Open Sourcing

The GitFiend Support repo now contains 2 of 3 parts of the GitFiend source. This includes the core service and main window and packaging code. The benefit of this is you can now build and package GitFiend for whatever platform and architecture you want. The frontend is included but minified for now.

Fixes

• Remember zoom setting after restart. Use default zoom keys to try avoid issues with different keyboard layouts
  #200 #202
• Fix a bug where GitFiend wouldn't launch if a certain dll was missing
  #204
• Remove buggy retry button from the missing Git dialog
  #197
• Apple Silicon version no longer contains an Intel build of gitfiend-core
• Truncate very long lines of code to fix a case where the UI can freeze for a while
• Fix a bug where option to merge was missing #205

Misc

I went on a tangent and wrote another UI library (named Cottontail) after realising UI updates and state changes can be optimised to run once per frame. I then ported the frontend of GitFiend (and this website) to use it to validate the idea. It's much smaller, faster and easier to write than React for highly dynamic UI like GitFiend has. You can find it here if you care.

Fixes

• Fix submodule regression where the toolbar would show a branch wasn't published

Improvements

• New option to split the code viewer into 2 panes. This can be toggled from the commit context menu when a commit is fully expanded.
• Support reduced motion when detected #170
• Show app name in title bar #171
• Added context menu and commit navigation arrows to changes UI
• Speed up repo loading and refreshing. This makes a large difference to the preview workspaces feature

Fixes

• Fix bug where changes didn't show if they contained non-utf8 characters. These files will now display, though fine-grained committing is disabled
  #180
• Fix bug where commit contents didn't show due to custom colour settings in .gitconfig
  #182
• Fix bug where git-lfs wasn't found in path. This should also fix other related path issues
  #183
• Fix bug where branches didn't show when a branch filter is applied
• Fix bug where cherry-pick isn't available for commits ahead of your current branch
• Fix bug where gitfiend could show the wrong file changes for a small time
• Fix regression to submodules
  #189
• Fix bug where the deleted and modified file branches could be reversed in a merge conflict message
  #190

Fixes

• Fix some cases where changed files wouldn't show
  #163 #168

Improvements

• Significantly reduce how long it takes to commit lots of files #164
• Fix bug where no changes are shown when a file type is changed (e.g. symlink to file) #163

Improvements

• Fix performance issue in some repos #162
• Fix bug where commit message wasn't cleared after committing #160

This release brings some long requested features as well as bug fixes. Note: Preview features need to be enabled from Menu > View > Preview Features.

Features

• Git Reset. Right-click the commit you want to reset to. Shows a dialog explaining what will happen and let you pick the reset mode if applicable #115
• Discard changes for selected files #155, #156
• Preview Feature: Squash commits. This lets you squash un-pushed commits into one.
• Preview Feature: Extract changes. This lets you extract changes from another branch (merge and squash)
• Preview Feature: Auto-complete in input fields. This gives you auto-complete for words found in your repo

Improvements and Fixes

• Layout improvements for when the window is wide #142
• Fixed the display of changes in renamed files in commits #154
• Don't discard locked files when discarding all changes #122
• Switch to commits view after applying a filter
• Lots of misc UI improvements including tooltips, wording
• Improvements to the commit graph and how un-pushed commits are shown
• Misc improvements to the preview workspaces feature

Search

Search is now out of preview and always enabled. This lets you quickly search your repos history for code, files, text in commit messages, branches and user names. You can then go to those commits or apply filters. Access search from the main toolbar or with ctrl/cmd-f.

Other Improvements

• Branches view has been improved with a new search box and local and remote branches displayed separately. The branches view and the branch dropdown have also been unified.
• Added arm64 app image for Linux #143
• Added option to remove a changed file from Git tracking
• Submodules are now automatically checked out when cloning
• Lots of improvements to the preview workspaces feature

Fixes

• Fix blank merge conflict when the file was an image or binary #138
• Fix bug where the wrong image could show in commit when it shared the same name as other files #147

Fixes

• Fix bug where the last line in a file would appear changed when it hadn't #134
• Fix regression where GitFiend would show no feedback for a user action that failed
• Fix bug where some actions would show a spinner that never ends

Improvements

• Improve performance of merge conflict view a lot when dealing with large files
• Add controls for switching between commits when a commit is fullscreen. This pairs well with a file filter applied to see the history for a specific file
• Include line endings when copying code out of a commit #129
• Fix bug where Git wasn't found on some systems #132
• Lots of improvements to preview search feature
• Misc bug fixes

Improvements

• Welcome page improvements, including a new button for creating a repo #130
• Fix a dependency problem on some linux distributions preventing GitFiend from running #132
• Fix a bug where a remote name could be incorrectly called 'origin' #131
• Reduce noisy output when GitFiend is being run from the command line #133

This version of GitFiend comes with performance improvements and fixes (Performance will vary depending on your machine and repositories). I've been working hard to re-architect GitFiend for speed/size (including writing the core in Rust), upcoming features, and independence from certain libraries that have a been a source of bugs. I hope to be more focused on features and feedback soon.

Other Improvements

• Lots of improvements to preview search feature
• Remove restriction that .git in a repo must be a folder #49
• Add a warning dialog for version 1.x of Git #127
• Stop bundling Git in Windows version
• Fix bug where changed files could appear blank
• Fix a bug where committing a selection of lines in a file doesn't refresh until later
• Fix a bug where commits with multiple authors may not display