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<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-7-7">
<h1>git-cola v1.7.7<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-7-7" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="usability-bells-and-whistles">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#usability-bells-and-whistles" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>New and improved <cite>grep</cite> mode lets you instantly find and edit files.</li>
<li>New <cite>git cola grep</cite> standalone mode.</li>
<li>Support for passing arguments to the configured editors, e.g. <cite>gvim -p</cite>
This makes it possible to select multiple files in the status
window and use <cite>Ctrl-e</cite> to edit them all at once.</li>
<li>Remote operations now prompt on errors only.</li>
<li>The <cite>Tab</cite> key now jumps to the extended description when editing the summary.</li>
<li>More shortcut key labels and misc. UX improvements.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="fixes">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#fixes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Selecting an item no longer copies its filename to the copy/paste buffer.
<cite>Ctrl-c</cite> or the “Copy” context-menu action can be used instead.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">The repository monitoring feature on Windows learned to ignore
changes within the ”.git” directory. Thanks to Andreas Sommer.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/120">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/120</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-7-6">
<h1>git-cola v1.7.6<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-7-6" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id1">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><cite>git dag</cite> 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.</li>
<li>New GUI for editing remote repositories.</li>
<li>New <cite>git cola archive</cite> and <cite>git cola remote</cite> sub-commands.</li>
<li><cite>git cola browser</cite> learned an ‘Untrack’ command.</li>
<li>The diff editor learned to staged/unstaged while amending.</li>
<li>The status tool can now scroll horizontally.</li>
<li>New git repositories can be created by clicking ‘New’ on the
<cite>git cola –prompt</cite> startup screen.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-7-5">
<h1>git-cola v1.7.5<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-7-5" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id2">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id2" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Auto-completion was added to more tools.</li>
<li><cite>git dag</cite> is easier to use on smaller displays – the author
field elides its text which allows for a more compact display.</li>
<li>Selected commits in <cite>git dag</cite> were made more prominent and
easier to see.</li>
<li>‘Create Branch’ learned to fetch remote branches and uses a
background thread to do so.</li>
<li>User-configured GUI tools are listed alphabetically in the ‘Actions’ menu.</li>
<li>The ‘Pull’ dialog remembers the value of the ‘Rebase’ checkbox
between invocations.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-7-4-1">
<h1>git-cola v1.7.4.1<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-7-4-1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id3">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id3" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Detect Homebrew so that OS X users do not need to set PYTHONPATH.</li>
<li><cite>git dag</cite> can export patches again.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-7-4">
<h1>git-cola v1.7.4<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-7-4" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id4">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id4" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The ‘Classic’ tool was renamed to ‘Browser’ and learned to
limit history to the current branch.</li>
<li><cite>git dag</cite> learned about gravatar and uses it to show images
for commit authors.</li>
<li><cite>git dag</cite> learned to use OpenGL for rendering resulting in
much faster rendering.</li>
<li>More dialogs learned vim-style keyboard shortcuts.</li>
<li>The commit message editor learned better arrow key navigation.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-7-3">
<h1>git-cola v1.7.3<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-7-3" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id5">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id5" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><cite>git cola</cite> learned a few new sub commands:</li>
</ul>
<div class="highlight-sh"><div class="highlight"><pre>git cola dag
git cola branch
git cola search
</pre></div>
</div>
<ul class="simple">
<li><cite>Return</cite> in the summary field jumps to the extended description.</li>
<li><cite>Ctrl+Return</cite> is now a shortcut for ‘Commit’.</li>
<li>Better French translation for ‘Sign-off’.</li>
<li>The ‘Search’ widget now has a much simpler and streamlined
user interface.</li>
<li>vim-style <cite>h,j,k,l</cite> navigation shortcuts were added to the DAG widget.</li>
<li><cite>git dag</cite> no longer prompts for files when diffing commits if the
text field contains paths.</li>
<li>General user interface and performance improvements.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id6">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id6" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The diff viewer no longer changes font size when holding <cite>Control</cite>
while scrolling with the mouse wheel.</li>
<li>Files with a typechange (e.g. symlinks that become files, etc.)
