8 :ref:`v3.2 <v3.2>` is the latest stable release.
13 Clone the git-cola repo to get the latest development version:
15 ``git clone git://github.com/git-cola/git-cola.git``
19 git-cola v3.3 (unreleased)
20 ==========================
22 Usability, bells and whistles
23 -----------------------------
24 * Text entry widgets switched to using a block cursor in `v3.2`.
25 This has been reverted to the original line cursor for consistency
26 with other applications and user expectations.
28 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/889
30 * The "edit at line" feature, used by the "Grep" tool, now supports
31 the Sublime text editor.
33 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/894
37 * Spelling and grammar fixes.
39 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/891
43 * The logo was run through `tidy` to give it a consistent style.
44 Some technical issues with the logo were improved.
46 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/877
48 * The entire codebase is now checked by `flake8`, rather than just
49 the module and test directories. This catches things like
50 the pynsist installer scripts.
52 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/884
54 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/882
56 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/879
60 * The Windows installer's wrapper scripts were missing an import.
62 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/878
69 Usability, bells and whistles
70 -----------------------------
71 * The `git cola dag` DAG window now supports `git revert`.
73 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/843
75 * `git stash pop` is now supported by the stash dialog.
77 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/844
79 * The status widget now ensures that each item is visible when selection
80 changes. Previously, if you scrolled to the right to see the name of
81 a long filename, and then selected a short filename above it, the widget
82 may not have shown the short filename in the viewport. We now ensure
83 that the filenames are visible when the selection changes.
85 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/828
87 * The `git xbase` rebase editor no longer displays an error when
88 cancelling an interactive rebase.
90 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814
92 * The dialog shown when renaming remotes has been simplified.
94 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/840
96 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/838
98 * The help dialog in the `git-xbase` Rebase editor is now scrollable.
100 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/855
104 * Updated Brazilian translation
106 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/845
108 * Updated Czech translation
110 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/854
112 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/853
114 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/835
116 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/813
118 * Update Spanish translation
120 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/862
122 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/867
126 * The original `#!/usr/bin/env python` shebang lines can now be
127 retained by passing `USE_ENV_PYTHON=1` to `make` when installing.
129 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/850
131 * The Makefile is now resilient to DESTDIR and prefix containing whitespace.
133 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/858
135 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.4.2`.
137 * `python3-distutils` is needed to build cola on Debian.
139 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/837
143 * The "C" key no longer closes the message dialogs, for example the
144 one that is shown when a commit fails its pre-commit hooks.
145 This allows "Ctrl+C" copy to work, rather than closing the dialog.
147 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/734
149 * Dock widgets sizes are now properly saved and restored when the main
152 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/848
154 * The spellcheck feature was broken under Python3.
156 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/857
158 * A regression when saving stashes was fixed.
160 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/847
162 * Diffing image files was not updating the available context menus,
163 which prevented the "Stage" action from being present in the menu.
165 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/841
167 * `git cola` now detects when `git lfs uninstall` has been run. This allows
168 you to re-initialize "Git LFS" in an existing repository where it had been
169 previously uninstalled.
171 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/842
173 * Custom color values that did not contain any hexadecimal digits in the
174 `a-f` range were being converted into integers by the config reader. This
175 then caused the configured colors to be ignored.
177 These color values are now interpreted correctly. Additionally, color
178 values can now use an optional HTML-like `#` prefix.
180 Example `.gitconfig` snippet::
185 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/836
187 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/849
189 * We now display an error message graphically when `Git` is not installed.
190 Previously, the message went to stderr only.
192 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/830
194 * Changing diff options was causing resulting in an exception.
196 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/833
198 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/834
200 * The DAG window now updates itself when branches and tags are created.
202 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/814
204 * The user's `$PATH` environment variable can now contain utf-8
205 encoded paths. Previously, launching external commands could
208 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/807
210 * Git Cola development sandboxes can now be stored on utf-8 encoded
211 filesystem paths. Previously, the interactive rebase feature
212 could be broken when running in that environment.
214 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/825
216 * The log window now uses an ISO-8601 timestamp, which
217 avoids localized output in the log window.
219 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/817
223 * The code base has been thoroughly sanitized using `pylint`, and
224 travis is now running pylint over the entire project.
226 * Miscellaneous improvements and code improvements.
228 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/874
235 Usability, bells and whistles
236 -----------------------------
237 * The "Browser" widget learned to rename files using "git mv".
239 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/239
241 * The "Diff" widget learned to diff images. Side-by-side and pixel diff
242 modes allow you to inspect changes to common images formats.
244 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/444
246 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/803
248 * Git LFS and Git Annex are natively supported by the image diff viewer.
250 * Git Annex operations are now included. `git annex init` can be performed on
251 repositories, and `git annex add` can be run on untracked files from the
252 status widget. Install `git-annex` to activate this feature.
254 * Git LFS operations are now included. `git lfs install` can be performed on
255 repositories, and `git lfs track` can be run on untracked files from the
256 status widget. Install `git-lfs` to activate this feature.
258 * The "Stash" tool learned to stash staged changes only. Select the
259 "Stage Index" option and only staged changes will be stashed away.
261 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/413
263 * The "Stash" tool learned to use vim-like navigation keyboard shortcuts,
264 shows error messages when things go wrong, and now saves the "Stash Index"
265 and "Keep Index" options across sessions.
267 * The Edit menu's "Copy" and "Select All" actions now forward to either the
268 diff, status, recent, or favorites widgets, based on which widget has focus.
270 * The "File" and "Edit" menu can now be activated using `Alt-{f,e}` hotkeys.
272 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/759
274 * It was easy to accidentally trigger the first action in the `Status` tool's
275 context menu when using a quick right-click to bring up the menu.
276 A short sub-second delay was added to ensure that the top-most action is not
277 triggered unless enough time has passed. This prevents accidental
278 activation of the first item (typically "Stage" or "Unstage") without
279 burdening common use cases.
281 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/755
283 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/643
285 * The "Ctrl+S" hotkey now works for the header items in the Status tool.
286 Selected the "Modified" header item and activating the "Stage" hotkey,
287 for example, will stage all modified files. This works for the "Staged",
288 "Modified", and "Untracked" headers. This is not enabled for the
289 "Unmerged" header by design.
291 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/772
293 * The list of "Recent" repositories previously capped the number of
294 repositories shown to 8 repositories. This can be set to a higher
295 value by setting the `cola.maxrecent` configuration variable.
297 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/752
299 * The "Create Branch" dialog now prevents invalid branch names.
301 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/765
303 * Updated Turkish translation.
305 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/756
307 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
309 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/753
311 * Updated German translation.
313 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/802
315 * Updated Czech translation
317 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/792
319 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/806
321 * The window title can be configured to not display the absolute path of the
324 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/775
326 * The "Edit Remotes" editor learned to edit remote URLS.
328 * Bare repositories can now be created by selecting the
329 "New Bare Repository..." action from the `File` menu.
331 * The "Branches" widget learned to configure upstream branches.
333 * A new `git cola clone` sub-command was added for cloning repositories.
337 * The vendored `qtpy` library was updated to `v1.3.1`.
339 * The macOS installation was made simpler for better compatibility with
342 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/636
344 * The Windows installer is now much simpler. Git Cola now bundles
345 Python and PyQt5, so users need only install the "Git for Windows"
346 and "Git Cola" installers to get things working.
350 * Uninitialized difftool errors will now be displayed graphically.
351 They were previously going to the shell.
353 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/457
355 * Translations marked "fuzzy" will no longer be used when translating strings.
357 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/782
359 * Deleted unmerged files will now correctly use a deleted icon.
361 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/479
363 * The `Ctrl+C` "Copy" hotkey on the diff viewer has been fixed.
365 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/767
367 * The "Create Tag" dialog did not correctly handle the case when a signed
368 tag is requested, but no message is provided, and the user chooses to
369 create an unannotated tag instead. This convenience fallback will now
370 properly create an unsigned, unannotated tag.
372 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/696
374 * `.gitconfig` and `.git/config` values editable by the Preferences dialog
375 (aka `git cola config`) will now get unset when set to an empty value.
376 For example, setting a different `user.email` in the current repository,
377 followed by a subsequent emptying of that field, would previously result in
378 an empty string getting stored in the config. This has been fixed so that
379 the value will now get unset in the config instead.
381 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/406
383 * Spelling and typofixes.
385 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/748
387 * `core.commentChar` is now honored when set in the local repository
390 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/766
392 * The log window was using a format string that did not display
393 correctly in all locales. A locale-aware format is now used.
395 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/800
397 * The dialog displayed when prompting for a reference could sometimes
400 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/804
407 Usability, bells and whistles
408 -----------------------------
409 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation.
411 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/726
413 * Updated Ukrainian translation.
415 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/723
417 * New Czech translation.
419 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/736
421 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/737
423 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/740
425 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/743
427 * The "name" field in the "Create Tag" dialog now includes autocompletion,
428 which makes it easy to see which tags currently exist.
430 * `git cola` now has configurable toolbars. Use the `View -> Add toolbar`
431 menu item to add a toolbar.
433 * Setting `cola.expandtab` to `true` will now expand tabs into spaces
434 in the commit message editor. The number of spaces to insert is determined
435 by consulting `cola.tabwidth`, which defaults to `8`.
437 * The "Copy SHA-1" hotkey is now `Alt + Ctrl + C`, to avoid clobbering the
438 ability to copy text from the DAG window.
