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SmartGit 24.1.3 (2025-04-01)
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## New Features, Improvements
- OpServer: should honor "connection.https.trustedFingerprints"
- Preferences: do not enforce "Use own credential helper" for bundled Git
- Standard window:
- Ignore: should be available on untracked, removed files
## Fixed Bugs
- Changes view: possible internal error if image width or height is zero
- Commit view: internal error when using Git config `core.commentChar` = `#`
- Graph: strange "expand" marker for non-pushed commits
- Syntax:
- C#: can have multiple number of `"` in `$"` strings
- PHP: fails on `@`
- Log window:
- Graph: possible infinite loading loop when using *Follow First Parent Only*
- Working Tree window:
- Branches view: fixed vertical alignment of *Pull request* link
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- hobby license: added low-level property `hobbyLicenseCheck.skipPublicRepositoryVerificationConfirmation` to skip verification
SmartGit 24.1.2 (2025-02-14)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Russian translation
- Syntax:
- Pascal: added Delphi keywords
## Fixed Bugs
- Changes view: Apply Selection did not work if selection starts/ends in the middle of a line
- Fetch More: Unshallowing was not possible if no branches were shown in the Branches table
- Edit Ignore File: possible internal error if there was no root ignore file
- Hosting Providers:
- possible internal error having multiple hosting providers at sub-domain
- Azure DevOps: adding file comment failed with HTTP 400 and misleading error message
- Bitbucket Server (Stash): possible internal error when accessing repository with having Hosting Providers configured
- GitHub:
- possible internal error after "Temporary failure in name resolution"
- possible internal error on refresh
- Rebase Interactive: failed if "rebase.updaterefs" option was set
- Refresh:
- internal error related to external credential helper
- false-positive warning about external credential helper
- Syntax:
- Pascal:
- could not detect empty string literal
- non US-ASCII characters could be part of identifiers
- Log window:
- Graph: double-clicking a virtual pull request node should not offer to check out
- Standard window:
- Create Pull Request: used wrong branch (selection from Branches view instead of selected Graph ref)
- Find Object: internal error when searching for a local ref which was sorted below some "origin/"-entries
- Working Tree window:
- Files: sorting by State in split mode did not keep conflicts top-most as in non-split mode
- Journal: Cherry Pick was not available on commits from the branch's own history
- MacOS:
- Commit dialog: name column was 2 pixels too narrow
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- About dialog: does not show "Valid until" for on-premise licenses
- GitHub: added logging for GraphQL queries without JSON Debug Logging
- GitLab and others: improved error message in case of problems
SmartGit 24.1.1 (2024-12-11)
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## Fixed Bugs
- Clone: possible internal error for a reported branch's short name being equal to another branch's long name
- Delete: possible internal error related to symlinks
- File Compare: Apply Innerline-Change not available (regression from 23.1)
- Changes view, Compare:
- Markdown: changes in fenced code blocks were treated as one block
- File Log: selecting a commit could cause the Commit view to be empty
- GitHub: commit message selection might fail if bugtraq file was configured
- Tooltips might show up on the wrong monitor
- Standard window:
- Stashes: two clicks might be required to focus the control
- Reflog: not all refs were shown
- opening a new window (Window | New Window) did not focus the repository filter input field
- left views were 1 pixel too small vertically
- MacOS:
- on non-English systems some application menu items contained an "SWT_" prefix
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Debian Bundle: add `git-lfs` dependency
- Graph: don't allow drag and drop operations during special repository states, e.g. rebasing or merging
- Standard window:
- Reflog: don't allow rearranging commits
SmartGit 24.1 GA (2024-11-06)
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## Fixed Bugs
- Bisect (Mark as Good/Bad): might fail in LFS repositories (credential helper pops up)
- Blame, Changes Since: too light background color
- Completion popup: did not scroll to selection
- GitHub: possible internal error when reading pull request comments without author
- Syntax:
- Groovy: internal error typing @
- InnoSetup: internal error typing ' or "
- PHP: <? can occur inside tag arguments
- XML: internal error typing &
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Bitbucket: added low-level property "bitbucketCloud.repositoryPageSize"
- translations updated
