GitX-dev Release Notes

Changes since 0.15.1962

• Break responder loop that crashes repository window on OS X 10.10

Changes since 0.15.1949

• Fix crash when trying to browse for a remote (#255, #370)
• Fix changes to newly added files never showing up in the commit view.
• Merge pull request #367 (Debilski): Stylistic typographic changes.
• Make commit searches that include a lot of results exponentially faster.

Changes since 0.15.1899

• Merge pull request #332 (ksuther): Fix empty history view after update due to threading glitch.
• Merge pull request #280 (nanoant): New sidebar icons.
• Merge pull request #333 (muhqu): Another fix for #310 - diff highlighter breaks on some strings.
• Merge pull request #295 (tiennou): Fix crash when cancelling the new repository dialog. (#220, #255, #275) Also thanks to (jdelStrother) and (ksuther) for their fixes.
• Always show HEAD commit in the all-branches and local history views.
• Merge pull request #362 (opinxit): Add links to 'top' of History view after each diff.

Changes since 0.15.1884

• Fix #303, #313, #324 : Graph corruption due to out-of-order commits.
• Merge pull request #320 (dgreensp): Fix #310 - diff highlighter breaks on some strings.
• Fix #311: Fix a crash on OS X Lion.
• Fix #315: Better font for ref labels and reduce 'bevel' appearance.
• Fix #315 (pipelineoptika): Fix ref label sub-pixel alignment on non-retina screens.
• Fix #329: Potential fix for sometimes-missing 'dots' in history view.
• Fix #312: Don't show remote symbolic references (i.e. origin/HEAD).
• Merge pull request #325 (muhqu) - Fixed some changes in word highlighting.
• Insert files dragged into the commit message as relative paths.

Changes since 0.15.1869

• Fix #315: Generally lighter theme for ref labels, much more saturated colours for history lanes.
• Fix #317: Context menu to delete remote refs was disabled.
• Fix #318: Context menus for remote-tracking branches broken (push/pull shortcuts).
• Merge pull request #325 (muhqu) - Fixed some changes in word highlighting.

Changes since 0.14.95

• As part of ongoing work for issue #2, repository loading now uses objective-git to read directly from disk instead of parsing command-line output.
  This has resulted in substantial performance and reliability improvements for larger repositories, as well as a new, better sorting of the commit tree.
• Tweaked several icon graphics for better contrast, along with some style updates to the commit tree.
• Improved the "Find" and "Find next" keyboard shortcuts in the history view.
• Merge pull request #243 (muhqu) - Add changed-word highlighting to diffs.
• Merge pull request #281 (codiophile) - Add Xcode git path (/usr/bin/git) to the search paths.
• Fixed a crash when a pre-commit hook failed and the "Force Commit" button was pressed

Changes since 0.14.92

• Fix #207, #210 dyld: Library not loaded errors in GitX and command-line tools
• Fix #208 cannot form weak reference crash on OS X 10.7 Lion

Changes since 0.14.86

• Merge pull request #193 (tiennou) - Fixing many warnings and conventions
• Merge pull request #198 (tiennou) - Fixing more NSDocument convetions
• Merge pull request #204 (j15e) - Redirect the help menu to the fork website
• Merge pull request #206 (j15e) - Clean up the About screen
• Merge pull request #203 (jdelStrother) - Update to Gist v3 API
• Merge pull request #190 (afh) - More updated and retina-resolution graphics resources

Changes since 0.14.85

• Merge pull request #179 (threebytesfull) - Disallow drag to web views
• Merge pull request #169 (kfb) - show SVN revsion column where a git-svn remote is configured
• Merge pull request #182 (afh) - many new icons and graphics, including Retina support

Changes since 0.14.84

• Merge pull request #121 (jdelStrother) - Hide notes refs in the log view
• Merge pull request #181 (afh) - Add ability to collapse and expand a diff
• Fixes for issue #183 - History view performance on large repositories

Changes since 0.14.83

• Merge pull request #156 (elia) - Add keyboard shortcuts for commit view actions (cmd-s stage, cmd-u unstage, cmd-opt-a toggle amend)
• Merge pull request #167 (sas71) - Tone down logging to console of no-op repository watcher events

Changes since 0.14.82

• Merge pull request #148 (claytonrcarter) - Add context menu item to copy short SHA
• Merge pull request #158, fixes issue #157 (micampe) - Improve repository loading and refresh performance

Changes since 0.14.81

• Updates to upstream components libgit2, Objective-Git and Sparkle.
• Fix a crash due to bad parsing of unicode commit messages.
• Reconstructed build and update deployment on a new server. Made several stages into re-usable scripts (in the GitX repo) for the community at large.

