GitDesktop Files

Added

• AI ignore lists now honor ! un-ignore lines with full gitignore semantics — and a repo's committed .gitdesktop/aiignore can never re-expose a file your global patterns exclude.
• Findings tab: browse a GitHub repo's open Dependabot alerts (grouped by package, with severity, affected range, and first patched version) and its security advisories without leaving the app — with a direct path to turn scanning on when it's off.
• Pull-request conflicts, surfaced and resolved in-app. A remote pull request now shows whether it merges cleanly into its base — as GitHub and GitLab report it, and as a local prediction on Bitbucket — with a Conflicts chip on the open rows in the list. When it doesn't, Resolve conflicts merges the base into the PR's head in a hidden isolated worktree, leaving your branch and working tree untouched: resolve the files in the in-app conflict editor, then Finish & push updates the pull request's head branch (never force-pushed). Discard throws the attempt away, and an unfinished resolution is offered back when you return to the pull request.
• Stack management: when your open GitHub pull requests already form a chain, the PR view offers to make a stack of them — or to add them to the stack that PR sits on — showing exactly what will be stacked, bottom to top, before anything happens; Dissolve takes a stack apart again and leaves every pull request open on its branch. The Edit dialog can also retarget a pull request's base branch on GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.
• Stacked pull requests: stack position badges in the PR list, a stack navigator on the PR view (GitHub native stacks; GitLab stacked MRs detected automatically), and, on GitHub, stack-aware merging that merges a stack bottom-up as one operation.
• Stash and reapply: when a pull or branch update is blocked by uncommitted changes — or you switch branches with work in progress — GitDesktop offers to stash them (untracked files included), run the operation, and reapply them on the other side. A reapply that hits conflicts lands the files in the changes list; one that can't run at all leaves them safely stashed — the backup stash is kept either way. Automatically stash and reapply on pull and branch updates (Settings → General) makes it the default for both, and the branch-switch prompt remembers a Reapply after switching choice of its own.
• Worktree context menu in the branch dropdown. Right-click a worktree row to open it, copy its path, rename, lock or unlock, promote to the main workspace, or delete it — worktree management right where the worktrees are listed, no dialog detour. The Worktrees dialog's own row menu gains Copy path too.

Changed

• AI ignore patterns now filter staged and branch diffs through Git's own ignore engine, matching .gitignore semantics exactly — and a renamed file is hidden entirely when either its old or new name matches.
• One name for deleting a worktree. The branch row's Remove worktree… action is now Delete worktree…, matching the Worktrees dialog and the new worktree-row menu, so the same action reads the same wherever you find it.

Fixed

• Dialogs that generate text with AI no longer let you save past a suggestion that is still being written. Create branch, Rename branch, the repository General settings on GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket, and the task editor now keep their confirm button (and the Enter key) disabled until the suggestion lands. Closing either branch dialog also cancels the suggestion instead of leaving it running, which previously let a late result drop into the name field the next time the dialog opened — even when it was naming a different branch.
• The Commit button now finishes the moment your commit lands. It no longer waits for pull request, issue, and CI lists to refresh over the network first — a wait that could stretch to minutes on a slow connection.
• Switching to a different file while an AI conflict resolution is still streaming now stops that resolution instead of leaving it running unseen against your AI provider.
• AI review automations no longer double-run a pull request that was already reviewed when a second GitDesktop window or instance — or a restarted dev session — watches the same repository: automation decisions now read the review history on disk instead of a stale in-memory copy.
• Hide AI features now also pauses your configured automations — while AI is hidden, nothing new runs or posts review comments, and Settings → General notes when automations you've turned on are paused. Your rules are kept and start firing again the moment you show AI features. The PR review panel also no longer fetches your provider's model catalog until you open the model picker.
• Deleting a locked worktree now works, and a refused deletion says so. A locked worktree is removed for real — folder and git registration together — instead of leaving a ghost entry stuck in the worktree list. When git declines a deletion (the worktree is locked, or holds uncommitted work), GitDesktop reports why and leaves the folder untouched, so you can unlock it or confirm the forced delete. Renaming a locked worktree is blocked up front too — the menu item says why, and Unlock is the way through — instead of failing with a raw git error.
• GitDesktop's MCP server now speaks the current protocol revision. Clients that negotiate the 2026-07-28 revision of the Model Context Protocol get correctly formed tool results, so newer agents connect to the server cleanly.
• GitDesktop's MCP server now identifies itself by name. Agents and MCP clients list the connected server as GitDesktop, at the app's own version, instead of the name and version of the underlying SDK.
• Continuing a conflicted merge records just your merge message. Git's # Conflicts: comment block stays out of the commit, so what lands — and what everyone reads on the forge — is the message you meant. GitDesktop cleans that message the way git's own editor flow does, so any line that starts with # is dropped from a merge message you wrote yourself; a # mid-line, like the issue reference in Fix #42, is left alone.
• Staged and unstaged diffs now get the same VSCode-fidelity syntax highlighting as every other diff surface for TSX, JSX, Rust, Astro, Svelte, and other TextMate-highlighted languages — including very large diffs, which now highlight off the UI thread.