SmartGit 24.1 RC 5 (2024-10-29)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Log and Working Tree window:
- Files view: Fix Case-Change now available in context menu
## Fixed Bugs
- Changes view: in Unified mode, too few selection-related operations were available (regression from 23.1)
- GitHub:
- reading pull requests failed if page limit was reached
- fixed misleading error message if OAuth token was invalid
- GitHub Enterprise:
- could not add hosting provider
- possible error trying to read pull request comments
- Preferences:
- Git config: modifications were not saved (regression from 23.1)
- Remove Worktree: removing or opening the repository in one window while removing the worktree in another caused internal errors
- Reverting files from a commit produced weird default commit message
- Standard window:
- Commit: internal error when committing to detached HEAD and having the Push option selected
- Log window:
- Graph: misleading empty-message in several scenarios, e.g. when filtering
- Log and Working Tree window:
- the low-level property `commit.allowToCreateEmpty` did not work properly
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Setup wizard: show a warning and switch back to Style page when having selected the Standard window, but registered a non-commercial license
SmartGit 24.1 RC 4 (2024-10-18)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Fix Case-Change: allow (partially) for modified files, too
## Fixed Bugs
- Checkout: possible error "Could not resolve HEAD"
- Pull/Push/others: external credential.helper may be overridden even if "Use SmartGit for authentication" was unselected
- Syntax:
- C++: allow 0x0C (Formfeed) as whitespace character
- Shell: emojis break syntax coloring
- Log window:
- Files view (for selected commit): could not drag file to external application, e.g. editor
- Standard window:
- could not drag file to external application, e.g. editor
- internal error clicking certain notifications for which the related repository tab already has been closed
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- updated translations, especially Japanese
SmartGit 24.1 RC 3 (2024-10-10)
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## Fixed Bugs
- Clone, Directory Name input field (Windows): internal error entering a drive letter followed by colon
- Commit dialog: mnemonics for controls after the message input field did not work any more (regression)
- GitLab: possible error "Token was revoked" after updating personal access token in the Preferences
- Log graph: the first filtering caused a noticable flickering
- Split Off Files: setting the low-level property `log.splitOffFiles.prefix` to empty produces commit message starting with "null"
- Syntax:
- Markdown: characters >= 0x80h were not parsed correctly
- Shellscript: backslash in conditional expression was not parsed correctly
- several languages: possible internal error with \ on end of line
SmartGit 24.1 RC 2 (2024-10-07)
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## Fixed Bugs
- Clone: changing a missing Git executable in the occurring preferences dialog required the Clone wizard to be reopened
- Commit dialog: Alt+M does not select message input field, but popup button
- File Compare (Show Changes): line endings could become duplicated if they were stored as CR LF in the repository
- Syntax:
- HTML: incorrect parsing
- Working Tree window: working tree with --separate-git-dir is not correctly refreshed
- Linux:
- maximizing a window remembers the location (0, 0) instead of the previous one
- Ubuntu 24.04: not restoring window's maximized state
SmartGit 24.1 RC 1 (2024-09-26)
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## Fixed Bugs
- Clone: possible unexpected credential helper dialogs and other weird behavior in combination with background refreshs
- Compare, syntax-based-diff: plain text areas were not handled correctly
- File Compare: Export to HTML: produced hard-to-read colors on dark theme
- GitHub: internal error trying to access non-existing repository
- Preferences, Git executable: combobox might not show other options
- proxy environment: catch potential NPE in JDK
- syntax coloring:
- HTML/XML: internal error for invalid syntax which might happen when editing
- Shellscript: incorrect parsing of nested structures
- Standard window:
- Graph: unepected back-and-forth layout if an invisible ref was on one commit
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Standard window:
- "Open in Browser": renamed to "Open in GitHub"
- Pull request from a fork is not shown
SmartGit 24.1 Preview 13 (2024-09-11)
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## Fixed Bugs
- MacOS: notarization was silently broken
- GitHub: for transferred repository, pull requests did not show up
- Syntax:
- Innosetup Script: did not support `{ }` or `(* *)` block comments in `[code]` section
- Standard window:
