously result in a traceback, and is now robustly handled.
227 (`#961 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/961>`_)
231 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.9`.
238 Usability, bells and whistles
239 -----------------------------
240 * The file browser now includes "Blame" in its context menu.
241 (`#953 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/953>`_)
243 * The "Push" action now uses "git push --force-with-lease" when using
244 the "Force" option with Git v1.8.5 and newer.
245 (`#946 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/946>`_)
247 * Updated German translation.
248 (`#936 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/936>`_)
250 * The `Status` widget learned to optionally display file counts in its
251 category headers, and indent the files displayed in each category.
252 (`#931 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/931>`_)
254 * The `Branches` widget can now sort branches by their most recent commit.
255 (`#930 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/930>`_)
257 * `git cola` now includes configurable GUI themes that can be used to style
258 the user interface. Enable the new themes by configuring `cola.theme`
259 in the preferences window. See the
260 `cola.theme documentation <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#cola-theme>`_
261 for more details. (`#924 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/924>`_)
263 * `git cola` now has built-in support for HiDPI displays by enabling
264 Qt's 5.6's `QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR` feature.
265 (`#938 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/938>`_)
267 * `git cola` now uses HiDPI pixmaps when rendering icons, and the builtin
268 icons have been updated to look sharp when displayed in HiDPI.
269 (`#932 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/932>`_)
273 * `git cola`'s "Revert Unstaged Edits" previously checked out from "HEAD^",
274 when in "Amend" mode, and removing staged changes. This behavior has been
275 changed to always checkout from the index, which avoids data loss.
276 (`#947 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/947>`_)
278 * `git cola` has been updated to work with newer versions of `gnome-terminal`
279 and no longer shell-quotes its arguments when launching `gnome-terminal`.
280 The `cola.terminalshellquote` configuration variable can be set to `true` to
281 get the old behavior, or to handle other terminals that take the command to run
282 as a single string instead of as arguments to `execv()`.
283 (`#935 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/935>`_)
285 * `git dag` now properly handles arbitrary input on Python3.
286 Previously, an exception would be raised when entering `--grep=xxx` where
287 `xxx` is a quoted string with a missing end-quote.
288 (`#941 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/941>`_)
292 * The contribution guidelines for contributors has been updated to mention
293 how to regenerate the `*.mo` message files.
294 (`#934 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/934>`_)
301 Usability, bells and whistles
302 -----------------------------
303 * `git dag` improved how it renders parent commits.
304 (`#921 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/921>`_)
306 * The `Branches` widget now checks out branches when double-clicked.
307 (`#920 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/920>`_)
309 * The new `Submodules` widget makes it easy to interact with submodules.
310 Additionally, submodules can now be updated using the `Status` widget.
311 (`#916 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/916>`_)
313 * Updated Japanese translation.
314 (`#914 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/914>`_)
316 * The "Open Terminal" action now launches a Git Bash shell on Windows.
317 (`#913 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/913>`_)
319 * New menu actions for updating all submodules.
320 (`#911 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/911>`_)
322 * The status widget can now update submodules.
323 (`#911 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/911>`_)
325 * The "Apply Patch" `git cola am` dialog now includes a diff viewer
326 to display the contents of the selected patch.
328 * The "Alt+D" diffstat hotkey now selects the staged/modified/etc.
329 header in the Status widget, which shows the totality of everything
330 that will be committed.
331 (`#771 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/771>`_)
333 * Running "Launch Editor" from the diff editor now opens the editor at the
335 (`#898 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/898>`_)
337 * The textwidth and tabwidth configuration values can now be set
338 per-repository, rather than globally only.
340 * Text entry widgets switched to using a block cursor in `v3.2`.
341 This has been reverted to the original line cursor for consistency
342 with other applications and user expectations.
343 (`#889 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/889>`_)
345 * The "edit at line" feature, used by the "Grep" tool, now supports
346 the Sublime text editor.
347 (`#894 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/894>`_)
351 * Launching external programs has been improved on Windows.
352 (`#925 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/925>`_)
354 * Improve compatibility when using PySide2.
355 (`#912 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/912>`_)
357 * The Diff Editor was not honoring the configured tab width on startup.
358 (`#900 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/900>`_)
360 * The "Delete Files" feature was creating an unreadable display when
361 many files were selected. Word-wrap the list of files so that the
362 display stays within a sensible size.
363 (`#895 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/895>`_)
365 * Spelling and grammar fixes.
366 (`#915 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/915>`_)
367 (`#891 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/891>`_)
371 * The logo was run through `tidy` to give it a consistent style.
372 Some technical issues with the logo were improved.
373 (`#877 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/877>`_)
375 * The entire codebase is now checked by `flake8`, rather than just
376 the module and test directories. This catches things like
377 the pynsist installer scripts.
378 (`#884 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/884>`_)
379 (`#882 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/882>`_)
380 (`#879 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/879>`_)
384 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.6`.
386 * The Windows installer's wrapper scripts were missing an import.
387 (`#878 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/878>`_)
394 Usability, bells and whistles
395 -----------------------------
396 * The `git cola dag` DAG window now supports `git revert`.
397 (`#843 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/843>`_)
399 * `git stash pop` is now supported by the stash dialog.
400 (`#844 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/844>`_)
402 * The status widget now ensures that each item is visible when selection
403 changes. Previously, if you scrolled to the right to see the name of
404 a long filename, and then selected a short filename above it, the widget
405 may not have shown the short filename in the viewport. We now ensure
406 that the filenames are visible when the selection changes.
407 (`#828 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/828>`_)
409 * The `git xbase` rebase editor no longer displays an error when
410 cancelling an interactive rebase.
411 (`#814 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814>`_)
413 * The dialog shown when renaming remotes has been simplified.
414 (`#840 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/840>`_)
415 (`#838 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/838>`_)
417 * The help dialog in the `git-xbase` Rebase editor is now scrollable.
418 (`#855 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/855>`_)
422 * Updated Brazilian translation.
423 (`#845 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/845>`_)
425 * Updated Czech translation.
426 (`#854 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/854>`_)
427 (`#853 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/853>`_)
428 (`#835 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/835>`_)
429 (`#813 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/813>`_)
431 * Update Spanish translation.
432 (`#862 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/862>`_)
433 (`#867 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/867>`_)
437 * The original `#!/usr/bin/env python` shebang lines can now be
438 retained by passing `USE_ENV_PYTHON=1` to `make` when installing.
439 (`#850 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/850>`_)
441 * The Makefile is now resilient to DESTDIR and prefix containing whitespace.
442 (`#858 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/858>`_)
444 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.4.2`.
446 * `python3-distutils` is needed to build cola on Debian.
447 (`#837 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/837>`_)
451 * The "C" key no longer closes the message dialogs, for example the
452 one that is shown when a commit fails its pre-commit hooks.
453 This allows "Ctrl+C" copy to work, rather than closing the dialog.
454 (`#734 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/734>`_)
456 * Dock widgets sizes are now properly saved and restored when the main
458 (`#848 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/848>`_)
460 * The spellcheck feature was broken under Python3.
461 (`#857 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/857>`_)
463 * A regression when saving stashes was fixed.
464 (`#847 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/847>`_)
466 * Diffing image files was not updating the available context menus,
467 which prevented the "Stage" action from being present in the menu.
468 (`#841 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/841>`_)
470 * `git cola` now detects when `git lfs uninstall` has been run. This allows
471 you to re-initialize "Git LFS" in an existing repository where it had been
472 previously uninstalled.
473 (`#842 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/842>`_)
475 * Custom color values that did not contain any hexadecimal digits in the
476 `a-f` range were being converted into integers by the config reader. This
477 then caused the configured colors to be ignored.
479 These color values are now interpreted correctly. Additionally, color
480 values can now use an optional HTML-like `#` prefix.
482 Example `.gitconfig` snippet::
487 (`#836 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/836>`_)
488 (`#849 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/849>`_)
490 * We now display an error message graphically when `Git` is not installed.
491 Previously, the message went to stderr only.
492 (`#830 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/830>`_)
494 * Changing diff options was causing resulting in an exception.
495 (`#833 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/833>`_)
496 (`#834 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/834>`_)
498 * The DAG window now updates itself when branches and tags are created.
499 (`#814 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814>`_)
501 * The user's `$PATH` environment variable can now contain utf-8
502 encoded paths. Previously, launching external commands could
504 (`#807 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/807>`_)
506 * Git Cola development sandboxes can now be stored on utf-8 encoded
507 filesystem paths. Previously, the interactive rebase feature
508 could be broken when running in that environment.
509 (`#825 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/825>`_)
511 * The log window now uses an ISO-8601 timestamp, which
512 avoids localized output in the log window.
513 (`#817 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/817>`_)
517 * The code base has been thoroughly sanitized using `pylint`, and
518 travis is now running pylint over the entire project.
520 * Miscellaneous improvements and code improvements.
521 (`#874 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/874>`_)
528 Usability, bells and whistles
529 -----------------------------
530 * The "Browser" widget learned to rename files using "git mv".
531 (`#239 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/239>`_)
533 * The "Diff" widget learned to diff images. Side-by-side and pixel diff
534 modes allow you to inspect changes to common images formats.
535 (`#444 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/444>`_)
536 (`#803 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/803>`_)
538 * Git LFS and Git Annex are natively supported by the image diff viewer.
540 * Git Annex operations are now included. `git annex init` can be performed on
541 repositories, and `git annex add` can be run on untracked files from the
542 status widget. Install `git-annex` to activate this feature.
544 * Git LFS operations are now included. `git lfs install` can be performed on
545 repositories, and `git lfs track` can be run on untracked files from the
546 status widget. Install `git-lfs` to activate this feature.
548 * The "Stash" tool learned to stash staged changes only. Select the
549 "Stage Index" option and only staged changes will be stashed away.
550 (`#413 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/413>`_)
552 * The "Stash" tool learned to use vim-like navigation keyboard shortcuts,
553 shows error messages when things go wrong, and now saves the "Stash Index"
554 and "Keep Index" options across sessions.
556 * The Edit menu's "Copy" and "Select All" actions now forward to either the
557 diff, status, recent, or favorites widgets, based on which widget has focus.
559 * The "File" and "Edit" menu can now be activated using `Alt-{f,e}` hotkeys.
560 (`#759 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/759>`_)
562 * It was easy to accidentally trigger the first action in the `Status` tool's
563 context menu when using a quick right-click to bring up the menu.
564 A short sub-second delay was added to ensure that the top-most action is not
565 triggered unless enough time has passed. This prevents accidental
566 activation of the first item (typically "Stage" or "Unstage") without
567 burdening common use cases.
568 (`#755 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/755>`_)
569 (`#643 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/643>`_)
571 * The "Ctrl+S" hotkey now works for the header items in the Status tool.
572 Selected the "Modified" header item and activating the "Stage" hotkey,
573 for example, will stage all modified files. This works for the "Staged",
574 "Modified", and "Untracked" headers. This is not enabled for the
575 "Unmerged" header by design.