440 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/705
442 * The "Prepare Commit Message" action can now be invoked via the
443 `Ctrl+Shift+Return` shortcut.
445 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/707
447 * The `Branches` pane now has a filter field that highlights branches whose
448 names match the string entered into its text field.
450 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/713
452 * Actions that are triggered in response to button presses were being
453 triggered when the button was pressed, rather than when it was released,
454 which was a usability flaw. All buttons now respond when clicked
455 rather than when pressed.
457 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/715
459 * The DAG window will now only refresh when object IDs change.
460 Previously, the DAG would redraw itself in response to inotify events,
461 such as filesystem operations, which was disruptive when inspecting a large
462 diff in its diff viewer. The DAG will now only redraw when the object IDs
463 corresponding to its query input changes. Furthermore, when redrawing, the
464 scrollbar positions are retained to minimize disruption to the viewport
467 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/620
469 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/724
471 * The "About" dialog now includes the SHA-1 where Git Cola was built.
473 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/530
475 * The "Status" widget now has "Copy Leading Path to Clipboard" and
476 "Copy Basename to Clipboard" actions.
478 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/435
480 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/436
482 * The "Status" widget now supports custom "Copy ... to Clipboard" actions.
484 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/437
486 * The main menu now has an "Edit" menu.
488 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/725
490 * `git dag` learned to checkout commits into a detached HEAD state.
492 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/698
494 * The `status` widget's context menus now omit actions selection-dependent
495 actions when no file is selected.
497 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/731
499 * The startup dialog now focuses the repository list so that repositories
500 can be selected with the keyboard without mouse intervention.
502 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/741
506 * `git dag` now prevents nodes from overlapping in more situations.
508 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/689
510 * Adding untracked Git submodule repo directories previously ran
511 `git add submodule/` but we now call `git add submodule` without
512 the trailing slash (`/`) to avoid staging files that belong to the
513 submodule (which is possibly a `git` bug). By working around the
514 buggy behavior we allow users to recover by issuing the appropriate
515 `git submodule add` command to properly register the submodule.
517 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/681
519 * We now avoid `git for-each-ref --sort=version:refname` on versions
520 of `git` older than `v2.7.0`. Previously we only avoided it for
521 versions older than `v2.0.0`, which was a mistake.
523 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686
525 * The error message displayed when `git` is not installed has been fixed.
527 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/686
529 * Adding new remotes was silently broken.
531 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/684
533 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/685
535 * The repo selection dialog had errors during startup when the
536 `cola.refreshonfocus` feature was enabled, as reported on Ubuntu 16.04.
538 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/690
540 * Restored support for PyQt 4.6 (Centos 6.8)
542 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/692
544 * Switching repositories now resets the "Amend Mode" and other settings
547 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/710
549 * `git rebase` error messages now displayed when rebasing fails or stops
550 via the standalone `git cola rebase` front-end.
552 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/721
554 * `git cola` learned to stage broken symlinks.
556 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/727
558 * The "View History" feature in the `Browser` tool was fixed, and now
559 disambiguates between refs and paths.
561 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/732
563 * The diff editor now has better support for files with CRLF `\r\n`
566 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/730
568 * `cola.inotify` in a repo-local config is now honored
569 when `git cola` is launched from a desktop entry (`git cola --prompt`).
571 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/695
578 Usability, bells and whistles
579 -----------------------------
580 * New Ukrainian translation.
582 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/670
584 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/672
586 * New and improved French translations.
588 * The new `Branches` widget makes it easier to checkout, merge, push,
589 and pull branches from a single interface.
591 * `git cola` now includes a dark icon theme. The dark icon theme can be
592 activated either by setting the `GIT_COLA_ICON_THEME` environment variable
593 to `dark`, by configuring `cola.icontheme` to `dark`, or by specifying
594 `--icon-theme=dark` on the command line.
596 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/638
598 * Autocompletion was added to the `Fetch`, `Push`, and `Pull` dialogs.
600 * The commit message editor now remembers the "Spellcheck" setting
603 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/645
605 * `git dag` now uses an improved algorithm for laying out the graph,
606 which avoids collisions under certain graph configurations, and
607 avoids overlapping tag with commits.
609 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/648
611 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/651
613 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/654
615 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/656
617 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/659
619 * `git dag` now remembers its column sizes across sessions.
621 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/674
623 * `Grep` now shows a preview of the selected file's content in a split window
624 below the grep results.
626 * `Grep` now includes line numbers in the preview pane's output.
628 * `Edit Remotes` now remembers its window settings after exiting.
630 * `Diff` now has an option to display line numbers in the editor.
632 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/136
634 * `Amend Last Commit` can now be triggered via the `Commit` menu in addition
635 to the commit message editor's options.
637 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/640
639 * The `File Browser` tool was made much faster and can now operate on
640 much larger repositories.
642 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/499
644 * A new "turbo" mode was added that allows you to opt-out of operations
645 that can slow `git cola` on large repositories. The turbo mode is
646 enabled by configuring `git config cola.turbo true`. Turbo mode
647 disables the background loading of Git commit messages and other
648 details in the `File Browser` widget.
650 * A new GitIgnore dialog allows adding custom gitignore patterns.
652 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/653
654 * The spellchecker in `git cola` can now use an additional dictionary
655 by configuring `cola.dictionary` to the path to a file containing
656 a newline-separated list of words.
658 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663
660 * The stash, export patches, diff, and gitignore dialogs now remember
663 * A new `git cola recent` sub-command was added for finding recently
666 * The `Fetch` dialog now allows pruning remote branches.
668 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/639
670 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/680
674 * `git cola`'s spellchecker now supports the new `dict-common` filesystem
675 layout, and prefers the `/usr/share/dict/cracklib-small` file over the
676 `/usr/share/dict/words` provided on older distributions.
677 This makes the spellchecker compatible with Arch, which does not provide
678 a `words` symlink like Debian.
680 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/663
682 * Properly handle the case where an existing file is untracked using
685 * Fix a quirk where the "Create Branch" dialog sometimes required clicking
686 twice on the radio buttons.
688 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/662
690 * Fixed a focus issue to ensure that "Push", "Fetch", and "Pull" can
691 be executed with the press of a single enter key after being shown.
693 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/661
695 * Committing is now allowed in when resolving a merge results in no
696 changes. This state was previously prevented by the commit message editor,
697 which prevented users from resolving merges that result in no changes.
699 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/679
701 * The filesystem monitor would sometimes emit backtraces when directories
702 are modified. This has been fixed.
704 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438522
706 * Absolute paths are now returned when querying for `.git`-relative paths
707 from within a submodule, which uses `.git`-files.
708 This fixes launching `git cola` from within a subdirectory of a submodule.
710 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/675
717 Usability, bells and whistles
718 -----------------------------
719 * `git cola` can now invoke the `.git/hooks/cola-prepare-commit-msg`
720 hook to update the commit message. This hook takes the same parameters
721 as Git's `prepare-commit-message` hook. The default path to this hook
722 can be overridden by setting the `cola.prepareCommitMessageHook`
723 configuration variable.
725 http://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#prepare-commit-message
727 * `git cola diff` (and the corresponding `Diff` menu actions) can now
728 launch difftool with the standard `Ctrl+D` hotkey. The `Ctrl+E` hotkey was
729 also added for launching an editor.
731 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
735 * `git cola` now works when installed in non-ascii, utf8-encoded paths.
737 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/629
739 * Styling issues that caused black backgrounds in various widgets when using
740 PyQ5 on Mac OS X have been fixed.
742 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/624
744 * The "Open Recent" menu action was broken and has been fixed.
746 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/634
748 * Exiting `git cola` with a maximized main window would hang when reopened
751 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/641
755 * `appdata.xml` files are now provided at
756 `share/appdata/git-cola.xml` and `share/appdata/git-dag.xml`
757 for use by the Linux software gallery.
759 https://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/
761 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/627
770 * The "Open Recent" menu was updated to new bookmarks format.
772 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/628
779 Usability, bells and whistles
780 -----------------------------
781 * New Polish translation thanks to Łukasz Wojniłowicz
783 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/598
785 * The `Bypass Commit Hooks` feature now disables itself automatically
786 when a new commit is created. The new behavior turns the option into a
787 single-use flag, which helps prevent users from accidentally leaving it
788 active longer than intended.
790 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/595
792 * `git dag` learned to launch an external diff viewer on selected commits.
793 The standard `Ctrl+D` shortcut can be used to view diffs.
795 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468
797 * `git dag` learned to launch directory diffs via `git difftool --dir-diff`.
798 The `Ctrl+Shift+D` shortcut launches difftool in directory-diff mode.
800 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468
802 * Items in the "Favorites" list can now be renamed, which makes it
803 easier to differentiate between several checkouts of the same repository.
805 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/599
807 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/601
809 * The startup screen now includes a logo and `git cola` version information.
811 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/526
813 * The `About` page was revamped to contain multiple tabs. A new tab was added
814 that provides details about `git cola`''s dependencies. New tabs were also
815 added for giving credit to `git cola`'s authors and translators.
817 * The `About` page can now be accessed via `git cola about`.
819 * The "Fast-forward only" and "No fast-forward" options supported by
820 `git pull` are now accessible via `git cola pull`.
822 * Doing a forced push no longer requires selecting the remote branch.
824 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/618
826 * `git cola push` now has an option to suppress the prompt that is shown
827 when pushing would create new remote branches.
829 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/605
831 * `git dag` now shows commit messages in a more readable color.