are now correctly identified as being modified.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="packaging">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#packaging" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The <cite>cola.controllers</cite> and <cite>cola.views</cite> packages were removed.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-7-2">
<h1>git-cola v1.7.2<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-7-2" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id7">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id7" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><cite>git cola</cite> can now launch sub commands, e.g.:</li>
</ul>
<div class="highlight-sh"><div class="highlight"><pre>git cola classic
git cola stash
git cola fetch
git cola push
git cola pull
git cola tag
</pre></div>
</div>
<ul class="simple">
<li><cite>git dag</cite> is more responsive when gathering auto-completions.</li>
<li>Keyboard shortcuts are displayed when the ‘?’ key is pressed.</li>
<li>Various keyboard shortcuts were added for improved usability.</li>
<li>The status widget now lists unmerged files before modified files.</li>
<li>vim-style <cite>h,j,k,l</cite> navigation shortcuts were added to the status widget.</li>
<li>A ‘Recently Modified Files...’ tool was added.</li>
<li>Tools can now be hidden with <cite>Alt + #</cite> (where <cite>#</cite> is a keyboard number)
and focused with <cite>Shift + Alt + #</cite>.</li>
<li>The syntax highlighting colors for diffs was made less intrusive.</li>
<li>The commit message editor was redesigned to have a more compact
and keyboard-convenient user interface.</li>
<li>Keyboard shortcuts for adding a Signed-off-by (<cite>Ctrl + i</cite>)
and creating a commit (<cite>Ctrl + m</cite>) were added.</li>
<li>The status widget was adjusted to use less screen real-estate.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id8">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id8" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Avoid updating the index when responding to inotify events.
This avoids interfering with operations such as <cite>git rebase –interactive</cite>.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/99">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/99</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id9">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id9" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Create <cite>git-dag.pyw</cite> in the win32 installer.</li>
<li>win32 shortcuts now contain explicit calls to <cite>pythonw.exe</cite> instead of
calling the <cite>.pyw</cite> file directly.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="deprecated-features">
<h2>Deprecated Features<a class="headerlink" href="#deprecated-features" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The ‘Apply Changes from Branch...’ feature was removed.
<cite>git dag</cite>‘s ‘Grab File...’ feature used alongside the index/worktree editor
is a simpler alternative.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-7-1-1">
<h1>git-cola v1.7.1.1<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-7-1-1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id10">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id10" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Further enhanced the staging/unstaging behavior in the status widget.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/97">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/97</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Unmerged files are no longer listed as modified.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id11">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id11" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <cite>cola-$version</cite> tarballs on github were originally setup to
have the same contents as the old tarballs hosted on tuxfamily.
The <cite>make dist</cite> target was changed to write files to a
<cite>git-cola-$version</cite> subdirectory and tarball.</p>
<p>This makes the filenames consistent for the source tarball,
the darwin .app tarball, and the win32 .exe installer.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-7-1">
<h1>git-cola v1.7.1<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-7-1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id12">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id12" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Refined the staging/unstaging behavior for code reviews.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/97">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/97</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Added more styling and icons to menus and buttons.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Adjusted some terminology to more closely match the git CLI.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id13">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id13" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Boolean <cite>git config</cite> settings with no value are now supported
(these are not created by git these days but exist in legacy repositories).</li>
<li>Unicode branches and tags are supported in the “branch diff” tool.</li>
<li>Guard against low-memory conditions and more interrupted system calls.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id14">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id14" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>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.</li>
<li>Fixed the darwin app-tarball Makefile target to create relative paths.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="cleanup">
<h2>Cleanup<a class="headerlink" href="#cleanup" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The <cite>–style</cite> option was removed. <cite>git cola</cite> follows the system theme
so there’s no need for this option these days.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-7-0">
<h1>git-cola v1.7.0<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-7-0" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id15">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id15" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Export a patch series from <cite>git dag</cite> into a <cite>patches/</cite> directory.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><cite>git dag</cite> learned to diff commits, slice history along paths, etc.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Added instant-preview to the <cite>git stash</cite> widget.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">A simpler preferences editor is used to edit <cite>git config</cite> values.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/90">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/90</a></p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/89">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/89</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Previous commit messages can be re-loaded from the message editor.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/33">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/33</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id16">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id16" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Display commits with no file changes.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/82">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/82</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Improved the diff editor’s copy/paste behavior</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/90">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/90</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id17">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id17" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Bumped version number to ceil(minimum git version).