576 (`#772 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/772>`_)
578 * The list of "Recent" repositories previously capped the number of
579 repositories shown to 8 repositories. This can be set to a higher
580 value by setting the `cola.maxrecent` configuration variable.
581 (`#752 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/752>`_)
583 * The "Create Branch" dialog now prevents invalid branch names.
584 (`#765 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/765>`_)
586 * Updated Turkish translation.
587 (`#756 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/756>`_)
589 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
590 (`#753 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/753>`_)
592 * Updated German translation.
593 (`#802 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/802>`_)
595 * Updated Czech translation
596 (`#792 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/792>`_)
597 (`#806 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/806>`_)
599 * The window title can be configured to not display the absolute path of the
601 (`#775 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/775>`_)
603 * The "Edit Remotes" editor learned to edit remote URLS.
605 * Bare repositories can now be created by selecting the
606 "New Bare Repository..." action from the `File` menu.
608 * The "Branches" widget learned to configure upstream branches.
610 * A new `git cola clone` sub-command was added for cloning repositories.
614 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.3.1`.
616 * The macOS installation was made simpler for better compatibility with
618 (`#636 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/636>`_)
620 * The Windows installer is now much simpler. Git Cola now bundles
621 Python and PyQt5, so users need only install the "Git for Windows"
622 and "Git Cola" installers to get things working.
626 * Uninitialized difftool errors will now be displayed graphically.
627 They were previously going to the shell.
628 (`#457 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/457>`_)
630 * Translations marked "fuzzy" will no longer be used when translating strings.
631 (`#782 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/782>`_)
633 * Deleted unmerged files will now correctly use a deleted icon.
634 (`#479 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/479>`_)
636 * The `Ctrl+C` "Copy" hotkey on the diff viewer has been fixed.
637 (`#767 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/767>`_)
639 * The "Create Tag" dialog did not correctly handle the case when a signed
640 tag is requested, but no message is provided, and the user chooses to
641 create an unannotated tag instead. This convenience fallback will now
642 properly create an unsigned, unannotated tag.
643 (`#696 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/696>`_)
645 * `.gitconfig` and `.git/config` values editable by the Preferences dialog
646 (aka `git cola config`) will now get unset when set to an empty value.
647 For example, setting a different `user.email` in the current repository,
648 followed by a subsequent emptying of that field, would previously result in
649 an empty string getting stored in the config. This has been fixed so that
650 the value will now get unset in the config instead.
651 (`#406 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/406>`_)
653 * Spelling and typofixes.
654 (`#748 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/748>`_)
656 * `core.commentChar` is now honored when set in the local repository
658 (`#766 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/766>`_)
660 * The log window was using a format string that did not display
661 correctly in all locales. A locale-aware format is now used.
662 (`#800 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/800>`_)
664 * The dialog displayed when prompting for a reference could sometimes
666 (`#804 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/804>`_)
673 Usability, bells and whistles
674 -----------------------------
675 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation.
676 (`#726 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/726>`_)
678 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
679 (`#723 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/723>`_)
681 * New Czech translation.
682 (`#736 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/736>`_)
683 (`#737 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/737>`_)
684 (`#740 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/740>`_)
685 (`#743 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/743>`_)
687 * The "name" field in the "Create Tag" dialog now includes autocompletion,
688 which makes it easy to see which tags currently exist.
690 * `git cola` now has configurable toolbars. Use the `View -> Add toolbar`
691 menu item to add a toolbar.
693 * Setting `cola.expandtab` to `true` will now expand tabs into spaces
694 in the commit message editor. The number of spaces to insert is determined
695 by consulting `cola.tabwidth`, which defaults to `8`.
697 * The "Copy SHA-1" hotkey is now `Alt + Ctrl + C`, to avoid clobbering the
698 ability to copy text from the DAG window.
699 (`#705 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/705>`_)
701 * The "Prepare Commit Message" action can now be invoked via the
702 `Ctrl+Shift+Return` shortcut.
703 (`#707 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/707>`_)
705 * The `Branches` pane now has a filter field that highlights branches whose
706 names match the string entered into its text field.
707 (`#713 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/713>`_)
709 * Actions that are triggered in response to button presses were being
710 triggered when the button was pressed, rather than when it was released,
711 which was a usability flaw. All buttons now respond when clicked
712 rather than when pressed.
713 (`#715 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/715>`_)
715 * The DAG window will now only refresh when object IDs change.
716 Previously, the DAG would redraw itself in response to inotify events,
717 such as filesystem operations, which was disruptive when inspecting a large
718 diff in its diff viewer. The DAG will now only redraw when the object IDs
719 corresponding to its query input changes. Furthermore, when redrawing, the
720 scrollbar positions are retained to minimize disruption to the viewport
722 (`#620 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/620>`_)
723 (`#724 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/724>`_)
725 * The "About" dialog now includes the SHA-1 where Git Cola was built.
726 (`#530 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/530>`_)
728 * The "Status" widget now has "Copy Leading Path to Clipboard" and
729 "Copy Basename to Clipboard" actions.
730 (`#435 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/435>`_)
731 (`#436 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/436>`_)
733 * The "Status" widget now supports custom "Copy ... to Clipboard" actions.
734 (`#437 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/437>`_)
736 * The main menu now has an "Edit" menu.
737 (`#725 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/725>`_)
739 * `git dag` learned to checkout commits into a detached HEAD state.
740 (`#698 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/698>`_)
742 * The `status` widget's context menus now omit actions selection-dependent
743 actions when no file is selected.
744 (`#731 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/731>`_)
746 * The startup dialog now focuses the repository list so that repositories
747 can be selected with the keyboard without mouse intervention.
748 (`#741 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/741>`_)
752 * `git dag` now prevents nodes from overlapping in more situations.
753 (`#689 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/689>`_)
755 * Adding untracked Git submodule repo directories previously ran
756 `git add submodule/` but we now call `git add submodule` without
757 the trailing slash (`/`) to avoid staging files that belong to the
758 submodule (which is possibly a `git` bug). By working around the
759 buggy behavior we allow users to recover by issuing the appropriate
760 `git submodule add` command to properly register the submodule.
761 (`#681 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/681>`_)
763 * We now avoid `git for-each-ref --sort=version:refname` on versions
764 of `git` older than `v2.7.0`. Previously we only avoided it for
765 versions older than `v2.0.0`, which was a mistake.
766 (`#686 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686>`_)
768 * The error message displayed when `git` is not installed has been fixed.
769 (`#686 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686>`_)
771 * Adding new remotes was silently broken.
772 (`#684 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/684>`_)
773 (`#685 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/685>`_)
775 * The repo selection dialog had errors during startup when the
776 `cola.refreshonfocus` feature was enabled, as reported on Ubuntu 16.04.
777 (`#690 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/690>`_)
779 * Restored support for PyQt 4.6 (Centos 6.8)
780 (`#692 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/692>`_)
782 * Switching repositories now resets the "Amend Mode" and other settings
784 (`#710 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/710>`_)
786 * `git rebase` error messages now displayed when rebasing fails or stops
787 via the standalone `git cola rebase` front-end.
788 (`#721 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/721>`_)
790 * `git cola` learned to stage broken symlinks.
791 (`#727 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/727>`_)
793 * The "View History" feature in the `Browser` tool was fixed, and now
794 disambiguates between refs and paths.
795 (`#732 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/732>`_)
797 * The diff editor now has better support for files with CRLF `\r\n`
799 (`#730 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/730>`_)
801 * `cola.inotify` in a repo-local config is now honored
802 when `git cola` is launched from a desktop entry (`git cola --prompt`).
803 (`#695 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/695>`_)
810 Usability, bells and whistles
811 -----------------------------
812 * New Ukrainian translation.
813 (`#670 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/670>`_)
814 (`#672 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/672>`_)
816 * New and improved French translations.
818 * The new `Branches` widget makes it easier to checkout, merge, push,
819 and pull branches from a single interface.
821 * `git cola` now includes a dark icon theme. The dark icon theme can be
822 activated either by setting the `GIT_COLA_ICON_THEME` environment variable
823 to `dark`, by configuring `cola.icontheme` to `dark`, or by specifying
824 `--icon-theme=dark` on the command line.
825 (`#638 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/638>`_)
827 * Autocompletion was added to the `Fetch`, `Push`, and `Pull` dialogs.
829 * The commit message editor now remembers the "Spellcheck" setting
831 (`#645 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/645>`_)
833 * `git dag` now uses an improved algorithm for laying out the graph,
834 which avoids collisions under certain graph configurations, and
835 avoids overlapping tag with commits.
836 (`#648 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/648>`_)
837 (`#651 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/651>`_)
838 (`#654 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/654>`_)
839 (`#656 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/656>`_)
840 (`#659 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/659>`_)
842 * `git dag` now remembers its column sizes across sessions.
843 (`#674 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/674>`_)
845 * `Grep` now shows a preview of the selected file's content in a split window
846 below the grep results.
848 * `Grep` now includes line numbers in the preview pane's output.
850 * `Edit Remotes` now remembers its window settings after exiting.
852 * `Diff` now has an option to display line numbers in the editor.
853 (`#136 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/136>`_)
855 * `Amend Last Commit` can now be triggered via the `Commit` menu in addition
856 to the commit message editor's options.
857 (`#640 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/640>`_)
859 * The `File Browser` tool was made much faster and can now operate on
860 much larger repositories.
861 (`#499 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/499>`_)
863 * A new "turbo" mode was added that allows you to opt-out of operations
864 that can slow `git cola` on large repositories. The turbo mode is
865 enabled by configuring `git config cola.turbo true`. Turbo mode
866 disables the background loading of Git commit messages and other
867 details in the `File Browser` widget.
869 * A new GitIgnore dialog allows adding custom gitignore patterns.
870 (`#653 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/653>`_)
872 * The spellchecker in `git cola` can now use an additional dictionary
873 by configuring `cola.dictionary` to the path to a file containing
874 a newline-separated list of words.
875 (`#663 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663>`_)
877 * The stash, export patches, diff, and gitignore dialogs now remember
880 * A new `git cola recent` sub-command was added for finding recently
883 * The `Fetch` dialog now allows pruning remote branches.
884 (`#639 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/639>`_)
885 (`#680 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/680>`_)
889 * `git cola`'s spellchecker now supports the new `dict-common` filesystem
890 layout, and prefers the `/usr/share/dict/cracklib-small` file over the
891 `/usr/share/dict/words` provided on older distributions.
892 This makes the spellchecker compatible with Arch, which does not provide
893 a `words` symlink like Debian.
894 (`#663 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663>`_)
896 * Properly handle the case where an existing file is untracked using
899 * Fix a quirk where the "Create Branch" dialog sometimes required clicking
900 twice on the radio buttons.
901 (`#662 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/662>`_)
903 * Fixed a focus issue to ensure that "Push", "Fetch", and "Pull" can
904 be executed with the press of a single enter key after being shown.
905 (`#661 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/661>`_)
907 * Committing is now allowed in when resolving a merge results in no
908 changes. This state was previously prevented by the commit message editor,
909 which prevented users from resolving merges that result in no changes.
