Git-cola

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Usability, bells and whistles
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* We now provide better feedback when `git push` fails.
(`69 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/69>`_)

* The Fetch, Push, and Pull dialogs now give better feedback
when interacting with remotes. The dialogs are modal and
a progress dialog is used.

Fixes
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* More Unicode fixes, again. It is now possible to have
Unicode branch names, repository paths, home directories, etc.
This continued the work initiated by Redhat's bugzilla 694806.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806

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Usability, bells and whistles
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* The `git cola` desktop launchers now prompt for a repo
by default. This is done by using the new `--prompt`
flag which tells `git cola` to ignore any git repositories
in the current directory and prompt for one instead.

Fixes
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* More Unicode fixes for repositories and home directories with
embedded Unicode characters. Thanks to Christian Jann for
patience and helpful bug reports.

* Fix the 'Clone' button in the startup dialog.

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Usability, bells and whistles
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* Faster startup time! `git cola` now offloads initialization
to a background thread so that the GUI appears almost instantly.

* Specialized diff options for p4merge, vimdiff, araxis, emerge,
and ecmerge in difftool (backported from git.git).

Fixes
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* Fix launching commands in the background on Windows
(e.g. when launching `git difftool`).

* Fix Unicode errors when home or repository directories contain
Unicode characters.
(`74 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/74>`_)
(`bz 694806 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806>`_)

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Usability, bells and whistles
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* The `cola classic` tool can be now configured to be dock-able.
(`56 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/56>`_)

* The `cola classic` tool now uses visual sigils to indicate a file's status.
The idea and icons were provided by Uri Okrent.

* Include the 'Rescan' button in the 'Actions' widget regardless
of whether inotify is installed.

Packaging
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* Fix installation of translations per Fedora
This incorporates Fedora's fix for the translations path
which originally appeared in cola-1.4.3-translations.patch.

* Mac OS X git-cola developers can now generate git-cola.app
application bundles using 'make app-bundle'.

Fixes
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* Fixed an error when trying to use "Get Commit Message Template"
with an undefined "commit.template" git config variable.
(`bz 67521 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675721>`_)
(`72 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/72>`_)

* Properly raise the main window on Mac OS X.

* Properly handle staging a huge numbers of files at once.

* Speed up 'git config' usage by fixing cola's caching proxy.

* Guard against damaged ~/.cola files.

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Usability, bells and whistles
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* `git dag` now has a separate display area
for displaying commit metadata. This area will soon
grow additional functionality such as cherry-picking,
branching, etc.

Fixes
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* Fixed tests from a previous refactoring.

* Guard against 'diff.external' configuration by always
calling 'git diff' with the '--no-ext-diff' option.
(`67 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/67>`_)

* Respect 'gui.diffcontext' so that cola's diff display
shows the correct number of context lines.

* Raise the GUI so that it is in the foreground on OS X.

Packaging
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* We now allow distutils to rewrite cola's shebang line.
This allows us to run on systems where "which python"
is Python3k. This is exposed by setting the `PYTHON`
Makefile variable to the location of python2.x.

* git-cola.app is now a tiny download because it no longer
contains Qt and PyQt. These libraries are provided as a
separate download.

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Usability, bells and whistles
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* Clicking on paths in the status widget copies them into the
copy/paste buffer for easy middle-clicking into terminals.

* `Ctrl+C` in diff viewer copies the selected diff to the clipboard.

Fixes
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* Fixed the disappearing actions buttons on PyQt 4.7.4
as reported by Arch and Ubuntu 10.10.
(`62 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/62>`_)

* Fixed mouse interaction with the status widget where some
items could not be de-selected.

Packaging
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* Removed hard-coded reference to lib/ when calculating Python's
site-packages directory.