[ANNOUNCE] qgit-2.0rc1

This is qgit-2.0rc1

With qgit you will be able to browse revision histories, view patch
content and changed files, graphically following different development
branches.


FEATURES

 - View revisions, diffs, files history, files annotation, archive tree.

 - Commit changes visually cherry picking modified files.

  - Apply or format patch series from selected commits, drag and drop
commits between two instances of qgit.

 - Associate commands sequences, scripts and anything else executable
to a custom action. Actions can be run from menu and corresponding
output is grabbed by a terminal window.

  - qgit implements a GUI for the most common StGIT commands like
push/pop and apply/format patches. You can also create new patches or
refresh current top one using the same semantics of git commit, i.e.
cherry picking single modified files.


NEW IN THIS RELEASE

This is the first public release of the shining new qgit 2.0 based on
the shining new Qt 4.2 libraries.

This is the result of more the five months of porting efforts.

All the features of the stable series have been ported. In addition
this new release sports a better GUI both on visually side, thanks to
the work of Andy Parkins on the new revision description pane header,
and on usability side.

A new and much improved repository browsing experience is now
possible, in particular you don't need to switch to patch tab to view
diff content anymore. Patch information, together with patch
description, is shown in bottom left pane.

New browsing features are:

- Possibility to switch from revision message to diff content in
  bottom left pane of main view (from menu or key shortcut 'm')

- Possibility to jump to next/previous revision with link labels at
  the pane corners

- Optional use of mouse wheel to perform all of the above actions

- Added small tabs to description pane with log and diff info.


All this is tweakable from 'Edit->Settings->Browse' menu dialog, so to
let fine grain control on the preferred browse setting.

For an history viewer easy and quick browsing is the single MOST
important feature.


A lot has changed, apart from browsing, the list would be very long,
so the best thing is to download and check yourself.

This is a 'rc' release, but should be already quite stable, so I
encourage everyone interested to give it a spin.


You can download the tarball from
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qgit/qgit-2.0rc1.tar.bz2

or clone the public git archive at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/qgit/qgit4.git


Please, check the shipped README for detailed build and install information.


I would like to thank Pavel Roskin and Andy Parkins for their very
valuable support in shaping this new release.


Ah, the last thing, because we are Qt4 now, qgit 2.0rc1 works natively
also under Windows.


Have fun
Marco

Hi,
On Sunday 10 June 2007 14:47:17 Marco Costalba wrote:

This is qgit-2.0rc1

With qgit you will be able to browse revision histories, view patch
content and changed files, graphically following different development
branches.

Doesn't seem to compile here. make output is at 
http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~ismail/tmp/qgit4-error.txt . Qt is built with 
no exceptions (as suggested by Trolltech), might that be the problem?

Regards,
ismail

-- 
Perfect is the enemy of good

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 13:47:17 +0200, Marco Costalba wrote:

This is qgit-2.0rc1

Can you please fix the license?

 - All the file headers mention COPYRIGHT file in the distribution, but the
   file is not there.
 - At least the About box should contain the whole notice text from the "How
   to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" appendix of GPL.
 - The notices from GPL should probably be in all sources (as is stated in
   GPL), but that obviously means changing all the headers.

Best Regards,

Jan

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec [off-list ref]

On 6/10/07, Jan Hudec [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 13:47:17 +0200, Marco Costalba wrote:

quoted

This is qgit-2.0rc1

Can you please fix the license?

Yes of course. Thanks for noticing.

Already pushed to public git repo, will be included in following rc2
as soon as we get to fix the strange build problem on Ismail box.

Thanks
Marco