Changes since 0.14.80

• Fix for issue #140 - Command line gitx only working at the top-level working directory.

Changes since 0.14.70

• Distribute updates as .dmg bundles, significantly reducing download size
• Bypass CDN for update checks, reducing regional latency in finding new versions by up to 24 hours
• Fix for issue #137 - Pushing tags to remotes via context menu

Changes since 0.14.64

• More code signing changes
• Fix for issue #131 - Minor patch to upstream objective-git for submodule handling

Changes since 0.14.63

• Fix for issue #131 - Check for NULL repository before listing submodules

Changes since 0.14.62

• Fix another instance of opening the same repository multiple times
• Improve handling of bare repositories
• Sort file list in tree view like Finder does

Changes since 0.14.61

• Fix for issue #132 - Move to Trash action refreshes the list of files automatically
• Restore the preference checkbox to enable repository file watcher
• Fix for issue #127 - Syntax highlighting restored for Objective-C

Changes since 0.14.57

• Fix for issue #119 - sort tags and other refs numerically (like Finder would)
• Fix for issue #111 - add Move to Trash menu item for unversioned files under Mountain Lion
• Updates to upstream components libgit2, Objective-Git and Sparkle.

Changes since 0.14.56

• Simplify launch behaviour, window restoration, and pop-ups
• Fix issue with non-git directories being added to recents

Changes since 0.14.51

• Merge pull request #88, fixes issue #27 (magicseth) - Add submodules to the sidebar
• Merge pull request #95 (nanoant) - Fix broken .cpp highlighting
• Merge pull request #96 (nanoant) - Consistent source views, including better layout of unknown text

Changes since 0.14.50

• Merge pull request #82 (magicseth) - Fix label dragging on Retina macs
• Merge pull request #86, fixes issue #26 (magicseth) - Fix GitX crash where .git is not a directory

Changes since 0.14.46

• Improvement for issue #80 - GitX hangs at startup if xcrun is not configured

Changes since 0.14.40

• Fix for issue #69 - disable automatic spelling correction in commit message, but enable spelling and grammar checking (underlines) and automatic link substitution
• Fix for issue #66 - try to locate git binary with xcrun
• Fix for issue #72 - add ability to open links in commit messages in default browser

Changes since 0.14.39

• Fix "Display Image" links in history view

Changes since 0.14.38

• Fix for issue #63 - commit message font and indenting was inconsistent with the rest of the commit details

Changes since 0.14.37

• Added a prototype fix for issue #9 - should significantly reduce bogus re-loading of the repo history
• Updated to upstream ObjectiveGit
• Updated to upstream libgit2
• Updated to upstream Sparkle

Changes since 0.14.34

• Merge pull request #62, fixes issue #61 (RomainMuller) - change commit key equivalent to Cmd+Return

Changes since 0.14.33

• Work on issue #9 - ignore changes to *.lock files when listening for repository changes

Changes since 0.14.30

• Fixed issue #53 - stop “Failed to lookup reference...” errors

Changes since 0.14.29

• Merge pull request #52 (mczepiel) - use fixed-width font for SHA columns in the history view

Changes since 0.14.27

• Merge pull request #49 (mczepiel) - better display of subject field when it's very narrow

Changes since 0.14.25

• Fix for issue #41 - tags not appearing in the history view
• Merge pull request #42 (mczepiel) - link tile bar icon to the working directory, not the (hidden) .git directory
• Merge pull request #43 (mczepiel) - add a second line to the commit message view as a format guide

Changes since 0.14.23

• Update to upstream objective-git and libgit2, fixes errors due to user .gitconfig format parsing

Changes since 0.14.21

• Fix reported instances of error sheets not displaying for failed git operations

Changes since 0.14.20

• Fixed a crash when deleting a named reference (branch, tag) in an open repository from outside GitX (i.e. by command-line tools)

Changes since 0.14.19

• Fixed a crash in gitx command-line tool when run without a working directory

Changes since 0.14.16

• Launching the gitx command-line tool now works as expected in subdirectories of a git repository
• More regular usage of libgit2 and objective-git in continued effort to remove git command-line usage.

GitX - development 0.14.16

Automated Deployment

This build is part of the automated deployment of GitX builds. Under this system, code and resource changes pushed to the GitHub repository are automatically built and pushed out for in-app updates.

Recent Changes

• Resolved many broken dialogs and screens, like Add Remote... or Push [branch] to...
• Finished automated deployment system, dramatically reducing the overhead between fixing a bug and getting a new build out to users
• Fixed some issues with the command-line gitx utility
• Added OS X Lion full-screen support to the main window