LovelyGit v0.0.18

This release focuses on making LovelyGit feel much faster in real repositories, especially when opening large diffs, resolving conflicts, loading commit details, and refreshing busy working trees.

Highlights

• Significantly improved large diff and conflict performance through streaming, lower-allocation rendering, cache reuse, and tighter memory bounds.
• Made whitespace-ignored diffs faster and improved large-diff layout handling.
• Reduced commit-details latency by moving heavy parsing and persistence work off the click path.
• Improved repository refresh behavior by reducing duplicate status scans, working-tree refresh work, and multi-tab cache thrashing.
• Moved update downloads off the startup path for a more responsive launch experience.
• Added stronger performance-regression protection for packed commit-graph scenarios.

New Git tools

• No major end-user Git workflows were added in this release; the focus was performance, stability, and responsiveness across existing diff, conflict, and repository workflows.

Improvements and fixes

• Reused prepared diff and conflict data more aggressively across layouts and view variants.
• Reduced allocation and compression overhead in compact diff and conflict payload handling.
• Virtualized conflict output line numbers and improved readability for large conflict gutters.
• Bounded retained memory for file diffs, conflict payloads, distributed line diff work, and background status processing in wide repositories.
• Preserved commit caches across graph reloads and reduced loose-ref and object-store overhead.
• Protected long-running development processes and isolated LovelyGit visual-test data more safely.

Full changelog: v0.0.17...v0.0.18