<cite>git cola</cite> now requires <cite>git</cite> >= 1.6.3.</li>
<li>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 <cite>cola/version.py</cite> and use it when <cite>git cola</cite>‘s <cite>.git</cite> repository
is not available.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-3-5">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.3.5<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-3-5" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id18">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id18" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>inotify is much snappier and available on Windows
thanks to Karl Bielefeldt.</li>
<li>New right-click command to add untracked files to .gitignore
thanks to Audrius Karabanovas.</li>
<li>Stash, fetch, push, and pull usability improvements</li>
<li>General usability improvements</li>
<li>stderr is logged when applying partial diffs.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id19">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id19" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Files can be unstaged when amending.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/82">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/82</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Show the configured remote.$remote.pushurl in the GUI</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/83">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/83</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Removed usage of the “user” module.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/86">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/86</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Avoids an extra <cite>git update-index</cite> call during startup.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-3-4">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.3.4<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-3-4" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id20">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id20" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">We now provide better feedback when <cite>git push</cite> fails.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/69">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/69</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">The Fetch, Push, and Pull dialogs now give better feedback
when interacting with remotes. The dialogs are modal and
a progress dialog is used.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id21">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id21" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">More unicode fixes, again. It is now possible to have
unicode branch names, repository paths, home directories, etc.
This continued the work initiated by Redhat’s bugzilla #694806.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-3-3">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.3.3<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-3-3" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id22">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id22" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The <cite>git cola</cite> desktop launchers now prompt for a repo
by default. This is done by using the new <cite>–prompt</cite>
flag which tells <cite>git cola</cite> to ignore any git repositories
in the current directory and prompt for one instead.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id23">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id23" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>More Unicode fixes for repositories and home directories with
embedded unicode characters. Thanks to Christian Jann for
patience and helpful bug reports.</li>
<li>Fix the ‘Clone’ button in the startup dialog.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-3-2">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.3.2<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-3-2" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id24">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id24" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Faster startup time! <cite>git cola</cite> now offloads initialization
to a background thread so that the GUI appears almost instantly.</li>
<li>Specialized diff options for p4merge, vimdiff, araxis, emerge,
and ecmerge in difftool (backported from git.git).</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id25">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id25" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Fix launching commands in the background on Windows
(e.g. when launching <cite>git difftool</cite>).</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Fix unicode errors when home or repository directories contain
unicode characters.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/74">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/74</a></p>
<p>Redhat’s bugzilla #694806</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-3-1">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.3.1<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-3-1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id26">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id26" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">The <cite>cola classic</cite> tool can be now configured to be dockable.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/56">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/56</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">The <cite>cola classic</cite> tool now uses visual sigils to indicate a file’s status.
The idea and icons were provided by Uri Okrent.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Include the ‘Rescan’ button in the ‘Actions’ widget regardless
of whether inotify is installed.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id27">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id27" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>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.</li>
<li>Mac OS X git-cola developers can now generate git-cola.app
application bundles using ‘make app-bundle’.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id28">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id28" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Fixed a stacktrace when trying to use “Get Commit Message Template”
with an unconfigured “commit.template” git config variable.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/72">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/72</a></p>
<p>This bug originated in Redhat’s bugzilla #675721 via a Fedora user.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675721">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675721</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Properly raise the main window on Mac OS X.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Properly handle staging a huge numbers of files at once.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Speed up ‘git config’ usage by fixing cola’s caching proxy.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Guard against damaged ~/.cola files.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-3">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.3<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-3" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id29">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id29" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><cite>git dag</cite> now has a separate display area
for displaying commit metadata. This area will soon
grow additional functionality such as cherry-picking,
branching, etc.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id30">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id30" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Fixed tests from a previous refactoring.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Guard against ‘diff.external’ configuration by always
calling ‘git diff’ with the ‘–no-ext-diff’ option.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/67">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/67</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Respect ‘gui.diffcontext’ so that cola’s diff display
shows the correct number of context lines.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Raise the GUI so that it is in the foreground on OS X.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id31">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id31" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">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 <cite>PYTHON</cite>
