What's new in GitAhead 2.7.1
Dec 21, 2023
- Fixed:
- (Mac) Fixed large discard warning dialogs.
- (Win) Fixed crash when restoring some recent repositories.
New in GitAhead 2.6.3 (Jul 14, 2020)
- Added:
- Added external tool definitions for Beyond Compare 4. (Stefan Knotzer)
- Added option to disable translation. (Stefan Knotzer)
- Added options to delete branches and tags from the commit list context menu. (Stefan Knotzer)
- Added button to the clone dialog to navigate to a local directory. (Stefan Knotzer)
- Added Brazilian Portuguese translation. (Francisco)
- Fixed:
- Fixed incorrect setting change when checking the "update submodules after pull" check box.
- Fixed failure to stage some renames. (Maickonn Richard)
- Fixed crash on right-click when a both the status diff and another commit are selected. (Stefan Knotzer)
- Fixed the definition of an identifier in indexed search to include a dash followed a digit.
- (Mac) Fixed failure to load translations.
New in GitAhead 2.6.2 (May 4, 2020)
- Added:
- Added Spanish translation. (Gustavo Velasco-Hernandez)
- Added command line flag (--no-translation) to disable automatic loading of translation files.
- Added option to create a squash merge (git merge --squash). (Maickonn Richard)
- Added settings to specify SHH config and key file paths. (Kas)
- Added settings for prompt to stage directories and large files. (Maickonn Richard)
- Fixed:
- Fixed crash on Fetch All without an open repo. (Maickonn Richard)
- (Mac) Fixed crash on window close.
- (Linux) Fixed failure to quit from the menu. (Kas)
- Changed:
- Changed layout of diff view to more clearly group hunks with their file.
- (Mac) Quit when the last window is closed.
New in GitAhead 2.6.0 (Dec 13, 2019)
- Added:
- Added options to automatically prune remote tracking branches on fetch/pull. (Kas)
- Added context menu action to push tags to the default remote. (Kas)
- Added prompt to delete tags (including from the remote). (Kas)
- Added German language translation. (Kas)
- Added theme variables to color the tab bar independently. (Kas)
- Added compact history mode (in the gear popup menu). (Attila Greguss)
- Fixed:
- Jump to matching reference on click instead of selection change.
- Fixed possible invalid commit editor message after revert, cherry-pick, etc.
- Fixed inconsistent history list font size on some displays.
- Fixed failure to cancel some remote transfer operations.
- Removed artificial limitation on merging and rebasing with a detached HEAD.
- Fixed crash when merging or rebasing with a detached HEAD. (Kas)
New in GitAhead 2.5.11 (Oct 31, 2019)
- Added:
- Added context menu item to remove remote account from the sidebar.
- Added usage reporting setting to the 'General' preferences panel.
- Remember sidebar remote account expansion state.
- Unique sidebar and open tab names in the same way as recent repositories.
- Added 'Fetch All' item to 'Remote' menu.
- Fixed:
- Fixed failure to launch external edit tools with spaces in their path.
- Disallow pasting rich text into the commit editor.
- (Win) Fixed several issues relating to symlinks.
- Changed:
- Allow more than 99 columns in line length plugin interface.
- Clarify copyright statement in the about dialog.
- (Mac) Enable the hardened runtime to allow notarization on macOS Catalina.
New in GitAhead 2.5.10 (Aug 30, 2019)
- Added:
- Automatically switch between light and dark mode on macOS Mojave when using the native theme.
- Fixed:
- Fixed stash performance issue.
- Fixed crash on LFS-not-found error.
- Avoid reporting the LFS-not-found error multiple times.
- Fixed possible failure to look up the correct SSH identity file when the config file contains a 'HostName' entry.
- Fixed failure to draw tree view badges in some cases.
- Add missing dark mode colors for some lexers that reference colors directly (e.g. markdown).
New in GitAhead 2.5.9 (Aug 12, 2019)
- Fixed:
- Updated Bitbucket integration to use v2.0 API.
- Avoid opening a new tab for repositories that are already open.
- Changed new branch dialog default start point to the HEAD instead of the first branch in the reference list.
- Fix regression in staging submodules.
