What's new in git-gui

What's new in git-gui

[Shawn O. Pearce]

I just released git-gui 0.7.5 to the usual location:

  gitweb:  http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/
  clone:   git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
           http://repo.or.cz/r/git-gui.git

Changes since git-gui 0.7.4 (currently in git.git maint):

Gerrit Pape (1):
      git-gui: properly popup error if gitk should be started but is not installed

Shawn O. Pearce (9):
      git-gui: Unlock the index when cancelling merge dialog
      git-gui: Don't bind F5/M1-R in all windows
      git-gui: Bind M1-P to push action
      git-gui: Include a Push action on the left toolbar
      git-gui: Ensure windows shortcuts always have .bat extension
      git-gui: Skip nicknames when selecting author initials
      git-gui: Correct ls-tree buffering problem in browser
      git-gui: Don't linewrap within console windows
      git-gui: Work around bad interaction between Tcl and cmd.exe on ^{tree}

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In addition to the above the git-gui 0.8.0 development line is
progressing along nicely.  Most of the changes have been focused
around new branch management features, including deleting remote
branches, switching to a detached HEAD, and creating branches from
a detached HEAD.

There is also some limited support for a "bound branch" concept.
Users can now create (or recreate) a local branch whose name
matches the name of a tracking branch.  During the creation (and
optional checkout) git-gui will fetch the tracking branch and then
fast-forward or reset the local branch to match it.


The master branch has the following changes since 0.7.5 and
gitgui-0.7.4-21-g03d2562 (currently in git.git master):

Junio C Hamano (1):
      git-gui: use "blame -w -C -C" for "where did it come from, originally?"

Shawn O. Pearce (41):
      Merge branch 'maint'
      Merge branch 'maint'
      git-gui: Start blame windows as tall as possible
      git-gui: Correct resizing of remote branch delete dialog
      Merge branch 'maint'
      git-gui: Honor rerere.enabled configuration option
      git-gui: New Git version check support routine
      Merge branch 'maint'
      git-gui: Teach class system to support [$this cmd] syntax
      git-gui: Abstract the revision picker into a mega widget
      git-gui: Refactor the delete branch dialog to use class system
      git-gui: Optimize for newstyle refs/remotes layout
      git-gui: Maintain remote and source ref for tracking branches
      git-gui: Allow users to match remote branch names locally
      git-gui: Fast-forward existing branch in branch create dialog
      git-gui: Enhance choose_rev to handle hundreds of branches
      git-gui: Sort tags descending by tagger date
      git-gui: Option to default new branches to match tracking branches
      git-gui: Automatically refresh tracking branches when needed
      git-gui: Better handling of detached HEAD
      git-gui: Refactor our ui_status_value update technique
      git-gui: Refactor branch switch to support detached head
      git-gui: Unabbreviate commit SHA-1s prior to display
      git-gui: Default selection to first matching ref
      git-gui: Allow double-click in checkout dialog to start checkout
      git-gui: Extract blame viewer status bar into mega-widget
      git-gui: Change the main window progress bar to use status_bar
      git-gui: Show a progress meter for checking out files
      git-gui: Always use absolute path to all git executables
      git-gui: Correct gitk installation location
      git-gui: Assume unfound commands are known by git wrapper
      git-gui: Treat `git version` as `git --version`
      git-gui: Perform our own magic shbang detection on Windows
      git-gui: Teach console widget to use git_read
      git-gui: Improve the Windows and Mac OS X shortcut creators
      Merge branch 'maint'
      git-gui: Paper bag fix for Cygwin shortcut creation
      git-gui: Use sh.exe in Cygwin shortcuts
      git-gui: Include a space in Cygwin shortcut command lines
      Merge branch 'maint'
      git-gui: Change prior tree SHA-1 verification to use git_read


-- 
Shawn.