arxanas/git-branchless v0.5.0 on GitHub

To install or update git-branchless, run the following:

$ cargo install --locked git-branchless
$ git branchless init  # in your repository

If you see an error like failed to select a requirement libgit2-sys, then you need to update your version of Rust. See the troubleshooting section.

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Release highlights

This is primarily a bugfix release for revset-related issues. Thanks to @claytonrcarter and @pokey who fixed several bugs!

(#508) Added exactly(<revset>, n) revset function to allow assertions on the number of commits within a set.
(#509) Users can now define custom revset aliases.
(#533) git reword can now reword merge commits.
(#534) git record now accepts a --detach option to avoid moving the current branch.
(#538) git reword now accepts a --fixup option to convert regular commits into fixup! commits (for use with git rebase --autosquash)
(#541) EXPERIMENTAL: Created git submit command. Discuss at #564.

(#543) Commands will produce a better error message for certain unsupported sparse checkout configurations.

(#507) The messages() revset function now ignores trailing newlines in commit messages.
(#512) Fixed so that the setting for --color is now respected.
(#512) Fixed so that you can pass --color anywhere in the command-line, not just before the subcommand.
(#513) Fixed some false positives for hints to run git restack when printing the smartlog.
(#518) Fixed the suggested flag in the error message when attempting to rewrite public commits.
(#539) Fixed parse errors for certain single-quoted string literals in revset expressions.
(#559) Fixed precedence for parentheses in revset expressions.
(#569) Fixed the reversed output order of the results of git query.

Thanks to the following first-time contributors!

If you're interested in contributing, check out the Developer Guide in the Wiki, or post in the Discussions or Discord server to ask any questions.