833 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/574
835 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch the OS-specified
836 default action for a file. When used on directories via `git cola browse`,
837 or when "Open Parent Directory" is used on files, the OS-specified
838 file browser will typically be used.
840 * `git cola browse` and the `status` widget learned to launch terminals.
844 * `git cola browse` was not updating when expanding items.
846 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/588
848 * Typofixes in comments, naming, and strings have been applied.
850 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/593
852 * The inotify and win32 filesystem monitoring no longer refreshes
853 when updates are made to ignored files.
855 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/517
857 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/516
859 * The `Refresh` button on the actions panel no longer raises an
860 exception when using PyQt5.
862 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/604
864 * Fixed a typo in the inotify backend that is triggered when files are removed.
866 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/607
868 * Fixed a typo when recovering from a failed attempt to open a repository.
870 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/606
872 * `git dag` now properly updates itself when launched from the menubar.
874 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/613
876 * If git-cola is invoked on Windows using `start pythonw git-cola`,
877 a console window will briefly flash on the screen each time
878 `git cola` invokes `git`. The console window is now suppressed.
880 * We now avoid some problematic Popen flags on Windows which were
881 breaking the `git rebase` feature on Windows.
883 * The `Save` button in `git dag`'s "Grab File..." feature now properly
884 prompts for a filename when saving files.
886 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/617
890 * The `qtpy` symlink in the source tree has been removed to allow for easier
891 development on Windows.
893 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/626
900 Usability, bells and whistles
901 -----------------------------
902 * `git cola push` learned to configure upstream branches.
904 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/563
908 * The diffstat view is now properly updated when notifications are
909 received via inotify filesystem monitoring.
911 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/577
913 * Python3 with PyQt5 had a bug that prevented `git cola` from starting.
915 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/589
925 * When repositories stored in non-ASCII, UTF-8-encoded filesystem paths
926 were operated upon with `LC_ALL=C` set in the environment, unicode errors
927 would occur when using `python2`. `git cola` was made more robust and will
928 now operate correctly within this environment.
930 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/581
932 * Support for the `GIT_WORK_TREE` environment variable was fixed.
934 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/582
939 * The `unittest.mock` module is now used instead of the original `mock` module
940 when running the `git cola` test suite using Python3.
942 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/569
947 * `git cola` is now compatible with *PyQt5*, *PyQt4*, and *Pyside*.
948 `git cola` previously supported *PyQt4* only, but will now use whichever
949 library is available. Users are not required to upgrade at this time,
950 but *PyQt5* support can be enabled anytime by making its python
953 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/232
955 *NOTE*: We do not yet recommend using *PyQt5* because there are known
956 exit-on-segfault bugs in *Qt5* that have not yet been addressed.
957 `git cola` is sensitive to this bug and is known to crash on exit
958 when using `git dag` or the interactive rebase feature on *PyQt5*.
960 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-52988
962 *PyQt4* is stable and there are no known issues when using it so
963 we recommend using it until the Qt5 bugs have been resolved.
965 * `git cola` now depends on *QtPy* and includes a bundled copy of the
966 `qtpy` library. If you are packaging `git cola` and would prefer to use
967 `qtpy` from your distribution instead of the built-in version then use
968 `make NO_VENDOR_LIBS=1` when building `git cola`. This will prevent
969 vendored libraries from being installed.
976 Usability, bells and whistles
977 -----------------------------
979 * A new "Reset" sub-menu provides access to running "git reset --mixed"
980 when resetting branch heads and "git reset --merge" when resetting
983 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/542
985 * `git cola` now supports linked worktrees, i.e. worktrees created by
988 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/554
993 * Diff highlighting is now robust to the user having
994 diff.supressBlankEmpty=true in their git config.
996 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/541
998 * The filesystem monitor now properly handles repositories that use
999 `.git`-files, e.g. when using submodules.
1001 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/545
1003 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pulls/546
1005 * Per-repository git configuration is now properly detected when launching
1006 `git cola` from an application launcher.
1008 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/548
1010 * `git cola` now cleans up after itself immediately to avoid leaving behind
1011 empty `/tmp/git-cola-XXXXXX` directories when the user uses `Ctrl+C`
1014 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/566
1019 * It is now possible to install `git cola` to and from utf8-encoded filesystem
1020 paths. Previously, Python's stdlib would throw an encoding error during
1021 installation. We workaround the stdlib by forcing python2 to use utf-8,
1022 thus fixing assumptions in the stdlib library code.
1024 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/551
1031 Usability, bells and whistles
1032 -----------------------------
1034 * The icon for untracked files was adjusted to better differentiate
1035 between files and the "Untracked" header.
1037 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/509
1039 * Ctrl+O was added as a hotkey for opening repositories.
1041 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/507
1043 * `git dag` now uses consistent edge colors across updates.
1045 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/512
1047 * `git cola`'s Bookmarks widget can now be used to set a "Default Repository".
1048 Under the hood, we set the `cola.defaultrepo` configuration variable.
1049 The default repository is used whenever `git cola` is launched outside of
1050 a Git repository. When unset, or when set to a bogus value, `git cola`
1051 will prompt for a repository, as it previously did.
1053 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/513
1055 * `git cola`'s Russian and Spanish translations were improved
1056 thanks to Vaiz and Zeioth.
1058 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/514
1060 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/515
1062 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/523
1064 * `git cola` was translated to Turkish thanks to Barış ÇELİK.
1066 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/520
1068 * The status view now supports launching `git gui blame`. It can be
1069 configured to use a different command by setting `cola.blameviewer`.
1071 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/521
1073 * `git dag` now allows selecting non-contiguous ranges in the log widget.
1075 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/468
1077 * Any font can now be chosen for the diff editor, not just monospace fonts.
1079 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/525
1084 * `xfce4-terminal` and `gnome-terminal` are now supported when launching
1085 `git mergetool` to resolve merges. These terminals require that the command
1086 to execute is shell-quoted and passed as a single string argument to `-e`
1087 rather than as additional command line arguments.
1089 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/524
1091 * Fixed a unicode problem when formatting the error message that is shown
1092 when `gitk` is not installed. We now handle unicode data in tracebacks
1093 generated by python itself.
1095 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/528
1097 * The `New repository` feature was fixed.
1099 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/533
1101 * We now use omit the extended description when creating "fixup!" commits,
1102 for consistency with the Git CLI. We now include only the one-line summary
1103 in the final commit message.
1105 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/522
1112 Usability, bells and whistles
1113 -----------------------------
1115 * The user interface is now HiDPI-capable. git-cola now uses SVG
1116 icons, and its interface can be scaled by setting the `GIT_COLA_SCALE`
1117 environment variable.
1119 * `git dag` now supports the standard editor, difftool, and history hotkeys.
1120 It is now possible to invoke these actions from file widget's context
1121 menu and through the standard hotkeys.
1123 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/473
1125 * The `Status` tool also learned about the history hotkey.
1126 Additionally, the `Alt-{j,k}` aliases are also supported in the `Status`
1127 tool for consistency with the other tools where the non-Alt hotkeys are not
1130 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/488
1132 * The `File Browser` tool now has better default column sizes,
1133 and remembers its window size and placement.
1135 * The `File Browser` now supports the refresh hotkey, and has better
1136 behavior when refreshing. The selection is now retained, and new and
1137 removed files are found when refreshing.
1139 * A new `git-cola-completion.bash` completion script is provided in the
1140 `contrib/` directory. It must be used alongside Git's completion script.
1141 Source it from your `~/.bashrc` (or `~/.zshrc`, etc) after sourcing
1142 the `git-completion.bash` script and you will have command-line completion
1143 support for the `git cola` and `git dag` sub-commands.
1145 * The "checkout" dialog now offers completion for remote branches and other
1146 git refs. This makes it easier to checkout remote branches in a detached
1147 head state. Additionally, the checkout dialog also offers completion for
1148 remote branches that have not yet been checked out, which makes it easier to
1149 create a local tracking branch by just completing for that potential name.
1151 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/390
1153 * The "create branch" and "create tag" dialogs now save and restore their
1156 * The "status" widget can now be configured to use a bold font with a darker
1157 background for the header items.
1159 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/506
1161 * The "status" widget now remembers its horizontol scrollbar position across
1162 updates. This is helpful when working on projects with long paths.
1164 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/494
1169 * When using *Git for Windows*, a `git` window would appear
1170 when running *Windows 8*. We now pass additional flags to
1171 `subprocess.Popen` to prevent a `git` window from appearing.
1173 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/477
1175 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/486
1177 * Launching difftool with `.PY` in `$PATHEXT` on Windows was fixed.
1179 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/492
1181 * Creating a local branch tracking a remote branch that contains
1182 slashes in its name is now properly handled.
1184 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/496
1186 * The "Browse Other Branch" feature was broken by Python3, and is now fixed.
1188 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/501
1190 * We now avoid `long` for better Python3 compatibility.
1192 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/502
1194 * We now use Git's default merge message when merging branches.
1196 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/508
1198 * Miscellaneous fixes
1200 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/485
1205 * git-cola's documentation no longer uses an intersphinx link mapping
1206 to docs.python.org. This fixes warnings when building rpms using koji,
1207 where network access is prevented.
1209 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231812
1216 Usability, bells and whistles
1217 -----------------------------
1219 * The Interactive Rebase feature now works on Windows!
1221 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/463
1223 * The `diff` editor now understands vim-style `hjkl` navigation hotkeys.
1225 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/476
1227 * `Alt-{j,k}` navigation hotkeys were added to allow changing to the
1228 next/previous file from the diff and commit editors.