- pull requests sometimes don't show up
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Standard window:
- GitHub: improved performance for fetching many pull requests
SmartGit 24.1 Preview 12 (2024-09-05)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Changes view: Apply Line should work for equal-size-block, too (similar to File Compare)
- GitHub: ability to select issue similar to JIRA support
- Investigate: optionally follows insignificant merges (experimental)
- Rollback: should work (for Files) in Graph diff mode, too, if one of the selected commits is HEAD
- Standard window:
- Commit: allow Push option also for local (non-tracking) branches
- Directories: Subdirectory Log
- Finish Feature: pull only relevant branches
## Fixed Bugs
- Changes view: misleading "Submodule does not exist" error for non-existing commits
- Git configuration: custom HOME env variable (and thus custom ~/.gitconfig) was not honored anymore
- GitHub:
- internal error when refreshing pull requests
- NPE when author was "ghost" (obsolete user account)
- NPE while iterating pages for Repositories
- Graph: several drag and drop related regressions
- Investigate: possible error "Could not resolve HEAD"
- Remove: should not be enabled for submodules (it's not working anyway)
- Revert: extended rebase logic
- Split Commit: could not commit with Commit dialog (but with Commit view)
- MacOS:
- Repository | Edit Git Config | Repository: could immediately hide the window if the mouse was over a window part that showed a tooltip
- possible umlaut problem
- Standard window:
- internal error when selecting virtual and regular commit
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- About dialog: show license identifier (like Contact Support)
- "External credential helper detected" notification: optionally make SmartGit handle the authentication
- GitHub/GitLab/others: improve error handling
- Index Editor and other windows: improve felt opening performance
- license-server: proxy support
- Preferences:
- Git Config: show paths of detected Git config files
- Stash Selection: improve error handling if selection contains conflicting (= unstashable) files
- update SWT:
- workaround for https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/issues/924
- workaround for performance problem for characters < 0x20
- Working Tree window:
- Branches: show content for bare repositories, too
- Working Tree/Log windows:
- Checkout: for the Stash/Discard dialog in case of local changes, let the user confirm Discard a second time
SmartGit 24.1 Preview 11 (2024-08-22)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Blame/Investigate: honor "diff.renames=copies" when following renames/copies
- Blame: for "View Commit", denotes if the file path has been changed
- Changes View, File Compare: rework "Ignore Whitespace" option(s):
- "Ignore Whitespace" option instead of "Ignore Leading" and "Ignore All"
- Changes view: added toggle button in view header
- the option is automatically reset for local files if a different one is selected (to avoid unintentionally commit unseen whitespace changes); in committed files it is preserved
- Log, Working tree window:
- optionally stage/unstage on double-clicking a local file (Preferences, page "User Interface")
- Preferences:
- Git Executable: added option for using own credential helper (ignoring any system one)
- Linux and macOS:
- bundled Git now comes with ready-to-use LFS configuration like the Windows bundled Git
## Fixed Bugs
- Changes view:
- possible internal error when applying lines for syntax-dependent tokenizing
- Apply Selection: should only be applicable for full line of an added block, not for arbitrary subsets
- GitHub/others:
- Edit dialog continued to reject configuration after having created a token for an overlapping account once
- possible internal error when opening a github.com repository, but having configured an on-premise GitHub Enterprise instance only
- Refresh:
- `.gitattributes` "working-tree-encoding" was not honored
- possibly confusing missing-untracked detection
- is now tolerant for FileSystemLoopException
- External credential helper notification showed wrong config path
- Syntax:
- Java: buggy parsing of text block containing double-quotes
- Shellscript: internal error for herefodc in file with Windows line endings
- Standard window:
- Configure Features: did not save empty feature prefix
- Integrate:
- did not update submodules
- did not work for empyt feature prefix
- Linux:
- bundle still used old Java version
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- update bundled Git to version 2.46.0
- Add Repository: change default of low-level property `repository.suggestMostAppropriateGroup` because the behavior often was unexpected for users
- Changes view:
- Apply Selection: is now tolerant if full line content but line endings has been selected