910 (`#679 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/679>`_)
912 * The filesystem monitor would sometimes emit backtraces when directories
913 are modified. This has been fixed.
914 (`bz #1438522 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438522>`_)
916 * Absolute paths are now returned when querying for `.git`-relative paths
917 from within a submodule, which uses `.git`-files.
918 This fixes launching `git cola` from within a subdirectory of a submodule.
919 (`#675 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/675>`_)
926 Usability, bells and whistles
927 -----------------------------
928 * `git cola` can now invoke the `.git/hooks/cola-prepare-commit-msg`
929 hook to update the commit message. This hook takes the same parameters
930 as Git's `prepare-commit-message` hook. The default path to this hook
931 can be overridden by setting the `cola.prepareCommitMessageHook`
932 configuration variable.
933 (`Documentation <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#prepare-commit-message>`_)
935 * `git cola diff` (and the corresponding `Diff` menu actions) can now
936 launch difftool with the standard `Ctrl+D` hotkey. The `Ctrl+E` hotkey was
937 also added for launching an editor.
939 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
943 * `git cola` now works when installed in non-ascii, utf8-encoded paths.
944 (`#629 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/629>`_)
946 * Styling issues that caused black backgrounds in various widgets when using
947 PyQ5 on Mac OS X have been fixed.
948 (`#624 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/624>`_)
950 * The "Open Recent" menu action was broken and has been fixed.
951 (`#634 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/634>`_)
953 * Exiting `git cola` with a maximized main window would hang when reopened
955 (`#641 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/641>`_)
959 * `appdata.xml` files are now provided at
960 `share/appdata/git-cola.xml` and `share/appdata/git-dag.xml`
961 for use by the Linux software gallery.
962 (`#627 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/627>`_)
963 (`Appdata <https://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/>`_)
972 * The "Open Recent" menu was updated to new bookmarks format.
973 (`#628 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/628>`_)
980 Usability, bells and whistles
981 -----------------------------
982 * New Polish translation thanks to Łukasz Wojniłowicz
983 (`#598 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/598>`_)
985 * The `Bypass Commit Hooks` feature now disables itself automatically
986 when a new commit is created. The new behavior turns the option into a
987 single-use flag, which helps prevent users from accidentally leaving it
988 active longer than intended.
989 (`#595 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/595>`_)
991 * `git dag` learned to launch an external diff viewer on selected commits.
992 The standard `Ctrl+D` shortcut can be used to view diffs.
993 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
995 * `git dag` learned to launch directory diffs via `git difftool --dir-diff`.
996 The `Ctrl+Shift+D` shortcut launches difftool in directory-diff mode.
997 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
999 * Items in the "Favorites" list can now be renamed, which makes it
1000 easier to differentiate between several checkouts of the same repository.
1001 (`#599 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/599>`_)
1002 (`#601 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/601>`_)
1004 * The startup screen now includes a logo and `git cola` version information.
1005 (`#526 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/526>`_)
1007 * The `About` page was revamped to contain multiple tabs. A new tab was added
1008 that provides details about `git cola`''s dependencies. New tabs were also
1009 added for giving credit to `git cola`'s authors and translators.
1011 * The `About` page can now be accessed via `git cola about`.
1013 * The "Fast-forward only" and "No fast-forward" options supported by
1014 `git pull` are now accessible via `git cola pull`.
1016 * Doing a forced push no longer requires selecting the remote branch.
1017 (`#618 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/618>`_)
1019 * `git cola push` now has an option to suppress the prompt that is shown
1020 when pushing would create new remote branches.
1021 (`#605 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/605>`_)
1023 * `git dag` now shows commit messages in a more readable color.
1024 (`#574 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/574>`_)
1026 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch the OS-specified
1027 default action for a file. When used on directories via `git cola browse`,
1028 or when "Open Parent Directory" is used on files, the OS-specified
1029 file browser will typically be used.
1031 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch terminals.
1035 * `git cola browse` was not updating when expanding items.
1036 (`#588 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/588>`_)
1038 * Typofixes in comments, naming, and strings have been applied.
1039 (`#593 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/593>`_)
1041 * The inotify and win32 filesystem monitoring no longer refreshes
1042 when updates are made to ignored files.
1043 (`#517 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/517>`_)
1044 (`#516 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/516>`_)
1046 * The `Refresh` button on the actions panel no longer raises an
1047 exception when using PyQt5.
1048 (`#604 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/604>`_)
1050 * Fixed a typo in the inotify backend that is triggered when files are removed.
1051 (`#607 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/607>`_)
1053 * Fixed a typo when recovering from a failed attempt to open a repository.
1054 (`#606 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/606>`_)
1056 * `git dag` now properly updates itself when launched from the menubar.
1057 (`#613 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/613>`_)
1059 * If git-cola is invoked on Windows using `start pythonw git-cola`,
1060 a console window will briefly flash on the screen each time
1061 `git cola` invokes `git`. The console window is now suppressed.
1063 * We now avoid some problematic Popen flags on Windows which were
1064 breaking the `git rebase` feature on Windows.
1066 * The `Save` button in `git dag`'s "Grab File..." feature now properly
1067 prompts for a filename when saving files.
1068 (`#617 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/617>`_)
1072 * The `qtpy` symlink in the source tree has been removed to allow for easier
1073 development on Windows.
1074 (`#626 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/626>`_)
1081 Usability, bells and whistles
1082 -----------------------------
1083 * `git cola push` learned to configure upstream branches.
1084 (`#563 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/563>`_)
1088 * The diffstat view is now properly updated when notifications are
1089 received via inotify filesystem monitoring.
1090 (`#577 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/577>`_)
1092 * Python3 with PyQt5 had a bug that prevented `git cola` from starting.
1093 (`#589 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/589>`_)
1103 * When repositories stored in non-ASCII, UTF-8-encoded filesystem paths
1104 were operated upon with `LC_ALL=C` set in the environment, unicode errors
1105 would occur when using `python2`. `git cola` was made more robust and will
1106 now operate correctly within this environment.
1107 (`#581 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/581>`_)
1109 * Support for the `GIT_WORK_TREE` environment variable was fixed.
1110 (`#582 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/582>`_)
1115 * The `unittest.mock` module is now used instead of the original `mock` module
1116 when running the `git cola` test suite using Python3.
1117 (`#569 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/569>`_)
1122 * `git cola` is now compatible with *PyQt5*, *PyQt4*, and *Pyside*.
1123 `git cola` previously supported *PyQt4* only, but will now use whichever
1124 library is available. Users are not required to upgrade at this time,
1125 but *PyQt5* support can be enabled anytime by making its python
1127 (`#232 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/232>`_)
1129 *NOTE*: We do not yet recommend using *PyQt5* because there are known
1130 exit-on-segfault bugs in *Qt5* that have not yet been addressed.
1131 `git cola` is sensitive to this bug and is known to crash on exit
1132 when using `git dag` or the interactive rebase feature on *PyQt5*.
1134 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-52988
1136 *PyQt4* is stable and there are no known issues when using it so
1137 we recommend using it until the Qt5 bugs have been resolved.
1139 * `git cola` now depends on *QtPy* and includes a bundled copy of the
1140 `qtpy` library. If you are packaging `git cola` and would prefer to use
1141 `qtpy` from your distribution instead of the built-in version then use
1142 `make NO_VENDOR_LIBS=1` when building `git cola`. This will prevent
1143 vendored libraries from being installed.
1150 Usability, bells and whistles
1151 -----------------------------
1153 * A new "Reset" sub-menu provides access to running "git reset --mixed"
1154 when resetting branch heads and "git reset --merge" when resetting
1156 (`#542 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/542>`_)
1158 * `git cola` now supports linked worktrees, i.e. worktrees created by
1160 (`#554 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/554>`_)
1165 * Diff highlighting is now robust to the user having
1166 diff.supressBlankEmpty=true in their git config.
1167 (`#541 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/541>`_)
1169 * The filesystem monitor now properly handles repositories that use
1170 `.git`-files, e.g. when using submodules.
1171 (`#545 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/545>`_)
1172 (`#546 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pulls/546>`_)
1174 * Per-repository git configuration is now properly detected when launching
1175 `git cola` from an application launcher.
1176 (`#548 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/548>`_)
1178 * `git cola` now cleans up after itself immediately to avoid leaving behind
1179 empty `/tmp/git-cola-XXXXXX` directories when the user uses `Ctrl+C`
1181 (`#566 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/566>`_)
1186 * It is now possible to install `git cola` to and from utf8-encoded filesystem
1187 paths. Previously, Python's stdlib would throw an encoding error during
1188 installation. We workaround the stdlib by forcing python2 to use utf-8,
1189 thus fixing assumptions in the stdlib library code.
1190 (`#551 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/551>`_)
1197 Usability, bells and whistles
1198 -----------------------------
1200 * The icon for untracked files was adjusted to better differentiate
1201 between files and the "Untracked" header.
1202 (`#509 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/509>`_)
1204 * Ctrl+O was added as a hotkey for opening repositories.
1205 (`#507 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/507>`_)
1207 * `git dag` now uses consistent edge colors across updates.
1208 (`#512 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/512>`_)
1210 * `git cola`'s Bookmarks widget can now be used to set a "Default Repository".
1211 Under the hood, we set the `cola.defaultrepo` configuration variable.
1212 The default repository is used whenever `git cola` is launched outside of
1213 a Git repository. When unset, or when set to a bogus value, `git cola`
1214 will prompt for a repository, as it previously did.
1215 (`#513 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/513>`_)
1217 * `git cola`'s Russian and Spanish translations were improved
1218 thanks to Vaiz and Zeioth.
1219 (`#514 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/514>`_)
1220 (`#515 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/515>`_)
1221 (`#523 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/523>`_)
1223 * `git cola` was translated to Turkish thanks to Barış ÇELİK.
1224 (`#520 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/520>`_)
1226 * The status view now supports launching `git gui blame`. It can be
1227 configured to use a different command by setting `cola.blameviewer`.
1228 (`#521 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/521>`_)
1230 * `git dag` now allows selecting non-contiguous ranges in the log widget.
1231 (`#468 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468>`_)
1233 * Any font can now be chosen for the diff editor, not just monospace fonts.
1234 (`#525 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/525>`_)
1239 * `xfce4-terminal` and `gnome-terminal` are now supported when launching
1240 `git mergetool` to resolve merges. These terminals require that the command
1241 to execute is shell-quoted and passed as a single string argument to `-e`
1242 rather than as additional command line arguments.
1243 (`#524 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/524>`_)
1245 * Fixed a unicode problem when formatting the error message that is shown
1246 when `gitk` is not installed. We now handle unicode data in tracebacks
1247 generated by python itself.
1248 (`#528 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/528>`_)
1250 * The `New repository` feature was fixed.
1251 (`#533 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/533>`_)
1253 * We now use omit the extended description when creating "fixup!" commits,
1254 for consistency with the Git CLI. We now include only the one-line summary
1255 in the final commit message.
1256 (`#522 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/522>`_)
1263 Usability, bells and whistles
1264 -----------------------------
1266 * The user interface is now HiDPI-capable. git-cola now uses SVG
1267 icons, and its interface can be scaled by setting the `GIT_COLA_SCALE`
1268 environment variable.