- Fix crash on right-click on clean status diff.
- Fix regression in double-clicking to clone a repository.
- Changed:
- Changed wording of prompt-to-amend dialog to clarify its purpose.
New in GitAhead 2.5.8 (Jul 18, 2019)
- Added:
- Added menu items and keyboard shortcuts to stage and unstage all files.
- Fixed:
- Fixed possible crash in merge dialog on action change.
- Fixed performance regression on viewing status diffs with large files.
- (Linux) Fixed input of accented characters when using the compose input method.
- (Linux) Fixed several credential helper issues.
- Changed:
- Double-clicking on a repo in the sidebar no longer opens a new tab if the repo is already open.
- Apply "store credentials in secure storage" setting immediately.
- Allow name and date to wrap when the detail view becomes too small to show them side-by-side.
New in GitAhead 2.5.7 (May 23, 2019)
- Fixed possible index corruption.
New in GitAhead 2.5.6 (May 17, 2019)
- Added:
- Added option to ignore whitespace in diffs.
- Remember previously opened repository path and use it when opening new repositories.
- Fixed:
- Fixed failure push a branch to a different remote when it's already up-to-date with its upstream.
- Changed:
- Revert to the system list view selection color in the native theme.
New in GitAhead 2.5.5 (Apr 3, 2019)
- Added:
- Added syntax highlighting for SQL and Erlang files.
- Fixed:
- Reload submodules on refresh and when the HEAD changes.
- Fixed failure to refresh GitHub accounts with more than one page of repositories.
- (Linux) Fixed spurious refresh on modification of some ignored files.
New in GitAhead 2.5.4 (Feb 27, 2019)
- Added:
- Allow checking out remote branches from the commit list.
- Added option to reset remote branch to an existing local branch on checkout.
- Fixed:
- Quote path arguemnts to filters.
- Fixed crash on 'Find' when no repository is open.
- Fixed file context menu performance issue by enabling navigation items unconditionally.
- Fixed failure to get more than 20 repositories from GitLab.
- Work around lack of support for the 'no_proxy' environment variable in libgit2.
- Changed:
- Map 'Refresh' to the platform-specific shortcut.
New in GitAhead 2.5.0 (Dec 17, 2018)
- GitAhead is now open source and free for everybody! See the new gitahead.com for details.
New in GitAhead 2.4.7 (Dec 17, 2018)
- Added:
- (Win) Added support for symlinks when core.symlinks=true.
- Fixed:
- Fixed inverted plus/minus color in default theme.
- Disallow multiple remote accounts of the same kind with the same username.
New in GitAhead 2.4.6 (Sep 27, 2018)
- Fixed:
- Fixed crash on initializing new repository.
- Fixed port conflict with some web servers.
New in GitAhead 2.4.5 (Sep 24, 2018)
- Fixed:
- Fixed performance issues on some large repositories.
- (Mac) Fixed compatibility issues with macOS Mojave.
- Changed:
- Changed default merge operation to commit.
New in GitAhead 2.4.4 (Sep 12, 2018)
- Fixed:
- Improved performance on some very large repositories.
- (Win) Fixed regression in looking up credentials in some cases.
New in GitAhead 2.4.3 (Sep 1, 2018)
- Fixed:
- Fixed possible crash on fetch.
- Fixed additional issue in extracting repo name from URL.
- Fixed performance issue when browsing tree view.
- Fixed describe performance issues on very large repositories.
- (Linux) Fixed failure to lookup username from credential helper.
- Changed:
- Changed default font sizes slightly.
- Changed external editor setting to set "gui.editor" instead of "core.editor".
- Changed credential helper implementation to be more consistent with git.
- (Linux) Execute application in context of user's default shell when launched from desktop.
New in GitAhead 2.4.2 (Aug 24, 2018)
- Added:
- Added context menu item to rename branches.
- Added option to set external editor (core.editor).
- Respect GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, VISUAL, and EDITOR (in that order) when editing in an external editor.
- Fixed:
- Fixed failure to rename branches.
- Fixed clone dialog repo name detection to use everything up to .git.
- Changed:
- Moved external tools options into their own settings page.
New in GitAhead 2.4.1 (Aug 20, 2018)
- Added:
- Added option to disable credential storage.
