CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Added

• theme.ron now supports customizing line break symbol (#1894)
• add confirmation for dialog for undo commit [@TeFiLeDo] (#1912)
• support prepare-commit-msg hook (#1873)

Changed

• do not allow tag when tag.gpgsign enabled [@TeFiLeDo] (#1915)

Fixes

• stash window empty after file history popup closes (#1986)

[0.24.3] - 2023-09-09

Fixes

• log: major lag when going beyond last search hit (#1876)

Changed

• parallelise log search - performance gain ~100% (#1869)
• search message body/summary separately (#1875)

[0.24.2] - 2023-09-03

Fixes

• fix commit log not updating after branch switch (#1862)
• fix stashlist not updating after pop/drop (#1864)
• fix commit log corruption when tabbing in/out while parsing log (#1866)

[0.24.1] - 2023-08-30

Fixes

• fix performance problem in big repo with a lot of incoming commits (#1845)
• fix error switching to a branch with '/' in the name (#1851)

[0.24.0] - 2023-08-27

search commits

visualize empty lines in diff better

Breaking Changes

• Do you use a custom theme?

  The way themes work got changed and simplified (see docs for more info):

  • The format of theme.ron has changed: you only specify the colors etc. that should differ from their default value
  • Future additions of colors etc. will not break existing themes anymore

Added

• search commits by message, author or files in diff (#1791)
• support 'n'/'p' key to move to the next/prev hunk in diff component [@hamflx] (#1523)
• simplify theme overrides [@cruessler] (#1367)
• support for sign-off of commits [@domtac](#1757)
• switched from textwrap to bwrap for text wrapping [@TheBlackSheep3] (#1762)
• more logging diagnostics when a repo cannot be opened
• added to anaconda [@TheBlackSheep3] (#1626)
• visualize empty line substituted with content in diff better (#1359)
• checkout branch works with non-empty status report [@lightsnowball] (#1399)
• jump to commit by SHA [@AmmarAbouZor] (#1818)

Fixes

• fix commit dialog char count for multibyte characters (#1726)
• fix wrong hit highlighting in fuzzy find popup [@UUGTech] (#1731)
• fix symlink support for configuration files [@TheBlackSheep3] (#1751)
• fix expansion of ~ in commit.template (#1745)
• fix hunk (un)staging/reset for # of context lines != 3 (#1746)
• fix delay when opening external editor (#1506)
• fix ordering of commits in diff view [@Joshix-1](#1747)

Changed

• Copy full Commit Hash by default [@AmmarAbouZor] (#1836)

[0.23.0] - 2023-06-19

reset to commit

reword commit

fuzzy find branch

Breaking Change

• focus_XYZ key bindings are merged into the move_XYZ set, so only one way to bind arrow-like keys from now on (#1539)

Added

• allow reset (soft,mixed,hard) from commit log (#1500)
• support reword of commit from log (#829)
• fuzzy find branch [@UUGTech] (#1350)
• list changes in commit message inside external editor [@bc-universe] (#1420)
• allow detaching HEAD and checking out specific commit from log view [@fralcow] (#1499)
• add no-verify option on commits to not run hooks [@dam5h] (#1374)
• allow fetch on status tab [@alensiljak] (#1471)
• allow copy file path on revision files and status tree [@yanganto] (#1516)
• print message of where log will be written if -l is set (#1472)
• show remote branches in log [@cruessler] (#1501)
• scrolling functionality to fuzzy-find [@AmmarAbouZor] (#1732)

Fixes

• fixed side effect of crossterm 0.26 on windows that caused double input of all keys [@pm100] (#1686)
• commit msg history ordered the wrong way (#1445)
• improve help documentation for amend cmd (#1448)
• lag issue when showing files tab (#1451)
• fix key binding shown in bottom bar for stash_open (#1454)
• --bugreport does not require param (#1466)
• edit-file command shown on commits msg (#1461)
• crash on branches popup in small terminal (#1470)
• edit command duplication (#1489)
• syntax errors in key_bindings.ron will be logged (#1491)
• Fix UI freeze when copying with xclip installed on Linux (#1497)
• Fix UI freeze when copying with wl-copy installed on Linux (#1497)
• commit hooks report "command not found" on Windows with wsl2 installed (#1528)
• crashes on entering submodules (#1510)
• fix race issue: revlog messages sometimes appear empty (#1473)
• default to tick-based updates [@cruessler] (#1444)
• add support for options handling in log and stashes views [@kamillo] (#1661)

Changed

• minimum supported rust version bumped to 1.65 (thank you time crate)

[0.22.1] - 2022-11-22

Bugfix followup release - check 0.22.0 notes for more infos!