1270 * `git dag` now supports the standard editor, difftool, and history hotkeys.
1271 It is now possible to invoke these actions from file widget's context
1272 menu and through the standard hotkeys.
1273 (`#473 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/473>`_)
1275 * The `Status` tool also learned about the history hotkey.
1276 Additionally, the `Alt-{j,k}` aliases are also supported in the `Status`
1277 tool for consistency with the other tools where the non-Alt hotkeys are not
1279 (`#488 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/488>`_)
1281 * The `File Browser` tool now has better default column sizes,
1282 and remembers its window size and placement.
1284 * The `File Browser` now supports the refresh hotkey, and has better
1285 behavior when refreshing. The selection is now retained, and new and
1286 removed files are found when refreshing.
1288 * A new `git-cola-completion.bash` completion script is provided in the
1289 `contrib/` directory. It must be used alongside Git's completion script.
1290 Source it from your `~/.bashrc` (or `~/.zshrc`, etc) after sourcing
1291 the `git-completion.bash` script and you will have command-line completion
1292 support for the `git cola` and `git dag` sub-commands.
1294 * The "checkout" dialog now offers completion for remote branches and other
1295 git refs. This makes it easier to checkout remote branches in a detached
1296 head state. Additionally, the checkout dialog also offers completion for
1297 remote branches that have not yet been checked out, which makes it easier to
1298 create a local tracking branch by just completing for that potential name.
1299 (`#390 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/390>`_)
1301 * The "create branch" and "create tag" dialogs now save and restore their
1304 * The "status" widget can now be configured to use a bold font with a darker
1305 background for the header items.
1306 (`#506 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/506>`_)
1308 * The "status" widget now remembers its horizontol scrollbar position across
1309 updates. This is helpful when working on projects with long paths.
1310 (`#494 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/494>`_)
1315 * When using *Git for Windows*, a `git` window would appear
1316 when running *Windows 8*. We now pass additional flags to
1317 `subprocess.Popen` to prevent a `git` window from appearing.
1318 (`#477 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/477>`_)
1319 (`#486 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/486>`_)
1321 * Launching difftool with `.PY` in `$PATHEXT` on Windows was fixed.
1322 (`#492 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/492>`_)
1324 * Creating a local branch tracking a remote branch that contains
1325 slashes in its name is now properly handled.
1326 (`#496 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/496>`_)
1328 * The "Browse Other Branch" feature was broken by Python3, and is now fixed.
1329 (`#501 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/501>`_)
1331 * We now avoid `long` for better Python3 compatibility.
1332 (`#502 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/502>`_)
1334 * We now use Git's default merge message when merging branches.
1335 (`#508 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/508>`_)
1337 * Miscellaneous fixes
1338 (`#485 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/485>`_)
1343 * git-cola's documentation no longer uses an intersphinx link mapping
1344 to docs.python.org. This fixes warnings when building rpms using koji,
1345 where network access is prevented.
1347 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231812
1354 Usability, bells and whistles
1355 -----------------------------
1357 * The Interactive Rebase feature now works on Windows!
1358 (`#463 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/463>`_)
1360 * The `diff` editor now understands vim-style `hjkl` navigation hotkeys.
1361 (`#476 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/476>`_)
1363 * `Alt-{j,k}` navigation hotkeys were added to allow changing to the
1364 next/previous file from the diff and commit editors.
1366 * The `Rename branch` menu action is now disabled in empty repositories.
1367 (`#475 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/475>`_)
1368 (`#459 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/459>`_)
1370 * `git cola` now checks unmerged files for conflict markers before
1371 staging them. This feature can be disabled in the preferences.
1372 (`#464 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/464>`_)
1374 * `git dag` now remembers which commits were selected when refreshing
1375 so that it can restore the selection afterwards.
1376 (`#480 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/480>`_)
1378 * "Launch Editor", "Launch Difftool", "Stage/Unstage",
1379 and "Move Up/Down" hotkeys now work when the commit message
1381 (`#453 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453>`_)
1383 * The diff editor now supports the `Ctrl+u` hotkey for reverting
1384 diff hunks and selected lines.
1386 * The `core.commentChar` Git configuration value is now honored.
1387 Commit messages and rebase instruction sheets will now use
1388 the configured character for comments. This allows having
1389 commit messages that start with `#` when `core.commentChar`
1390 is configured to its non-default value.
1391 (`#446 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/446>`_)
1396 * Diff syntax highlighting was improved to handle more edge cases
1397 and false positives.
1398 (`#467 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/467>`_)
1400 * Setting commands in the interactive rebase editor was fixed.
1401 (`#472 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/472>`_)
1403 * git-cola no longer clobbers the Ctrl+Backspace text editing shortcut
1404 in the commit message editor.
1405 (`#453 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453>`_)
1407 * The copy/paste clipboard now persists after `git cola` exits.
1408 (`#484 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/484>`_)
1417 * Fixed the "Sign off" feature in the commit message editor.
1424 Usability, bells and whistles
1425 -----------------------------
1426 * Double-click will now choose a commit in the "Select commit" dialog.
1428 * `git cola` has a feature that reads `.git/MERGE_MSG` and friends for the
1429 commit message when a merge is in-progress. Upon refresh, `git cola` will
1430 now detect when a merge has completed and reset the commit message back to
1431 its previous state. It is only reset if the editor contains a message
1432 that was read from the file and has not been manually edited by the user.
1434 * The commit message editor's context menu now has a "Clear..." action for
1435 clearing the message across both the summary and description fields.
1437 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
1439 * The system theme's icons are now used wherever possible.
1440 (`#458 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/458>`_)
1444 * The stash viewer now uses ``git show --no-ext-diff`` to avoid running
1445 user-configured diff tools.
1447 * `git cola` now uses the `setsid()` system call to ensure that the
1448 `GIT_ASKPASS` and `SSH_ASKPASS` helper programs are used when pushing
1449 changes using `git`. The askpass helpers will now be used even when
1450 `git cola` is launched from a terminal.
1452 The behavior without `setsid()` is that `git cola` can appear to hang while
1453 pushing changes. The hang happens when `git` prompts the user for a
1454 password using the terminal, but the user never sees the prompt. `setsid()`
1455 detaches the terminal, which ensures that the askpass helpers are used.
1456 (`#218 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/218>`_)
1457 (`#262 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/262>`_)
1458 (`#377 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/377>`_)
1460 * `git dag`'s file list tool was updated to properly handle unicode paths.
1462 * `gnome-terminal` is no longer used by default when `cola.terminal` is unset.
1463 It is broken, as was detailed in #456.
1464 (`#456 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/456>`_)
1466 * The interactive rebase feature was not always setting `$GIT_EDITOR`
1467 to the value of `gui.editor`, thus there could be instances where rebase
1468 will seem to not stop, or hang, when performing "reword" actions.
1470 We now set the `$GIT_EDITOR` environment variable when performing the
1471 "Continue", "Skip", and "Edit Todo" rebase actions so that the correct
1472 editor is used during the rebase.
1473 (`#445 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/445>`_)
1477 * `git cola` moved from a 3-part version number to a simpler 2-part "vX.Y"
1478 version number. Most of our releases tend to contain new features.
1484 Usability, bells and whistles
1485 -----------------------------
1486 * Updated zh_TW translations.
1488 * `git cola rebase` now defaults to `@{upstream}`, and generally uses the same
1489 CLI syntax as `git rebase`.
1491 * The commit message editor now allows you to bypass commit hooks by selecting
1492 the "Bypass Commit Hooks" option. This is equivalent to passing the
1493 `--no-verify` option to `git commit`.
1494 (`#357 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/357>`_)
1496 * We now prevent the "Delete Files" action from creating a dialog that does
1498 (`#378 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/378>`_)
1500 * `git xbase` learned to edit rebase instruction sheets that contain
1503 * The diff colors are now configurable. `cola.color.{text,add,remove,header}`
1504 can now be set with 6-digit hexadecimal colors.
1505 See the `git cola manual <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#configuration-variables>_`
1508 * Improved hotkey documentation.
1512 * `git cola` will now allow starting an interactive rebase with a dirty
1513 worktree when `rebase.autostash` is set.
1514 (`#360 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/360>`_)
1520 Usability, bells and whistles
1521 -----------------------------
1522 * A new "Find files" widget was added, and can be activated by
1523 using the `Ctrl+t` or `t` hotkeys.
1525 * A new `git cola find` sub-command was added for finding files.
1527 * `git cola` now remembers the text cursor's position when staging
1528 interactively with the keyboard. This makes it easier to use the keyboard
1529 arrows to select and stage lines.
1531 * The completion widgets will now select the top completion item
1532 when `Enter` or `Return` are pressed.
1534 * You can now refresh using `F5` in addition to the existing `Ctrl+R` hotkey.
1538 * `git cola` now passes `--no-abbrev-commit` to `git log` to override
1539 having `log.abbrevCommit = true` set in `.gitconfig`.
1545 Usability, bells and whistles
1546 -----------------------------
1547 * `git dag` now forwards all unknown arguments along to `git log`.
1548 (`#389 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/389>`_)
1550 * Line-by-line interactive staging was made more robust.
1551 (`#399 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/399>`_)
1553 * "Bookmarks" was renamed to "Favorites".
1554 (`#392 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/392>`_)
1556 * Untracked files are now displayed using a unique icon.
1557 (`#388 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/388>`_)
1561 * `git dag` was triggering a traceback on Fedora when parsing Git logs.
1562 (`bz #181676 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181686>`_)
1564 * inotify expects unicode paths on Python3.
1565 (`#393 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/393>`_)
1567 * Untracked files are now assumed to be utf-8 encoded.
1568 (`#401 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/401>`_)
1574 Usability, bells and whistles
1575 -----------------------------
1576 * `git cola` can now create GPG-signed commits and merges.
1577 See the documentation for details about setting up a GPG agent.
1578 (`#149 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/149>`_)
1580 * The status widget learned to copy relative paths when `Ctrl+x` is pressed.
1581 (`#358 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/358>`_)
1583 * Custom GUI actions can now define their own keyboard shortcuts by
1584 setting `guitool.$name.shortcut` to a string understood by Qt's
1585 `QAction::setShortcut()` API, e.g. `Alt+X`.
1587 `Qt docs <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qkeysequence.html#QKeySequence-2>`_
1588 for more details about the supported values.
1590 * `git cola` learned to rename branches.
1591 (`#364 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/364>`_)
1592 (`#278 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/278>`_)
1594 * `git dag` now has a "Show history" context menu which can be used to filter
1595 history using the selected paths.
1599 * `sphinxtogithub.py` was fixed for Python3.
1600 (`#353 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/353>`_)
1602 * The commit that changed how we read remotes from `git remote`
1603 to parsing `git config` was reverted since it created problems
1606 * Fixed a crash when using the `rebase edit` feature.
1607 (`#351 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/351>`_)
1609 * Better drag-and-drop behavior when dropping into gnome-terminal.
