git-cola v1.7.6
Usability, bells and whistles
- git dag learned to color-code branchy edges.
The edge colors change when a new branch is detected,
which makes the history much easier to follow.
A huge thanks to Uri Okrent for making it happen.
- New GUI for editing remote repositories.
- New git cola archive and git cola remote sub-commands.
- git cola browser learned an ‘Untrack’ command.
- The diff editor learned to staged/unstaged while amending.
- The status tool can now scroll horizontally.
- New git repositories can be created by clicking ‘New’ on the
git cola –prompt startup screen.
git-cola v1.7.5
Usability, bells and whistles
- Auto-completion was added to more tools.
- git dag is easier to use on smaller displays – the author
field elides its text which allows for a more compact display.
- Selected commits in git dag were made more prominent and
easier to see.
- ‘Create Branch’ learned to fetch remote branches and uses a
background thread to do so.
- User-configured GUI tools are listed alphabetically in the ‘Actions’ menu.
- The ‘Pull’ dialog remembers the value of the ‘Rebase’ checkbox
between invocations.
git-cola v1.7.4.1
Fixes
- Detect Homebrew so that OS X users do not need to set PYTHONPATH.
- git dag can export patches again.
git-cola v1.7.4
Usability, bells and whistles
- The ‘Classic’ tool was renamed to ‘Browser’ and learned to
limit history to the current branch.
- git dag learned about gravatar and uses it to show images
for commit authors.
- git dag learned to use OpenGL for rendering resulting in
much faster rendering.
- More dialogs learned vim-style keyboard shortcuts.
- The commit message editor learned better arrow key navigation.
git-cola v1.7.3
Usability, bells and whistles
- git cola learned a few new sub commands:
git cola dag
git cola branch
git cola search
- Return in the summary field jumps to the extended description.
- Ctrl+Return is now a shortcut for ‘Commit’.
- Better French translation for ‘Sign-off’.
- The ‘Search’ widget now has a much simpler and streamlined
user interface.
- vim-style h,j,k,l navigation shortcuts were added to the DAG widget.
- git dag no longer prompts for files when diffing commits if the
text field contains paths.
- General user interface and performance improvements.
Fixes
- The diff viewer no longer changes font size when holding Control
while scrolling with the mouse wheel.
- Files with a typechange (e.g. symlinks that become files, etc.)
are now correctly identified as being modified.
Packaging
- The cola.controllers and cola.views packages were removed.
git-cola v1.7.2
Usability, bells and whistles
- git cola can now launch sub commands, e.g.:
git cola classic
git cola stash
git cola fetch
git cola push
git cola pull
git cola tag
- git dag is more responsive when gathering auto-completions.
- Keyboard shortcuts are displayed when the ‘?’ key is pressed.
- Various keyboard shortcuts were added for improved usability.
- The status widget now lists unmerged files before modified files.
- vim-style h,j,k,l navigation shortcuts were added to the status widget.
- A ‘Recently Modified Files...’ tool was added.
- Tools can now be hidden with Alt + # (where # is a keyboard number)
and focused with Shift + Alt + #.
- The syntax highlighting colors for diffs was made less intrusive.
- The commit message editor was redesigned to have a more compact
and keyboard-convenient user interface.
- Keyboard shortcuts for adding a Signed-off-by (Ctrl + i)
and creating a commit (Ctrl + m) were added.
- The status widget was adjusted to use less screen real-estate.
Packaging
- Create git-dag.pyw in the win32 installer.
- win32 shortcuts now contain explicit calls to pythonw.exe instead of
calling the .pyw file directly.
Deprecated Features
- The ‘Apply Changes from Branch...’ feature was removed.
git dag‘s ‘Grab File...’ feature used alongside the index/worktree editor
is a simpler alternative.
git-cola v1.7.1.1
Packaging
The cola-$version tarballs on github were originally setup to
have the same contents as the old tarballs hosted on tuxfamily.
The make dist target was changed to write files to a
git-cola-$version subdirectory and tarball.
This makes the filenames consistent for the source tarball,
the darwin .app tarball, and the win32 .exe installer.
git-cola v1.7.1
Usability, bells and whistles
Fixes
- Boolean git config settings with no value are now supported
(these are not created by git these days but exist in legacy repositories).
