The loading overlay component has been significantly redesigned to enhance the user experience. The previous SVG-based loading animation has been replaced with a more visually appealing layout that includes new animations and an icon. This update aims to improve the overall aesthetics and interactivity of the loading state.
- Introduced new loading animations and visual elements
- Added a background grid effect for a dynamic appearance
- Updated styles for better responsiveness and visual hierarchy
This update introduces a search bar to the blame dialog, allowing users to filter blame lines based on their input. The search highlights matching text segments, improving the usability of the blame feature for navigating large files.
- Implemented a search bar for filtering blame lines
- Added visual feedback for matched search terms
- Enhanced overall user experience in the blame dialog
This update significantly improves the event tracking system within the
application. Various user interactions, such as toggling favorite
repositories, managing branches, and handling file operations, are now
logged with detailed event tracking, providing better insights into user
behavior and application usage.
- Added tracking for repository management actions and file operations
- Enhanced tracking for branch and tag management events
- Implemented tracking for explorer interactions and conflict resolutions
This update introduces a favorites system for repositories, allowing users
to mark certain repositories as favorites for easier access. The UI has been
modified to include a star icon for toggling favorites, and the layout has
been adjusted to display favorite repositories separately.
- Implemented favorite repository management with local storage
- Updated UI to show favorite repositories with a star icon
- Enhanced repository listing to filter and display favorites
This update introduces a new script to generate application icons in various sizes, including 32x32, 64x64, 128x128, and 512x512 pixels. The generated icons are now included in the Tauri configuration, ensuring that the application has the appropriate icons for different contexts.
- Added a script for generating icons from a source image
- Updated Tauri configuration to reference new icon sizes
- Included multiple icon formats for better compatibility
Integrate Aptabase analytics via a Tauri plugin and add a privacy
notice flow plus a settings dialog to control whether anonymous
usage events are sent. The app now tracks key user actions while
ensuring analytics never blocks core Git operations.
- Add analytics tracking helper and Aptabase plugin wiring
- Persist analytics consent in localStorage and gate tracking
- Introduce notice and settings dialogs, plus new event calls
This change introduces a new backend command to fetch file blame using
git's line-porcelain output and returns structured per-line metadata.
The UI adds a BlameDialog that groups lines by commit, highlights
uncommitted changes, and styles the dialog to match the updated theme.
- Add get_file_blame command and parsing with uncommitted detection
- Wire BlameDialog into the explorer file node actions
- Add blame UI component and supporting types and styles
Update the project and Tauri configuration version to 2026.7.14.
This keeps the package metadata and desktop app build in sync for
consistent release tracking.
- Bump version in package.json
- Bump version in tauri.conf.json
The credential dialog now starts with session saving enabled by
default, reducing extra user interaction for the common case. This
improves usability while keeping the option available to change.
- Set saveSession default to true in CredentialDialog
Repo status updates for the management view are now refreshed in the
background after switching, without blocking the initial open flow.
The history graph and hover labels now distinguish local vs upstream
branches, visually marking commits that are ahead or behind.
- Add background fetch helper and shared status update logic
- Pass active upstream into HistoryPanel and render sync styling
Adjust the repo ahead/behind meta colors and add subtle background
highlights for better visual distinction. Also introduce dedicated
CSS for the commit amend toggle input, including checked, focus, and
disabled states to improve usability and accessibility.
- Refine ahead/behind meta color and background emphasis
- Add complete styling for commit amend toggle states
Repo branch status is now cached locally and refreshed in the
background so management and tab lists show up-to-date data without
manual fetches. The background worker updates repos in a round-robin
batch to avoid running multiple git subprocesses at once, and the UI
renders ahead/behind/changed counts alongside branch names.
- Add localStorage-backed repo status cache for known repos
- Background polling updates open tabs and recent/known repos
- Show ahead/behind/changed metadata in repository management UI
This change introduces new Tauri commands to amend the last commit with
an optional message, fetch the last commit message, and undo the most
recent commit safely. The UI now offers an amend toggle and an undo
button only when the last commit hasn’t been pushed upstream, reducing
the risk of rewriting shared history.
- Add amend/undo/last-message git commands in Rust
- Wire new operations into the Svelte commit panel UI
- Add styling and state handling for amend mode
This update extends the Git backend and UI to support listing,
creating, deleting, and pushing tags. It also adds cherry-pick
commands with proper in-progress detection and conflict handling, and
prevents other operations while a cherry-pick is active.
