release/0.12.16

What's Changed

• Renamed "Trunk" to "Target" in the UI as it is a more clear term. Added an on-hover help text for it
• Moved the buttons for "pushing" and "integrating upstream" to be part of the commit group they refer to, instead of the bottom of the lane
• When a branch is being unapplied the app will no longer ask for a branch name confirmation
• Removes a condition where if there are merge conflicts the app may create multiple copies of a branch that is being unapplied (suffixed with -1 -2 etc)
• Fixes an issue where unapplied branches with no uncommitted changes get unnecessary "WIP" commits
• Fixes an issue where in some cases, Pull Requests are not attributed to the correct branch
• Fixes an issue where remote branch links are incorrect when the remote is an Azure one
• Fixes a bug where reordering branch lanes causes the UI to freeze up
• Updated dark mode illustrations/colors

Full Changelog: release/0.12.15...release/0.12.16

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release/0.12.15

What's Changed

• Adds a "copy link" context menu on the PR button
• Fixes a bug where in some rare cases the UI can freeze up
• Fixes a UI issue where when a branch lane is minimized context menus are not close

Full Changelog: release/0.12.14...release/0.12.15

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release/0.12.14

What's Changed

• Fixes an issue where in some cases updating the workspace base causes a "Something went wrong" error, putting the application in a failed state

Full Changelog: release/0.12.13...release/0.12.14

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release/0.12.13

What's Changed

• Small performance improvements for repositories with larger indexes (many tracked files)
• Fixes a condition under which fetching from the remote will silently fail
• Fixes the auto-fetching from remote(s) every 15 mins
• Fixes a UI bug where performing commit actions (eg. create/undo) would erroneously scroll into view the last selected file, if it is off screen
• Fix: correctly handle the case when the project operations log / history has no entries in it
• UI: The integrations tab in the main settings is enabled even when not logged it
• Fixes an issue where the UI allows attempting to amend a hunk with a dependency into a commit that is before the commit that it depends on
• Fixes an issue with the operations log / project history where under some conditions it will fail to open (related to merge conflicts)

New Contributors

• @JMonsorno made their first contribution in #4428

Full Changelog: release/0.12.12...release/0.12.13

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release/0.12.12

What's Changed

• Fixes an issue where in some conditions you can get "Something went wrong" screen (Under the hood this improves the handling when there is a hunk which depends on committed changes from multiple branches)
• Fixes a bug when setting the remote branch name in Chinese the normalized branch name is incorrect
• Fixes a bug where the app is not correctly auto-fetching from the remote at a 15min interval
• Fixes a bug that breaks the flow of adding a new repository to the app
• Fixes a bug that prevents switching between projects
• Fixes a bug where in some situations, a branch is incorrectly detected to be from a separate fork
• UI: Fixes a bug where in some cases commit avatar icons are not fetched

Full Changelog: release/0.12.11...release/0.12.12

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release/0.12.11

What's Changed

• Fixes a UI bug preventing dragging of a file or a diff while scrolling
• Makes the PR button disabled when no git host integration is available
• Fixes a bug with the sync button where it was not updating the base branch
• Fixes a UI bug where the PR numbers are shown incorrectly
• Fixes a UI bug where the PR button is not showing the correct label

Full Changelog: release/0.12.10...release/0.12.11

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release/0.12.10

What's Changed

• Performance improvements when fetching from remotes
• UI: Improves the loading of commit author avatar icons
• Fixes a bug where the "generate branch name" option was not working
• Adds a button for creating a virtual branch from the "up to date" state
• Overhauled GitHub integration - mostly under the hood changes, but also solves bugs where the GitHub state is was synchronized correctly in the app

Full Changelog: release/0.12.9...release/0.12.10

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release/0.12.9

What's Changed

New

• Un-applying a virtual branch will now create a regular branch - this makes it easier to switch back and forth between using gitbutler and the git cli
• Improves secrets handling - the app will now use the OS-specific secure store (credential manager)
• Removes the git authentication flow using an ssh key generated by the app, in favor of the default fork-exec-ing to the system git binary

Windows:

• Fixes Windows specific bug where in some cases prompting for ssh passwords doesn't work

Linux:

• Fixes a Linux-specific regression in 0.12.7 that was making the UI unresponsive
• The app is now also bundled as an RPM for Linux users who use Fedora/CentOS-style distributions

Fixes:

• Fixes a bug with incorrectly detecting Git repositories as GitHub ones
• Fixes issues related to reporting of the CI status on branches with pull requests
• Fixes a bug where missing remote branch is not handled gracefully
• Fixes an issue where the app creates more log files than the limit of 14
• Updated the application log format to GitButler..log

UI:

• Drag and drop of changes and commits has an updated UI, making it easier to see the drop targets
• Fixes a UI bug in the "Push" button where in some cases it was showing an incorrect label
• Fixes a UI bug where the project selector has projects with long names overflowing
• UI: Select components will now be searchable (e.g. long list of branches to select from)
• UI: Updated programming language icons used on files

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New Contributors

• @Lukylix made their first contribution in #4121

Full Changelog: release/0.12.7...release/0.12.9