- Unicode branches and tags are supported in the “branch diff” tool.
- Guard against low-memory conditions and more interrupted system calls.
Packaging
- Added desktop launchers for git-cola.desktop and git-dag.desktop.
This replaces the old cola.desktop, so some adjustments to RPM .spec
and debian/ files will be needed.
- Fixed the darwin app-tarball Makefile target to create relative paths.
Cleanup
- The –style option was removed. git cola follows the system theme
so there’s no need for this option these days.
git-cola v1.7.0
Usability, bells and whistles
Packaging
- Bumped version number to ceil(minimum git version).
git cola now requires git >= 1.6.3.
- Simplified git-cola’s versioning when building from tarballs
outside of git. We no longer check for a ‘version’ file at
the root of the repository. We instead keep a default version
in cola/version.py and use it when git cola‘s .git repository
is not available.
git-cola v1.4.3.5
Usability, bells and whistles
- inotify is much snappier and available on Windows
thanks to Karl Bielefeldt.
- New right-click command to add untracked files to .gitignore
thanks to Audrius Karabanovas.
- Stash, fetch, push, and pull usability improvements
- General usability improvements
- stderr is logged when applying partial diffs.
git-cola v1.4.3.4
Usability, bells and whistles
git-cola v1.4.3.3
Usability, bells and whistles
- The git cola desktop launchers now prompt for a repo
by default. This is done by using the new –prompt
flag which tells git cola to ignore any git repositories
in the current directory and prompt for one instead.
Fixes
- More Unicode fixes for repositories and home directories with
embedded unicode characters. Thanks to Christian Jann for
patience and helpful bug reports.
- Fix the ‘Clone’ button in the startup dialog.
git-cola v1.4.3.2
Usability, bells and whistles
- Faster startup time! git cola now offloads initialization
to a background thread so that the GUI appears almost instantly.
- Specialized diff options for p4merge, vimdiff, araxis, emerge,
and ecmerge in difftool (backported from git.git).
git-cola v1.4.3.1
Usability, bells and whistles
The cola classic tool can be now configured to be dockable.
http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/56
The cola classic tool now uses visual sigils to indicate a file’s status.
The idea and icons were provided by Uri Okrent.
Include the ‘Rescan’ button in the ‘Actions’ widget regardless
of whether inotify is installed.
Packaging
- Fix installation of translations per Fedora
This incorporates Fedora’s fix for the translations path
which originally appeared in cola-1.4.3-translations.patch.
- Mac OS X git-cola developers can now generate git-cola.app
application bundles using ‘make app-bundle’.
git-cola v1.4.3
Usability, bells and whistles
- git dag now has a separate display area
for displaying commit metadata. This area will soon
grow additional functionality such as cherry-picking,
branching, etc.
Fixes
Fixed tests from a previous refactoring.
Guard against ‘diff.external’ configuration by always
calling ‘git diff’ with the ‘–no-ext-diff’ option.
http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/67
Respect ‘gui.diffcontext’ so that cola’s diff display
shows the correct number of context lines.
Raise the GUI so that it is in the foreground on OS X.
Packaging
We now allow distutils to rewrite cola’s shebang line.
This allows us to run on systems where “which python”
is Python3k. This is exposed by setting the PYTHON
Makefile variable to the location of python2.x.
git-cola.app is now a tiny download because it no longer
contains Qt and PyQt. These libraries are provided as a
separate download.
http://code.google.com/p/git-cola/downloads/list
git-cola v1.4.2.5
Usability, bells and whistles
- Clicking on paths in the status widget copies them into the
copy/paste buffer for easy middle-clicking into terminals.
- Ctrl+C in diff viewer copies the selected diff to the clipboard.
Packaging
- Removed hard-coded reference to lib/ when calculating Python’s
site-packages directory.
git-cola v1.4.2.4
Usability, bells and whistles
- Removed “single-click to (un)stage” in the status view.
This is a usability improvement since we no longer perform
different actions depending on where a row is clicked.
- Added ability to create unsigned, annotated tags.
Fixes
- Updated documentation to use cola.git instead of cola.gitcmd.
git-cola v1.4.2.3
Usability, bells and whistles
git-cola v1.4.2.2
Usability, bells and whistles
- git dag interaction was made faster.
git-cola v1.4.2.1
Usability, bells and whistles
Portability
- Added cola.compat.hashlib for Python 2.4 compatibility
- Improved PyQt 4.1.x compatibility.
