git-cola v2.2¶
Usability, bells and whistles¶
Double-click will now choose a commit in the “Select commit” dialog.
git cola has a feature that reads .git/MERGE_MSG and friends for the commit message when a merge is in-progress. Upon refresh, git cola will now detect when a merge has completed and reset the commit message back to its previous state. It is only reset if the editor contains a message that was read from the file and has not been manually edited by the user.
The commit message editor’s context menu now has a “Clear…” action for clearing the message across both the summary and description fields.
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation updates.
The system theme’s icons are now used whereever possible.
Fixes¶
The stash viewer now uses
git show --no-ext-diff
to avoid running user-configured diff tools.git cola now uses the setsid() system call to ensure that the GIT_ASKPASS and SSH_ASKPASS helper programs are used when pushing changes using git. The askpass helpers will now be used even when git cola is launched from a terminal.
The behavior without setsid() is that git cola can appear to hang while pushing changes. The hang happens when git prompts the user for a password using the terminal, but the user never sees the prompt. setsid() detaches the terminal, which ensures that the askpass helpers are used.
https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/218
git dag’s file list tool was updated to properly handle unicode paths.
gnome-terminal is no longer used by default when cola.terminal is unset. It is broken, as was detailed in #456.
The interactive rebase feature was not always setting $GIT_EDITOR to the value of gui.editor, thus there could be instances where rebase will seem to not stop, or hang, when performing “reword” actions.
We now set the $GIT_EDITOR environment variable when performing the “Continue”, “Skip”, and “Edit Todo” rebase actions so that the correct editor is used during the rebase.
Packaging¶
- git cola moved from a 3-part version number to a simpler 2-part “vX.Y” version number. Most of our releases tend to contain new features.