release/0.19.13

Changes & Fixes

• Fixes a Windows-specific regression from 0.19.12 where the app was not being correctly signed, causing friction with Windows Defender
• Fixes an issue where undoing a new branch creation with the operations log was not working.
• Adds an option to set ptyxis as the default terminal

TUI

• Adds the ability to directly commit into a new branch (bound to b)

CLI

• Fixes an issue where but commit empty --json would not print anything.

New Contributors

• @Andrej730 made their first contribution in #13852

Full Changelog: release/0.19.12...release/0.19.13

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release/0.19.12

What's Changed

• Fixes a bug where the app can unexpectedly navigate to the "Configure your workspace" view

Full Changelog: release/0.19.11...release/0.19.12

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release/0.19.11

Fixes

• Fixes a regression from 0.19.10 where updating the workspace would fail with "Branches are all up to date" error
• Fixes an issue where the AI commit message generation was disabled desptie being enabled in the settings
• Fixes an issue with stacked PRs where after pushing structural changes the PR base remained stale
• Fixes an issue where failing to unapply a branch would leave the UI in a stuck state
• Fixes a Windows-specific issue with "Open in Editor" when running the app from WSL
• The app now correctly handles shallow clones
• Fixes the "but-graph inconsistent with the commit graph" issue when performing actions in the app
• Fixes an issue where creating a branch with a "#" symbol would have the hashtag filtered out

CLI

• Repeated "undo" operations now work as expected (undoing further back in history)
• but reword --json now correctly produces the relevant JSON output
• but redo - new command for re-apply undone operations
• but oplog list now displays more useful descriptions of past operations
• but teardown now supports --checkout-to override to specify the branch to checkout

TUI

• The TUI now updates on filesystem changes
• Repeated "undo" operations now work as expected (undoing further back in history)
• Added "redo" operation to re-apply undone operations
• Fixes a navigation bug while in move mode

New Contributors

• @robertmonka made their first contribution in #13738
• @edgarcnp made their first contribution in #13794

Full Changelog: release/0.19.10...release/0.19.11

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release/0.19.10

Security

This and the last few releases include important security fixes. Please update to 0.19.9 or newer.

Changes

• Applying of branches no longer performs an unnecessary rebase
• Adds support for multi-commit selection and operations (e.g. move, squash etc)
• Adds support for SHA-256 repositories
• Amending of commits now shows a modal if there were rejected changes (e.g. due to conflicts)
• Removes the "split branch" options from the UI (it will be back, better)

Fixes

• Fixes an issue where typing a commit message could cause the cursor to jump to the start of the line
• Fixes an issue with parsing of certain git config files
• Fixes a bug where unapplying a branch could cause uncommitted changes to appear as untracked changes
• Fixes a bug where in some cases amending a commit could cause uncommitted deletions to disappear
• Fixes an issue with updating the workspace resulting in an error "The new head names do not match the current heads"
• Fixes an issue where the app would fail if the remote has a branch named "head"
• Fixes a bug where after deleting a project an error "Asynchronous operation failed" would appear

TUI

• Adds a help modal with an overview of key binds (press ? in the TUI)
• Added experimental light theme (set EXPERIMENTAL_BUT_LIGHT_THEME=1)
• Adds support for operating on multiple commits at once (e.g. move, squash etc)
• Adds an "undo" action for undoing the last operation (press u)
• When squashing multiple commits you can now choose how to combine the commit messages
• Improved "back" behavior when pressing Esc
• Fixes a bug where the file list was auto-closing after performing a rub action

CLI

• Improved color consistency (e.g. but diff / show / commit etc)
• but move now supports moving multiple commits at once
• but apply now resolves short branch names
• but absorb now removes --new (it will be back, better)
• but mcp no longer has the --internal flag
• but push --run-hooks is now replaced with --no-hooks for disabling
• but undo now correctly restores to the latest snapshot
• but branch move has been removed in favor of but move
• removed the implicit "rub" action (e.g. running but <id> <id> as an equivalent to but rub <id> <id>)
• fixes an issue where but discard could fail on multi-hunk changes
• fixes an issue where but discard could fail to discard renaming of files
• fixes an issue where but rub to amend a file could fail to restore a previously deleted file