Fixes
- Configured menu actions use sh -c for Windows portability.
git-cola v1.4.2
Usability, bells and whistles
Added support for the configurable guitool.<tool>.*
actions as described in git-config(1).
http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/44
http://schacon.github.com/git/git-config.html
This makes it possible to add new actions to git cola
by simply editing ~/.gitconfig. This implements the
same guitool support as git gui.
Introduced a stat cache to speed up git config and
repository status checks.
Added Alt-key shortcuts to the main git cola interface.
The Actions dock widget switches between a horizontal
and vertical layout when resized.
We now use git diff --submodule for submodules
(used when git >= 1.6.6).
The context menu for modified submodules includes an option
to launch git cola.
http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/17
Prefer $VISUAL over $EDITOR when both are defined.
These are used to set a default editor in lieu of core.editor
configuration.
Force the editor to be gvim when we see vim.
This prevents us from launching an editor in the (typically
unattached) parent terminal and creating zombie editors
that cannot be easily killed.
Selections are remembered and restored across updates.
This makes the partial-staging workflow easier since the
diff view will show the updated diff after staging.
Show the path to the current repository in a tooltip
over the commit message editor.
http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/45
Log internal git commands when GIT_COLA_TRACE is defined.
http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/39
Fixes
Improved backwards compatibility for Python 2.4.
Review mode can now review the current branch; it no longer
requires you to checkout the branch into which the reviewed
branch will be merged.
Guard against color.ui = always configuration when using
git log by passing --no-color.
yes and no are now supported as valid booleans
by the git config parser.
Better defaults are used for fetch, push, and pull..
http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/43
Packaging
Removed colon (:) from the applilcation name on Windows
http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/41
Fixed bugs with the Windows installer
http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/40
Added a more standard i18n infrastructure. The install
tree now has the common share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/git-cola.mo
layout in use by several projects.
Started trying to accomodate Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
in the darwin/ build scripts but our tester is yet to
report success building a .app bundle.
Replaced use of perl in Sphinx/documentation Makefile
with more-portable sed constructs. Thanks to
Stefan Naewe for discovering the portability issues and
providing msysgit-friendly patches.
git-cola v1.4.1.2
Usability, bells and whistles
- It is now possible to checkout from the index as well
as from HEAD. This corresponds to the
Removed Unstaged Changes action in the Repository Status tool.
- The remote dialogs (fetch, push, pull) are now slightly
larger by default.
- Bookmarks can be selected when git cola is run outside of a git repository.
- Added more user documentation. We now include many links to
external git resources.
- Added git dag to the available tools.
git dag is a node-based DAG history browser.
It doesn’t do much yet, but it’s been merged so that we can start
building and improving upon it.
Fixes
- Fixed a missing import when showing right-click actions
for unmerged files in the Repository Status tool.
- git update-index --refresh is no longer run everytime
git cola version is run.
- Don’t try to watch non-existant directories when using inotify.
- Use git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name plumbing to find
the name of the current branch.
Packaging
- The Makefile will now conditionally include a config.mak
file located at the root of the project. This allows for user
customizations such as changes to the prefix variable
to be stored in a file so that custom settings do not need to
be specified every time on the command-line.
- The build scripts no longer require a .git directory to
generate the builtin_version.py module. The release tarballs
now include a version file at the root of the project which
is used in lieu of having the git repository available.
This allows for make clean && make to function outside of
a git repository.
- Added maintainer’s make dist target to the Makefile.
- The built-in simplejson and jsonpickle libraries can be
excluded from make install by specifying the standalone=true
make variable. For example, make standalone=true install.
This corresponds to the --standalone option to setup.py.
git-cola v1.4.1.1
Usability, bells and whistles
- We now use patience diff by default when it is available via
git diff –patience.
- Allow closing the cola classic tool with Ctrl+W.
Fixes
- Fixed an unbound variable error in the push dialog.
Packaging
- Don’t include simplejson in MANIFEST.in.
- Update desktop entry to read Cola Git GUI.
git-cola v1.4.1
This feature release adds two new features directly from
git cola‘s github issues backlog. On the developer
front, further work was done towards modularizing the code base.