1230 * The `Rename branch` menu action is now disabled in empty repositories.
1232 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/475
1234 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/459
1236 * `git cola` now checks unmerged files for conflict markers before
1237 staging them. This feature can be disabled in the preferences.
1239 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/464
1241 * `git dag` now remembers which commits were selected when refreshing
1242 so that it can restore the selection afterwards.
1244 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/480
1246 * "Launch Editor", "Launch Difftool", "Stage/Unstage",
1247 and "Move Up/Down" hotkeys now work when the commit message
1250 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453
1252 * The diff editor now supports the `Ctrl+u` hotkey for reverting
1253 diff hunks and selected lines.
1255 * The `core.commentChar` Git configuration value is now honored.
1256 Commit messages and rebase instruction sheets will now use
1257 the configured character for comments. This allows having
1258 commit messages that start with `#` when `core.commentChar`
1259 is configured to its non-default value.
1261 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/446
1266 * Diff syntax highlighting was improved to handle more edge cases
1267 and false positives.
1269 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/467
1271 * Setting commands in the interactive rebase editor was fixed.
1273 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/472
1275 * git-cola no longer clobbers the Ctrl+Backspace text editing shortcut
1276 in the commit message editor.
1278 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453
1280 * The copy/paste clipboard now persists after `git cola` exits.
1282 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/484
1291 * Fixed the "Sign off" feature in the commit message editor.
1298 Usability, bells and whistles
1299 -----------------------------
1300 * Double-click will now choose a commit in the "Select commit" dialog.
1302 * `git cola` has a feature that reads `.git/MERGE_MSG` and friends for the
1303 commit message when a merge is in-progress. Upon refresh, `git cola` will
1304 now detect when a merge has completed and reset the commit message back to
1305 its previous state. It is only reset if the editor contains a message
1306 that was read from the file and has not been manually edited by the user.
1308 * The commit message editor's context menu now has a "Clear..." action for
1309 clearing the message across both the summary and description fields.
1311 * Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
1313 * The system theme's icons are now used wherever possible.
1315 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/458
1319 * The stash viewer now uses ``git show --no-ext-diff`` to avoid running
1320 user-configured diff tools.
1322 * `git cola` now uses the `setsid()` system call to ensure that the
1323 `GIT_ASKPASS` and `SSH_ASKPASS` helper programs are used when pushing
1324 changes using `git`. The askpass helpers will now be used even when
1325 `git cola` is launched from a terminal.
1327 The behavior without `setsid()` is that `git cola` can appear to hang while
1328 pushing changes. The hang happens when `git` prompts the user for a
1329 password using the terminal, but the user never sees the prompt. `setsid()`
1330 detaches the terminal, which ensures that the askpass helpers are used.
1332 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/218
1334 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/262
1336 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/377
1338 * `git dag`'s file list tool was updated to properly handle unicode paths.
1340 * `gnome-terminal` is no longer used by default when `cola.terminal` is unset.
1341 It is broken, as was detailed in #456.
1343 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/456
1345 * The interactive rebase feature was not always setting `$GIT_EDITOR`
1346 to the value of `gui.editor`, thus there could be instances where rebase
1347 will seem to not stop, or hang, when performing "reword" actions.
1349 We now set the `$GIT_EDITOR` environment variable when performing the
1350 "Continue", "Skip", and "Edit Todo" rebase actions so that the correct
1351 editor is used during the rebase.
1353 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/445
1357 * `git cola` moved from a 3-part version number to a simpler 2-part "vX.Y"
1358 version number. Most of our releases tend to contain new features.
1365 Usability, bells and whistles
1366 -----------------------------
1367 * Updated zh_TW translations.
1369 * `git cola rebase` now defaults to `@{upstream}`, and generally uses the same
1370 CLI syntax as `git rebase`.
1372 * The commit message editor now allows you to bypass commit hooks by selecting
1373 the "Bypass Commit Hooks" option. This is equivalent to passing the
1374 `--no-verify` option to `git commit`.
1376 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/357
1378 * We now prevent the "Delete Files" action from creating a dialog that does
1381 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/378
1383 * `git xbase` learned to edit rebase instruction sheets that contain
1386 * The diff colors are now configurable. `cola.color.{text,add,remove,header}`
1387 can now be set with 6-digit hexadecimal colors.
1388 See the `git cola manual <https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git-cola.html#configuration-variables>_`
1391 * Improved hotkey documentation.
1395 * `git cola` will now allow starting an interactive rebase with a dirty
1396 worktree when `rebase.autostash` is set.
1398 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/360
1405 Usability, bells and whistles
1406 -----------------------------
1407 * A new "Find files" widget was added, and can be activated by
1408 using the `Ctrl+t` or `t` hotkeys.
1410 * A new `git cola find` sub-command was added for finding files.
1412 * `git cola` now remembers the text cursor's position when staging
1413 interactively with the keyboard. This makes it easier to use the keyboard
1414 arrows to select and stage lines.
1416 * The completion widgets will now select the top completion item
1417 when `Enter` or `Return` are pressed.
1419 * You can now refresh using `F5` in addition to the existing `Ctrl+R` hotkey.
1423 * `git cola` now passes `--no-abbrev-commit` to `git log` to override
1424 having `log.abbrevCommit = true` set in `.gitconfig`.
1430 Usability, bells and whistles
1431 -----------------------------
1432 * `git dag` now forwards all unknown arguments along to `git log`.
1434 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/389
1436 * Line-by-line interactive staging was made more robust.
1438 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/399
1440 * "Bookmarks" was renamed to "Favorites".
1442 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/392
1444 * Untracked files are now displayed using a unique icon.
1446 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/388
1450 * `git dag` was triggering a traceback on Fedora when parsing Git logs.
1452 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181686
1454 * inotify expects unicode paths on Python3.
1456 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/393
1458 * Untracked files are now assumed to be utf-8 encoded.
1460 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/401
1466 Usability, bells and whistles
1467 -----------------------------
1468 * `git cola` can now create GPG-signed commits and merges.
1470 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/149
1472 See the documentation for details about setting up a GPG agent.
1474 * The status widget learned to copy relative paths when `Ctrl+x` is pressed.
1476 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/358
1478 * Custom GUI actions can now define their own keyboard shortcuts by
1479 setting `guitool.$name.shortcut` to a string understood by Qt's
1480 `QAction::setShortcut()` API, e.g. `Alt+X`.
1482 See http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qkeysequence.html#QKeySequence-2
1483 for more details about the supported values.
1485 * `git cola` learned to rename branches.
1487 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/364
1489 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/278
1491 * `git dag` now has a "Show history" context menu which can be used to filter
1492 history using the selected paths.
1496 * `sphinxtogithub.py` was fixed for Python3.
1498 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/353
1500 * The commit that changed how we read remotes from `git remote`
1501 to parsing `git config` was reverted since it created problems
1504 * Fixed a crash when using the `rebase edit` feature.
1506 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/351
1508 * Better drag-and-drop behavior when dropping into gnome-terminal.
1510 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/373
1514 * The `git-cola-folder-handler.desktop` file handler was fixed
1515 to pass validation by `desktop-file-validate`.
1517 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/356
1519 * The `git.svg` icon was renamed to `git-cola.svg`, and `git cola` was taught
1520 to prefer icons from the desktop theme when available.
1526 Usability, bells and whistles
1527 -----------------------------
1528 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+Shift+M` merges branches.
1530 * New hotkey: `Ctrl+R` refreshes the DAG viewer.
1532 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/347
1536 * We now use `git config` to parse the list of remotes
1537 instead of parsing the output of `git remote`, which
1538 is a Git porcelain and should not be used by scripts.
1540 * Avoid "C++ object has been deleted" errors from PyQt4.
1542 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/346
1546 * The `make install` target now uses `install` instead of `cp`.
1552 Usability, bells and whistles
1553 -----------------------------
1554 * Updated Brazillian Portuguese translation.
1556 * The status and browse widgets now allow drag-and-drop into
1557 external applications.
1559 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/335
1561 * We now show a progress bar when cloning repositories.
1563 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/312
1565 * The bookmarks widget was simplified to not need a
1568 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/289
1570 * Updated Traditional Chinese translation.
1572 * We now display a warning when trying to rebase with uncommitted changes.
1574 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/338
1576 * The status widget learned to filter paths.
1577 `Ctrl+Shift+S` toggles the filter widget.
1579 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/337
1581 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/339
1583 * The status widget learned to move files to the trash
1584 when the `send2trash <https://github.com/hsoft/send2trash>`_
1585 module is installed.
1587 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/341
1589 * "Recent repositories" is now a dedicated widget.
1591 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/342
1593 * New Spanish translation thanks to Pilar Molina Lopez.
1595 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/344
1599 * Newly added remotes are now properly seen by the fetch/push/pull dialogs.
1601 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/343
1607 Usability, bells and whistles
1608 -----------------------------
1609 * New Brazillian Portuguese translation thanks to Vitor Lobo.
1611 * New Indonesian translation thanks to Samsul Ma'arif.
1613 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation thanks to Zhang Han.
1615 * `Ctrl+Backspace` is now a hotkey for "delete untracked files" in
1618 * Fetch/Push/Pull dialogs now use the configured remote of the current
1621 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/324
1625 * We now use `os.getcwd()` on Python3.
1627 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/316
1629 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/326
1631 * The `Ctrl+P` hotkey was overloaded to both "push" and "cherry-pick",
1632 so "cherry-pick" was moved to `Ctrl+Shift+C`.
