Gitte

This release adds commit-graph and sidebar search, commit trailers and sign-off support, a more powerful amend workflow, and a number of UI improvements and fixes.

New features:

• Search commits directly in the commit graph, using the same search syntax as the commit log
• Search by commit ID or ID prefix, and match author email addresses and names
• Filter branches, tags and remote branches with the new sidebar search (Ctrl+K)
• Add commit trailers using configurable templates, with per-repository defaults, and sign off commits with your identity
• Amend now lets you edit all changes from the previous commit, including unstaging changes to remove them from that commit
• Choose the initial repository view globally or per repository: Changes, Current Branch or Commit Graph
• Copy the complete commit message with a button in the commit details
• Display a repository logo from logo.png, logo.gif, logo.jpg or logo.jpeg in the repository root

UI improvements:

• Improved selection handling in the working copy and stashes views, including reselecting after refreshes and filtering
• Show the repository name in the sidebar when it is collapsed
• Reorganised preferences tabs and repository settings for more consistency
• Refined spacing, compact-mode padding, diff icons and layout handling for long translation strings

Fixes:

• Fixed “Hunk index … out of range” errors when discarding hunks or selected lines during a rebase
• Fixed file operations failing or affecting the wrong files when file names contain wildcard characters
• Conflict diffs are now loaded against HEAD, and status errors are reported instead of appearing as an empty working copy
• Diffs now use consistent path prefixes even when Git is configured to use different prefixes
• Fixed failed clone attempts potentially deleting an existing destination folder
• Fixed resuming a rebase failing when commit signing is enabled
• Preserve edited commit messages when a history rewrite pauses
• Merge trailers when squashing commits
• Squash commit subjects are no longer translated
• Fixed notification messages displaying incorrectly when they contain characters such as < or &
• Improved detection of command-line tools on macOS through more reliable PATH handling
• The commit button is now disabled when committing is unavailable

Under the hood:

• Updated German and Ukrainian translations
• Updated dependencies, bundled Git and Git LFS
• Update the GNOME Flatpak runtime to GNOME 51

This bugfix release fixes signing in Flatpak builds and adds small UI improvements.

Fixes:

• Flatpak builds now respect the configured signing program for OpenPGP, SSH and X.509 signatures
• Git operations now use temporary files accessible to both the Flatpak sandbox and the host system, fixing failures when host programs need to read them

UI improvements:

• Release dates in the release notes dialog now use a human-readable format
• The remotes button is now vertically centred when it is the only collapsed sidebar section

Under the hood:

• Updated dependencies

This release adds side-by-side diffs, Git LFS and submodule support, signing configuration, remote management, and major performance improvements.

New features:

• Side-by-side diffs, configurable independently for the working copy and history views
• Set up Git LFS, manage tracked patterns, inspect its status, and track files directly from the working copy
• Add, update, sync, configure, deinitialise and remove submodules
• Add, rename, delete and fetch individual remotes, and delete remote branches, optionally together with their tracking configuration
• Configure commit and tag signing per repository, including the signing format and key
• Open the current repository in a terminal with F4
• Toggle between showing the whole file and only the changed context in diff views with Ctrl+Shift+E
• Optionally open a repository found in the current working directory when starting Gitte without a path
• Choose whether a newly created branch should be checked out immediately
• Add multiple selected files or patterns to .gitignore at once, with one pattern per line

UI improvements:

• Force a light or dark appearance, or continue following the system color scheme
• Revamped signing-status dialog with actionable configuration diagnostics
• New context menus for diff file headers and the item under the pointer
• Most context-menu actions now support both single and multiple selections in the working copy, commit log and commit graph; unavailable actions are hidden for multiple selections
• Navigate to the next or previous search result with Ctrl+G and Ctrl+Shift+G
• Selections in the commit log are restored more reliably after refreshes
• Commit information now appears directly beside the graph lanes instead of in fixed columns
• Working-copy filters now clearly indicate when they are active, describe the filtered results, and provide actions to reset them
• Collapse All and Expand All controls now stay in sync when individual diffs are toggled
• Removed “Back to Repositories” from the main menu
• Commit messages and stash details can now be selected and copied
• Code and diffs now use the system's configured monospace font
• Sidebar and list pane widths are preserved when resizing the window
• Commit, merge and revert dialogs adapt their width to the configured commit body line length limit, up to 160 characters
• Refined diff headers, sidebar lists, compact-mode spacing, and right-to-left presentation

Performance:

• Much faster commit-graph loading and repository startup, especially for repositories with many remotes and remote branches
• Diffs outside the visible area are rendered lazily, and large diffs initially render only the first 500 lines until “Show All” is selected
• Major speedups for batch operations such as stage all, unstage all and discard all
• Much faster working-tree status and safety checks before rewriting history, especially with large untracked directories

Fixes:

• Staging selected lines now works correctly when the selection spans multiple hunks
• Diff views now refresh correctly when hunk headers change
• Prevented unnecessary diff reloads when refreshing only the file list
• “Edit Commit” now always edits the targeted commit
• Rebases now resume correctly after commands that pause the operation
• Fixed Git LFS detection and a potential pipe deadlock during Git operations
• Fixed a race condition when loading settings
• Fixed context menus sometimes opening at the wrong size
• Clicks and context menus now work across the full row in branch, remote and tag lists
• Fixed gaps between commit-graph lane lines in compact mode
• Fixed the update banner and window controls in collapsed-sidebar mode on macOS
• Fixed detection of executables (Git, GPG, Git-LFS) installed outside the default macOS application environment
• Disabled “Sync with mainline” on the mainline branch itself
• Removed remote HEAD pseudo-references from remote branch lists

Under the hood:

• Migrated many Git write operations from libgit2 to the Git CLI for more consistent behaviour
• Reduced the Flatpak package size by stripping the bundled Git binary
• Expanded test coverage and made the test suite report all failing checks in one run
• Updated Basque, Cornish, Finnish, Slovenian and Ukrainian translations
• Updated dependencies

This bugfix release corrects ref resolution when refreshing the commit log and improves detection of authentication failures from modern Git forges.

Fixes:

• Take the ref kind into account when resolving a ref, so a branch is no longer resolved to a tag of the same name when both exist
• Recognise more authentication-failure messages from modern forges (e.g. GitHub token rejections and GitLab access-denied replies) so credential errors are reported as such