1610 (`#373 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/373>`_)
1614 * The `git-cola-folder-handler.desktop` file handler was fixed
1615 to pass validation by `desktop-file-validate`.
1616 (`#356 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/356>`_)
1618 * The `git.svg` icon was renamed to `git-cola.svg`, and `git cola` was taught
1619 to prefer icons from the desktop theme when available.
1625 Usability, bells and whistles
1626 -----------------------------
1627 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+Shift+M` merges branches.
1629 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+R` refreshes the DAG viewer.
1630 (`#347 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/347>`_)
1634 * We now use `git config` to parse the list of remotes
1635 instead of parsing the output of `git remote`, which
1636 is a Git porcelain and should not be used by scripts.
1638 * Avoid "C++ object has been deleted" errors from PyQt4.
1639 (`#346 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/346>`_)
1643 * The `make install` target now uses `install` instead of `cp`.
1649 Usability, bells and whistles
1650 -----------------------------
1651 * Updated Brazillian Portuguese translation.
1653 * The status and browse widgets now allow drag-and-drop into
1654 external applications.
1655 (`#335 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/335>`_)
1657 * We now show a progress bar when cloning repositories.
1658 (`#312 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/312>`_)
1660 * The bookmarks widget was simplified to not need a
1662 (`#289 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/289>`_)
1664 * Updated Traditional Chinese translation.
1666 * We now display a warning when trying to rebase with uncommitted changes.
1667 (`#338 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/338>`_)
1669 * The status widget learned to filter paths.
1670 `Ctrl+Shift+S` toggles the filter widget.
1671 (`#337 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/337>`_)
1672 (`#339 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/339>`_)
1674 * The status widget learned to move files to the trash
1675 when the `send2trash <https://github.com/hsoft/send2trash>`_
1676 module is installed.
1677 (`#341 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/341>`_)
1679 * "Recent repositories" is now a dedicated widget.
1680 (`#342 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/342>`_)
1682 * New Spanish translation thanks to Pilar Molina Lopez.
1683 (`#344 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/344>`_)
1687 * Newly added remotes are now properly seen by the fetch/push/pull dialogs.
1688 (`#343 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/343>`_)
1694 Usability, bells and whistles
1695 -----------------------------
1696 * New Brazillian Portuguese translation thanks to Vitor Lobo.
1698 * New Indonesian translation thanks to Samsul Ma'arif.
1700 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation thanks to Zhang Han.
1702 * `Ctrl+Backspace` is now a hotkey for "delete untracked files" in
1705 * Fetch/Push/Pull dialogs now use the configured remote of the current
1707 (`#324 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/324>`_)
1711 * We now use `os.getcwd()` on Python3.
1712 (`#316 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/316>`_)
1713 (`#326 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/326>`_)
1715 * The `Ctrl+P` hotkey was overloaded to both "push" and "cherry-pick",
1716 so "cherry-pick" was moved to `Ctrl+Shift+C`.
1718 * Custom GUI tools with mixed-case names are now properly supported.
1720 * "Diff Region" is now referred to as "Diff Hunk" for consistency
1721 with common terminology from diff/patch tools.
1722 (`#328 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/328>`_)
1724 * git-cola's test suite is now portable to MS Windows.
1725 (`#332 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/332>`_)
1731 Usability, bells and whistles
1732 -----------------------------
1733 * We now handle the case when inotify `add_watch()` fails
1734 and display instructions on how to increase the number of watches.
1735 (`#263 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/263>`_)
1737 * New and improved zh_TW localization thanks to V字龍(Vdragon).
1738 (`#265 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/265>`_)
1739 (`#267 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/267>`_)
1740 (`#268 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/268>`_)
1741 (`#269 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/269>`_)
1742 (`#270 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/270>`_)
1743 (`#271 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/271>`_)
1744 (`#272 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/272>`_)
1746 * New hotkeys: `Ctrl+F` for fetch, `Ctrl+P` for push,
1747 and `Ctrl+Shift+P` for pull.
1749 * The bookmarks widget's context menu actions were made clearer.
1750 (`#281 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/281>`_)
1752 * The term "Staging Area" is used consistently in the UI
1753 to allow for better localization.
1754 (`#283 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/283>`_)
1756 * The "Section" term is now referred to as "Diff Region"
1758 (`#297 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/297>`_)
1760 * The localization documentation related to the LANGUAGE
1761 environment variable was improved.
1762 (`#293 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/293>`_)
1764 * The "Actions" panel now contains tooltips for each button
1765 in case the button labels gets truncated by Qt.
1766 (`#292 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/292>`_)
1768 * Custom `git config`-defined actions can now be run in the
1769 background by setting `guitool.<name>.background` to `true`.
1773 * We now use bold fonts instead of SmallCaps to avoid
1774 artifacts on several configurations.
1776 * We now pickup `user.email`, `cola.tabwidth`, and similar settings
1777 when defined in /etc/gitconfig.
1778 (`#259 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/259>`_)
1780 * Better support for unicode paths when using inotify.
1781 (`bz #1104181 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104181>`_)
1783 * Unicode fixes for non-ascii locales.
1784 (`#266 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/266>`_)
1785 (`#273 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/273>`_)
1786 (`#276 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/276>`_)
1787 (`#282 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/282>`_)
1788 (`#298 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/298>`_)
1789 (`#302 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/302>`_)
1790 (`#303 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/303>`_)
1791 (`#305 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/305>`_)
1793 * Viewing history from the file browser was fixed for Python3.
1794 (`#274 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/274>`_)
1796 * setup.py was fixed to install the `*.rst` documentation.
1797 (`#279 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/279>`_)
1799 * Patch export was fixed for Python3.
1800 (`#290 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/290>`_)
1802 * Fixed adding a bookmark with trailing slashes.
1803 (`#295 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/295>`_)
1805 * The default `git dag` layout is now setup so that its widgets
1806 can be freely resized on Linux.
1807 (`#299 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/299>`_)
1809 * Invalid tag names are now reported when creating tags.
1810 (`#296 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/296>`_)
1816 Usability, bells and whistles
1817 -----------------------------
1818 * `git cola` no longer prompts after successfully creating a new branch.
1819 (`#251 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/251>`_)
1821 * Hitting enter on simple dialogs now accepts them.
1822 (`#255 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/255>`_)
1826 * `git dag` no longer relies on `sys.maxint`, which is
1827 not available in Python3.
1828 (`#249 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/249>`_)
1830 * Python3-related fixes.
1831 (`#254 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/254>`_)
1833 * Python3-on-Windows-related fixes.
1834 (`#250 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/250>`_)
1835 (`#252 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/252>`_)
1836 (`#253 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/253>`_)
1838 * Switching repositories using the bookmarks widget was not
1839 refreshing the inotify watcher.
1840 (`#256 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/256>`_)
1842 * Special commit messages trailers (e.g. "Acked-by:") are now special-cased to
1843 fix word wrapping lines that start with "foo:".
1844 (`#257 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/257>`_)
1846 * `git dag` sometimes left behind selection artifacts.
1847 We now refresh the view to avoid them.
1848 (`#204 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/204>`_)
1854 Usability, bells and whistles
1855 -----------------------------
1856 * Better inotify support for file creation and deletion.
1857 (`#240 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/240>`_)
1859 * `git cola` now supports the X11 Session Management Protocol
1860 and remembers its state across logout/reboot.
1861 (`#164 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/164>`_)
1863 * `git cola` has a new icon.
1864 (`#190 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/190>`_)
1868 * Building the documentation no longer requires `asciidoc`.
1869 We now use `Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/>`_ for building
1870 html documentation and man pages.
1874 * Reworked the git-dag gravatar icon code to avoid a unicode
1877 * Commit message line-wrapping was made to better match the GUI editor.
1878 (`#242 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/242>`_)
1880 * Better support for Python3 on Windows
1881 (`#246 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/246>`_)
1885 * git-cola no longer depends on Asciidoc for building its documentation
1886 and man-pages. We now depend on [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/) only.
1892 Usability, bells and whistles
1893 -----------------------------
1894 * Some context menu actions are now hidden when selected
1896 (`#238 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/238>`_)
1900 * The build-git-cola.sh contrib script was improved.
1901 (`#235 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/235>`_)
1903 * Non-ascii worktrees work properly again.
1904 (`#234 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/234>`_)
1906 * The browser now guards itself against missing files.
1907 (`bz #1041378 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071378>`_)
1909 * Saving widget state now works under Python3.
1910 (`#236 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/236>`_)
1918 * git-cola now runs on Python 3 thanks to Virgil Dupras.
1919 (`#233 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/233>`_)
1921 * Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2+ are now supported.
1922 Python 2.5 is no longer supported.
1926 * i18n test fixes thanks to Virgil Dupras.
1927 (`#231 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/231>`_)
1929 * git-cola.app build fixes thanks to Maicon D. Filippsen.
1930 (`#230 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/230>`_)
1932 * Lots of pylint improvements thanks to Alex Chernetz.
1933 (`#229 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/229>`_)
1939 Usability, bells and whistles
1940 -----------------------------
1941 * The new `Bookmarks` tool makes it really easy to switch between repositories.
1943 * There is now a dedicated dialog for applying patches.
1944 See the ``File -> Apply Patches`` menu item.
1945 (`#215 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/215>`_)
1947 * A new `git cola am` sub-command was added for applying patches.
1951 * Fixed a typo that caused inotify events to be silently ignored.
1953 * Fixed the sys.path setup for Mac OS X (Homebrew).
1954 (`#221 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/221>`_)
1956 * Lots of pylint fixes thanks to Alex Chernetz.
1962 Usability, bells and whistles
1963 -----------------------------
1964 * `git cola --amend` now starts the editor in `amend` mode.
1965 (`#187 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/187>`_)
1967 * Multiple lines of text can now be pasted into the `summary` field.
1968 All text beyond the first newline will be automatically moved to the
1969 `extended description` field.
1970 (`#212 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/212>`_)
1974 * Stray whitespace in `.git` files is now ignored.
1975 (`#213 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/213>`_)
1977 * Fix "known incorrect sRGB profile" in `staged-item.png`.
1978 (`gentoo-devel message #85066
1979 <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/85066>`_)
1987 * Fix a traceback when `git push` fails.
1988 (`bz #1034778 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034778>`_)
1992 * Most of the git-cola sub-packages have been removed.
1993 The only remaining packages are `cola`, `cola.models`,
1996 * The translation file for Simplified Chinese was renamed
1998 (`#209 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/209>`_)
2006 * `git cola version --brief` now prints the brief version number.
2010 * Resurrected the "make dist" target, for those that prefer to create
2013 * Fixed the typo that broke the preferences dialog.
2019 Usability, bells and whistles
2020 -----------------------------
2021 * We now ship a full-featured interactive `git rebase` editor.
2022 The rebase todo file is edited using the `git xbase` script which
2023 is provided at `$prefix/share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase`.
2024 This script can be used standalone by setting the `$GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR`
2025 before running `git rebase --interactive`.
2026 (`#1 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1>`_)
2028 * Fixup commit messages can now be loaded from the commit message editor.