- Completion: introduce low-level property `completion.useAltAsModifier` to be able to get Alt+Space (instead of Ctrl+Space) working on MacOS if Ctrl+Space is already used by switching keyboard layouts
- JIRA: better default query for "Select from JIRA"
- GitHub: uses new libary Apollo GraphQL
- Log graph:
- Hamburger menu, Author Avatar > Only If Changed: changed default to unselected (raised too many questions by users)
- Proxy: support NO_PROXY and no_proxy environment variables
- Refresh:
- added low-level property `refresh.evaluateContentChangesForModifiedFileMode`
- SSH: removed outdated and unused SSH libraries
- Standard window:
- Pull: optionally allow local modifications by setting low-level property `standard.pull.allowDirtyWt`
- Log window:
- Files: improve table columns for working tree state
- Linux:
- disable SVG support (can be re-enabled with `changesView.showSvgAsText`) because it was not supported on other platforms and was not very good
- WSL: warn for host-mounted repositories
- macOS:
- trying to use the home directory as repository did not work because of file permission issues
SmartGit 24.1 Preview 10 (2024-08-05)
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## New Features, Improvements
- File Log: provide Open link for appropriate hosting provider
- Git-Flow:
- Finish Release: support fast-forward master
- Rebase: when invoking on a commit from the HEAD history, offer to rebase this single commit
- Rebase Continue: warn before applying unstaged working tree changes
## Fixed Bugs
- Azure DevOps: Create Pull Request opened wrong URL
- Git: possible inconsistent processing of gitconfig file
- GitFlow:
- Finish Release with squash did not work for custom base branch
- GitHub (and others):
- refreshing failed for multiple configurations for the same hosting provider
- GitLab: token expires too frequently
- Log graph:
- possible internal error related to invalid commit data, e.g. no author
- dragging a single commit onto its history should offer to Rebase, too
- internal error when clicking bugtraq link
- Preferences, Tools: Add/Edit dialog may grow too large
- Refresh (file monitoring): fix for Windows directory mounts
- Syntax coloring:
- ANTLR: did not support \u{12345} escape
- C#: failed to parse double-quote character literal '"'
- HTML: did not report whitespace correctly
- JavaScript/TypeScript: incorrect lexing of recursive template mode
- JavaScript/TypeScript: failed on @
- Ruby: failed on @
- Shellscript: failed on $
- Swift: failed on @
- Swift: identifiers can contain unicode characters, e.g. emojis
- Log window:
- GitHub (and others):
- fetching pull request did not properly reveal anymore (regression from 23.1)
- Log and Working tree windows:
- show "current" branch for empty repository
- Standard window:
- Commit: for empty repository, show the correct branch which will be used when committing
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- history-related commands: improved message if commit reorganization is not possible/supported
- Preferences:
- Git executable page: show also LFS version
- Setup: ask user (again) which Git executable to use; don't ask if only the bundled git was found
- Syntax coloring:
- Ruby: support heredoc
- Syntax diff: instead of crashing for buggy lexer, highlight remaining part of the file as invalid
SmartGit 24.1 Preview 9 (2024-07-12)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Azure DevOps: include link to profile for Cloud settings dialog
- Changes view, Compare: improved inner-line diff based on syntax of selected language
- Checkout: warn if switching will change `.gitmodules` (it might be harder to switch back; sometimes happens trying to check out the wrong branch by accident)
- Clone, GitHub:
- added options which kind of repositories to query
- more efficient repository query which gives almost all repositories of the old, expensive query
- Log: honor `diff.renames=copies` when following renames/copies
## Fixed Bugs
- Cherry-Pick/Squash Commits: possible internal error related to invalid Git commits
- Hosting Providers: configuration of 23.1 is not properly upgraded (UUIDs are missing)
- Investigate: merged changes are not detected as origin
- Refresh: packed refs/replace were not processed
- Window | Reset Perspective: keeps previous layout
- Syntax:
- Pascal: missed keyword `const`
- Perl: incorrect lexing after slash
- PHP: incorrect lexing
- XML: might be confused by conflict markers
- Standard window:
- Push: `remote.pushDefault` was not honored
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- JIRA: improve authentication dialog for JIRA cloud
- Refresh: check and warn in case of external `credential.helper`
- Log window:
- Branches view: delete multiple stashes using Delete-key
- Working Tree and Log window:
- Push: honor `remote.pushDefault` for new branches
- Standard window:
- Log, Files: commit diff logic should honor the commit times for selection of what's left and right