Makefile variable to the location of python2.x.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">git-cola.app is now a tiny download because it no longer
contains Qt and PyQt. These libraries are provided as a
separate download.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/git-cola/downloads/list">http://code.google.com/p/git-cola/downloads/list</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-2-5">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.2.5<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-2-5" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id32">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id32" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Clicking on paths in the status widget copies them into the
copy/paste buffer for easy middle-clicking into terminals.</li>
<li><cite>Ctrl+C</cite> in diff viewer copies the selected diff to the clipboard.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id33">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id33" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Fixed the disappearing actions buttons on PyQt 4.7.4
as reported by Arch and Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/62">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/62</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Fixed mouse interaction with the status widget where some
items could not be de-selected.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id34">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id34" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Removed hard-coded reference to lib/ when calculating Python’s
site-packages directory.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-2-4">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.2.4<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-2-4" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id35">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id35" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>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.</li>
<li>Added ability to create unsigned, annotated tags.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id36">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id36" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Updated documentation to use <cite>cola.git</cite> instead of <cite>cola.gitcmd</cite>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-2-3">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.2.3<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-2-3" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id37">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id37" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Allow un/staging by right-clicking top-level items</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/57">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/57</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Running ‘commit’ with no staged changes prompts to allow
staging all files.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/55">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/55</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Fetch, Push, and Pull are now available via the menus</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/58">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/58</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id38">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id38" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Simplified the actions widget to work around a regression
in PyQt4 4.7.4.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/62">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/62</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-2-2">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.2.2<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-2-2" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id39">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id39" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><cite>git dag</cite> interaction was made faster.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id40">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id40" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Added ‘...’ indicators to the buttons for
‘Fetch...’, ‘Push...’, ‘Pull...’, and ‘Stash...’.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/51">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/51</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Fixed a hang-on-exit bug in the cola-provided
‘ssh-askpass’ implementation.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-2-1">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.2.1<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-2-1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id41">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id41" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Staging and unstaging is faster.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/48">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/48</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><cite>git dag</cite> reads history in a background thread.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="portability">
<h2>Portability<a class="headerlink" href="#portability" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Added <tt class="xref py py-data docutils literal"><span class="pre">cola.compat.hashlib</span></tt> for <cite>Python 2.4</cite> compatibility</li>
<li>Improved <cite>PyQt 4.1.x</cite> compatibility.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id42">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id42" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Configured menu actions use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sh</span> <span class="pre">-c</span></tt> for Windows portability.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-2">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.2<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-2" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id43">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id43" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Added support for the configurable <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">guitool.<tool>.*</span></tt>
actions as described in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">git-config(1)</span></tt>.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/44">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/44</a></p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://schacon.github.com/git/git-config.html">http://schacon.github.com/git/git-config.html</a></p>
<p>This makes it possible to add new actions to <cite>git cola</cite>
by simply editing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.gitconfig</span></tt>. This implements the
same guitool support as <cite>git gui</cite>.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Introduced a stat cache to speed up <cite>git config</cite> and
repository status checks.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Added Alt-key shortcuts to the main <cite>git cola</cite> interface.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">The <cite>Actions</cite> dock widget switches between a horizontal
and vertical layout when resized.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">We now use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">git</span> <span class="pre">diff</span> <span class="pre">--submodule</span></tt> for submodules
(used when git >= 1.6.6).</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">The context menu for modified submodules includes an option
to launch <cite>git cola</cite>.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/17">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/17</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Prefer <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$VISUAL</span></tt> over <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$EDITOR</span></tt> when both are defined.
These are used to set a default editor in lieu of <cite>core.editor</cite>
configuration.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Force the editor to be <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gvim</span></tt> when we see <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">vim</span></tt>.
This prevents us from launching an editor in the (typically
unattached) parent terminal and creating zombie editors
that cannot be easily killed.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Selections are remembered and restored across updates.
