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New features
- Automatic background fetch across open repositories and worktrees. Disabled by default, with a configurable interval from 5 minutes to 24 hours. Repository tabs show incoming commit counts, and the Pull menu shows fetch status and failures.
- Bare repository support: browse history, files and diffs, manage remotes and linked worktrees, and convert a bare repository into a regular checkout.
- Edit commit messages from Commit details, including eligible older commits. Includes keyboard shortcuts and confirmation when rewriting published history.
- History focus: focus the graph on selected branches or remotes, with support for multiple selections and saved preferences.
- Hide remotes and tool-generated refs from history. Common agent checkpoints, review refs and Git bookkeeping refs are hidden by default, with individual controls and custom namespaces.
- Open branches in new worktrees directly from branch menus, or open the existing worktree when a branch is already checked out.
- Razor and Blazor syntax highlighting in editors and diffs.
Workflow improvements
- Removing a worktree now keeps its local branch by default; branch deletion is an explicit option.
- Pull fetches the selected upstream branch instead of fetching every remote branch. Use Fetch All to refresh other branches and prune stale refs.
- Added and deleted files show only their existing side, including image comparisons.
- Tag fetching has its own setting under Remotes, independent of tag visibility in history.
- Force-push confirmation stays tied to the remote commit originally shown, protecting against intervening remote changes.
- git-annex shows a confirmation banner for special remotes requiring location approval.
- File-editor Save and Cancel actions move to the bottom action bar.
Fixes
- Fixed CRLF text selection, wrapping and copying across diff, preview, editor and conflict views.
- Fixed Reflog rendering while the embedded terminal is open.
- Fixed file history for staged renames and rename detection for files moved without git mv.
- Fixed image previews for files without filename extensions.
- Combined diffs now require consecutive commits, avoiding misleading results for selections with gaps or across branches.
- Fixed staging and discard behavior when files are replaced by directories, protecting unrelated untracked and ignored files.
- Fixed commit diffs, file history and rebase lists when log.showSignature is enabled.
- Fixed worktree removal involving submodule changes and parsing under different Git locales.
Performance and extension support
- Reduced repeated Git process launches during diff operations and unnecessary work during pane resizing, undo/redo, syntax highlighting and status refreshes.
- Reduced per-line bookkeeping for large full-file previews.
- Extensions can reveal commits, open terminals at specific folders, list and activate terminal tabs, add history-mark menus and menu tooltips, and receive menu-close notifications.
- Updated dependencies, removed unused dependencies, and added contributor AI-policy documentation.
Commits
- fix(git): keep log.showSignature out of parsed git output by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/652
- fix(staging): keep a directory that replaced a file out of stage and discard by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/653
- fix(history): read a staged rename's file history under its old name by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/654
- fix(comparison): pair a move made without git mv into one rename by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/655
- feat(extensions): list the embedded terminal's tabs and bring one to … by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/657
- fix(history): show a merged diff only for consecutive commits by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/656
- fix(diff): show an image named without an extension as an image by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/659
- feat(extensions): let a hosted menu entry carry a tooltip by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/660
- feat(extensions): tell an extension when its menu closes by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/661
- Feat/history mark menu by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/664
- Feat/extension reveal commit by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/662
- feat(worktree): add from branches, keep branch on remove by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/658
- docs: list Ubuntu build dependencies in one install step by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/667
- feat(extensions): open a terminal at a folder for an extension by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/663
- build(deps): bump Swatinem/rust-cache from 2.9.2 to 2.9.3 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/669
- build(deps): bump actions/setup-python from 7.0.0 to 7.1.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/670
- perf: reduce redundant work in undo, syntax reparse, status, and pane drags. replace unmaintained deps by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/668
- Added AI Policy by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/673
- Add a "focus" history filter and allow hiding remotes from git history log by @davidbuzz in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/494
- wip: style changes by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/672
- feat: edit a commit's message from commit details by @jeffwelder-ellenbytech in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/643
- Fix/pull single ref by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/679
- Fix/worktree removal exact path by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/680
- Automatic background fetch by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/681
- Fix/always show added or removed files in full size by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/686
- Perf/small performance fixes by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/687
- Feat/razor view syntax highlight by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/692
- fix: handle CRLF selection consistently across content views by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/694
- fix: Reflog does not render with the embedded terminal open. by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/693
- new option to hide tool refs from git log graph by @Havunen in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/696
New Contributors
- @davidbuzz made their first contribution in https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/pull/494
Full Changelog: https://github.com/Auto-Explore/GitComet/compare/v0.3.2...v0.3.3