SmartGit 24.1 Preview 8 (2024-06-26)
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## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Update Git to 2.45.2 fixing some vulnerabilities
SmartGit 24.1 Preview 7 (2024-06-21)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Clone:
- asks for Credential Helper configuration when cloning for the first time
- preselects the repository's *active* branch
- "URL or Path" should be tolerant if the user pastes "git clone <url>"
- Preferences: added option to configure the Credential Helper during a clone
- Standard window:
- Merge/Rebase: are rejected now if there are local changes
- Open in Browser for GitHub repositories
- Syntax:
- C#: support for verbatim, interpolated strings, string escapes, etc.
- HTTP authentication: ensure that SmartGit's own credential helper is called first
- Setup/Register: should handle URLs which are entered into the License File field and vice versa
- Working Tree, Log window:
- Repositories view: added Copy Path context menu item
## Fixed Bugs
- Branch, Rename: must not overwrite other branches differing in case only
- Clone:
- fixed possible internal error when configuring Hosting Provider in on-top dialog
- if the master password was canceled, "Searching..." was still shown
- might have failed to ask for passwords of submodule repositories (Standard window only)
- GitHub:
- Hosting Provider configuration might have failed for specific org setups
- should not warn for multiple accounts anymore (they are supported now)
- HTTP authentication (credential helper):
- fixed multiple, recurring prompts when working with multiple GitHub profiles
- fixed various credential-related problems (regressions since 23.1)
- might have failed if SmartGit needs to be started up
- Log window:
- Copy Name/Path: did nothing on Commit selection
- Reveal: revealing a commit might have hung
- Refresh:
- gitattributes: attributes for the same file might have been processed in the wrong order
- should be tolerant in case of "access denied" for (global) config file
- Standard/Log: staged file which has been untracked-renamed in the working tree did not show up
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Bundled Git rolled back to version 2.43.0 due to LFS-related regressions in version 2.45.1:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.45.2.txt
- gitattributes:
- support for macro attributes (CGit compatibility)
- support for "global" and "system" files (CGit compatibility)
- JRE upgraded to Java 21
- Rollback: added low-level property `rollback.message` to configure/prevent setting the commit message
SmartGit 24.1 Preview 6 (2024-05-23)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Update Git to 2.45.1 fixing some vulnerabilities
## Fixed Bugs
- Changes view:
- Unified view: selection-related operations should only be available if reasonable for the selected "side" type
- internal error when trying to stage "left" block at line 0
- internal error for Unstage Selection for last block in unified diff view
- Log Graph (and Commits view):
- for .mailmap lines containing <>, mapping is not applied
- for email-only .mailmap lines, the original Author name is lost
- Refresh: possible internal error if mailmap.file contains an invalid path
- Standard window:
- adding, e.g., *Reset Advanced* to toolbar fails for "Basic" configuration
- Linux, several text input fields:
- internal error undoing changes after having typed Chinese characters with Pinyin
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Syntax:
- Verilog: add support for more literal formats
- Text editors:
- Find and Replace: should replace the initial selection, too (if matching)
- Move/Select word: added low-level property `styledtext.wordCaretMovementType` to customize the behavior; the `_` will be treated as word-character, e.g. also for double-click
- Standard window:
- Commit view:
- for empty repository, show default branch name (to which the first commit will go)
- file completion: the currently selected file will be preselected (if possible)
SmartGit 24.1 Preview 5 (2024-05-10)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Preferences:
- Git Executable: added option to easier selecting bundled Git
- Standard window:
- Copy URL on current repository tab
- Windows:
- Show case-changed files
- Ability to fix case-changed files
- Local, Files: fine-tuned context menu
## Fixed Bugs
- Files context menu: Submodule | Add should only be applicable on nested roots
- Files: fixed display of case-changed files in Index
- GitHub: notification "could be configured" should only show up for GitHub repositories
- Preferences:
- Updates: options for in-place/light-weight updates was not remembered
- Log window:
- Edit Message: "Select from Log" was only shown for non-HEAD commit
- Standard window:
- possible display of non-existing renamed in Working Tree list, related to case-changes files