1634 * Custom GUI tools with mixed-case names are now properly supported.
1636 * "Diff Region" is now referred to as "Diff Hunk" for consistency
1637 with common terminology from diff/patch tools.
1639 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/328
1641 * git-cola's test suite is now portable to MS Windows.
1643 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/332
1649 Usability, bells and whistles
1650 -----------------------------
1651 * We now handle the case when inotify `add_watch()` fails
1652 and display instructions on how to increase the number of watches.
1654 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/263
1656 * New and improved zh_TW localization thanks to V字龍(Vdragon).
1658 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/265
1660 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/267
1662 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/268
1664 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/269
1666 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/270
1668 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/271
1670 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/272
1672 * New hotkeys: `Ctrl+F` for fetch, `Ctrl+P` for push,
1673 and `Ctrl+Shift+P` for pull.
1675 * The bookmarks widget's context menu actions were made clearer.
1677 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/281
1679 * The term "Staging Area" is used consistently in the UI
1680 to allow for better localization.
1682 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/283
1684 * The "Section" term is now referred to as "Diff Region"
1687 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/297
1689 * The localization documentation related to the LANGUAGE
1690 environment variable was improved.
1692 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/293
1694 * The "Actions" panel now contains tooltips for each button
1695 in case the button labels gets truncated by Qt.
1697 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/292
1699 * Custom `git config`-defined actions can now be run in the
1700 background by setting `guitool.<name>.background` to `true`.
1704 * We now use bold fonts instead of SmallCaps to avoid
1705 artifacts on several configurations.
1707 * We now pickup `user.email`, `cola.tabwidth`, and similar settings
1708 when defined in /etc/gitconfig.
1710 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/259
1712 * Better support for unicode paths when using inotify.
1714 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104181
1716 * Unicode fixes for non-ascii locales.
1718 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/266
1720 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/273
1722 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/276
1724 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/282
1726 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/298
1728 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/302
1730 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/303
1732 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/305
1734 * Viewing history from the file browser was fixed for Python3.
1736 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/274
1738 * setup.py was fixed to install the `*.rst` documentation.
1740 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/279
1742 * Patch export was fixed for Python3.
1744 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/290
1746 * Fixed adding a bookmark with trailing slashes.
1748 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/295
1750 * The default `git dag` layout is now setup so that its widgets
1751 can be freely resized on Linux.
1753 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/299
1755 * Invalid tag names are now reported when creating tags.
1757 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/296
1763 Usability, bells and whistles
1764 -----------------------------
1765 * `git cola` no longer prompts after successfully creating a new branch.
1767 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/251
1769 * Hitting enter on simple dialogs now accepts them.
1771 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/255
1775 * `git dag` no longer relies on `sys.maxint`, which is
1776 not available in Python3.
1778 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/249
1780 * Python3-related fixes.
1782 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/254
1784 * Python3-on-Windows-related fixes.
1786 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/250
1788 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/252
1790 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/253
1792 * Switching repositories using the bookmarks widget was not
1793 refreshing the inotify watcher.
1795 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/256
1797 * Special commit messages trailers (e.g. "Acked-by:") are now special-cased to
1798 fix word wrapping lines that start with "foo:".
1800 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/257
1802 * `git dag` sometimes left behind selection artifacts.
1803 We now refresh the view to avoid them.
1805 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/204
1811 Usability, bells and whistles
1812 -----------------------------
1813 * Better inotify support for file creation and deletion.
1815 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/240
1817 * `git cola` now supports the X11 Session Management Protocol
1818 and remembers its state across logout/reboot.
1820 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/164
1822 * `git cola` has a new icon.
1824 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/190
1828 * Building the documentation no longer requires `asciidoc`.
1829 We now use `Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/>`_ for building
1830 html documentation and man pages.
1834 * Reworked the git-dag gravatar icon code to avoid a unicode
1837 * Commit message line-wrapping was made to better match the GUI editor.
1839 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/242
1841 * Better support for Python3 on Windows
1843 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/246
1847 * git-cola no longer depends on Asciidoc for building its documentation
1848 and man-pages. We now depend on [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/) only.
1854 Usability, bells and whistles
1855 -----------------------------
1856 * Some context menu actions are now hidden when selected
1859 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/238
1863 * The build-git-cola.sh contrib script was improved.
1865 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/235
1867 * Non-ascii worktrees work properly again.
1869 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/234
1871 * The browser now guards itself against missing files.
1873 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071378
1875 * Saving widget state now works under Python3.
1877 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/236
1885 * git-cola now runs on Python 3 thanks to Virgil Dupras.
1887 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/233
1889 * Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2+ are now supported.
1890 Python 2.5 is no longer supported.
1894 * i18n test fixes thanks to Virgil Dupras.
1896 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/231
1898 * git-cola.app build fixes thanks to Maicon D. Filippsen.
1900 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/230
1902 * Lots of pylint improvements thanks to Alex Chernetz.
1904 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/229
1910 Usability, bells and whistles
1911 -----------------------------
1912 * The new `Bookmarks` tool makes it really easy to switch between repositories.
1914 * There is now a dedicated dialog for applying patches.
1915 See the ``File -> Apply Patches`` menu item.
1917 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/215
1919 * A new `git cola am` sub-command was added for applying patches.
1923 * Fixed a typo that caused inotify events to be silently ignored.
1925 * Fixed the sys.path setup for Mac OS X (Homebrew).
1927 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/221
1929 * Lots of pylint fixes thanks to Alex Chernetz.
1935 Usability, bells and whistles
1936 -----------------------------
1937 * `git cola --amend` now starts the editor in `amend` mode.
1939 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/187
1941 * Multiple lines of text can now be pasted into the `summary` field.
1942 All text beyond the first newline will be automatically moved to the
1943 `extended description` field.
1945 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/212
1949 * Stray whitespace in `.git` files is now ignored.
1951 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/213
1953 * Fix "known incorrect sRGB profile" in `staged-item.png`.
1955 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/85066
1963 * Fix a traceback when `git push` fails.
1965 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034778
1969 * Most of the git-cola sub-packages have been removed.
1970 The only remaining packages are `cola`, `cola.models`,
1973 * The translation file for Simplified Chinese was renamed
1976 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/209
1984 * `git cola version --brief` now prints the brief version number.
1988 * Resurrected the "make dist" target, for those that prefer to create
1991 * Fixed the typo that broke the preferences dialog.
1997 Usability, bells and whistles
1998 -----------------------------
1999 * We now ship a full-featured interactive `git rebase` editor.
2000 The rebase todo file is edited using the `git xbase` script which
2001 is provided at `$prefix/share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase`.
2002 This script can be used standalone by setting the `$GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR`
2003 before running `git rebase --interactive`.
2005 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/1
2007 * Fixup commit messages can now be loaded from the commit message editor.
2009 * Tool widgets can be locked in place by using the "Tools/Lock Layout"
2012 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/202
2014 * You can now push to several remotes simultaneously by selecting
2015 multiple remotes in the "Push" dialog.
2017 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/148
2019 * The `grep` tool learned to search using three different modes:
2020 basic regular expressions (default), extended regular expressions,
2025 * `git cola` now depends on the `argparse` Python module.
2026 This module is part of the stdlib in Python 2.7 and must
2027 be installed separately when using Python 2.6 and below.
2031 * Support unicode in the output from `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`.
2037 Usability, bells and whistles
2038 -----------------------------
2039 * We now detect when the editor or history browser are misconfigured.
2041 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/197
2043 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886826
2045 * Display of untracked files can be disabled from the Preferences dialog
2046 or by setting the `gui.displayuntracked` configuration variable to `false`.
2048 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/232683
2052 * Unicode stash names are now supported
2054 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/198
2056 * The diffs produced when reverting workspace changes were made more robust.
2061 =======================
2062 Usability, bells and whistles
2063 -----------------------------
2064 * Brand new German translation thanks to Sven Claussner.
2066 * The "File" menu now provides a "New Repository..." menu action.
2068 * `git dag` now uses a dock-widget interface so that its widgets can
2069 be laid-out and arranged. Customizations are saved and restored
2070 the next time `git dag` is launched.
2072 * `git dag` now has a "Zoom Best Fit" button next alongside the
2073 "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" buttons.
2075 * `Ctrl+L` now focuses the "Search" field in the `git dag` tool.
2077 * Right-clicking in the "diff" viewer now updates the cursor position
2078 before performing actions, which makes it much easier to click around
2079 and selectively stage sections. Previously, the current cursor position
2080 was used which meant that it required two clicks (left-click to update
2081 the position followed by right-click to get the context menu) for the
2082 desired section to be used. This is now a single right-click operation.
2084 * The `Ctrl+D` "Launch Diff Tool" action learned to automatically choose
2085 between `git difftool` and `git mergetool`. If the file is unmerged then
2086 we automatically launch `git mergetool` on the path, otherwise we use
2087 `git difftool`. We do this because `git difftool` is not intended to
2088 be used on unmerged paths. Automatically using `git mergetool` when
2089 appropriate is the most intuitive and muscle-memory-friendly thing to do.
2091 * You can now right-click on folders in your standard file browser
2092 and choose "Open With -> Git Cola" (Linux-only).
2096 * Python 2.6 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard does not provide a namedtuple
2097 at `sys.version_info`. We now avoid using that variable for better
2100 * We now read the user's Git configuration from `~/.config/git/config`
2101 if that file is available, otherwise we use the traditional `~/.gitconfig`
2102 path, just like Git itself.