2030 * Tool widgets can be locked in place by using the "Tools/Lock Layout"
2032 (`#202 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/202>`_)
2034 * You can now push to several remotes simultaneously by selecting
2035 multiple remotes in the "Push" dialog.
2036 (`#148 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/148>`_)
2038 * The `grep` tool learned to search using three different modes:
2039 basic regular expressions (default), extended regular expressions,
2044 * `git cola` now depends on the `argparse` Python module.
2045 This module is part of the stdlib in Python 2.7 and must
2046 be installed separately when using Python 2.6 and below.
2050 * Support unicode in the output from `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`.
2056 Usability, bells and whistles
2057 -----------------------------
2058 * We now detect when the editor or history browser are misconfigured.
2059 (`#197 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/197>`_)
2060 (`bz #886826 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886826>`_)
2062 * Display of untracked files can be disabled from the Preferences dialog
2063 or by setting the `gui.displayuntracked` configuration variable to `false`.
2064 (`Git Mailing List on 2013-08-21
2065 <https://public-inbox.org/git/20130821032913.GA6092@wheezy.local/>`_)
2069 * Unicode stash names are now supported
2070 (`#198 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/198>`_)
2072 * The diffs produced when reverting workspace changes were made more robust.
2078 Usability, bells and whistles
2079 -----------------------------
2080 * Brand new German translation thanks to Sven Claussner.
2082 * The "File" menu now provides a "New Repository..." menu action.
2084 * `git dag` now uses a dock-widget interface so that its widgets can
2085 be laid-out and arranged. Customizations are saved and restored
2086 the next time `git dag` is launched.
2088 * `git dag` now has a "Zoom Best Fit" button next alongside the
2089 "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" buttons.
2091 * `Ctrl+L` now focuses the "Search" field in the `git dag` tool.
2093 * Right-clicking in the "diff" viewer now updates the cursor position
2094 before performing actions, which makes it much easier to click around
2095 and selectively stage sections. Previously, the current cursor position
2096 was used which meant that it required two clicks (left-click to update
2097 the position followed by right-click to get the context menu) for the
2098 desired section to be used. This is now a single right-click operation.
2100 * The `Ctrl+D` "Launch Diff Tool" action learned to automatically choose
2101 between `git difftool` and `git mergetool`. If the file is unmerged then
2102 we automatically launch `git mergetool` on the path, otherwise we use
2103 `git difftool`. We do this because `git difftool` is not intended to
2104 be used on unmerged paths. Automatically using `git mergetool` when
2105 appropriate is the most intuitive and muscle-memory-friendly thing to do.
2107 * You can now right-click on folders in your standard file browser
2108 and choose "Open With -> Git Cola" (Linux-only).
2112 * Python 2.6 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard does not provide a namedtuple
2113 at `sys.version_info`. We now avoid using that variable for better
2116 * We now read the user's Git configuration from `~/.config/git/config`
2117 if that file is available, otherwise we use the traditional `~/.gitconfig`
2118 path, just like Git itself.
2120 * Some edge cases were fixed when applying partial/selected diffs.
2122 * The diff viewer is now properly cleared when refreshing.
2123 (`#194 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/194>`_)
2129 Usability, bells and whistles
2130 -----------------------------
2131 * The diff viewer now has an "Options" menu which can be
2132 used to set "git diff" options. This can be used to
2133 ignore whitespace changes or to show a change with its
2134 surrounding function as context.
2135 (`#150 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/150>`_)
2137 * `git cola` now remembers your commit message and will restore it
2138 when `git cola` is restarted.
2139 (`#175 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/175>`_)
2141 * `Ctrl+M` can now be used to toggle the "Amend last commit"
2142 checkbox in the commit message editor.
2143 (`#161 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/161>`_)
2145 * Deleting remote branches can now be done from the "Branch" menu.
2146 (`#152 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/152>`_)
2148 * The commit message editor now has a built-in spell checker.
2152 * We now avoid invoking external diffs when showing diffstats.
2153 (`#163 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/163>`_)
2155 * The `Status` tool learned to reselect files when refreshing.
2156 (`#165 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/165>`_)
2158 * `git cola` now remembers whether it has been maximized and will restore the
2159 maximized state when `git cola` is restarted.
2160 (`#172 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/172>`_)
2162 * Performance is now vastly improved when staging hundreds or
2165 * `git cola` was not correctly saving repo-specific configuration.
2166 (`#174 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/174>`_)
2168 * Fix a UnicodeDecode in sphinxtogithub when building from source.
2175 Usability, bells and whistles
2176 -----------------------------
2177 * We now automatically remove missing repositories from the
2178 "Select Repository" dialog.
2179 (`#145 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/145>`_)
2181 * A new `git cola diff` sub-command was added for diffing changed files.
2185 * The inotify auto-refresh feature makes it difficult to select text in
2186 the "diff" editor when files are being continually modified by another
2187 process. The auto-refresh causes it to lose the currently selected text,
2188 which is not wanted. We now avoid this problem by saving and restoring
2189 the selection when refreshing the editor.
2190 (`#155 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/155>`_)
2192 * More strings have been marked for l10n.
2193 (`#157 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/157>`_)
2195 * Fixed the Alt+D Diffstat shortcut.
2196 (`#159 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/159>`_)
2200 * Better error handling when cloning repositories.
2202 We were not handling the case where a git URL has
2203 no basename, e.g. `https://git.example.com/`.
2204 `git cola` originally rejected these URLs instead of
2205 allowing users to clone them. It now allows these URLs
2206 when they point to valid git repositories.
2208 Additionally, `git cola` learned to echo the errors
2209 reported by `git clone` when it fails.
2210 (`#156 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/156>`_)
2217 Usability, bells and whistles
2218 -----------------------------
2219 * `git dag` got a big visual upgrade.
2221 * `Ctrl+G` now launches the "Grep" tool.
2223 * `Ctrl+D` launches difftool and `Ctrl+E` launches your editor
2224 when in the diff panel.
2226 * git-cola can now be told to use an alternative language.
2227 For example, if the native language is German and we want git-cola to
2228 use English then we can create a `~/.config/git-cola/language` file with
2229 "en" as its contents: ``echo en >~/.config/git-cola/language``
2230 (`#140 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/140>`_)
2232 * A new `git cola merge` sub-command was added for merging branches.
2234 * Less blocking in the main UI
2238 * Autocomplete issues on KDE
2239 (`#144 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/144>`_)
2241 * The "recently opened repositories" startup dialog did not
2242 display itself in the absence of bookmarks.
2243 (`#139 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/139>`_)
2250 Usability, bells and whistles
2251 -----------------------------
2252 * `git cola` learned to honor `.gitattributes` when showing and
2253 interactively applying diffs. This makes it possible to store
2254 files in git using a non-utf-8 encoding and `git cola` will
2255 properly accept them. This must be enabled by settings
2256 `cola.fileattributes` to true, as it incurs a small performance
2258 (`#96 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/96>`_)
2260 * `git cola` now wraps commit messages at 72 columns automatically.
2261 This is configurable using the `cola.linebreak` variable to enable/disable
2262 the feature, and `cola.textwidth` to configure the limit.
2263 (`#133 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/133>`_)
2265 * A new "Open Recent" sub-menu was added to the "File" menu.
2266 This makes it easy to open a recently-edited repository.
2267 (`#135 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/135>`_)
2269 * We now show a preview for untracked files when they are clicked
2270 using the `Status` tool.
2271 * A new "Open Using Default Application" action was added to the
2272 `Status` tool. It is activated using either `Spacebar` or through
2273 the context menu. This action uses `xdg-open` on Linux and
2275 * A new "Open Parent Directory" action was added to the `Status` tool.
2276 It is activated using either `Shift+Spacebar` or through the
2278 * `git dag` learned to honor the `log.date` git configuration variable.
2279 This makes the date display follow whatever format the user has
2281 * A new `git cola config` sub-command was added for quickly
2282 tweaking `git cola`'s git configuration settings.
2283 * Some small usability tweaks -- some user confirmation prompts
2284 were defaulting to "Cancel" when they should have been defaulting
2285 to the affirmative option instead.
2289 * Properly handle arbitrarily-named branches.
2290 * We went back to launching `git mergetool` using an xterm.
2291 The reason is that there are a couple of places where `git mergetool`
2292 requires a terminal for user interaction not covered by `--no-prompt`.
2293 * We now properly handle an edge case when applying short diffs at
2294 the start of a file.
2301 Usability, bells and whistles
2302 -----------------------------
2303 * New and improved `grep` mode lets you instantly find and edit files.
2304 * New `git cola grep` standalone mode.
2305 * Support for passing arguments to the configured editors, e.g. `gvim -p`
2306 This makes it possible to select multiple files in the status
2307 window and use `Ctrl-e` to edit them all at once.
2308 * Remote operations now prompt on errors only.
2309 * The `Tab` key now jumps to the extended description when editing the summary.
2310 * More shortcut key labels and misc. UX improvements.
2314 * Selecting an item no longer copies its filename to the copy/paste buffer.
2315 `Ctrl-c` or the "Copy" context-menu action can be used instead.
2316 * The repository monitoring feature on Windows learned to ignore
2317 changes within the ".git" directory. Thanks to Andreas Sommer.
2318 (`#120 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/120>`_)
2325 Usability, bells and whistles
2326 -----------------------------
2327 * `git dag` learned to color-code branchy edges.
2328 The edge colors change when a new branch is detected,
2329 which makes the history much easier to follow.
2330 A huge thanks to Uri Okrent for making it happen.
2332 * New GUI for editing remote repositories.
2334 * New `git cola archive` and `git cola remote` sub-commands.
2336 * `git cola browser` learned an 'Untrack' command.
2338 * The diff editor learned to staged/unstaged while amending.
2340 * The status tool can now scroll horizontally.
2342 * New git repositories can be created by clicking 'New' on the
2343 `git cola --prompt` startup screen.
2350 Usability, bells and whistles
2351 -----------------------------
2352 * Auto-completion was added to more tools.
2354 * `git dag` is easier to use on smaller displays -- the author
2355 field elides its text which allows for a more compact display.
2357 * Selected commits in `git dag` were made more prominent and
2360 * 'Create Branch' learned to fetch remote branches and uses a
2361 background thread to do so.
2363 * User-configured GUI tools are listed alphabetically in the 'Actions' menu.
2365 * The 'Pull' dialog remembers the value of the 'Rebase' checkbox
2366 between invocations.
2375 * Detect Homebrew so that OS X users do not need to set PYTHONPATH.
2377 * `git dag` can export patches again.
2384 Usability, bells and whistles
2385 -----------------------------
2386 * The 'Classic' tool was renamed to 'Browser' and learned to
2387 limit history to the current branch.
2389 * `git dag` learned about gravatar and uses it to show images
2392 * `git dag` learned to use OpenGL for rendering resulting in
2393 much faster rendering.
2395 * More dialogs learned vim-style keyboard shortcuts.
2397 * The commit message editor learned better arrow key navigation.
