v0.3.6

[arxanas]

To install or update git-branchless, run the following:

$ cargo install git-branchless
$ git branchless init  # in your repository

Release highlights

• The documentation has been significantly expanded. See the new command overview at the Wiki.
  • High-quality documentation is a first-class goal for this project, so leave any feedback, suggestions, or thoughts in Discussions.
  • Thanks to @IvanVas, @AriaFallah, and others for their feedback so far.
• More performance improvements for large repositories.
• Configuration is no longer written directly to your .git/config. Instead, it's written into a separate file and included.
• Bug fix where some output from subcommands was overwritten by progress indicators.

Changelog

Added

• The -C option can be used to set the working directory for git-branchless commands.
• The --hidden option can be passed to git smartlog to show commits which are not ordinarily visible.

Changed

• Git configuration is written to a file under .git/branchless, instead of writing it directly to .git/config (which may clobber user settings).

Fixed

• Output of subcommands is no longer overwritten by progress updates.
• Improved performance up to 100x for commit deduplication during git move when rebasing past certain large commits.
• Improved performance up to 10x for smartlog rendering.

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This discussion was created from the release v0.3.6.