2104 * Some edge cases were fixed when applying partial/selected diffs.
2106 * The diff viewer is now properly cleared when refreshing.
2108 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/194
2114 Usability, bells and whistles
2115 -----------------------------
2116 * The diff viewer now has an "Options" menu which can be
2117 used to set "git diff" options. This can be used to
2118 ignore whitespace changes or to show a change with its
2119 surrounding function as context.
2121 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/150
2123 * `git cola` now remembers your commit message and will restore it
2124 when `git cola` is restarted.
2126 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/175
2128 * `Ctrl+M` can now be used to toggle the "Amend last commit"
2129 checkbox in the commit message editor.
2131 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/161
2133 * Deleting remote branches can now be done from the "Branch" menu.
2135 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/152
2137 * The commit message editor now has a built-in spell checker.
2141 * We now avoid invoking external diffs when showing diffstats.
2143 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/163
2145 * The `Status` tool learned to reselect files when refreshing.
2147 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/165
2149 * `git cola` now remembers whether it has been maximized and will restore the
2150 maximized state when `git cola` is restarted.
2152 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/172
2154 * Performance is now vastly improved when staging hundreds or
2157 * `git cola` was not correctly saving repo-specific configuration.
2159 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/174
2161 * Fix a UnicodeDecode in sphinxtogithub when building from source.
2167 Usability, bells and whistles
2168 -----------------------------
2169 * We now automatically remove missing repositories from the
2170 "Select Repository" dialog.
2172 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/145
2174 * A new `git cola diff` sub-command was added for diffing changed files.
2178 * The inotify auto-refresh feature makes it difficult to select text in
2179 the "diff" editor when files are being continually modified by another
2180 process. The auto-refresh causes it to lose the currently selected text,
2181 which is not wanted. We now avoid this problem by saving and restoring
2182 the selection when refreshing the editor.
2184 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/155
2186 * More strings have been marked for l10n.
2188 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/157
2190 * Fixed the Alt+D Diffstat shortcut.
2192 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/159
2196 * Better error handling when cloning repositories.
2198 We were not handling the case where a git URL has
2199 no basename, e.g. `https://git.example.com/`.
2200 `git cola` originally rejected these URLs instead of
2201 allowing users to clone them. It now allows these URLs
2202 when they point to valid git repositories.
2204 Additionally, `git cola` learned to echo the errors
2205 reported by `git clone` when it fails.
2207 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/156
2213 Usability, bells and whistles
2214 -----------------------------
2215 * `git dag` got a big visual upgrade.
2217 * `Ctrl+G` now launches the "Grep" tool.
2219 * `Ctrl+D` launches difftool and `Ctrl+E` launches your editor
2220 when in the diff panel.
2222 * git-cola can now be told to use an alternative language.
2223 For example, if the native language is German and we want git-cola to
2224 use English then we can create a `~/.config/git-cola/language` file with
2225 "en" as its contents:
2227 $ echo en >~/.config/git-cola/language
2229 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/140
2231 * A new `git cola merge` sub-command was added for merging branches.
2233 * Less blocking in the main UI
2237 * Autocomplete issues on KDE
2239 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.
2244 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
2259 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/96
2261 * `git cola` now wraps commit messages at 72 columns automatically.
2262 This is configurable using the `cola.linebreak` variable to enable/disable
2263 the feature, and `cola.textwidth` to configure the limit.
2265 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/133
2267 * A new "Open Recent" sub-menu was added to the "File" menu.
2268 This makes it easy to open a recently-edited repository.
2270 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/135
2272 * We now show a preview for untracked files when they are clicked
2273 using the `Status` tool.
2274 * A new "Open Using Default Application" action was added to the
2275 `Status` tool. It is activated using either `Spacebar` or through
2276 the context menu. This action uses `xdg-open` on Linux and
2278 * A new "Open Parent Directory" action was added to the `Status` tool.
2279 It is activated using either `Shift+Spacebar` or through the
2281 * `git dag` learned to honor the `log.date` git configuration variable.
2282 This makes the date display follow whatever format the user has
2284 * A new `git cola config` sub-command was added for quickly
2285 tweaking `git cola`'s git configuration settings.
2286 * Some small usability tweaks -- some user confirmation prompts
2287 were defaulting to "Cancel" when they should have been defaulting
2288 to the affirmative option instead.
2292 * Properly handle arbitrarily-named branches.
2293 * We went back to launching `git mergetool` using an xterm.
2294 The reason is that there are a couple of places where `git mergetool`
2295 requires a terminal for user interaction not covered by `--no-prompt`.
2296 * We now properly handle an edge case when applying short diffs at
2297 the start of a file.
2303 Usability, bells and whistles
2304 -----------------------------
2305 * New and improved `grep` mode lets you instantly find and edit files.
2306 * New `git cola grep` standalone mode.
2307 * Support for passing arguments to the configured editors, e.g. `gvim -p`
2308 This makes it possible to select multiple files in the status
2309 window and use `Ctrl-e` to edit them all at once.
2310 * Remote operations now prompt on errors only.
2311 * The `Tab` key now jumps to the extended description when editing the summary.
2312 * More shortcut key labels and misc. UX improvements.
2316 * Selecting an item no longer copies its filename to the copy/paste buffer.
2317 `Ctrl-c` or the "Copy" context-menu action can be used instead.
2318 * The repository monitoring feature on Windows learned to ignore
2319 changes within the ".git" directory. Thanks to Andreas Sommer.
2321 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/120
2327 Usability, bells and whistles
2328 -----------------------------
2329 * `git dag` learned to color-code branchy edges.
2330 The edge colors change when a new branch is detected,
2331 which makes the history much easier to follow.
2332 A huge thanks to Uri Okrent for making it happen.
2334 * New GUI for editing remote repositories.
2336 * New `git cola archive` and `git cola remote` sub-commands.
2338 * `git cola browser` learned an 'Untrack' command.
2340 * The diff editor learned to staged/unstaged while amending.
2342 * The status tool can now scroll horizontally.
2344 * New git repositories can be created by clicking 'New' on the
2345 `git cola --prompt` startup screen.
2351 Usability, bells and whistles
2352 -----------------------------
2353 * Auto-completion was added to more tools.
2355 * `git dag` is easier to use on smaller displays -- the author
2356 field elides its text which allows for a more compact display.
2358 * Selected commits in `git dag` were made more prominent and
2361 * 'Create Branch' learned to fetch remote branches and uses a
2362 background thread to do so.
2364 * User-configured GUI tools are listed alphabetically in the 'Actions' menu.
2366 * The 'Pull' dialog remembers the value of the 'Rebase' checkbox
2367 between invocations.
2375 * Detect Homebrew so that OS X users do not need to set PYTHONPATH.
2377 * `git dag` can export patches again.
2383 Usability, bells and whistles
2384 -----------------------------
2385 * The 'Classic' tool was renamed to 'Browser' and learned to
2386 limit history to the current branch.
2388 * `git dag` learned about gravatar and uses it to show images
2391 * `git dag` learned to use OpenGL for rendering resulting in
2392 much faster rendering.
2394 * More dialogs learned vim-style keyboard shortcuts.
2396 * The commit message editor learned better arrow key navigation.
2402 Usability, bells and whistles
2403 -----------------------------
2404 * `git cola` learned a few new sub commands:
2412 * `Return` in the summary field jumps to the extended description.
2414 * `Ctrl+Return` is now a shortcut for 'Commit'.
2416 * Better French translation for 'Sign-off'.
2418 * The 'Search' widget now has a much simpler and streamlined
2421 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the DAG widget.
2423 * `git dag` no longer prompts for files when diffing commits if the
2424 text field contains paths.
2426 * General user interface and performance improvements.
2430 * The diff viewer no longer changes font size when holding `Control`
2431 while scrolling with the mouse wheel.
2433 * Files with a typechange (e.g. symlinks that become files, etc.)
2434 are now correctly identified as being modified.
2438 * The `cola.controllers` and `cola.views` packages were removed.
2444 Usability, bells and whistles
2445 -----------------------------
2446 * `git cola` can now launch sub commands, e.g.:
2457 * `git dag` is more responsive when gathering auto-completions.
2459 * Keyboard shortcuts are displayed when the '?' key is pressed.
2461 * Various keyboard shortcuts were added for improved usability.
2463 * The status widget now lists unmerged files before modified files.
2465 * vim-style `h,j,k,l` navigation shortcuts were added to the status widget.
2467 * A 'Recently Modified Files...' tool was added.
2469 * Tools can now be hidden with `Alt + #` (where `#` is a keyboard number)
2470 and focused with `Alt + Shift + #`.
2472 * The syntax highlighting colors for diffs was made less intrusive.
2474 * The commit message editor was redesigned to have a more compact
2475 and keyboard-convenient user interface.
2477 * Keyboard shortcuts for adding a Signed-off-by (`Ctrl + i`)
2478 and creating a commit (`Ctrl + m`) were added.
2480 * The status widget was adjusted to use less screen real-estate.
2484 * Avoid updating the index when responding to inotify events.
2485 This avoids interfering with operations such as `git rebase --interactive`.
2487 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/99
2491 * Create `git-dag.pyw` in the win32 installer.
2493 * win32 shortcuts now contain explicit calls to `pythonw.exe` instead of
2494 calling the `.pyw` file directly.
2498 * The 'Apply Changes from Branch...' feature was removed.
