Git-cola

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Fixes
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* Keep entries in sorted order in the `cola classic` tool

* Fix staging untracked files
(`27 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/27>`_)

* Fix the `show` command in the Stash dialog
(`29 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/29>`_)

* Fix a typo when loading merge commit messages
(`30 <https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/30>`_)

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This release focuses on a redesign of the git-cola user interface,
a tags interface, and better integration of the `cola classic` tool.
A flexible interface based on configurable docks is used to manage the
various cola widgets.

Usability, bells and whistles
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* New GUI is flexible and user-configurable

* Individual widgets can be detached and rearranged arbitrarily

* Add an interface for creating tags

* Provide a fallback `SSH_ASKPASS` implementation to prompt for
SSH passwords on fetch/push/pull

* The commit message editor displays the current row/column and
warns when lines get too long

* The `cola classic` tool displays upstream changes

* `git cola --classic` launches `cola classic` in standalone mode

* Provide more information in log messages

Fixes
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* Inherit the window manager's font settings

* Miscellaneous PyQt4 bug fixes and workarounds

Developer
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* Removed all usage of Qt Designer `.ui` files

* Simpler model/view architecture

* Selection is now shared across tools

* Centralized notifications are used to keep views in sync

* The `cola.git` command class was made thread-safe

* Less coupling between model and view actions

* The status view was rewritten to use the MVC architecture

* Added more documentation and tests

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Usability, bells and whistles
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* Added a `cola classic` tool for browsing the entire repository

* Handle diff expressions with spaces

* Handle renamed files

Portability
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* Handle carat `^` characters in diff expressions on Windows

* Worked around a PyQt 4.5/4.6 QThreadPool bug

Documentation
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* Added a keyboard shortcuts reference page

* Added developer API documentation

Fixes
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* Fix the diff expression used when reviewing branches

* Fix a bug when pushing branches

* Fix X11 warnings at startup

* Fix more interrupted system calls on Mac OS X

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Usability, bells and whistles
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* Fresh and tasty SVG logos

* Added `Branch Review` mode for reviewing topic branches

* Added diff modes for diffing between tags, branches,
or arbitrary `git diff` expressions

* The push dialog selects the current branch by default.
This is in preparation for `git 1.7.0` where `git push`
will refuse to push when run without specifying the remote name
and branch. See the `git` release notes for more information

* Support `open` and `clone` commands on Windows

* Allow saving cola UI layouts

* Re-enabled `double-click-to-stage` for unmerged entries.
Disabling it for unmerged items was inconsistent, though safer.

* Show diffs when navigating the status tree with the keyboard

Packaging
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* Worked around `pyuic4` bugs in the `setup.py` build script

* Added Mac OS X application bundles to the download page

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Subsystems
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* `git difftool` became an official git command in `git 1.6.3`.

* `git difftool` learned `--no-prompt` / `-y` and a corresponding
`difftool.prompt` configuration variable

Usability, bells and whistles
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* Warn when `non-fast-forward` is used with fetch, push or pull

* Allow `Ctrl+C` to exit cola when run from the command line

Fixes
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* Support Unicode font names

* Handle interrupted system calls

Developer
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* More of the code base was updated to follow the `PEP-8` coding style

* Added more tests

Packaging
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* All resources are now installed into `$prefix/share/git-cola`.
Closed Debian bug 519972

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519972

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Subsystems
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* Added support for Kompare in `git difftool`

* Added a separate configuration namespace for `git difftool`

* Added the `diff.tool` configuration variable to define the default diff tool

Usability, bells and whistles
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* The stash dialog allows passing the `--keep-index` option to `git stash`

* Amending a published commit warns at commit time

* Simplified the file-across-revisions comparison dialog

* `origin` is selected by default in fetch/push/pull

* Removed the search field from the log widget

* The log window moved into a drawer widget at the bottom of the UI

* Log window display can be configured with
`cola.showoutput` = `{never, always, errors}`. `errors` is the default.

* `NOTE` -- `cola.showoutput` was removed with the GUI rewrite in 1.4.0.

Developer
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* Improved nose unittest usage

Packaging
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* Added a Windows/msysGit installer

* Included private versions of `simplejson` and `jsonpickle`
for ease of installation and development