- Linux: internal error undoing typed Chinese (and maybe others) characters
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Compare:
- inner-line diff improvements for small equal areas at beginning/end
- inner-line diff improvements for lines with many identical characters
- Files, context menu: group submodule commands, so it is obvious that they are related
- JIRA: improve authentication dialog for JIRA cloud
- Refresh: improved refresh performance for large repositories (UI related)
- Submodules:
- allow to deinit modified submodules
- Standard window:
- double clicking a working tree file defaults to Compare instead of Stage, because it is more defensive
- Files: improve commands in context menu
SmartGit 24.1 Preview 4 (2024-04-16)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Hosting Provider improvements:
- separate configurations for "cloud" and "enterprise"
- GitHub:
- support OAuth-authentication for Git executable with multiple remotes
- show warnings which GitHub reports about OAuth-inaccessible organizations
- Standard window:
- Submodule toolbar button with popup for faster switching to submodule; removed previous Submodule category
## Fixed Bugs
- Clone: URL input field was not preselected if clipboard contained URL
- Directories view (Standard window, Log window): sorting was not case-insensitive as in other parts
- Preferences, Hosting Providers: double-click did not invoke Edit
- Push: internal error when trying to push multiple repositories at once
- Linux, MacOS: cloning from URL did not work (URL was treated as file)
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Clone, Repository selection:
- allow filtering by group
- ability to repository copy URL
- File editor (git config files): optional auto-save
- Hosting providers:
- hid simple providers by default; can be enabled with low-level property
- hid "Use oauth-token for repository authentication (instead of password)" - use low-level properties `*.useTokenForRepositoryAuthentication` for not recommended password access
- Refresh:
- performance improvements for index-only changes, e.g. after Stage
- do not display index path for case-changed directories
- Standard window:
- Commit view: during rebase show the rebased branch instead of "HEAD"
- removed inline help controls
- reduced space between toolbar buttons
- MacOS:
- environment variable detection: invoke shell with interactive option (-i)
SmartGit 24.1 Preview 3 (2024-03-22)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Clone:
- easier cloning from hosting providers
- the hosting provider repositories are shown in a tree structure instead of a table
## Fixed Bugs
- Changes view, Compare, ...: several problems resolved for display of non-US-ASCII characters that are not supported by the selected font
- Hosting providers: for some configurations the Domain input field was missing
- Refresh (config): possible internal error if config file ends after subsection name [CgConfigState.parse Buffer.nextGetIndex BUE (2)]
- MacOS: on some systems the row height of tree and table controls was increased
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Split Commit:
- Continue: if all changes of the original commit were committed, allow to skip the confirmation dialog
- updated SWT
- Standard window:
- Branches: improved anchor branch selection (source vs. target branch) for pull requests
SmartGit 24.1 Preview 2 (2024-03-11)
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## Fixed Bugs
- Standard window:
- Graph view: for multi-selection the commit popup was shown when clicking at ref
- MacOS:
- Commit, Line Length Guides: if the message contained tab characters, the max-length-bars were drawn at wrong position
- environment variable detection failed if `pwsh` was selected
- Windows:
- Commit, Rewrap: wrapped incorrectly
- WSL: if appending Windows path was disabled, browser window could not be opened
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Clone:
- the local path is now split into parent directory and directory name making it easier to place repositories into one or more parent directories
- even for the first repository a path is suggested
- i18n: updated Chinese translation
- Preferences, Hosting Providers, Add: use popup button to select the type of repository
- Repository Search:
- if all repositories and groups were deleted before opening the Repository Search, it will group them by path like the repositories found during the Setup wizard
- Setup wizard: stream-lined
- main window selector became first page
- Git executable and SSH client are configured by default and can be changed in the preferences
- updated SWT
- fixing drawing of non-US-ASCII characters in the Changes view and Compare
- Log and Working Tree windows:
- Files: "Renamed Path" shows new (target) path for rename sources
- Standard window:
- improved keyboard navigation, e.g.
