jesseduffield/lazygit v0.43.0 on GitHub

What's Changed

Thanks to all contributors who helped make this release happen! There's a lot of first-time contributors on this release as well so kudos to you all.

There's quite a few things in this release. I'm going to single out a couple that have changed my workflow.

Base branch stuff

lg-base-branch-demo.mov

Easier rebase onto base branch

(Add command to rebase onto base branch by @stefanhaller in #3615)

When my feature branch gets out of date with the main branch, I like to rebase it onto the main branch. Up until now, that's required:

Navigating to the main branch
Pressing 'f' to fast-forward it onto its upstream branch
Pressing 'r' to rebase the checked-out branch onto the main branch

That takes too long! Now you can just press 'r' followed by 'b' to rebase onto the base branch (which defaults to origin/main).

See the divergence count from the base branch

(Divergence from base branch display by @stefanhaller in #3613)

You can now also configure to see the divergence from a branch and its base branch with the following config:

gui:
    showDivergenceFromBaseBranch: arrowAndNumber # or 'onlyArrow'

This shows the divergence count in blue, next to the yellow count of divergence from the upstream branch. This is admittedly noisy, so it's an opt-in feature. But I think the noise is worth it.

If you set the config value to 'onlyArrow' it's a lot less noisy:

See detailed divergence from base branch

(Add command to show divergence from base branch as a left-right log by @stefanhaller in #3614)

By pressing 'u' then 'b' on a branch you can see the divergence view for that branch compared to its base branch

Improved 'Find commit for fixup' feature

(Improve the "Find base commit for fixup" command by @stefanhaller in #3602)

'Find commit for fixup' is not a very catchy name for this feature but I can't think of anything better at the moment. Nevertheless! The idea is that you often want to know for a given set of changes, which commit ought they be included in? Just press ctrl+f when in the files panel and lazygit will jump the cursor to the appropriate commit to fixup.

With this release, the feature is smarter and more lenient so it's more likely to find you a match. If you haven't tried this out you should really give it a go!

find-commit-demo.mov

Other Enhancements 🔥

Add Squash merge by @noahfraiture in #3566
- Now when you press shift+m you get the option to do a regular merge or a squash merge. If you already have muscle memory for regular merge; don't worry: it's the same sequence of keypresses.
Improve "Find base commit for fixup" command when there are changes for master commits by @stefanhaller in #3645
Allow setting the similarity threshold for detecting renames by @isti115 in #3025
- For this, press ')' and '(' to increase/decrease the similarity threshold.

similarity-demo.mov

Reduce memory consumption when loading large number of commits by @stefanhaller in #3687
- 2-6x less memory usage when dealing with lots of commits. HUGE improvement.
Focus on local commits view after moving code into new commit by @AzraelSec in #3577
Add property outputTitle to CustomCommand by @stefanhaller in #3579
Add user config gui.expandedSidePanelWeight by @stefanhaller in #3623
- You can now increase the height of the selected side panel when you've configured the accordion effect
```
 gui:
   expandFocusedSidePanel: true
   expandedSidePanelWeight: 3
```

Support range select for amending commit attributes by @AzraelSec in #3587
- This lets you select a range of commits and update the author / set the co-author on all of them at once.

lg-multi-author-select.mov

Show "exec" todos in the list of rebase todos by @stefanhaller in #3654
Search the model instead of the view in the commits panel by @stefanhaller in #3642
Add prompt to the remote branch checkout menu by @stefanhaller in #3652
Always show the "Discard unchanged changes" menu item by @stefanhaller in #3683
Show current value in menus by @stefanhaller in #3628
Add command to paste commit message from clipboard by @WaterLemons2k in #3676
Stagger popup panels by @stefanhaller in #3694
Make commit author length configurable by @stefanhaller in #3688 (initial implementation by @anikiforov)
Make opening git difftool more consistent by @part22 in #3691
Update tracking behaviour for branches created from remote branches by @part22 in #3712
Allow setting a default name when creating new branches by @elliotcubit in #3487
Add Token credential request handling by @gmlexx in #3647
Switch between multiple log views by @mkock in #3354
Faster startup by @jwhitley in #3284
Extend icon coverage on remotes and file extensions by @hasecilu in #3484
Add nerdfont icons for .bicep & .bicepparam files by @scottmckendry in #3053

Fixes 🔧

Fix tooltip for fixup command by @stefanhaller in #3601
Fix pushing to branch when upstream not stored locally by @stefanhaller in #3619
(#3618) Fix pushing a branch to remote with a different name causing error by @JordanllHarper in #3630
Fix secondary window resize by @AzraelSec in #3637
Fix truncation of branch names containing non-ASCII characters by @stefanhaller in #3685
Fix duplicate keybinding suggestions in status bar after switching repos by @stefanhaller in #3660
Fix PTY layout problems by @stefanhaller in #3658
Fix custom patch operations for added files by @stefanhaller in #3684
Improve render performance by @stefanhaller in #3686
Fix wrong highlight in staging panel when entering file with only staged changes by @stefanhaller in #3667
Always reapply filters on filtered views when model changes, even inactive ones by @stefanhaller in #3697
Turn off the highlight of the suggestions panel when it loses focus by @stefanhaller in #3696
Fix running lazygit with a language other than English on Windows by @stefanhaller in #3705
Fix multi selection stage/discard not working for files with substrings by @brandondong in #3599
Only add commit prefix if branch name matches regex pattern by @phaze-ZA in #3703

Maintenance ⚙️

Add default lazygit config generation in Config.md from JSON schema by @karimkhaleel in #3565
Remove hint about Config.md from PR template by @stefanhaller in #3578
Add copyloopvar to enabled linters by @kyu08 in #3586
Add lint to make target by @kyu08 in #3593
Delete the TODO comment about enabling goconst in the future from .golangci.yml by @kyu08 in #3596
Pin golangci version to 1.58 by @stefanhaller in #3611
Improve branch and reflog loading when sorting branches by date by @stefanhaller in #3609
Fix boolean config keys not appearing in the generated Config.md by @stefanhaller in #3622
Make profiling easier by @stefanhaller in #3634
Update rebase_onto demo test to match new the rebase menu title by @AzraelSec in #3636
Include demos when running integration tests on CI by @stefanhaller in #3640
Fix reporting of unexpected selections in integration tests by @stefanhaller in #3662
Convert TranslationSets to json by @stefanhaller in #3649
Fix go generate on windows by @stefanhaller in #3706
Update translations from Crowdin by @stefanhaller in #3707
Bump actions/checkout, actions/setup-go, actions/cache/restore, actions/cache/save by @kyu08 in #3594
Check for fixup commits on CI by @jesseduffield in #3742

Docs 📖

Upgrade to Alpine Linux v3.19 by @fossdd in #3541
Add flox install by @bryanhonof in #3656

New Contributors

@JordanllHarper made their first contribution in #3630
@anikiforov made their first contribution in #3625
@WaterLemons2k made their first contribution in #3676
@noahfraiture made their first contribution in #3566
@fossdd made their first contribution in #3541
@scottmckendry made their first contribution in #3053
@elliotcubit made their first contribution in #3487
@bryanhonof made their first contribution in #3656
@gmlexx made their first contribution in #3647
@mkock made their first contribution in #3354
@phaze-ZA made their first contribution in #3703
@hasecilu made their first contribution in #3484

Full Changelog: v0.42.0...v0.43.0

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