New Contributors

• @samhh made their first contribution in #13571

Full Changelog: release/0.19.9...release/0.19.10

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release/0.19.9

TUI

• Significant performance improvements starting and navigating in the TUI (but tui)
• It's now more intuitive to create commits at arbitrary positions above/below other commits in the stack
• Toasts are now stacked vertically
• Adds support for creating a new branch from the [unassigned changes]
• Fixes an issue where squashing a commit without a message was causing additional whitespace to be added to the commit message
• The branch picker now (press t to open) now lists the [unassigned changes] at the top
• The branch picker now has key-binds ctrl+n/p to move up/down and ctrl+[ to close the picker.
• Pressing i in commit mode will use inline reword to write the commit message, for cases where you don't want to open an editor.

CLI

• but status - significant performance improvements
• When but push is executed, the app UI will be updated to reflect the new state
• Fixes a windows-specific issue that was causing the CLI to crash with a stack overflow.

Fixes and Improvements

• Fixes a bug where in some cases a branch is not correctly detected as push-able
• Fixes a issue with forge integrations resulting in a "Command forge_provider not allowed by ACL" error
• Fixes a GitLab-specific issue where loading the integration would fail with "invalid type: string "...", expected internally tagged enum GitLabAccount"
• Fixes an issue where in rare cases of the remote tracking branch being deleted, committing locally would fail
• Fixes a UI issue causing a "null is not an object (evaluating 'u.close')" error popup
• It is now easier to distinguish different self-hosted forge integrations (instance URL is shown)
• Improved error handling when diffing deleted resources

Full Changelog: release/0.19.8...release/0.19.9

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release/0.19.8

Changes

• Adds OpenRouter as a new AI provider in the app
• Adds loading states when squashing and uncommitting
• Conflicted commits now explicitly add a marker in the commit message
• Improved displaying of Pull Request CI/Mergeability state
• Panel resizers in the the app are now easier to grab
• Improved error message propagation when creating branches
• Improved moving of commits across stacks - conflicts are now detected ahead of time
• You can now configure "Kitty" for "open in terminal"
• Improved performance when entering "edit"/"conflict resolution" mode

Fixes

• Fixes an issue with parsing leading space in directory names
• Fixes a windows fetch/push issue with some alternative SSH clients (e.g. PuTTY)
• Fixes an issue where successful pre-push hooks were incorrectly showing failure
• Fixes an issue with the undo / restore functionality and conflicted commits
• Fixes a GitLab issue with setting the "draft" flag for MRs

TUI

• The but tui subcommand is no longer "hidden" from --help
• Adds support for moving hunks
• Adds support for discarding changes
• The details/preview pane can now be resized
• While editing a commit message, the message can be opened in a text editor
• Simplified branch creation (simply pressing b)
• Adds support for easy amending into a selection (shift+r for reverse rub)
• Adds support for invoking any but command with :
• Adds branch picker with fuzzy filtering (press t)

CLI

• GitButler skill - but skill install now has an option to install in .agents
• Linux: fixes an issue preventing the but gui subcommand from opening the GUI correctly

New Contributors

• @RemiKalbe made their first contribution in #12626

Full Changelog: release/0.19.7...release/0.19.8

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release/0.19.7

TUI

GitButler now has a terminal UI (in addition to the CLI)!
If you love keybindings, try it out with the but tui command and feel free to share any feedback in #tui on Discord.