Window | Branches cycles through Ref selector of My History and All Branches + Tag;
Window | Files cycles through Local Files and History Files
SmartGit 24.1 Preview 1 (2024-02-12)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Syntax coloring:
- support for Gettext .po files
- Log window, Standard window:
- added the power-user feature "Rollback To" which allows to set the working tree or index to the one of the selected commit
- Add Remote dialog: for GitHub forked repositories without an upstream remote, it will be suggested
- Standard window:
- added Edit Ignore File to find a Git ignore file that ignores a certain file, or edit one of the Git ignore files
## Fixed Bugs
- Add Remote: dialog should forget failed previous remote if the repository was changed
- Add Submodule wizard: second page could become too wide
- File Tables (Std/Log/WT): when filtering for ignored files, matching files should be displayed
- Preferences:
- Git executable page: Git version was not shown if this page was last used before closing the dialog
- Pull: inactive submodules must not be initialized
- Submodules: if "submodule.<name>.active" can't be parsed, it should be considered active (not inactive)
- Standard window:
- Add Remote did not remember a failed url/name pair
- Graph: context menu may become disabled in case of concurrent background refresh
- Index Files: file sorting should not be influenced by Working tree state
- Linux: the temp directory was not reliably cleared on exit resulting on warnings on the next start
- MacOS:
- File completion did not work at all (no event was sent for Ctrl+Space, using Alt+Space now)
- preferences and other dialogs:
- certain controls, especially labels, checkboxes, radio buttons, comboboxes were vertically misaligned
## Other Noteworthy Changes
- updated bundled Git to version 2.43.0
- Background Fetch: initialized submodules are fetched now even if deactivated
- Changes view:
- Goto Prev/Next Change: won't move the caret into the opposite direction, e.g. if caret is before first/after last change in file
- Changes view, Compare, Conflict Solver, ...:
- the focused selection color is now kept until a different text control is getting focused (before even showing a context menu or the Find file dialog caused the harder to see unfocused color to be used)
- JIRA resolve dialog: improved texts
- Push: for a forced push the confirmation branch shows the branch name
- Repository Search: starting a manual search aborts now the automatic one
- startup logging to console has been reduced
- Submodule | Deactivate: works now on multiple selected submodules
- Syntax coloring:
- Markdown: several improvements and fixes for quotes, underscores and <links>
- Verilog: several improvements and fixes for number literals without bit count, or with ?xz states, backtick constants, missing keywords, identifiers starting with underscores
- Standard window:
- the Commit button is now disabled if there is definitely nothing to commit
- Open in Browser (GitHub): when invoked on commit, open <project>/commit/<sha> instead of <project>/tree/<sha>
- Ignore: should only be available for ignorable files
- tabs:
- the middle-mouse-click should trigger on non-dragged mouse-released
- the left-mouse-click should only select if no modifier is pressed
- the left-mouse-click with Shift held should close the tab (similar to middle-mouse-click)
- Working Tree window:
- if a subdirectory inside an open repository is selected, the title will keep showing the repository