GitComet v0.3.3

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New features

• Automatic background fetch across open repositories and worktrees. Disabled by default, with a configurable interval from 5 minutes to 24 hours. Repository tabs show incoming commit counts, and the Pull menu shows fetch status and failures.
• Bare repository support: browse history, files and diffs, manage remotes and linked worktrees, and convert a bare repository into a regular checkout.
• Edit commit messages from Commit details, including eligible older commits. Includes keyboard shortcuts and confirmation when rewriting published history.
• History focus: focus the graph on selected branches or remotes, with support for multiple selections and saved preferences.
• Hide remotes and tool-generated refs from history. Common agent checkpoints, review refs and Git bookkeeping refs are hidden by default, with individual controls and custom namespaces.
• Open branches in new worktrees directly from branch menus, or open the existing worktree when a branch is already checked out.
• Razor and Blazor syntax highlighting in editors and diffs.

Workflow improvements

• Removing a worktree now keeps its local branch by default; branch deletion is an explicit option.
• Pull fetches the selected upstream branch instead of fetching every remote branch. Use Fetch All to refresh other branches and prune stale refs.
• Added and deleted files show only their existing side, including image comparisons.
• Tag fetching has its own setting under Remotes, independent of tag visibility in history.
• Force-push confirmation stays tied to the remote commit originally shown, protecting against intervening remote changes.
• git-annex shows a confirmation banner for special remotes requiring location approval.
• File-editor Save and Cancel actions move to the bottom action bar.

Fixes

• Fixed CRLF text selection, wrapping and copying across diff, preview, editor and conflict views.
• Fixed Reflog rendering while the embedded terminal is open.
• Fixed file history for staged renames and rename detection for files moved without git mv.
• Fixed image previews for files without filename extensions.
• Combined diffs now require consecutive commits, avoiding misleading results for selections with gaps or across branches.
• Fixed staging and discard behavior when files are replaced by directories, protecting unrelated untracked and ignored files.
• Fixed commit diffs, file history and rebase lists when log.showSignature is enabled.
• Fixed worktree removal involving submodule changes and parsing under different Git locales.

Performance and extension support

• Reduced repeated Git process launches during diff operations and unnecessary work during pane resizing, undo/redo, syntax highlighting and status refreshes.
• Reduced per-line bookkeeping for large full-file previews.
• Extensions can reveal commits, open terminals at specific folders, list and activate terminal tabs, add history-mark menus and menu tooltips, and receive menu-close notifications.
• Updated dependencies, removed unused dependencies, and added contributor AI-policy documentation.

Commits

• fix(git): keep log.showSignature out of parsed git output by @Havunen in #652
• fix(staging): keep a directory that replaced a file out of stage and discard by @Havunen in #653
• fix(history): read a staged rename's file history under its old name by @Havunen in #654
• fix(comparison): pair a move made without git mv into one rename by @Havunen in #655
• feat(extensions): list the embedded terminal's tabs and bring one to … by @Havunen in #657
• fix(history): show a merged diff only for consecutive commits by @Havunen in #656
• fix(diff): show an image named without an extension as an image by @Havunen in #659
• feat(extensions): let a hosted menu entry carry a tooltip by @Havunen in #660
• feat(extensions): tell an extension when its menu closes by @Havunen in #661
• Feat/history mark menu by @Havunen in #664
• Feat/extension reveal commit by @Havunen in #662
• feat(worktree): add from branches, keep branch on remove by @Havunen in #658
• docs: list Ubuntu build dependencies in one install step by @Havunen in #667
• feat(extensions): open a terminal at a folder for an extension by @Havunen in #663
• build(deps): bump Swatinem/rust-cache from 2.9.2 to 2.9.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #669
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-python from 7.0.0 to 7.1.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #670
• perf: reduce redundant work in undo, syntax reparse, status, and pane drags. replace unmaintained deps by @Havunen in #668
• Added AI Policy by @Havunen in #673
• Add a "focus" history filter and allow hiding remotes from git history log by @davidbuzz in #494
• wip: style changes by @Havunen in #672
• feat: edit a commit's message from commit details by @jeffwelder-ellenbytech in #643
• Fix/pull single ref by @Havunen in #679
• Fix/worktree removal exact path by @Havunen in #680
• Automatic background fetch by @Havunen in #681
• Fix/always show added or removed files in full size by @Havunen in #686
• Perf/small performance fixes by @Havunen in #687
• Feat/razor view syntax highlight by @Havunen in #692
• fix: handle CRLF selection consistently across content views by @Havunen in #694
• fix: Reflog does not render with the embedded terminal open. by @Havunen in #693
• new option to hide tool refs from git log graph by @Havunen in #696

New Contributors

• @davidbuzz made their first contribution in #494

Full Changelog: v0.3.2...v0.3.3