v0.5.0

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

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

If you see an error like failed to select a requirement libgit2-sys, then you need to update your version of Rust. See the troubleshooting section.

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Release highlights

This is primarily a bugfix release for revset-related issues. Thanks to @claytonrcarter and @pokey who fixed several bugs!

• git reword gained the --fixup flag, and can now reword merge commits.
• An experimental git submit command was added (discuss).

Changelog

Added

• (feat(revset): Add exactly function #508) Added exactly(<revset>, n) revset function to allow assertions on the number of commits within a set.
• (feat(revset): Support custom revset aliases #509) Users can now define custom revset aliases.
• (Support rewording merge commits #533) git reword can now reword merge commits.
• (feat(record): add --detach option #534) git record now accepts a --detach option to avoid moving the current branch.
• (feat(reword): Add --fixup flag to git branchless reword #538) git reword now accepts a --fixup option to convert regular commits into fixup! commits (for use with git rebase --autosquash)
• (Create git submit command #541) EXPERIMENTAL: Created git submit command. Discuss at RFC: `git submit` interface #564.

Changed

• (docs: warn about unsupported Git configuration settings #543) Commands will produce a better error message for certain unsupported sparse checkout configurations.

Fixed

• (fix(revset): Ignore ending newline in message(...) #507) The messages() revset function now ignores trailing newlines in commit messages.
• (fix(smartlog): respect --color always #512) Fixed so that the setting for --color is now respected.
• (fix(smartlog): respect --color always #512) Fixed so that you can pass --color anywhere in the command-line, not just before the subcommand.
• (fix(smartlog): don't show restack hint for rewritten commits #513) Fixed some false positives for hints to run git restack when printing the smartlog.
• (Display correct flag name about rewriting public commits (#515) #518) Fixed the suggested flag in the error message when attempting to rewrite public commits.
• (fix(revset): Fix ParseError for single quotes in complex nested expresssions #539) Fixed parse errors for certain single-quoted string literals in revset expressions.
• (Fix revset parentheses #559) Fixed precedence for parentheses in revset expressions.
• (Print query output in correct order #569) Fixed the reversed output order of the results of git query.

New contributors

Thanks to the following first-time contributors!

• @kidonng made their first contribution in docs: fix inline code markup #505
• @pokey made their first contribution in Fix lint error #561

If you're interested in contributing, check out the Developer Guide in the Wiki, or post in the Discussions or Discord server to ask any questions.

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