2404 Usability, bells and whistles
2405 -----------------------------
2406 * `git cola` learned a few new sub commands:
2414 * `Return` in the summary field jumps to the extended description.
2416 * `Ctrl+Return` is now a shortcut for 'Commit'.
2418 * Better French translation for 'Sign-off'.
2420 * The 'Search' widget now has a much simpler and streamlined
2423 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the DAG widget.
2425 * `git dag` no longer prompts for files when diffing commits if the
2426 text field contains paths.
2428 * General user interface and performance improvements.
2432 * The diff viewer no longer changes font size when holding `Control`
2433 while scrolling with the mouse wheel.
2435 * Files with a typechange (e.g. symlinks that become files, etc.)
2436 are now correctly identified as being modified.
2440 * The `cola.controllers` and `cola.views` packages were removed.
2447 Usability, bells and whistles
2448 -----------------------------
2449 * `git cola` can now launch sub commands, e.g.:
2460 * `git dag` is more responsive when gathering auto-completions.
2462 * Keyboard shortcuts are displayed when the '?' key is pressed.
2464 * Various keyboard shortcuts were added for improved usability.
2466 * The status widget now lists unmerged files before modified files.
2468 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the status widget.
2470 * A 'Recently Modified Files...' tool was added.
2472 * Tools can now be hidden with `Alt + #` (where `#` is a keyboard number)
2473 and focused with `Alt + Shift + #`.
2475 * The syntax highlighting colors for diffs was made less intrusive.
2477 * The commit message editor was redesigned to have a more compact
2478 and keyboard-convenient user interface.
2480 * Keyboard shortcuts for adding a Signed-off-by (`Ctrl + i`)
2481 and creating a commit (`Ctrl + m`) were added.
2483 * The status widget was adjusted to use less screen real-estate.
2487 * Avoid updating the index when responding to inotify events.
2488 This avoids interfering with operations such as `git rebase --interactive`.
2489 (`#99 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/99>`_)
2493 * Create `git-dag.pyw` in the win32 installer.
2495 * win32 shortcuts now contain explicit calls to `pythonw.exe` instead of
2496 calling the `.pyw` file directly.
2500 * The 'Apply Changes from Branch...' feature was removed.
2501 `git dag`'s 'Grab File...' feature used alongside the index/worktree editor
2502 is a simpler alternative.
2511 * Further enhanced the staging/unstaging behavior in the status widget.
2512 (`#97 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97>`_)
2514 * Unmerged files are no longer listed as modified.
2518 The `cola-$version` tarballs on github were originally setup to
2519 have the same contents as the old tarballs hosted on tuxfamily.
2520 The `make dist` target was changed to write files to a
2521 `git-cola-$version` subdirectory and tarball.
2523 This makes the filenames consistent for the source tarball,
2524 the darwin .app tarball, and the win32 .exe installer.
2531 Usability, bells and whistles
2532 -----------------------------
2533 * Refined the staging/unstaging behavior for code reviews.
2534 (`#97 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97>`_)
2536 * Added more styling and icons to menus and buttons.
2538 * Adjusted some terminology to more closely match the git CLI.
2542 * Boolean `git config` settings with no value are now supported
2543 (these are not created by git these days but exist in legacy repositories).
2545 * Unicode branches and tags are supported in the "branch diff" tool.
2547 * Guard against low-memory conditions and more interrupted system calls.
2551 * Added desktop launchers for git-cola.desktop and git-dag.desktop.
2552 This replaces the old cola.desktop, so some adjustments to RPM .spec
2553 and debian/ files will be needed.
2555 * Fixed the darwin app-tarball Makefile target to create relative paths.
2559 * The `--style` option was removed. `git cola` follows the system theme
2560 so there's no need for this option these days.
2567 Usability, bells and whistles
2568 -----------------------------
2569 * Export a patch series from `git dag` into a `patches/` directory.
2571 * `git dag` learned to diff commits, slice history along paths, etc.
2573 * Added instant-preview to the `git stash` widget.
2575 * A simpler preferences editor is used to edit `git config` values.
2576 (`#90 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90>`_)
2577 (`#89 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/89>`_)
2579 * Previous commit messages can be re-loaded from the message editor.
2580 (`#33 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/33>`_)
2584 * Display commits with no file changes.
2585 (`#82 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82>`_)
2587 * Improved the diff editor's copy/paste behavior
2588 (`#90 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90>`_)
2592 * Bumped version number to ceil(minimum git version).
2593 `git cola` now requires `git` >= 1.6.3.
2595 * Simplified git-cola's versioning when building from tarballs
2596 outside of git. We no longer check for a 'version' file at
2597 the root of the repository. We instead keep a default version
2598 in `cola/version.py` and use it when `git cola`'s `.git` repository
2606 Usability, bells and whistles
2607 -----------------------------
2608 * inotify is much snappier and available on Windows
2609 thanks to Karl Bielefeldt.
2611 * New right-click command to add untracked files to .gitignore
2612 thanks to Audrius Karabanovas.
2614 * Stash, fetch, push, and pull usability improvements
2616 * General usability improvements
2618 * stderr is logged when applying partial diffs.
2622 * Files can be unstaged when amending.
2623 (`#82 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82>`_)
2625 * Show the configured remote.$remote.pushurl in the GUI
2626 (`#83 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/83>`_)
2628 * Removed usage of the "user" module.
2629 (`#86 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/86>`_)
2631 * Avoids an extra `git update-index` call during startup.
2639 Usability, bells and whistles
2640 -----------------------------
2641 * We now provide better feedback when `git push` fails.
2642 (`#69 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/69>`_)
2644 * The Fetch, Push, and Pull dialogs now give better feedback
2645 when interacting with remotes. The dialogs are modal and
2646 a progress dialog is used.
2650 * More unicode fixes, again. It is now possible to have
2651 unicode branch names, repository paths, home directories, etc.
2652 This continued the work initiated by Redhat's bugzilla #694806.
2654 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806
2661 Usability, bells and whistles
2662 -----------------------------
2663 * The `git cola` desktop launchers now prompt for a repo
2664 by default. This is done by using the new `--prompt`
2665 flag which tells `git cola` to ignore any git repositories
2666 in the current directory and prompt for one instead.
2670 * More Unicode fixes for repositories and home directories with
2671 embedded unicode characters. Thanks to Christian Jann for
2672 patience and helpful bug reports.
2674 * Fix the 'Clone' button in the startup dialog.
2681 Usability, bells and whistles
2682 -----------------------------
2683 * Faster startup time! `git cola` now offloads initialization
2684 to a background thread so that the GUI appears almost instantly.
2686 * Specialized diff options for p4merge, vimdiff, araxis, emerge,
2687 and ecmerge in difftool (backported from git.git).
2691 * Fix launching commands in the background on Windows
2692 (e.g. when launching `git difftool`).
2694 * Fix unicode errors when home or repository directories contain
2696 (`#74 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/74>`_)
2697 (`bz #694806 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806>`_)
2704 Usability, bells and whistles
2705 -----------------------------
2706 * The `cola classic` tool can be now configured to be dockable.
2707 (`#56 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/56>`_)
2709 * The `cola classic` tool now uses visual sigils to indicate a file's status.
2710 The idea and icons were provided by Uri Okrent.
2712 * Include the 'Rescan' button in the 'Actions' widget regardless
2713 of whether inotify is installed.
2717 * Fix installation of translations per Fedora
2718 This incorporates Fedora's fix for the translations path
2719 which originally appeared in cola-1.4.3-translations.patch.
2721 * Mac OS X git-cola developers can now generate git-cola.app
2722 application bundles using 'make app-bundle'.
2726 * Fixed a stacktrace when trying to use "Get Commit Message Template"
2727 with an unconfigured "commit.template" git config variable.
2728 (`bz #67521 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675721>`_)
2729 (`#72 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/72>`_)
2731 * Properly raise the main window on Mac OS X.
2733 * Properly handle staging a huge numbers of files at once.
2735 * Speed up 'git config' usage by fixing cola's caching proxy.
2737 * Guard against damaged ~/.cola files.
2744 Usability, bells and whistles
2745 -----------------------------
2746 * `git dag` now has a separate display area
2747 for displaying commit metadata. This area will soon
2748 grow additional functionality such as cherry-picking,
2753 * Fixed tests from a previous refactoring.
2755 * Guard against 'diff.external' configuration by always
2756 calling 'git diff' with the '--no-ext-diff' option.
2757 (`#67 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/67>`_)
2759 * Respect 'gui.diffcontext' so that cola's diff display
2760 shows the correct number of context lines.
2762 * Raise the GUI so that it is in the foreground on OS X.
2766 * We now allow distutils to rewrite cola's shebang line.
2767 This allows us to run on systems where "which python"
2768 is Python3k. This is exposed by setting the `PYTHON`
2769 Makefile variable to the location of python2.x.
2771 * git-cola.app is now a tiny download because it no longer
2772 contains Qt and PyQt. These libraries are provided as a
2774 (`Link <http://code.google.com/p/git-cola/downloads/list>`_)
2781 Usability, bells and whistles
2782 -----------------------------
2783 * Clicking on paths in the status widget copies them into the
2784 copy/paste buffer for easy middle-clicking into terminals.
2786 * `Ctrl+C` in diff viewer copies the selected diff to the clipboard.
2790 * Fixed the disappearing actions buttons on PyQt 4.7.4
2791 as reported by Arch and Ubuntu 10.10.
2792 (`#62 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62>`_)
2794 * Fixed mouse interaction with the status widget where some
2795 items could not be de-selected.
2799 * Removed hard-coded reference to lib/ when calculating Python's
2800 site-packages directory.
2807 Usability, bells and whistles
2808 -----------------------------
2809 * Removed "single-click to (un)stage" in the status view.
2810 This is a usability improvement since we no longer perform
2811 different actions depending on where a row is clicked.
2813 * Added ability to create unsigned, annotated tags.
2817 * Updated documentation to use `cola.git` instead of `cola.gitcmd`.
2824 Usability, bells and whistles
2825 -----------------------------
2826 * Allow un/staging by right-clicking top-level items
2827 (`#57 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/57>`_)
2829 * Running 'commit' with no staged changes prompts to allow
2831 (`#55 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/55>`_)
2833 * Fetch, Push, and Pull are now available via the menus
2834 (`#58 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/58>`_)
2838 * Simplified the actions widget to work around a regression
2840 (`#62 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62>`_)
2847 Usability, bells and whistles
2848 -----------------------------
2849 * `git dag` interaction was made faster.
2853 * Added '...' indicators to the buttons for
2854 'Fetch...', 'Push...', 'Pull...', and 'Stash...'.
2855 (`#51 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/51>`_)
2857 * Fixed a hang-on-exit bug in the cola-provided
2858 'ssh-askpass' implementation.
2865 Usability, bells and whistles
2866 -----------------------------
2867 * Staging and unstaging is faster.
2868 (`#48 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/48>`_)
2870 * `git dag` reads history in a background thread.
2874 * Added :data:`cola.compat.hashlib` for `Python 2.4` compatibility
2875 * Improved `PyQt 4.1.x` compatibility.