Changes

• Improved performance when exiting edit mode
• Assigning / staging changes to branches is no longer constrained by commit dependencies
• Improved file selection behavior with when using the tree view
• Improved submodule support: it is now possible to add submodules as GitButler projects
• Improved diff rendering performance with large files
• Fixes a bug where in some cases the app could stop updating state from file changes
• Fixes an issue where oplog revert did not handle branches with no commits
• Fixes an issue where moving a branch to another stack was erroneously changing the stack order
• Fixes an issue with the absorb functionality where some changes were not being committed

CLI

• Significant improvements to Agentic use (update your SKILL file with but skill install)
• Fixes an issue where concurrent commits would cause a "Database locked" error
• Fixes an issue where but amend and but absorb were breaking pre-push hooks
• Renamed but branch tear-off <branch> to but branch move --unstack <branch>
• Added but clean which removes empty branches in the workspace
• but move now unifies moving of commits and branches (including stacking/unstacking)
• but uncommit now has a --discard flag which drops the content in addition to uncommitting

New Contributors

• @DanielEScherzer made their first contribution in #12891
• @ichoosetoaccept made their first contribution in #12886

Full Changelog: release/0.19.6...release/0.19.7

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release/0.19.6

Changes

• File previews now only show the selected file by default (change in Settings -> Appearance -> All-in-one diff)
• File diffs can now be popped out in a floating window
• Adds a option to preview SVGs as images (Settings -> Appearance -> Preview SVG)
• Improved rendering performance of diffs
• Fixes an issue with image diffing when switching between files
• Fixes an issue with the operations history where "unapply" stack was not being correctly tracked

CLI

• Updated but skill files for improved Claude Code and Codex performance (update with but skill install)
• but stack - new command for moving branches on top of others to stack them (also but branch move as an alias to the same functionality)
• Fixes an issue "askpass broker not initialized"

New Contributors

• @OliverJAsh made their first contribution in #12663
• @danilax86 made their first contribution in #12767
• @dslatkin made their first contribution in #12800

Full Changelog: release/0.19.5...release/0.19.6

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release/0.19.5

What's Changed

• Improve list scrolling speed
• but: Uncommitted hunks can now be addressed by their index (e.g but rub <file>:0 <branch|commit>)
• Fixes an issue with but update install which was failing due to missing bin
• Fixes a UI bug where in some situations the interface would freeze up after clicking on commits

Full Changelog: release/0.19.4...release/0.19.5

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release/0.19.4

Changes

• Conflicted commits: It is now a lot less confusing if a commit in conflicted state is ever checked out or pushed
• Conflict markers generated by the app are now more clear
• Adds support for converting PRs to/from "draft" PRs
• Operations log: auto commit operations are now shown in the oplog
• Husky hooks now need to be explicitly enabled on per-project basis in the settings
• Claude Code UI: fixes an issue where in some cases tool call was slow
• Minor performance improvements when producing diffs
• Fixes an issue where in some cases the live file watching was not working
• Fixes a number of scrolling issues
• Fixes an issue with restoring from a snapshot where the reload could cause double revert
• Fixes an issue where removing a project was leading to a 'project not found' screen
• Fixes an issue where in some cases in-progress commit message title is lost when to/from floating mode

CLI

• but pr Added subcommands auto-merge, set-draft and set-ready
• but branch Fixed and issue where the branch name in some case was being truncated
• but branch Adds flag --empty for showing branches with no commits and remote
• but now comes with a simple built in editor (If no core.editor is set in git config)
• It is now possible to use path prefixes to refer to multiple files for mutations like rub, amend and more
• Improved handling of user input prompts
• Output from commands (eg. status) now uses a (configurable) pager
• It is now possible to create PRs from forks
• Fixes an issue where commit tittles were naively truncated
• Fixes a bug where committing a renamed file only committed the "new" path

New Contributors

• @smitmartijn made their first contribution in #12414
• @craigmayhew made their first contribution in #12443
• @jwstover made their first contribution in #12623
• @gonchihernandez made their first contribution in #12448

Full Changelog: release/0.19.3...release/0.19.4

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