git-cola v2.0.8

Usability, bells and whistles

• git cola can now create GPG-signed commits and merges.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/149

  See the documentation for details about setting up a GPG agent.

• The status widget learned to copy relative paths when Ctrl+x is pressed.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/358

• Custom GUI actions can now define their own keyboard shortcuts by setting guitool.$name.shortcut to a string understood by Qt’s QAction::setShortcut() API, e.g. Alt+X.

  See http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qkeysequence.html#QKeySequence-2 for more details about the supported values.

• git cola learned to rename branches.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/364

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/278

• git dag now has a “Show history” context menu which can be used to filter history using the selected paths.

Fixes

• sphinxtogithub.py was fixed for Python3.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/353

• The commit that changed how we read remotes from git remote to parsing git config was reverted since it created problems for some users.

• Fixed a crash when using the rebase edit feature.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/351

• Better drag-and-drop behavior when dropping into gnome-terminal.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/373

Packaging

• The git-cola-folder-handler.desktop file handler was fixed to pass validation by desktop-file-validate.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/356

• The git.svg icon was renamed to git-cola.svg, and git cola was taught to prefer icons from the desktop theme when available.