This makes the <cite>partial-staging</cite> workflow easier since the
diff view will show the updated diff after staging.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Show the path to the current repository in a tooltip
over the commit message editor.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/45">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/45</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Log internal <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">git</span></tt> commands when <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GIT_COLA_TRACE</span></tt> is defined.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/39">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/39</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id44">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id44" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Improved backwards compatibility for Python 2.4.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><cite>Review mode</cite> can now review the current branch; it no longer
requires you to checkout the branch into which the reviewed
branch will be merged.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Guard against <cite>color.ui = always</cite> configuration when using
<cite>git log</cite> by passing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--no-color</span></tt>.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yes</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">no</span></tt> are now supported as valid booleans
by the <cite>git config</cite> parser.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Better defaults are used for <cite>fetch</cite>, <cite>push</cite>, and <cite>pull</cite>..</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/43">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/43</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id45">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id45" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Removed colon (<cite>:</cite>) from the applilcation name on Windows</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/41">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/41</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Fixed bugs with the Windows installer</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/40">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/40</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Added a more standard i18n infrastructure. The install
tree now has the common <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/git-cola.mo</span></tt>
layout in use by several projects.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Started trying to accomodate Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">darwin/</span></tt> build scripts but our tester is yet to
report success building a <cite>.app</cite> bundle.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Replaced use of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">perl</span></tt> in Sphinx/documentation Makefile
with more-portable <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sed</span></tt> constructs. Thanks to
Stefan Naewe for discovering the portability issues and
providing msysgit-friendly patches.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-1-2">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.1.2<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-1-2" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id46">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id46" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>It is now possible to checkout from the index as well
as from <cite>HEAD</cite>. This corresponds to the
<cite>Removed Unstaged Changes</cite> action in the <cite>Repository Status</cite> tool.</li>
<li>The <cite>remote</cite> dialogs (fetch, push, pull) are now slightly
larger by default.</li>
<li>Bookmarks can be selected when <cite>git cola</cite> is run outside of a git repository.</li>
<li>Added more user documentation. We now include many links to
external git resources.</li>
<li>Added <cite>git dag</cite> to the available tools.
<cite>git dag</cite> 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.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id47">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id47" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fixed a missing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">import</span></tt> when showing <cite>right-click</cite> actions
for unmerged files in the <cite>Repository Status</cite> tool.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">git</span> <span class="pre">update-index</span> <span class="pre">--refresh</span></tt> is no longer run everytime
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">git</span> <span class="pre">cola</span> <span class="pre">version</span></tt> is run.</li>
<li>Don’t try to watch non-existant directories when using <cite>inotify</cite>.</li>
<li>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">git</span> <span class="pre">rev-parse</span> <span class="pre">--symbolic-full-name</span></tt> plumbing to find
the name of the current branch.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id48">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id48" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Makefile</span></tt> will now conditionally include a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">config.mak</span></tt>
file located at the root of the project. This allows for user
customizations such as changes to the <cite>prefix</cite> variable
to be stored in a file so that custom settings do not need to
be specified every time on the command-line.</li>
<li>The build scripts no longer require a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.git</span></tt> directory to
generate the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">builtin_version.py</span></tt> module. The release tarballs
now include a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">version</span></tt> file at the root of the project which
is used in lieu of having the git repository available.
This allows for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">clean</span> <span class="pre">&&</span> <span class="pre">make</span></tt> to function outside of
a git repository.</li>
<li>Added maintainer’s <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">dist</span></tt> target to the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Makefile</span></tt>.</li>
<li>The built-in <cite>simplejson</cite> and <cite>jsonpickle</cite> libraries can be
excluded from <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">install</span></tt> by specifying the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">standalone=true</span></tt>
<cite>make</cite> variable. For example, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">standalone=true</span> <span class="pre">install</span></tt>.