- Fixed:
- Fixed remote host connection issues.
New in GitAhead 2.4.0 (Aug 20, 2018)
- Added:
- Added empty main window interface for opening repositories.
- Added options to merge dialog to require or disable fast-forward.
- Fixed:
- Fixed possible file corruption when discarding or staging individual hunks.
- Fixed intermittent invalid status diff and possible crash.
- Changed:
- Show repository sidebar by default.
- Allow last tab to be closed.
- Start application with an empty main window instead of repository chooser.
- Remember open tabs when exiting the app by closing the last window.
New in GitAhead 2.3.7 (Jul 11, 2018)
- Fixed:
- Fixed possible hang on start.
- Fixed regression in adding recent repositories with the same name as an existing repository.
New in GitAhead 2.3.6 (Jul 6, 2018)
- Added:
- Added option to stop prompting to stage directories and large files.
- (Beta) Added repository sidebar.
- Fixed:
- Improved performance of staging a large number of files.
- Added missing [remote rejected] push errors to the log.
- (Win) Copy file paths with native separators.
- Changed:
- Increased threshold for prompt to stage large files by a factor of 10.
New in GitAhead 2.3.5 (Jun 22, 2018)
- Fixed:
- Fixed ignore issues on some patterns.
- Fixed performance issue when opening settings dialogs.
- Fixed possible crash on changing window settings after a window has been closed.
- Improve commit list performance when sorting by date and the graph is disabled.
- Changed:
- Made the diff view drop shadow more subtle.
New in GitAhead 2.3.4 (Jun 15, 2018)
- Fixed:
- Fixed selection issues and possible crash on reference view filtering.
- Changed:
- Don't show the license error dialog on application start when the error is the result of a network error.
- Avoid connecting to remote accounts every time the repository chooser is opened.
New in GitAhead 2.3.3 (Jun 15, 2018)
- Added:
- Added plugin API to get hunk lexer.
- Fixed:
- Fixed interactivity during rebase.
- Fixed line length plugin issue on some empty lines.
- (Mac) Fixed style regression on macOS native theme.
- Changed:
- Disabled most plugin checks on unstyled hunks.
- Automatically add /api/v3 to GitHub Enterprise URLs.
- Removed bundle git-lfs. LFS integration requires git-lfs to be installed separately.
New in GitAhead 2.3.2 (May 15, 2018)
- Added:
- Added command line option to populate the pathspec filter.
- Added notes about authentication with GitHub and GitLab by personal access token.
- Fixed:
- Fixed inverted tab plugin options.
- Disable pull on bare repositories.
- Fixed spurious prompts to decrypt SSH identity file after invalid public key connection error.
- (Win) Fixed treatment of junction points to match command line git.
New in GitAhead 2.3.1 (May 4, 2018)
- Added:
- Added context menu item to set or unset the executable mode of files after they have been staged. This is equivalent to the 'git update-index --chmod=(+|-)x' command.
- Fixed:
- Fixed file discard button to remove directories.
- Fixed trailing whitespace plugin error for files that have multiple line ending characters (e.g. CRLF).
- Fixed file context menu performance issue.
- (Linux) Fixed failure to detect libsecret at runtime on Ubuntu 18.04.
New in GitAhead 2.3.0 (May 2, 2018)
- Added:
- Prompt before staging large binary files.
- Added option to create and clone repositories bare.
- Added option to deinitialize LFS for the repository.
- Added plugin API to flag errors in diffs:
- Added several built-in plugins.
- API documentation can be found at Help -> Plugin Documentation...
- Fixed:
- Fixed failure to prompt for HTTPS credentials when the remote URL scheme is 'http'.
New in GitAhead 2.2.2 (Apr 19, 2018)
- Added:
- Added menu item to remove all LFS locks.
- Fixed:
- Fixed failure to execute LFS filters when git-lfs isn't on the PATH.
- (Win) Fixed indexer crash regression.
- Changed:
- Store all commit list options as repository-specific settings instead of global settings.
- Changed the behavior of the reference interface to keep the HEAD as the current reference when 'show all branches' is enabled.