Added

• new arg --polling to use poll-based change detection and not filesystem watcher (use if you see problems running into file descriptor limits)

Fixes

• improve performance by requesting branches info asynchronous (92f63d1)
• fix app startup delay due to using file watcher (#1436)
• make git tree file fetch async (#734)

[0.22.0] - 2022-11-19

submodules view

commit message history

Added

• submodules support (#1087)
• remember tab between app starts (#1338)
• repo specific gitui options saved in .git/gitui.ron (#1340)
• commit msg history (#1345)
• customizable cmdbar_bg theme color & screen spanning selected line bg [@gigitsu] (#1299)
• word motions to text input [@Rodrigodd] (#1256)
• file blame at right revision from commit-details [@heiskane] (#1122)
• dedicated selection foreground theme color selection_fg (#1365)
• add regex-fancy and regex-onig features to allow building Syntect with Onigumara regex engine instead of the default engine based on fancy-regex [@jirutka]
• add vendor-openssl feature to allow building without vendored openssl [@jirutka]
• allow copying marked commits [@remique] (#1288)
• feedback for success/failure of copying hash commit [@sergioribera](#1160)
• display tags and branches in the log view [@alexmaco] (#1371)
• display current repository path in the top-right corner [@alexmaco](#1387)
• add Linux targets for ARM, ARMv7 and AARCH64 [@adur1990] (#1419)
• display commit description in file view [@alexmaco] (#1380)
• allow launching editor from Compare Commits view (#1409)

Fixes

• remove insecure dependency ansi_term (#1290)
• use filewatcher instead of polling updates (#1)

[0.21.0] - 2022-08-17

popup stacking

termux android support

Added

• stack popups (#846)
• file history log [@cruessler] (#381)
• termux support on andriod [@PeroSar] (#1139)
• use GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_DIR from environment if set (#1191)
• new FAQs page
• mention macports in install section [@fs111](#1237)
• support copy to clipboard on wayland [@JayceFayne] (#397)

Fixed

• opening tags list without remotes (#1111)
• tabs indentation in blame [@fersilva16] (#1117)
• switch focus to index after staging last file (#1169)
• fix stashlist multi marking not updated after dropping (#1207)
• exact matches have a higher priority and are placed to the top of the list when fuzzily finding files (#1183)
• support horizontal scrolling in diff view (#1017)

Changed

• minimum supported rust version bumped to 1.60 (#1279)

[0.20.1] - 2022-01-26

This is was a immediate followup patch release to 0.20 see release notes for the whole list of goodies in 0.20.

Added

• support proxy auto detection via env's like HTTP_PROXY (#994)

Fixed

• severe performance regression in 0.20 (#1102)
• several smaller performance improvements via caching (#1104)
• windows release deployment via CD broken

[0.20] - 2022-01-25 - Tag Annotations

support tag annotations

delete tag on remote

revert commit from rev log

Added

• support core.hooksPath (#1044)
• allow reverting a commit from the commit log (#927)
• disable pull cmd on local-only branches (#1047)
• support adding annotations to tags (#747)
• support inspecting annotation of tag (#1076)
• support deleting tag on remote (#1074)
• support git credentials helper (https) (#800)

Fixed

• Keep commit message when pre-commit hook fails (#1035)
• honor pushurl when checking credentials for pushing (#953)
• use git-path instead of workdir finding hooks (#1046)
• only enable remote actions (fetch/pull/push) if there are remote branches (#1047)

Key binding notes

• added gg/G vim bindings to vim_style_key_config.ron (#1039)

[0.19] - 2021-12-08 - Bare Repo Support

finder highlighting matches

Breaking Change

Have you used key_config.ron for custom key bindings before? The way this works got changed and simplified (See docs for more info):

• You only define the keys that should differ from the default.
• The file is renamed to key_bindings.ron
• Future addition of new keys will not break anymore

Added

• add fetch/update command all remote branches (#998)
• add trace-libgit feature to make git tracing optional [@dm9pZCAq] (#902)
• support merging and rebasing remote branches [@R0nd] (#920)
• add highlighting matches in fuzzy finder [@Mifom] (#893)
• support home and end keys in branchlist (#957)
• add ghemoji feature to make gh-emoji (GitHub emoji) optional [@jirutka] (#954)
• allow customizing key symbols like ⏎ & ⇧ (see docs) (#465)
• simplify key overrides (see docs) (#946)
• dedicated fuzzy finder up/down keys to allow vim overrides (#993)
• pull will also download tags (#1013)
• allow editing file from filetree (#989)
• support bare repos (new workdir argument) (#1026)