2879 * Configured menu actions use ``sh -c`` for Windows portability.
2887 Usability, bells and whistles
2888 -----------------------------
2889 * Added support for the configurable ``guitool.<tool>.*``
2890 actions as described in the ``git config`` documentation.
2891 (`git-config(1) <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config>`_)
2892 (`#44 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/44>`_)
2894 This makes it possible to add new actions to `git cola`
2895 by simply editing ``~/.gitconfig``. This implements the
2896 same guitool support as `git gui`.
2898 * Introduced a stat cache to speed up `git config` and
2899 repository status checks.
2901 * Added Alt-key shortcuts to the main `git cola` interface.
2903 * The `Actions` dock widget switches between a horizontal
2904 and vertical layout when resized.
2906 * We now use ``git diff --submodule`` for submodules
2907 (used when git >= 1.6.6).
2909 * The context menu for modified submodules includes an option
2910 to launch `git cola`.
2911 (`#17 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/17>`_)
2913 * Prefer ``$VISUAL`` over ``$EDITOR`` when both are defined.
2914 These are used to set a default editor in lieu of `core.editor`
2917 * Force the editor to be ``gvim`` when we see ``vim``.
2918 This prevents us from launching an editor in the (typically
2919 unattached) parent terminal and creating zombie editors
2920 that cannot be easily killed.
2922 * Selections are remembered and restored across updates.
2923 This makes the `partial-staging` workflow easier since the
2924 diff view will show the updated diff after staging.
2926 * Show the path to the current repository in a tooltip
2927 over the commit message editor.
2928 (`#45 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/45>`_)
2930 * Log internal ``git`` commands when ``GIT_COLA_TRACE`` is defined.
2931 (`#39 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/39>`_)
2935 * Improved backwards compatibility for Python 2.4.
2937 * `Review mode` can now review the current branch; it no longer
2938 requires you to checkout the branch into which the reviewed
2939 branch will be merged.
2941 * Guard against `color.ui = always` configuration when using
2942 `git log` by passing ``--no-color``.
2944 * ``yes`` and ``no`` are now supported as valid booleans
2945 by the `git config` parser.
2947 * Better defaults are used for `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`..
2948 (`#43 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/43>`_)
2952 * Removed colon (`:`) from the applilcation name on Windows
2953 (`#41 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/41>`_)
2955 * Fixed bugs with the Windows installer
2956 (`#40 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/40>`_)
2958 * Added a more standard i18n infrastructure. The install
2959 tree now has the common ``share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/git-cola.mo``
2960 layout in use by several projects.
2962 * Started trying to accommodate Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
2963 in the ``darwin/`` build scripts but our tester is yet to
2964 report success building a `.app` bundle.
2966 * Replaced use of ``perl`` in Sphinx/documentation Makefile
2967 with more-portable ``sed`` constructs. Thanks to
2968 Stefan Naewe for discovering the portability issues and
2969 providing msysgit-friendly patches.
2976 Usability, bells and whistles
2977 -----------------------------
2978 * It is now possible to checkout from the index as well
2979 as from `HEAD`. This corresponds to the
2980 `Removed Unstaged Changes` action in the `Repository Status` tool.
2982 * The `remote` dialogs (fetch, push, pull) are now slightly
2985 * Bookmarks can be selected when `git cola` is run outside of a git repository.
2987 * Added more user documentation. We now include many links to
2988 external git resources.
2990 * Added `git dag` to the available tools.
2991 `git dag` is a node-based DAG history browser.
2992 It doesn't do much yet, but it's been merged so that we can start
2993 building and improving upon it.
2997 * Fixed a missing ``import`` when showing `right-click` actions
2998 for unmerged files in the `Repository Status` tool.
3000 * ``git update-index --refresh`` is no longer run every time
3001 ``git cola version`` is run.
3003 * Don't try to watch non-existent directories when using `inotify`.
3005 * Use ``git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name`` plumbing to find
3006 the name of the current branch.
3010 * The ``Makefile`` will now conditionally include a ``config.mak``
3011 file located at the root of the project. This allows for user
3012 customizations such as changes to the `prefix` variable
3013 to be stored in a file so that custom settings do not need to
3014 be specified every time on the command-line.
3016 * The build scripts no longer require a ``.git`` directory to
3017 generate the ``builtin_version.py`` module. The release tarballs
3018 now include a ``version`` file at the root of the project which
3019 is used in lieu of having the git repository available.
3020 This allows for ``make clean && make`` to function outside of
3023 * Added maintainer's ``make dist`` target to the ``Makefile``.
3025 * The built-in `simplejson` and `jsonpickle` libraries can be
3026 excluded from ``make install`` by specifying the ``standalone=true``
3027 `make` variable. For example, ``make standalone=true install``.
3028 This corresponds to the ``--standalone`` option to ``setup.py``.
3036 Usability, bells and whistles
3037 -----------------------------
3038 * We now use patience diff by default when it is available via
3039 `git diff --patience`.
3041 * Allow closing the `cola classic` tool with `Ctrl+W`.
3045 * Fixed an unbound variable error in the `push` dialog.
3049 * Don't include `simplejson` in MANIFEST.in.
3051 * Update desktop entry to read `Cola Git GUI`.
3059 This feature release adds two new features directly from
3060 `git cola`'s github issues backlog. On the developer
3061 front, further work was done towards modularizing the code base.
3063 Usability, bells and whistles
3064 -----------------------------
3065 * Dragging and dropping patches invokes `git am`
3066 (`#3 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/3>`_)
3068 * A dialog to allow opening or cloning a repository
3069 is presented when `git cola` is launched outside of a git repository.
3070 (`#22 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/22>`_)
3072 * Warn when `push` is used to create a new branch
3073 (`#35 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/35>`_)
3075 * Optimized startup time by removing several calls to `git`.
3080 * `git cola` is once again compatible with PyQt 4.3.x.
3084 * `cola.gitcmds` was added to factor out git command-line utilities
3086 * `cola.gitcfg` was added for interacting with `git config`
3088 * `cola.models.browser` was added to factor out repobrowser data
3100 * Fix launching external applications on Windows
3102 * Ensure that the `amend` checkbox is unchecked when switching modes
3104 * Update the status tree when amending commits
3114 * Fix Lintian warnings
3124 * Fix X11 warnings on application startup
3134 * Added missing 'Exit Diff Mode' button for 'Diff Expression' mode
3135 (`#31 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/31>`_)
3137 * Fix a bug when initializing fonts on Windows
3138 (`#32 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/32>`_)
3148 * Keep entries in sorted order in the `cola classic` tool
3150 * Fix staging untracked files
3151 (`#27 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/27>`_)
3153 * Fix the `show` command in the Stash dialog
3154 (`#29 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/29>`_)
3156 * Fix a typo when loading merge commit messages
3157 (`#30 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/30>`_)
3165 This release focuses on a redesign of the git-cola user interface,
3166 a tags interface, and better integration of the `cola classic` tool.
3167 A flexible interface based on configurable docks is used to manage the
3168 various cola widgets.
3170 Usability, bells and whistles
3171 -----------------------------
3172 * New GUI is flexible and user-configurable
3174 * Individual widgets can be detached and rearranged arbitrarily
3176 * Add an interface for creating tags
3178 * Provide a fallback `SSH_ASKPASS` implementation to prompt for
3179 SSH passwords on fetch/push/pull
3181 * The commit message editor displays the current row/column and
3182 warns when lines get too long
3184 * The `cola classic` tool displays upstream changes
3186 * `git cola --classic` launches `cola classic` in standalone mode
3188 * Provide more information in log messages
3192 * Inherit the window manager's font settings
3194 * Miscellaneous PyQt4 bug fixes and workarounds
3198 * Removed all usage of Qt Designer `.ui` files
3200 * Simpler model/view architecture
3202 * Selection is now shared across tools
3204 * Centralized notifications are used to keep views in sync
3206 * The `cola.git` command class was made thread-safe
3208 * Less coupling between model and view actions
3210 * The status view was rewritten to use the MVC architecture
3212 * Added more documentation and tests
3220 Usability, bells and whistles
3221 -----------------------------
3222 * Added a `cola classic` tool for browsing the entire repository
3224 * Handle diff expressions with spaces
3226 * Handle renamed files
3230 * Handle carat `^` characters in diff expressions on Windows
3232 * Worked around a PyQt 4.5/4.6 QThreadPool bug
3236 * Added a keyboard shortcuts reference page
3238 * Added developer API documentation
3242 * Fix the diff expression used when reviewing branches
3244 * Fix a bug when pushing branches
3246 * Fix X11 warnings at startup
3248 * Fix more interrupted system calls on Mac OS X
3256 Usability, bells and whistles
3257 -----------------------------
3258 * Fresh and tasty SVG logos
3260 * Added `Branch Review` mode for reviewing topic branches
3262 * Added diff modes for diffing between tags, branches,
3263 or arbitrary `git diff` expressions
3265 * The push dialog selects the current branch by default.
3266 This is in preparation for `git 1.7.0` where unconfigured `git push`
3267 will refuse to push when run without specifying the remote name
3268 and branch. See the `git` release notes for more information
3270 * Support `open` and `clone` commands on Windows
3272 * Allow saving cola UI layouts
3274 * Re-enabled `double-click-to-stage` for unmerged entries.
3275 Disabling it for unmerged items was inconsistent, though safer.
3277 * Show diffs when navigating the status tree with the keyboard
3281 * Worked around `pyuic4` bugs in the `setup.py` build script
3283 * Added Mac OSX application bundles to the download page
3293 * `git difftool` became an official git command in `git 1.6.3`.
3295 * `git difftool` learned `--no-prompt` / `-y` and a corresponding
3296 `difftool.prompt` configuration variable
3298 Usability, bells and whistles
3299 -----------------------------
3300 * Warn when `non-fast-forward` is used with fetch, push or pull
3302 * Allow `Ctrl+C` to exit cola when run from the command line
3306 * Support Unicode font names
3308 * Handle interrupted system calls
3312 * `PEP-8`-ified more of the cola code base
3318 * All resources are now installed into `$prefix/share/git-cola`.
3319 Closed Debian bug #519972
3321 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519972
3331 * Added support for Kompare in `git difftool`
3333 * Added a separate configuration namespace for `git difftool`
3335 * Added the `diff.tool` configuration variable to define the default diff tool
3337 Usability, bells and whistles
3338 -----------------------------
3339 * The stash dialog allows passing the `--keep-index` option to `git stash`
3341 * Amending a published commit warns at commit time
3343 * Simplified the file-across-revisions comparison dialog
3345 * `origin` is selected by default in fetch/push/pull
3347 * Removed the search field from the log widget
3349 * The log window moved into a drawer widget at the bottom of the UI
3351 * Log window display can be configured with
3352 `cola.showoutput` = `{never, always, errors}`. `errors` is the default.
3354 * `NOTE` -- `cola.showoutput` was removed with the GUI rewrite in 1.4.0.
3358 * Improved nose unittest usage
3362 * Added a Windows/msysGit installer
3364 * Included private versions of `simplejson` and `jsonpickle`
3365 for ease of installation and development