New in GitAhead 2.2.1 (Apr 12, 2018)
- Added:
- Added size label for binary files in the diff view.
- Added before and after version of images in the diff view.
- Added commit list context menu items to check out local branches that point to the selected commit.
- Fixed:
- Improved performance of filtering by pathspec when the search index is enabled.
- Fixed failure to execute LFS pre-push hook when git-lfs isn't on the PATH.
- Fixed performance regression when opening the config dialog.
- (Win) Fixed badge color of unselected items in the dark theme.
New in GitAhead 2.2.0 (Mar 29, 2018)
- Added:
- Added improved support for LFS.
- Show icon of non-image binary files in diff view.
- (Win) Enable smooth scaling by automatically detecting HiDPI displays.
- Fixed:
- Fixed failure to fully stage symlinks.
- Fixed failure to refresh correctly after amending the first commit.
New in GitAhead 2.1.2 (Mar 2, 2018)
- Added:
- Added privacy statement.
- Fixed:
- Fixed crash on conflicted diffs after all conflicts have been resolved.
- Fixed possible indexer crash.
- (Win) Fixed failure to connect to GitHub through HTTPS on Windows 7.
New in GitAhead 2.1.1 (Feb 28, 2018)
- Added:
- Allow 'Remove Untracked Files' context menu actions to remove untracked directories.
- (Win) Generate crash dump file when the indexer process crashes.
- Changed:
- Show commit list times in the local time zone. The detail view still shows time in the author's time zone offset from UTC.
New in GitAhead 2.1.0 (Feb 17, 2018)
- Added:
- Allow tags to be pushed individually.
- Added context menu option to clean untracked files from the working directory.
- Automatically scale down images that are wider than the diff area.
- Added options to collapse added and deleted files. All files now start expanded by default.
- Fixed:
- Fixed regression in visiting range links from the log.
- Print error to log when the pre-push hook fails.
- Print error to log when stage fails because of a filter error.
- Fixed staged state of files that can't be staged because of a filter error.
- Fixed failure to execute some filters (including the LFS ones) that require the working directory be set to the working directory of the repository.
- Fixed interface issues in some themes.
- Fixed failure to update graph during refresh when the refresh is triggered by changes to the working directory.
- Changed:
- Changed selection in the commit list to allow only two commits to be selected with Ctrl+click (or Cmd+click on Mac) instead of a contiguous range with Shift+click. Selecting a contigous range doesn't make sense when it includes commits on different branches.
New in GitAhead 2.0.6 (Jan 24, 2018)
- Disable editing and hide caret on untracked files in the diff view.
- Fixed failure to cancel remote transfer in some cases.
- Fixed failure to report error after invalid offline registration attempt.
New in GitAhead 2.0.5 (Jan 18, 2018)
- Added:
- Added theme menu item to edit the current theme.
- Fixed:
- Fixed crash on some diffs.
- (Win) Fixed issues with localized repository and config path names.
- Changed:
- Changed HEAD reference color in dark theme.
New in GitAhead 2.0.4 (Jan 15, 2018)
- Added:
- Allow more SSL errors to be ignored.
- Remember ignored SSL errors and don't continue to prompt about them.
- (Mac) Added 'Open in GitAhead' services context menu action.
- Fixed:
- Fixed crash on conflicted files that only exist on one side of the merge.
- (Win) Install updates in the previous install location.
New in GitAhead 2.0.3 (Jan 8, 2018)
- Added:
- Remember 'no commit' setting in the merge dialog.
- Added more specific error message on failure to establish SSL connection.
- Allow certain SSL errors to be ignored.
- (Win) Added explorer context menu shortcuts to installer.
- Fixed:
- Fixed integration with GitLab. A personal access token is now required for authentication.
New in GitAhead 2.0.2 (Dec 29, 2017)
- Fixed issues with offline licenses.
New in GitAhead 2.0.1 (Dec 29, 2017)
- Added:
- Added menu indicator to 'Pull' button. The right third of the button now pops up the menu.
- Added option to disable filtering of non-existant paths from the recent repository list.
- Respect the 'gui.encoding' setting when loading and saving diff and editor text.
- Added option to set the character encoding in the 'Diff' configuration panels.