Fixed

• honor options (for untracked files) in stage_all command (#933)
• improved file diff speed dramatically (#976)
• blaming files in sub-folders on windows (#981)
• push failing due to tracing error in upstream (#881)

[0.18] - 2021-10-11

rebase merge with conflicts

Added

• support rebasing branches with conflicts (#895)
• add a key binding to stage / unstage items [@alessandroasm] (#909)
• switch to status tab after merging or rebasing with conflicts (#926)

Fixed

• fix supported checkout of hierarchical branchnames (#921)
• appropriate error message when pulling deleted remote branch (#911)
• improved color contrast in branches popup for light themes [@Cottser] (#922)
• use git_message_prettify for commit messages (#917)

[0.17.1] - 2021-09-10

fuzzy find files

emojified commit message

Added

• add supporting rebasing on branch (if conflict-free) (#816)
• fuzzy find files (#891)
• visualize progress during async syntax highlighting (#889)
• added support for markdown emoji's in commits [@andrewpollack] (#768)
• added scrollbar to revlog [@ashvin021] (#868)

Fixed

• fix build when system level libgit2 version was used (#883)
• fix merging branch not closing branch window [@andrewpollack] (#876)
• fix commit msg being broken inside tag list (#871)
• fix filetree file content not showing tabs correctly (#874)

Key binding notes

• new keys: rebase_branch [R], file_find [f]

see vim_style_key_config.ron for their default vim binding

[0.17.0] - 2021-08-21

compare commits

options

drop multiple stashes

branch name validation

Added

• allow inspecting top commit of a branch from list
• compare commits in revlog and head against branch (#852)
• new options popup (show untracked files, diff settings) (#849)
• mark and drop multiple stashes (#854)
• check branch name validity while typing (#559)
• support deleting remote branch [@zcorniere] (#622)
• mark remote branches that have local tracking branch [@jedel1043] (#861)

Fixed

• error viewing filetree in empty repo (#859)
• do not allow to ignore .gitignore files (#825)
• crash in shallow repo (#836)
• fixed performance regression in revlog (#850)
• fixed performance degradation when quitting on Windows (#823)

[0.16.2] - 2021-07-10

undo last commit

mark local tags

Added

• taglist: show arrow-symbol on tags not present on origin [@cruessler] (#776)
• new undo-last-commit command [@remique] (#758)
• new quit key [q] (#771)
• proper error message if remote rejects force push (#801)

Fixed

• openssl vendoring broken on macos (#772)
• amend and other commands not shown in help (#778)
• focus locked on commit msg details in narrow term sizes (#780)
• non-utf8 file/path names broke filetree (#802)

[0.16.1] - 2021-06-06

Added

• honor config.showUntrackedFiles improving speed with a lot of untracked items (#752)
• improve performance when opening filetree-tab (#756)
• indicator for longer commit message than displayed (#773)

Fixed

• wrong file with same name shown in file tree (#748)
• filetree collapsing broken on windows (#761)
• unnecessary overdraw of the spinner on each redraw (#764)

Internal

• use git_repository_message [@kosayoda] (#751)

[0.16.0] - 2021-05-28

merge branch, merge commit

tag list popup

revision file tree

commit subject length warning

Added

• merging branches, pull-merge with conflicts, commit merges (#485)
• tags-list-popup (delete-tag, go to tagged commit) [@cruessler] (#483)
• inspect file tree tab (#743)
• file tree popup (for a specific revision) (#714)
• warning if commit subject line gets too long (#478)
• --bugreport cmd line arg to help diagnostics [@zcorniere] (#695)

Changed

• smarter log timestamps (#682)
• create-branch popup aligned with rename-branch [@bruceCoelho] (#679)
• smart focus change after staging all files (#706)
• do not allow to commit when gpgsign enabled (#740)

Fixed

• selected-tab color broken in light theme [@Cottser] (#719)
• proper tmp file location to externally edit commit msg (#518)

[0.15.0] - 2021-04-27

file blame

Added

• blame a file [@cruessler] (#484)
• support commit.template [@wandernauta] (#546)

Fixed

• debug print when adding a file to ignore
• fix scrolling long messages in commit details view (#663)
• limit log messages in log tab (#652)
• fetch crashed when no upstream of branch is set (#637)
• enter key panics in empty remote branch list (#643)

Internal

• cleanup some stringly typed code [@wandernauta] (#655)
• introduce EventState enum (removing bool for even propagation) [@tisorlawan] (#665)

[0.14.0] - 2021-04-11

Added

• [w] key to toggle between staging/workdir [@terhechte] (#595)
• view/checkout remote branches (#617)

