LovelyGit v0.0.17

This release focuses on scale, responsiveness, and deeper everyday Git workflows, with major performance work across the commit graph, large diffs, conflict resolution, refs, and working tree status, alongside a solid set of new repository tools.

Highlights

• Added sparse checkout management, detached tag checkout, remote tag deletion, branch-from-stash recovery, and commit archive export.
• Replaced DiffPlex with a lower-allocation native diff engine.
• Significantly improved large diff and conflict performance through compression, virtualization, cache reuse, and lower-allocation rendering paths.
• Added native commit search by author and date, with ref-scoped search and bounded ref suggestions.
• Added multi-commit graph operations, including compare and patch-series export.
• Persisted the versioned Git cache across launches and continued a broad pass on commit-graph, refs, status, and working-tree performance.

New Git tools

• Sparse checkout manager.
• Detached tag checkout workflow.
• Confirmed remote tag deletion.
• Branch creation from a stash.
• Commit archive export.
• Native commit search by author and date.
• Ref-scoped commit search with bounded ref suggestions.
• Multi-commit graph operations.
• Compare selected graph commits.
• Export selected commits as a patch series.
• Inspect stashed changes without restoring them.

Improvements and fixes

• Fixed the native save-file picker.
• Improved support for alternate Git object stores.
• Reduced commit-graph memory and render overhead through smaller payloads, bounded caches, fewer allocations, and better session reuse.
• Improved scrolling and tab-switch behavior in the commit graph, including more stable scroll resets and fewer abandoned refreshes.
• Compressed and reused large diff and conflict payloads to reduce memory pressure.
• Repaired incomplete cached file diffs and improved reuse of cached diff variants.
• Rendered prefetched commit details immediately, reduced suspense when opening the conflict resolver, and scoped open panels to their repository.
• Reduced repeated refs, remote-status, working-tree, and warm-activation work across repository surfaces.
• Reduced duplicate working-tree notifications and moved process-memory sampling off the interaction path.
• Kept the Git test suite under one minute and reduced Git integration test setup costs.

Full changelog: v0.0.15...v0.0.17