2499 `git dag`'s 'Grab File...' feature used alongside the index/worktree editor
2500 is a simpler alternative.
2508 * Further enhanced the staging/unstaging behavior in the status widget.
2510 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97
2512 * Unmerged files are no longer listed as modified.
2516 The `cola-$version` tarballs on github were originally setup to
2517 have the same contents as the old tarballs hosted on tuxfamily.
2518 The `make dist` target was changed to write files to a
2519 `git-cola-$version` subdirectory and tarball.
2521 This makes the filenames consistent for the source tarball,
2522 the darwin .app tarball, and the win32 .exe installer.
2528 Usability, bells and whistles
2529 -----------------------------
2530 * Refined the staging/unstaging behavior for code reviews.
2532 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/97
2534 * Added more styling and icons to menus and buttons.
2536 * Adjusted some terminology to more closely match the git CLI.
2540 * Boolean `git config` settings with no value are now supported
2541 (these are not created by git these days but exist in legacy repositories).
2543 * Unicode branches and tags are supported in the "branch diff" tool.
2545 * Guard against low-memory conditions and more interrupted system calls.
2549 * Added desktop launchers for git-cola.desktop and git-dag.desktop.
2550 This replaces the old cola.desktop, so some adjustments to RPM .spec
2551 and debian/ files will be needed.
2553 * Fixed the darwin app-tarball Makefile target to create relative paths.
2557 * The `--style` option was removed. `git cola` follows the system theme
2558 so there's no need for this option these days.
2564 Usability, bells and whistles
2565 -----------------------------
2566 * Export a patch series from `git dag` into a `patches/` directory.
2568 * `git dag` learned to diff commits, slice history along paths, etc.
2570 * Added instant-preview to the `git stash` widget.
2572 * A simpler preferences editor is used to edit `git config` values.
2574 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90
2576 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/89
2578 * Previous commit messages can be re-loaded from the message editor.
2580 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/33
2584 * Display commits with no file changes.
2586 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82
2588 * Improved the diff editor's copy/paste behavior
2590 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90
2594 * Bumped version number to ceil(minimum git version).
2595 `git cola` now requires `git` >= 1.6.3.
2597 * Simplified git-cola's versioning when building from tarballs
2598 outside of git. We no longer check for a 'version' file at
2599 the root of the repository. We instead keep a default version
2600 in `cola/version.py` and use it when `git cola`'s `.git` repository
2607 Usability, bells and whistles
2608 -----------------------------
2609 * inotify is much snappier and available on Windows
2610 thanks to Karl Bielefeldt.
2612 * New right-click command to add untracked files to .gitignore
2613 thanks to Audrius Karabanovas.
2615 * Stash, fetch, push, and pull usability improvements
2617 * General usability improvements
2619 * stderr is logged when applying partial diffs.
2623 * Files can be unstaged when amending.
2625 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82
2627 * Show the configured remote.$remote.pushurl in the GUI
2629 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/83
2631 * Removed usage of the "user" module.
2633 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/86
2635 * Avoids an extra `git update-index` call during startup.
2642 Usability, bells and whistles
2643 -----------------------------
2644 * We now provide better feedback when `git push` fails.
2646 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/69
2648 * The Fetch, Push, and Pull dialogs now give better feedback
2649 when interacting with remotes. The dialogs are modal and
2650 a progress dialog is used.
2654 * More unicode fixes, again. It is now possible to have
2655 unicode branch names, repository paths, home directories, etc.
2656 This continued the work initiated by Redhat's bugzilla #694806.
2658 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806
2664 Usability, bells and whistles
2665 -----------------------------
2666 * The `git cola` desktop launchers now prompt for a repo
2667 by default. This is done by using the new `--prompt`
2668 flag which tells `git cola` to ignore any git repositories
2669 in the current directory and prompt for one instead.
2673 * More Unicode fixes for repositories and home directories with
2674 embedded unicode characters. Thanks to Christian Jann for
2675 patience and helpful bug reports.
2677 * Fix the 'Clone' button in the startup dialog.
2683 Usability, bells and whistles
2684 -----------------------------
2685 * Faster startup time! `git cola` now offloads initialization
2686 to a background thread so that the GUI appears almost instantly.
2688 * Specialized diff options for p4merge, vimdiff, araxis, emerge,
2689 and ecmerge in difftool (backported from git.git).
2693 * Fix launching commands in the background on Windows
2694 (e.g. when launching `git difftool`).
2696 * Fix unicode errors when home or repository directories contain
2699 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/74
2701 Redhat's bugzilla #694806
2703 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806
2709 Usability, bells and whistles
2710 -----------------------------
2711 * The `cola classic` tool can be now configured to be dockable.
2713 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/56
2715 * The `cola classic` tool now uses visual sigils to indicate a file's status.
2716 The idea and icons were provided by Uri Okrent.
2718 * Include the 'Rescan' button in the 'Actions' widget regardless
2719 of whether inotify is installed.
2723 * Fix installation of translations per Fedora
2724 This incorporates Fedora's fix for the translations path
2725 which originally appeared in cola-1.4.3-translations.patch.
2727 * Mac OS X git-cola developers can now generate git-cola.app
2728 application bundles using 'make app-bundle'.
2732 * Fixed a stacktrace when trying to use "Get Commit Message Template"
2733 with an unconfigured "commit.template" git config variable.
2735 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/72
2737 This bug originated in Redhat's bugzilla #675721 via a Fedora user.
2739 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675721
2741 * Properly raise the main window on Mac OS X.
2743 * Properly handle staging a huge numbers of files at once.
2745 * Speed up 'git config' usage by fixing cola's caching proxy.
2747 * Guard against damaged ~/.cola files.
2753 Usability, bells and whistles
2754 -----------------------------
2755 * `git dag` now has a separate display area
2756 for displaying commit metadata. This area will soon
2757 grow additional functionality such as cherry-picking,
2762 * Fixed tests from a previous refactoring.
2764 * Guard against 'diff.external' configuration by always
2765 calling 'git diff' with the '--no-ext-diff' option.
2767 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/67
2769 * Respect 'gui.diffcontext' so that cola's diff display
2770 shows the correct number of context lines.
2772 * Raise the GUI so that it is in the foreground on OS X.
2776 * We now allow distutils to rewrite cola's shebang line.
2777 This allows us to run on systems where "which python"
2778 is Python3k. This is exposed by setting the `PYTHON`
2779 Makefile variable to the location of python2.x.
2781 * git-cola.app is now a tiny download because it no longer
2782 contains Qt and PyQt. These libraries are provided as a
2785 http://code.google.com/p/git-cola/downloads/list
2791 Usability, bells and whistles
2792 -----------------------------
2793 * Clicking on paths in the status widget copies them into the
2794 copy/paste buffer for easy middle-clicking into terminals.
2796 * `Ctrl+C` in diff viewer copies the selected diff to the clipboard.
2800 * Fixed the disappearing actions buttons on PyQt 4.7.4
2801 as reported by Arch and Ubuntu 10.10.
2803 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62
2805 * Fixed mouse interaction with the status widget where some
2806 items could not be de-selected.
2810 * Removed hard-coded reference to lib/ when calculating Python's
2811 site-packages directory.
2817 Usability, bells and whistles
2818 -----------------------------
2819 * Removed "single-click to (un)stage" in the status view.
2820 This is a usability improvement since we no longer perform
2821 different actions depending on where a row is clicked.
2823 * Added ability to create unsigned, annotated tags.
2827 * Updated documentation to use `cola.git` instead of `cola.gitcmd`.
2833 Usability, bells and whistles
2834 -----------------------------
2835 * Allow un/staging by right-clicking top-level items
2837 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/57
2839 * Running 'commit' with no staged changes prompts to allow
2842 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/55
2844 * Fetch, Push, and Pull are now available via the menus
2846 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/58
2850 * Simplified the actions widget to work around a regression
2853 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62
2859 Usability, bells and whistles
2860 -----------------------------
2861 * `git dag` interaction was made faster.
2865 * Added '...' indicators to the buttons for
2866 'Fetch...', 'Push...', 'Pull...', and 'Stash...'.
2868 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/51
2870 * Fixed a hang-on-exit bug in the cola-provided
2871 'ssh-askpass' implementation.
2877 Usability, bells and whistles
2878 -----------------------------
2879 * Staging and unstaging is faster.
2881 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/48
2883 * `git dag` reads history in a background thread.
2887 * Added :data:`cola.compat.hashlib` for `Python 2.4` compatibility
2888 * Improved `PyQt 4.1.x` compatibility.
2892 * Configured menu actions use ``sh -c`` for Windows portability.
2899 Usability, bells and whistles
2900 -----------------------------
2901 * Added support for the configurable ``guitool.<tool>.*``
2902 actions as described in ``git-config(1)``.
2904 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/44
2906 http://schacon.github.com/git/git-config.html
2908 This makes it possible to add new actions to `git cola`
2909 by simply editing ``~/.gitconfig``. This implements the
2910 same guitool support as `git gui`.
2911 * Introduced a stat cache to speed up `git config` and
2912 repository status checks.
2913 * Added Alt-key shortcuts to the main `git cola` interface.
2914 * The `Actions` dock widget switches between a horizontal
2915 and vertical layout when resized.
2916 * We now use ``git diff --submodule`` for submodules
2917 (used when git >= 1.6.6).
2918 * The context menu for modified submodules includes an option
2919 to launch `git cola`.
2921 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/17
2923 * Prefer ``$VISUAL`` over ``$EDITOR`` when both are defined.