- (Win) Allow most external tools to run without shell evaluation.
- Fixed:
- Fixed deselection by Ctrl+click in the file list.
- (Win) Fixed HEAD reference selection color in commit list.
- Changed:
- Changed several theme keys to be more consistent. Added another sample theme.
New in GitAhead 2.0.0 (Dec 18, 2017)
- GitAhead 2.0 requires a new license!
- All current commercial users can upgrade their license at no cost. Check your email for details.
- Non-commercial users can sign up for a free non-commercial account through a link in the app.
- The two week evaluation period will reset for all users, so a new license isn't required immediately.
- If you have any questions please contact us at [email protected].
- Added:
- Added support for custom themes.
- Fixed:
- Fixed failure to cleanup after conflict resolution in some cases.
New in GitAhead 1.4.13 (Dec 7, 2017)
- Fixed:
- Fixed possible crash on newly initialized repos.
- Fixed crash on submodule update after fetch when new submodules are added.
- Changed:
- Disallow automatic update to new major versions.
New in GitAhead 1.4.12 (Dec 4, 2017)
- Added:
- Added tag icon next to tag reference badges.
- Added option to show the full repository path in the title bar.
- Fixed:
- Remember the size and location of the start dialog.
- Reset selection more consistently to the HEAD branch when it changes.
New in GitAhead 1.4.11 (Nov 23, 2017)
- Added:
- Added buttons to conflict hunks to choose 'ours' or 'theirs' changes.
- Disallow staging conflicted files that still contain conflict markers.
- Log all merge abort actions.
- Added log text to explain conflict resolution process.
- Fixed:
- Fixed failure to show stashes or possible crash in some cases.
- Fixed regression in updating commit list reference badges when references are added and deleted.
New in GitAhead 1.4.10 (Nov 13, 2017)
- Added:
- Changed background color of conflict badges.
- Added status text to indicate the number of unresolved conflicts.
- Added conflict hunk background colors on ours and theirs lines.
- Fixed:
- Fixed issue with spaces in .gitignore files.
- Fixed a small memory leak.
- Fixed conflict hunk check state.
- Fixed conflict hunk line number issue.
- (Mac) Fixed issue that prevented the disk image from mounting on systems older than macOS 10.12.
New in GitAhead 1.4.9 (Nov 8, 2017)
- Added:
- Added context menu action to remove multiple untracked files at once.
- Show detached HEAD label at a specific tag if any tags point directly to the commit.
- Fixed:
- Fixed cancel during resolve.
- Fixed regression is showing the detached HEAD label in the commit list.
- Fixed failure to immediately index some commits if the indexer is running while references are updated.
- Fixed failure to get more than the first page of GitHub repositories.
New in GitAhead 1.4.8 (Oct 31, 2017)
- Added:
- Added prompt before staging directories.
- Substitute emoji for emoji short codes in commit messages.
- Added missing extension mapping for CoffeeScript.
- Fixed:
- Sort conflicts to the top unconditionally.
- Automatically select the status row when the HEAD changes.
- Fixed commit list scroll performance on repositories with many refs.
- (Win) Search for git bash in default install location.
- (Win) Added warning dialog when an external tool fails because bash can't be found.
- Changed:
- Changed the behavior of double-click in the file list to open the external diff/merge tool if one is enabled.
New in GitAhead 1.4.7 (Oct 23, 2017)
- Added:
- Added context menu actions to apply, pop, and drop stashes.
- Fixed:
- Fixed issues related to revert and cherry-pick that result in a conflict.
- Fixed merge abort menu item to update more consistently.
New in GitAhead 1.4.6 (Oct 19, 2017)
- Added:
- Added advanced option to specify a custom URL for hosting providers.
- Fixed:
- Fixed failure to execute pre-push hook (including LFS) in some cases.
- Fixed error messages on console.
New in GitAhead 1.4.4 (Sep 28, 2017)
- Added:
- Style editor content after saving a new file.
- Fixed:
- Fixed style of tag reference badges that point to the HEAD.
- Fixed regression in showing images in the diff area.
- Fixed regression in indexing by lexical class.
- (Win) Fixed regression in staging "exectuable" files.