Usability, bells and whistles
Portability
- git cola is once again compatible with PyQt 4.3.x.
Developer
- cola.gitcmds was added to factor out git command-line utilities
- cola.gitcfg was added for interacting with git config
- cola.models.browser was added to factor out repobrowser data
- Added more tests
git-cola v1.4.0.5
Fixes
- Fix launching external applications on Windows
- Ensure that the amend checkbox is unchecked when switching modes
- Update the status tree when amending commits
git-cola v1.4.0.3
Fixes
- Fix X11 warnings on application startup
git-cola v1.4.0
This release focuses on a redesign of the git-cola user interface,
a tags interface, and better integration of the cola classic tool.
A flexible interface based on configurable docks is used to manage the
various cola widgets.
Usability, bells and whistles
- New GUI is flexible and user-configurable
- Individual widgets can be detached and rearranged arbitrarily
- Add an interface for creating tags
- Provide a fallback SSH_ASKPASS implementation to prompt for
SSH passwords on fetch/push/pull
- The commit message editor displays the current row/column and
warns when lines get too long
- The cola classic tool displays upstream changes
- git cola –classic launches cola classic in standalone mode
- Provide more information in log messages
Fixes
- Inherit the window manager’s font settings
- Miscellaneous PyQt4 bug fixes and workarounds
Developer
- Removed all usage of Qt Designer .ui files
- Simpler model/view architecture
- Selection is now shared across tools
- Centralized notifications are used to keep views in sync
- The cola.git command class was made thread-safe
- Less coupling between model and view actions
- The status view was rewritten to use the MVC architecture
- Added more documentation and tests
git-cola v1.3.9
Usability, bells and whistles
- Added a cola classic tool for browsing the entire repository
- Handle diff expressions with spaces
- Handle renamed files
Portability
- Handle carat ^ characters in diff expressions on Windows
- Worked around a PyQt 4.5/4.6 QThreadPool bug
Documentation
- Added a keyboard shortcuts reference page
- Added developer API documentation
Fixes
- Fix the diff expression used when reviewing branches
- Fix a bug when pushing branches
- Fix X11 warnings at startup
- Fix more interrupted system calls on Mac OS X
git-cola v1.3.8
Usability, bells and whistles
- Fresh and tasty SVG logos
- Added Branch Review mode for reviewing topic branches
- Added diff modes for diffing between tags, branches,
or arbitrary git diff expressions
- The push dialog selects the current branch by default.
This is in preparation for git 1.7.0 where unconfigured git push
will refuse to push when run without specifying the remote name
and branch. See the git release notes for more information
- Support open and clone commands on Windows
- Allow saving cola UI layouts
- Re-enabled double-click-to-stage for unmerged entries.
Disabling it for unmerged items was inconsistent, though safer.
- Show diffs when navigating the status tree with the keyboard
Packaging
- Worked around pyuic4 bugs in the setup.py build script
- Added Mac OSX application bundles to the download page
git-cola v1.3.7
Subsystems
- git difftool became an official git command in git 1.6.3.
- git difftool learned –no-prompt / -y and a corresponding
difftool.prompt configuration variable
Usability, bells and whistles
- Warn when non-fast-forward is used with fetch, push or pull
- Allow Ctrl+C to exit cola when run from the command line
Fixes
- Support Unicode font names
- Handle interrupted system calls
Developer
- PEP-8-ified more of the cola code base
- Added more tests
git-cola v1.3.6
Subsystems
- Added support for Kompare in git difftool
- Added a separate configuration namespace for git difftool
- Added the diff.tool configuration variable to define the default diff tool
Usability, bells and whistles
- The stash dialog allows passing the –keep-index option to git stash
- Amending a published commit warns at commit time
- Simplified the file-across-revisions comparison dialog
- origin is selected by default in fetch/push/pull
- Removed the search field from the log widget
- The log window moved into a drawer widget at the bottom of the UI
- Log window display can be configured with
cola.showoutput = {never, always, errors}. errors is the default.
- NOTE – cola.showoutput was removed with the GUI rewrite in 1.4.0.
Developer
- Improved nose unittest usage
Packaging
- Added a Windows/msysGit installer
- Included private versions of simplejson and jsonpickle
for ease of installation and development