- Add GitTag model, tag listing, and tag CRUD/push commands
- Implement cherry-pick start/continue/abort with status tracking
- Update UI to display tags and gate actions during cherry-pick
Hover behavior for graph branch highlights was adjusted to limit the
opacity/transform changes to the gutter hover state. This prevents the
highlight from triggering when hovering over the graph rows, reducing
unintended visual effects.
The history panel now generates more informative hover text for commits.
It prefers direct local branch refs when available, otherwise it derives
a concise list from containing branch labels and summarizes overflow.
- Add helpers to compute hover branch labels and title text
- Update the graph row hover rendering to use the new helpers
The commit history UI now provides a compact actions menu per commit,
with positioning constrained to the history panel. The menu supports
keyboard dismissal via Escape and closes on outside clicks to keep the
interaction predictable.
- Replace per-commit action buttons with an ellipsis menu
- Add context menu state and panel-relative positioning logic
- Style the new history context menu and menu button
The CI workflow now installs the required Rust toolchain and uv on
Ubuntu, and passes a no-strip flag into the Tauri build to control
binary stripping behavior per platform. The CI helper script was
updated to collect only expected bundle and signature files, reducing
noise and improving upload correctness. Versioning was aligned across
the Node package and Tauri config for the new release.
- Add platform-specific no_strip handling in the build workflow
- Install Rust toolchain/uv for Ubuntu builds
- Filter collected artifacts by expected extensions and signatures
Git operations that stage or restore many files could exceed the Windows
command line length limit, causing os error 206 failures. This change
splits file paths into size-bounded chunks and concatenates the output
from multiple git invocations to keep commands within safe limits.
- Chunk file path arguments for Windows compatibility
- Add a local dev command to list pkg-config packages
The workflow now sets up a Rust toolchain only for the Ubuntu
22.04 runner. This ensures Rust-based components can compile
reliably without affecting other platforms.
- Add conditional Rust toolchain install for ubuntu-22.04
The workflow now passes a per-platform NO_STRIP setting into the
Tauri build environment. This allows builds to retain symbols when
needed, improving debugging and crash analysis without changing the
default behavior for other targets.
- Add matrix no_strip values for Windows and Ubuntu
- Export NO_STRIP into the build environment for Tauri
Artifact collection previously grabbed every file under each bundle
directory, which could include unrelated or intermediate outputs. This
updates the logic to only include files with the expected extensions
for each artifact type, improving accuracy and reducing noise.
- Use a per-bundle suffix map to filter collected artifacts
- Switch to non-recursive directory iteration for bundle roots
The CI workflow now builds a single bundle per run, adds Linux
AppImage output, and updates the Tauri version using a Node script.
The publishing tool is extended to recognize Linux artifacts,
select a primary artifact based on the target platform, and merge
platform entries into an existing latest.json when present.
- Limit matrix parallelism and pass bundle targets to Tauri
- Update updater platform handling and latest.json merging
- Add Linux Tauri config for AppImage bundling
Cloning now accepts optional username/password and passes them to the
Rust git layer via GIT_ASKPASS, avoiding interactive prompts. The UI
detects authentication failures, opens the credential dialog for clone,
and auto-hides error messages to keep the flow smooth.
- Add username/password support to clone_repository and git.ts
- Detect auth failures and route users to the clone credential dialog
- Improve clone UX with a dedicated loading overlay and timed errors
This introduces a new Tauri command to clone a remote repository into a
validated destination folder, then return the full repository bundle for
immediate rendering. The Svelte app gains a clone dialog and a new action
in repository management, wiring the cloned bundle into existing refresh
helpers. Dialog backdrops were also adjusted to rely on explicit close
controls.
- Add clone_repository command and core cloning logic in Rust
- Create CloneRepositoryDialog and integrate it into App.svelte
- Improve clone-related styling and tighten dialog backdrop behavior
Branch deletion now supports an optional force mode in the Tauri
command, enabling deletion of branches that are not fully merged.
The UI replaces the simple confirm prompt with a dedicated dialog and
auto-escalates to force delete when Git rejects a normal delete.
- Add force flag to delete_branch command and tests
- Implement BranchDeleteConfirmDialog and wire it into App.svelte
- Update branch context menu actions and styling
Christoph Brandau
Christoph