New in GitAhead 1.4.3 (Sep 16, 2017)
- Added:
- Added reference badge for the detached HEAD state.
- Added commit list context menu item to rebase a specific commit.
- Added remote branch context menu item to create a new local branch that tracks the remote branch.
- Fixed:
- Fixed bugs in staging file mode changes.
- Fixed failure to look up the correct host name for SSH URLs that use an alias from the SSH config file.
- Changed:
- Start indexer process with lower priority.
New in GitAhead 1.4.2 (Sep 14, 2017)
- Added:
- Draw HEAD reference badges darker and bold.
- Added dotted graph edge from the status item to the current HEAD commit.
- Added an option to show the status item even when the workin directory is clean.
- Added commit list context menu item to merge a specific commit.
New in GitAhead 1.4.1 (Sep 7, 2017)
- Added:
- Added merge and rebase context menu actions to reference view references.
- Fixed:
- Fixed SSH host name lookup to use the first matching host instead of the last.
- Fixed regression in loading the initial diff on repo open when the working directory scan is very fast.
- (Win) Fixed failure to look up stored passwords from the credential manager for HTTPS URLs that don't include the username.
New in GitAhead 1.4.0 (Sep 4, 2017)
- Added:
- Added context menu action to delete tags.
- Added option to show all references in the commit list.
- Added option to change commit list sort order.
- Added option to turn off the commit list graph.
- Expand the reference view by clicking in its label area.
- Jump to the selected reference by clicking on its name in the reference view.
- Fixed:
- Fixed dark theme appearance of the advanced search button.
- Don't reset the care position/selection when the editor window loses focus.
- Changed:
- Changing the selected reference back to the current (HEAD) branch no longer causes the working directory to be rescanned.
New in GitAhead 1.2.5 (Apr 10, 2017)
- Added:
- Added a dark theme.
- Fixed:
- Fixed possible crash during indexing.
- (Win) Fixed failure to start with a valid evaluation license in some cases.
New in GitAhead 1.2.4 (Apr 10, 2017)
- Added:
- Show kind of reference in the reference list label.
- Fixed:
- Fixed possible crash on diffs with no newline at the end of the file.
New in GitAhead 1.2.3 (Apr 10, 2017)
- Added:
- Highlight changed words in diff output.
- Added advanced search button to the bottom of the search completion popup.
- Added prompt to add a new local branch when checking out a remote tracking branch.
- Respect 'GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY' environment variable and 'http.sslVerify' config setting when validating certificates.
- Fixed:
- Fixed diff error near the end of files with no trailing newline.
- Fixed possible destructive changes when clicking on a stale 'abort merge' link.
- Fixed incorrect error message when a merge fails because of conflicts with uncommitted changes.
New in GitAhead 1.2.2 (Apr 10, 2017)
- Added:
- Added drag-and-drop into the diff area to copy files into the repository.
- Added menu action to create new files with the built-in editor.
- Added interface for creating new files and copying files into newly initialized repositories.
- Added initial repository setup actions to repository chooser. Made the remote host actions more obviously clickable.
- Fixed:
- Fixed regression in staging directories.
- Restore missing file context menu items.
- Fixed failure to amend the very first commit in a repository.
- Fixed failure to load the correct image file from the selected commit.
- (Mac) Fixed regression in scrolling with the scroll wheel over untracked files.
New in GitAhead 1.2.1 (Apr 10, 2017)
- Added:
- Added basic GitLab integration.
- Fixed:
- Fixed performance issues in commit editor.
- Fixed crash when adding a new branch from the config dialog in a newly initialized repository.
- Fixed crash when clicking on the 'Edit Config File...' button in the global settings dialog and the global settings file (~/.gitconfig) doesn't exist.
- Open remote account dialog with the correct kind when double-clicking on one of the account kinds in the repository chooser.
New in GitAhead 1.2.0 (Apr 10, 2017)
- Added:
- Added external edit, diff, and merge context menu actions.
- Fixed:
- Disable minus button when an error node is selected in the repository chooser remote list.
- Fixed wrong error message in license error dialog.
- (Win) Fixed advanced search button position.
- Changed:
- Changed settings and config dialogs to reflect newly added external tool settings.