Changed

• ask to pop stash by default (apply using [a] now) [@brunogouveia] (#574)

Fixed

• push branch to its tracking remote (#597)
• fixed panic when staging lines involving missing newline eof (#605)
• fixed pull/fetch deadlocking when it fails (#624)

[0.13.0] - 2021-03-15 - Happy Birthday GitUI 🥳

Thanks for your interest and support over this year! Read more about the 1 year anniversary reflections of this project on my blog.

stage/unstage/discard by line

push tags

Changed

• [s] key repurposed to trigger line based (un)stage
• cleanup status/diff commands to be more context sensitive (#572)

Added

• support pull via rebase (using config pull.rebase) (#566)
• support stage/unstage selected lines (#59)
• support discarding selected lines (#59)
• support for pushing tags (#568)
• visualize conflicted files differently (#576)

Fixed

• keep diff line selection after staging/unstaging/discarding (#583)
• fix pull deadlocking when aborting credentials input (#586)
• error diagnostics for config loading (#589)

[0.12.0] - 2021-03-03

pull support (ff-merge or conflict-free merge-commit)

more info in commit popup

Breaking Change

• MacOS config directory now uses ~/.config/gitui [@remique] (#317)

Added

• support for pull (fetch + simple merging) (#319)
• show used char count in input texts (#466)
• support smoother left/right toggle/keys for commit details (#418)
• support force push command [@WizardOhio24] (#274)

Fixed

• don't close branchlist every time (#550)
• fixed key binding for external exitor in vim key bindings [@yanganto] (#549)
• fix some potential errors when deleting files while they are being diffed (#490)
• push defaults to 'origin' remote if it exists (#494)
• support missing pageUp/down support in branchlist (#519)
• don't hide branch name while in commit dialog (#529)
• don't discard commit message without confirmation (#530)
• compilation broken on freebsd (#461)
• don’t fail if user.name is not set [@cruessler] (#79) (#228)

[0.11.0] - 2021-12-20

Added

• push to remote (#265) (#267)

• number of incoming/outgoing commits to upstream (#362)
• new branch list popup incl. checkout/delete/rename [@WizardOhio24] (#303) (#323)

• compact treeview [@WizardOhio24] (#192)

• scrollbar in long commit messages [@timaliberdov] (#308)
• added windows scoop recipe (#164)
• added gitui to chocolatey on windows by @nils-a
• added gitui gentoo instructions to readme [@dm9pZCAq] (#430)
• added windows installer (msi) to release [@pm100] (#360)
• command to copy commit hash [@yanganto] (#281)

Changed

• upgrade dirs to dirs-next / remove cfg migration code (#351) (#366)
• do not highlight selection in diff view when not focused (#270)
• copy to clipboard using xclip(linux), pbcopy(mac) or clip(win) [@cruessler] (#262)

Fixed

• crash when changing git repo while gitui is open (#271)
• remove workaround for color serialization [@1wilkens] (#149)
• crash on small terminal size (#307)
• fix vim keybindings uppercase handling [@yanganto] (#286)
• remove shift tab windows workaround [@nils-a] (#112)
• core.editor is ignored [@pm100] (#414)

[0.10.1] - 2020-09-01

Fixed

• static linux binaries broke due to new clipboard feature which is disabled on linux for now (#259)

[0.10.0] - 2020-08-29

Added

• fully customizable key bindings (see KEY_CONFIG.md) [@yanganto] (#109) (#57)
• support scrolling in long commit messages [@cruessler](#208)

• copy lines from diffs to clipboard [@cruessler](#229)

• scrollbar in long diffs (#204)

• allow creating new branch (#253)

Fixed

• selection error in stashlist when deleting last element (#223)
• git hooks broke ci build on windows [@dr-BEat] (#235)

[0.9.1] - 2020-07-30

Added

• move to (un)staged when the current selection is empty [@jonstodle](#215)
• pending load of a diff/status is visualized (#160)
• entry on git-scm.com in the list of GUI tools [@Vidar314] (see PR)
• commits can be tagged in revlog [@cruessler](#103)

Changed

• async fetching tags to improve reactivity in giant repos (#170)

Fixed

• removed unmaintained dependency spin (#172)
• opening relative paths in external editor may fail in subpaths (#184)
• crashes in revlog with utf8 commit messages (#188)
• add_to_ignore failed on files without a newline at EOF (#191)
• new tags were not picked up in revlog view (#190)
• tags not shown in commit details popup (#193)
• min size for relative popups on small terminals (#179)
• fix crash on resizing terminal to very small width (#198)
• fix broken tags when using a different internal representation (#206)
• tags are not cleanly seperated in details view (#212)

