Mergentra 1.0.0

Mergentra 1.0.0

This is the first stable public release of Mergentra, a Windows-first desktop app for exploring local Git history as an interactive branch graph.

Highlights

• Select a target branch and follow its inferred parent chain through main.
• Keep branch lanes straight and horizontal while preserving curved connectors between branches.
• Show dotted parent continuations when a parent branch has no later commits.
• Edit branch notes and colors from the References picker or by clicking a graph branch line.
• Navigate history with rolling time ranges and calendar-bounded custom dates.
• Display commit hashes in the graph and hide unrelated histories in target views.

Windows downloads

• Mergentra-1.0.0-Setup.exe — per-user installer
• Mergentra-1.0.0-Portable.exe — portable executable
• Mergentra-1.0.0-x64.msi — managed/per-machine deployment

The Windows packages are currently unsigned, so SmartScreen may display a warning. Mergentra requires Git for Windows and does not bundle Git.

See the README and full changelog for setup and project details.

Mergentra 0.11.0

Added

• npm run measure:render measures render cost on synthetic histories up to 1,000,000 commits (#13).
• A code of conduct, a Discussions link in the issue chooser, and pointers to Discussions in the readme and CONTRIBUTING.md.
• Automatic weekly update check with an update dialog (download and install, download, release notes, skip this version), a Settings toggle, and checksum-verified downloads. Off by default for MSI installs (#62).
• Versioned license agreement: accepted on first run, shown again when the bundled terms change, readable in Settings, and accepted by policy for managed installs. The text is a placeholder (#64).
• MSI build target: npm run build:win:msi produces a per-machine x64 Mergentra-<version>-x64.msi that upgrades in place and carries an install-channel marker (#63).

Changed

• Split drawCommitNode into smaller helpers and moved main-process settings state into src/app-state.js (#14).

Fixed

• Panning no longer swallows clicks on the "+N" commit summaries or Shift-click zoom; a drag starts after 4 px of movement.
• Restored the ellipsis in the "Loading repository history..." message.
• End-to-end tests no longer depend on the user's global Git signing configuration.

Mergentra 0.10.0

[0.10.0]

Added

• Clone a repository over HTTPS or SSH, with a history-only option, cancel, and redacted diagnostics (#38).
• Open and Clone tabs on the start screen, with equal-height panels that fit the default window without scrolling (#46, #49, #51).
• Application icons at 256, 128, 64, 48, 32 and 16 px, a splash screen, and the logo on the start screen, the repository header and the README (#48, #50).
• Right-click a commit to show the branches from main to that commit, or the commit's branch and its parent (#52).
• Drag the commit graph left or right to pan it (#53).
• Drag across the time axis to select a custom date range.
• Editable display names for recent repositories, with pencil and trash icons and a confirmation before removal. The name is only a label and never renames the folder (#56).
• A default directory setting that Browse starts in (#39).
• Repository notes render a safe Markdown subset (bold, lists, line breaks).
• The Review dock shows the inferred source and destination branches.
• The checked-out branch lane glows along its whole length.
• master is treated as the main line, like main.
• The zoom percentage is a dropdown that also accepts a typed value.
• The window starts maximised (#58).

Changed

• The repository note sits to the right of the logo and the repository details (#55, #57).
• Current Branch is shown directly under Path, and both are labelled.
• The note's Preview button is beside the note, and the note is at least three lines tall (#43, #44).
• Settings is a cog icon button, centred and larger, and the theme switch lives in Settings (#41).
• Recent repositories are a combobox capped at 10 entries, with icon buttons that leave more room for the list (#56).
• Once a custom date range is chosen on the axis, further axis drags are disabled until the span is widened (#54).
• Toolbar button heights and gaps are aligned, disabled buttons are styled, and the zoom controls are padded.
• The clone URL field is as wide as the folder field, and the History only checkbox is spaced evenly (#45, #47).
• The extra card around the Clone form is removed (#51).

Fixed

• Leftover debug logging in the splash screen.

Project

• Added CONTRIBUTING.md, a CLA and a CLA bot workflow.
• The README documents manual testing on the VS Code repository, includes a screenshot, and mentions the pending SignPath code signing application.

Mergentra 0.9.0

First public pre-release of Mergentra, a Windows-first desktop app for exploring local Git history.

• Requires Git for Windows. Node.js is not needed.
• The installers are unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may warn. Verify downloads against the SHA-256 checksums below.
• Opening very large repositories (over 300,000 commits) asks for confirmation first.
• Fetching a repository whose Git configuration can run programs asks for confirmation first.

SHA-256:

504323e396cb3a4050a83d139566d1d41509a97419b03a4460de70b32b845e5e  Mergentra-0.9.0-Portable.exe
bcf868e83282e50ec3f8c9e48581c240d340bf36037b24ced41d5387f2d6e9fe  Mergentra-0.9.0-Setup.exe