This corresponds to the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--standalone</span></tt> option to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">setup.py</span></tt>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-1-1">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.1.1<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-1-1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id49">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id49" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>We now use patience diff by default when it is available via
<cite>git diff –patience</cite>.</li>
<li>Allow closing the <cite>cola classic</cite> tool with <cite>Ctrl+W</cite>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id50">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id50" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fixed an unbound variable error in the <cite>push</cite> dialog.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id51">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id51" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Don’t include <cite>simplejson</cite> in MANIFEST.in.</li>
<li>Update desktop entry to read <cite>Cola Git GUI</cite>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-1">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.1<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>This feature release adds two new features directly from
<cite>git cola</cite>‘s github issues backlog. On the developer
front, further work was done towards modularizing the code base.</p>
<div class="section" id="id52">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id52" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Dragging and dropping patches invokes <cite>git am</cite></p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/3">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/3</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">A dialog to allow opening or cloning a repository
is presented when <cite>git cola</cite> is launched outside of a git repository.</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed/#issue/22">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed/#issue/22</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Warn when <cite>push</cite> is used to create a new branch</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/35">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/35</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Optimized startup time by removing several calls to <cite>git</cite>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id53">
<h2>Portability<a class="headerlink" href="#id53" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><cite>git cola</cite> is once again compatible with PyQt 4.3.x.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="developer">
<h2>Developer<a class="headerlink" href="#developer" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><cite>cola.gitcmds</cite> was added to factor out git command-line utilities</li>
<li><cite>cola.gitcfg</cite> was added for interacting with <cite>git config</cite></li>
<li><cite>cola.models.browser</cite> was added to factor out repobrowser data</li>
<li>Added more tests</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-0-5">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.0.5<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-0-5" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id54">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id54" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fix launching external applications on Windows</li>
<li>Ensure that the <cite>amend</cite> checkbox is unchecked when switching modes</li>
<li>Update the status tree when amending commits</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-0-4">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.0.4<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-0-4" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id55">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id55" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fix Lintian warnings</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-0-3">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.0.3<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-0-3" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id56">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id56" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fix X11 warnings on application startup</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-0-2">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.0.2<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-0-2" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id57">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id57" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Added missing ‘Exit Diff Mode’ button for ‘Diff Expression’ mode</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed/#issue/31">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed/#issue/31</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Fix a bug when initializing fonts on Windows</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed/#issue/32">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed/#issue/32</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-0-1">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.0.1<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-0-1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id58">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id58" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Keep entries in sorted order in the <cite>cola classic</cite> tool</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Fix staging untracked files</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed/#issue/27">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed/#issue/27</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Fix the <cite>show</cite> command in the Stash dialog</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed/#issue/29">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed/#issue/29</a></p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Fix a typo when loading merge commit messages</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed/#issue/30">http://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/closed/#issue/30</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-4-0">
<h1>git-cola v1.4.0<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-4-0" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>This release focuses on a redesign of the git-cola user interface,
a tags interface, and better integration of the <cite>cola classic</cite> tool.
A flexible interface based on configurable docks is used to manage the
various cola widgets.</p>
<div class="section" id="id59">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id59" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>New GUI is flexible and user-configurable</li>
<li>Individual widgets can be detached and rearranged arbitrarily</li>
<li>Add an interface for creating tags</li>
<li>Provide a fallback <cite>SSH_ASKPASS</cite> implementation to prompt for
SSH passwords on fetch/push/pull</li>
<li>The commit message editor displays the current row/column and
warns when lines get too long</li>
<li>The <cite>cola classic</cite> tool displays upstream changes</li>
<li><cite>git cola –classic</cite> launches <cite>cola classic</cite> in standalone mode</li>
<li>Provide more information in log messages</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id60">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id60" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Inherit the window manager’s font settings</li>
<li>Miscellaneous PyQt4 bug fixes and workarounds</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id61">
<h2>Developer<a class="headerlink" href="#id61" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Removed all usage of Qt Designer <cite>.ui</cite> files</li>
<li>Simpler model/view architecture</li>
<li>Selection is now shared across tools</li>
<li>Centralized notifications are used to keep views in sync</li>
<li>The <cite>cola.git</cite> command class was made thread-safe</li>
<li>Less coupling between model and view actions</li>
<li>The status view was rewritten to use the MVC architecture</li>
<li>Added more documentation and tests</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-3-9">
<h1>git-cola v1.3.9<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-3-9" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id62">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id62" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Added a <cite>cola classic</cite> tool for browsing the entire repository</li>
<li>Handle diff expressions with spaces</li>
<li>Handle renamed files</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id63">
<h2>Portability<a class="headerlink" href="#id63" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Handle carat <cite>^</cite> characters in diff expressions on Windows</li>
<li>Worked around a PyQt 4.5/4.6 QThreadPool bug</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="documentation">
<h2>Documentation<a class="headerlink" href="#documentation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Added a keyboard shortcuts reference page</li>
<li>Added developer API documentation</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id64">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id64" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fix the diff expression used when reviewing branches</li>
<li>Fix a bug when pushing branches</li>
<li>Fix X11 warnings at startup</li>
<li>Fix more interrupted system calls on Mac OS X</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-3-8">
<h1>git-cola v1.3.8<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-3-8" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id65">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id65" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fresh and tasty SVG logos</li>
<li>Added <cite>Branch Review</cite> mode for reviewing topic branches</li>
<li>Added diff modes for diffing between tags, branches,
or arbitrary <cite>git diff</cite> expressions</li>
<li>The push dialog selects the current branch by default.