[0.8.1] - 2020-07-07

Added

• open file in editor [@jonstodle](#166)

Fixed

• switch deprecated transitive dependency net2->socket2 in crossterm->mio
• crash diffing a stash that was created via cli (#178)
• zero delta file size in diff of untracked binary file (#171)
• newlines not visualized correctly in commit editor (#169)

[0.8.0] - 2020-07-06

Added

• core homebrew formulae: brew install gitui [@vladimyr](<#137>)
• show file sizes and delta on binary diffs (#141)

• external editor support for commit messages [@jonstodle](#46)

Changed

• use terminal blue as default selection background (#129)
• author column in revlog is now fixed width for better alignment (#148)
• cleaner tab bar and background work indicating spinner:

Fixed

• clearer help headers (#131)
• display non-utf8 commit messages at least partially (#150)
• hooks ignored when running gitui in subfolder of workdir (#151)
• better scrolling in file-trees [@tisorlawan](#144)
• show untracked files in stash commit details [@MCord](#130)
• in some repos looking up the branch name was a bottleneck (#159)
• some optimizations in reflog
• fix arrow utf8 encoding in help window [@daober](#142)

[0.7.0] - 2020-06-15

Added

• Inspect stash commit in detail (#121)
• Support reset/revert individual hunks (#11)
• Commit Amend (ctrl+a) when in commit popup (#89)

Changed

• file trees: arrow-right on expanded folder moves down into folder
• better scrolling in diff (#52)
• display current branch in status/log (#115)
• commit msg popup: add cursor and more controls (arrow-left/right, delete & backspace) [@alistaircarscadden](#46)
• moved theme.ron from XDG_CACHE_HOME to XDG_CONFIG_HOME [@jonstodle](<#98>)

Fixed

• reset file inside folder failed when running gitui in a subfolder too (#118)
• selection could disappear into collapsed folder (#120)
• Files: loading sometimes wrong (#119)

[0.6.0] - 2020-06-09

Changed

• changed hotkeys for selecting stage/workdir (Note: use [w]/[s] to change between workdir and stage) and added hotkeys ([1234]) to switch to tabs directly (#92)
• arrow-up/down on bottom/top of status file list switches focus (#105)
• highlight tags in revlog better

Added

• New Stage all [a]/Unstage all [a] in changes lists (#82)
• add -d, --directory options to set working directory via program arg [@alistaircarscadden](#73)
• commit detail view in revlog (#80)

Fixed

• app closes when staging invalid file/path (#108)
• shift+tab not working on windows [@MCord](#111)

[0.5.0] - 2020-06-01

Changed

• support more commands allowing optional multiline commandbar (#83)

Added

• support adding untracked file/folder to .gitignore (#44)
• support reverse tabbing using shift+tab (#92)
• switch to using cmd line args instead of ENV (-l for logging and --version) please convert your GITUI_LOGGING usage [@shenek](#88)
• added missing LICENSE.md files in sub-crates [@ignatenkobrain](#94)

Fixed

• error when diffing huge files (#96)
• expressive error when run in bare repos (#100)

[0.4.0] - 2020-05-25

Added

• stashing support (save,apply,drop) (#3)

Changed

• log tab refreshes when head changes (#78)
• performance optimization of the log tab in big repos
• more readable default color for the commit hash in the log tab
• more error/panic resiliance (unwrap/panic denied by clippy now) [@MCord](<#77>)

Fixes

• panic on small terminal width (#72)

[0.3.0] - 2020-05-20

Added

• support color themes and light mode [@MCord](#28)

Changed

• more natural scrolling in log tab (#52)

Fixed

• crash on commit when git name was not set (#74)
• log tab shown empty in single commit repos (#75)

[0.2.6] - 2020-05-18

Fixed

• fix crash help in small window size (#63)

[0.2.5] - 2020-05-16

Added

• introduced proper changelog
• hook support on windows [@MCord](#14)

Changed

• show longer commit messages in log view
• introduce propper error handling in asyncgit [@MCord](#53)
• better error message when trying to run outside of a valid git repo (#56)
• improve ctrl+c handling so it is checked first and no component needs to worry of blocking it

Fixed

• support multiple tags per commit in log (#61)

[0.2.3] - 2020-05-12

Added

• support more navigation keys: home/end/pageUp/pageDown (#43)
• highlight current tab a bit better

[0.2.2] - 2020-05-10

Added

• show tags in commit log (#47)
• support home/end key in diff (#43)

Changed

• close application shortcut is now the standard ctrl+c
• some diff improvements (#42)

Fixed

• document tab key to switch tabs (#48)