2924 These are used to set a default editor in lieu of `core.editor`
2926 * Force the editor to be ``gvim`` when we see ``vim``.
2927 This prevents us from launching an editor in the (typically
2928 unattached) parent terminal and creating zombie editors
2929 that cannot be easily killed.
2930 * Selections are remembered and restored across updates.
2931 This makes the `partial-staging` workflow easier since the
2932 diff view will show the updated diff after staging.
2933 * Show the path to the current repository in a tooltip
2934 over the commit message editor.
2936 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/45
2938 * Log internal ``git`` commands when ``GIT_COLA_TRACE`` is defined.
2940 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/39
2944 * Improved backwards compatibility for Python 2.4.
2945 * `Review mode` can now review the current branch; it no longer
2946 requires you to checkout the branch into which the reviewed
2947 branch will be merged.
2948 * Guard against `color.ui = always` configuration when using
2949 `git log` by passing ``--no-color``.
2950 * ``yes`` and ``no`` are now supported as valid booleans
2951 by the `git config` parser.
2952 * Better defaults are used for `fetch`, `push`, and `pull`..
2954 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/43
2958 * Removed colon (`:`) from the applilcation name on Windows
2960 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/41
2962 * Fixed bugs with the Windows installer
2964 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/40
2966 * Added a more standard i18n infrastructure. The install
2967 tree now has the common ``share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/git-cola.mo``
2968 layout in use by several projects.
2970 * Started trying to accommodate Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
2971 in the ``darwin/`` build scripts but our tester is yet to
2972 report success building a `.app` bundle.
2974 * Replaced use of ``perl`` in Sphinx/documentation Makefile
2975 with more-portable ``sed`` constructs. Thanks to
2976 Stefan Naewe for discovering the portability issues and
2977 providing msysgit-friendly patches.
2983 Usability, bells and whistles
2984 -----------------------------
2985 * It is now possible to checkout from the index as well
2986 as from `HEAD`. This corresponds to the
2987 `Removed Unstaged Changes` action in the `Repository Status` tool.
2988 * The `remote` dialogs (fetch, push, pull) are now slightly
2990 * Bookmarks can be selected when `git cola` is run outside of a git repository.
2991 * Added more user documentation. We now include many links to
2992 external git resources.
2993 * Added `git dag` to the available tools.
2994 `git dag` is a node-based DAG history browser.
2995 It doesn't do much yet, but it's been merged so that we can start
2996 building and improving upon it.
3000 * Fixed a missing ``import`` when showing `right-click` actions
3001 for unmerged files in the `Repository Status` tool.
3002 * ``git update-index --refresh`` is no longer run every time
3003 ``git cola version`` is run.
3004 * 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.
3015 * The build scripts no longer require a ``.git`` directory to
3016 generate the ``builtin_version.py`` module. The release tarballs
3017 now include a ``version`` file at the root of the project which
3018 is used in lieu of having the git repository available.
3019 This allows for ``make clean && make`` to function outside of
3021 * Added maintainer's ``make dist`` target to the ``Makefile``.
3022 * The built-in `simplejson` and `jsonpickle` libraries can be
3023 excluded from ``make install`` by specifying the ``standalone=true``
3024 `make` variable. For example, ``make standalone=true install``.
3025 This corresponds to the ``--standalone`` option to ``setup.py``.
3032 Usability, bells and whistles
3033 -----------------------------
3034 * We now use patience diff by default when it is available via
3035 `git diff --patience`.
3036 * Allow closing the `cola classic` tool with `Ctrl+W`.
3040 * Fixed an unbound variable error in the `push` dialog.
3044 * Don't include `simplejson` in MANIFEST.in.
3045 * Update desktop entry to read `Cola Git GUI`.
3052 This feature release adds two new features directly from
3053 `git cola`'s github issues backlog. On the developer
3054 front, further work was done towards modularizing the code base.
3056 Usability, bells and whistles
3057 -----------------------------
3058 * Dragging and dropping patches invokes `git am`
3060 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/3
3062 * A dialog to allow opening or cloning a repository
3063 is presented when `git cola` is launched outside of a git repository.
3065 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/22
3067 * Warn when `push` is used to create a new branch
3069 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/35
3071 * Optimized startup time by removing several calls to `git`.
3076 * `git cola` is once again compatible with PyQt 4.3.x.
3080 * `cola.gitcmds` was added to factor out git command-line utilities
3081 * `cola.gitcfg` was added for interacting with `git config`
3082 * `cola.models.browser` was added to factor out repobrowser data
3092 * Fix launching external applications on Windows
3093 * Ensure that the `amend` checkbox is unchecked when switching modes
3094 * Update the status tree when amending commits
3103 * Fix Lintian warnings
3112 * Fix X11 warnings on application startup
3121 * Added missing 'Exit Diff Mode' button for 'Diff Expression' mode
3123 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/31
3125 * Fix a bug when initializing fonts on Windows
3127 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/32
3136 * Keep entries in sorted order in the `cola classic` tool
3137 * Fix staging untracked files
3139 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/27
3141 * Fix the `show` command in the Stash dialog
3143 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/29
3145 * Fix a typo when loading merge commit messages
3147 https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/30
3154 This release focuses on a redesign of the git-cola user interface,
3155 a tags interface, and better integration of the `cola classic` tool.
3156 A flexible interface based on configurable docks is used to manage the
3157 various cola widgets.
3159 Usability, bells and whistles
3160 -----------------------------
3161 * New GUI is flexible and user-configurable
3162 * Individual widgets can be detached and rearranged arbitrarily
3163 * Add an interface for creating tags
3164 * Provide a fallback `SSH_ASKPASS` implementation to prompt for
3165 SSH passwords on fetch/push/pull
3166 * The commit message editor displays the current row/column and
3167 warns when lines get too long
3168 * The `cola classic` tool displays upstream changes
3169 * `git cola --classic` launches `cola classic` in standalone mode
3170 * Provide more information in log messages
3174 * Inherit the window manager's font settings
3175 * Miscellaneous PyQt4 bug fixes and workarounds
3179 * Removed all usage of Qt Designer `.ui` files
3180 * Simpler model/view architecture
3181 * Selection is now shared across tools
3182 * Centralized notifications are used to keep views in sync
3183 * The `cola.git` command class was made thread-safe
3184 * Less coupling between model and view actions
3185 * The status view was rewritten to use the MVC architecture
3186 * Added more documentation and tests
3193 Usability, bells and whistles
3194 -----------------------------
3195 * Added a `cola classic` tool for browsing the entire repository
3196 * Handle diff expressions with spaces
3197 * Handle renamed files
3201 * Handle carat `^` characters in diff expressions on Windows
3202 * Worked around a PyQt 4.5/4.6 QThreadPool bug
3206 * Added a keyboard shortcuts reference page
3207 * Added developer API documentation
3211 * Fix the diff expression used when reviewing branches
3212 * Fix a bug when pushing branches
3213 * Fix X11 warnings at startup
3214 * Fix more interrupted system calls on Mac OS X
3221 Usability, bells and whistles
3222 -----------------------------
3223 * Fresh and tasty SVG logos
3224 * Added `Branch Review` mode for reviewing topic branches
3225 * Added diff modes for diffing between tags, branches,
3226 or arbitrary `git diff` expressions
3227 * The push dialog selects the current branch by default.
3228 This is in preparation for `git 1.7.0` where unconfigured `git push`
3229 will refuse to push when run without specifying the remote name
3230 and branch. See the `git` release notes for more information
3231 * Support `open` and `clone` commands on Windows
3232 * Allow saving cola UI layouts
3233 * Re-enabled `double-click-to-stage` for unmerged entries.
3234 Disabling it for unmerged items was inconsistent, though safer.
3235 * Show diffs when navigating the status tree with the keyboard
3239 * Worked around `pyuic4` bugs in the `setup.py` build script
3240 * Added Mac OSX application bundles to the download page
3249 * `git difftool` became an official git command in `git 1.6.3`.
3250 * `git difftool` learned `--no-prompt` / `-y` and a corresponding
3251 `difftool.prompt` configuration variable
3253 Usability, bells and whistles
3254 -----------------------------
3255 * Warn when `non-fast-forward` is used with fetch, push or pull
3256 * Allow `Ctrl+C` to exit cola when run from the command line
3260 * Support Unicode font names
3261 * Handle interrupted system calls
3265 * `PEP-8`-ified more of the cola code base
3270 * All resources are now installed into `$prefix/share/git-cola`.
3271 Closed Debian bug #519972
3273 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519972
3282 * Added support for Kompare in `git difftool`
3283 * Added a separate configuration namespace for `git difftool`
3284 * Added the `diff.tool` configuration variable to define the default diff tool
3286 Usability, bells and whistles
3287 -----------------------------
3288 * The stash dialog allows passing the `--keep-index` option to `git stash`
3289 * Amending a published commit warns at commit time
3290 * Simplified the file-across-revisions comparison dialog
3291 * `origin` is selected by default in fetch/push/pull
3292 * Removed the search field from the log widget
3293 * The log window moved into a drawer widget at the bottom of the UI
3294 * Log window display can be configured with
3295 `cola.showoutput` = `{never, always, errors}`. `errors` is the default.
3296 * `NOTE` -- `cola.showoutput` was removed with the GUI rewrite in 1.4.0.
3300 * Improved nose unittest usage
3304 * Added a Windows/msysGit installer
3305 * Included private versions of `simplejson` and `jsonpickle`
3306 for ease of installation and development