Changelog

UI improvements, and performance work to smoothly support (even) larger repositories with 300k+ changed files.

New

• Commit message drafts are kept per repository and restored when you switch back.
• File filter boxes have a clear button, and Ctrl+F to focus.
• A new setting to switch between exact and fuzzy matching in file filters.
• License activation and deactivation in Settings.

Improved

• Large and high-resolution displays: pane layout and scrolling adapt to window size.
• Renamed files read and report their stats correctly.
• Status writes refreshed stat information back into the index when content is unchanged, the way git status does, so files touched by other tools are not re-hashed on every later status. This makes Git Cherry Tree play nicer with other tools.

Performance

• File Diff loading is significantly faster in larger repositories.
• Staging stays smooth with 300,000 changed files shown at once, up from 100,000.
• Parallel LFS pointer probing and amortized attribute sweeps: repositories with hundreds of thousands of LFS files open much faster.
• Git handles are pooled across reads, and file-stat batches prune to the selected paths.
• Reorder and squash are faster on larger repositories.

A complete rewrite of the UI in Rust, and the first Linux build! Also image diffs!

New

• Merge branches: any branch into any other, producing a true two-parent merge commit. Conflicts pause the operation for resolution and resume from your decision, a dirty working directory blocks the merge instead of corrupting it, and the whole merge is one undo/redo step.
• Merge commits expand in place in the commit list, showing which commits came in through the merge.
• Graph pane: branch topology as a multi-column tree, with a drag-reorderable branch-chip header whose leftmost chip sets the comparison base.
• Image diffs: before and after side by side over a transparency checkerboard.
• Git LFS badges in the staging list (object present, missing, or misconfigured), and previews of the actual LFS content in the diff pane instead of pointer text.
• The first Linux build. A software-rendering fallback keeps the client working on machines without Vulkan.
• Auto-updates for paid licenses. The updater verifies each download against a signature before installing, and refuses anything that fails verification or is not strictly newer.
• Optional setup: copy the client into a folder of your choice, with a Desktop shortcut and Start Menu entry. Without it, the client keeps running portable as before.
• New UI features and settings for them: cursor trail, breathing caret, animation speed (down to zero), and a DPI multiplier on top of the OS scale.
• Syntax highlighting covers more languages, roughly 30.
• Remove a repository from the repo switcher; full author, date, and hash tooltips on commit rows.

Improved

• Icons and overlays are drawn from signed distance fields, so they stay sharp at any scale.
• Diff view visuals: clearer line roles and gutters.
• Saved settings survive version upgrades: unknown fields fall back to defaults instead of discarding the file.

Performance

• Rendering is roughly 3x faster per frame than the web interface.
• Large diffs load roughly 3x faster.
• Faster startup and faster fuzzy search.

Adding Git LFS support, pull request detection, worktrees, and more.

• Squash commits, including undoing a squash.
• Git LFS support.
• Worktree support: open worktrees as repositories, with branches marked as checked out elsewhere.
• Rebindable hotkeys, and full keyboard navigation across the client.
• SSH remotes and a no-login mode that uses your existing git credentials, so non-GitHub hosts work too.
• Pull request detection on branches, and auto-fetch when opening a repository.
• Fixed stale diff and commit state after switching repositories, and merge conflicts involving renamed files.

A major release adding many more history manipulation features.

• Rebase, revert, and reset branch to a ref or to its remote, without needing to check the branch out first.
• Undo/redo across write operations, including conflict resolutions, submodules, and continued operations.
• Hotkeys and a command palette.
• In-memory merge conflict handling.
• Background repository maintenance, and auto-pruning fetch with progress reporting.
• Push with lease in place of force push, so you only overwrite what you expect to.
• Commit and checkout pipeline moved onto gitoxide.

A complete rewrite of the diff viewer as a custom virtualized list.

• Syntax highlighting, and character-level diffing within changed lines.
• Flicker-free rendering of million-line files.
• Faster handling of very large selections.
• Changed-line headers, and long-line truncation with expansion.

The very first public release of Git Cherry Tree.

• A gitoxide-backed status implementation with a faster dirty-workspace check.
• Fixed rebasing and reordering around merge commits, and commit drag operations that did not always complete.