This is in preparation for <cite>git 1.7.0</cite> where unconfigured <cite>git push</cite>
will refuse to push when run without specifying the remote name
and branch. See the <cite>git</cite> release notes for more information</li>
<li>Support <cite>open</cite> and <cite>clone</cite> commands on Windows</li>
<li>Allow saving cola UI layouts</li>
<li>Re-enabled <cite>double-click-to-stage</cite> for unmerged entries.
Disabling it for unmerged items was inconsistent, though safer.</li>
<li>Show diffs when navigating the status tree with the keyboard</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id66">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id66" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Worked around <cite>pyuic4</cite> bugs in the <cite>setup.py</cite> build script</li>
<li>Added Mac OSX application bundles to the download page</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-3-7">
<h1>git-cola v1.3.7<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-3-7" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="subsystems">
<h2>Subsystems<a class="headerlink" href="#subsystems" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><cite>git difftool</cite> became an official git command in <cite>git 1.6.3</cite>.</li>
<li><cite>git difftool</cite> learned <cite>–no-prompt</cite> / <cite>-y</cite> and a corresponding
<cite>difftool.prompt</cite> configuration variable</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id67">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id67" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Warn when <cite>non-fast-forward</cite> is used with fetch, push or pull</li>
<li>Allow <cite>Ctrl+C</cite> to exit cola when run from the command line</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id68">
<h2>Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id68" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Support Unicode font names</li>
<li>Handle interrupted system calls</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id69">
<h2>Developer<a class="headerlink" href="#id69" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><cite>PEP-8</cite>-ified more of the cola code base</li>
<li>Added more tests</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id70">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id70" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">All resources are now installed into <cite>$prefix/share/git-cola</cite>.
Closed Debian bug #519972</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519972">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519972</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git-cola-v1-3-6">
<h1>git-cola v1.3.6<a class="headerlink" href="#git-cola-v1-3-6" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id71">
<h2>Subsystems<a class="headerlink" href="#id71" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Added support for Kompare in <cite>git difftool</cite></li>
<li>Added a separate configuration namespace for <cite>git difftool</cite></li>
<li>Added the <cite>diff.tool</cite> configuration variable to define the default diff tool</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id72">
<h2>Usability, bells and whistles<a class="headerlink" href="#id72" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The stash dialog allows passing the <cite>–keep-index</cite> option to <cite>git stash</cite></li>
<li>Amending a published commit warns at commit time</li>
<li>Simplified the file-across-revisions comparison dialog</li>
<li><cite>origin</cite> is selected by default in fetch/push/pull</li>
<li>Removed the search field from the log widget</li>
<li>The log window moved into a drawer widget at the bottom of the UI</li>
<li>Log window display can be configured with
<cite>cola.showoutput</cite> = <cite>{never, always, errors}</cite>. <cite>errors</cite> is the default.</li>
<li><cite>NOTE</cite> – <cite>cola.showoutput</cite> was removed with the GUI rewrite in 1.4.0.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id73">
<h2>Developer<a class="headerlink" href="#id73" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Improved nose unittest usage</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id74">
<h2>Packaging<a class="headerlink" href="#id74" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Added a Windows/msysGit installer</li>
<li>Included private versions of <cite>simplejson</cite> and <cite>jsonpickle</cite>
for ease of installation and development</li>
</ul>
</div>
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