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Build 2112

26 August 2025
  • Fixed clear stashes command not updating the commit graph
  • Fixed a regex compilation bug
  • Fixed a rare crash during start-up
  • Build 2110

    28 July 2025

    New Features and Improvements

    • Significantly improved load and refresh times for repositories
    • Improved performance of diff generation
    • Improved performance of branch management commands
    • Improved performance of commit verification processing
    • Various syntax highlighting improvements
    • Updated the Add Remote command to suggest a remote name based on the URL
    • Windows: Improved scrolling performance
    • Windows, Mac: Updated bundled Git to 2.50.1

    Fixes

    • Fixed incorrect scroll position when opening the index editor
    • Fixed commit selection being lost when exiting search mode
    • Fixed input focus being lost when filtering the Locations bar
    • Fixed sidebar search filters closing in certain situations
    • Fixed rebase command visibility
    • Fixed branch deletion commands displaying tag refs
    • Fixed select theme command failing to apply theme
    • Fixed an indentation guide rendering issue
    • Various rendering fixes
    • Various crash fixes
    • Windows: Fixed includeIf config values being ignored
    • Mac: Fixed issue with password-protected SSH Keys

    Build 2102

    28 October 2024

    New Features and Improvements

    • Significantly improved repository scanning performance
    • Improved diff generation performance
    • Improved index loading performance
    • Enhanced rendering performance: Significantly faster rendering due to theme processing improvements
    • Added Create Branch from Tag… to the command palette and tag menus
    • Updated untracked file ordering: Recent files are now displayed first
    • File tabs: Increased file tab limit to 1000
    • Locations Filtering: Added and, or, not, before:, and after:keywords
    • Git LFS: Added Edit Tracked Pattern… to command palette
    • Added support for character classes in Git rules
    • Added select_ref selector for custom commands
    • Ctrl+4 (Cmd+4 for Mac) now highlights the commit details panel
    • Various syntax highlighting improvements
    • Windows: Added support for Windows-style paths for dictionary preference
    • Windows: Open in Editor now opens using the default editor for the file type
    • Windows: Implemented scroll-resetting behavior when dragging scroll bar
    • Linux: Implemented kinetic scrolling under Wayland
    • Linux: Implemented xdg-activation protocol for Wayland

    Fixes

    • Fixed staged empty files: Newly staged empty files were incorrectly marked as "contents unchanged"
    • Filename processing: Filenames with wildcards are now properly escaped when running Git commands
    • Fixed freeze when loading certain diffs
    • Fixed signature verification timing out too quickly
    • Fixed overlay scrollbars blocking input when invisible
    • Linux: Fixed crash on Wayland related to tab dragging
    • Linux: Fixed issues with tab dragging under Wayland

    Build 2096

    22 April 2024

    New Features and Improvements

    • Enhanced the character diffing algorithm for greater precision
    • Enhanced readability of text selections in diffs
    • Improved rendering performance for file lists with many files
    • Enhanced clarity of stash drop messages
    • Improved submodule processing performance
    • Introduced HDR file support for image diffs
    • Added an option to display carriage returns at end-of-line, configurable per platform (visible_carriage_returns_at_eol)
    • Introduced 'Switch Repository' option in the command palette
    • Enhanced interface with additional assistive tooltips
    • Refreshed the design of sidebar icons
    • Windows: Enabled periodic garbage collection to improve performance

    Fixes

    • Resolved issues with viewport tracking in the Blame view
    • Corrected incorrect icons displaying for newly created files in the Blame view
    • Fixed restoration order of repository tabs
    • Resolved unstaging errors for renamed files
    • Eliminated jumping behavior in large tabs during dragging
    • Fixed errors in the commit message cleanup process
    • Removed irrelevant entries in the multi-file context menu
    • Resolved processing errors in newline normalization rules
    • Corrected search and blame algorithms to respect the selected diff algorithm
    • Implemented multiple memory optimizations
    • Enhanced stability by resolving multiple crashes
    • Linux: Corrected font scaling issues related to the "ui_scale" setting

    Build 2091

    23 August 2023

    New Features and Improvements

    • Added ability to edit staged files directly using the index editor
    • Text Diffs: Added diff_algorithm preference. By default, Sublime Merge will match the diff.algorithm Git preference.
    • Text Diffs: Carriage returns are always rendered unless newline normalization is enabled
    • Image Diffs: Added WebP support
    • Search: Added is-visible keyword
    • Search: Improved performance for contents queries
    • Search: Added support for branch queries as a subqueries
    • Repository Tabs: Added support for setting tab aliases via the tab context menu
    • LFS: Added ability to track files via the Files list context menu
    • LFS: Added icon to files tracked with LFS
    • Day/month/year ordering is now extracted from the user locale
    • Added support for loading Git objects on demand (partial clone support)
    • Added Change Theme to command palette
    • Added keybinding to navigate to the second parent of a commit (Alt+Shift+Down)
    • Added support for the context key in mousemaps
    • The parents row on commits with no parents is now hidden
    • Improved repository scanning performance
    • Various syntax highlighting improvements

    Fixes

    • Fixed files list selections sometimes resetting when filtering
    • Fixed commit message ordering when squashing commits
    • Fixed Sublime Merge crashing with non-required Git filters
    • Fixed line count indicator showing for non-loaded diffs
    • Fixed word-based commands being enabled for password fields
    • Fixed the commit message editing command not providing Git output
    • Fixed scroll position being reset after deleting a branch
    • Fixed commit editing not showing the command output
    • Fixed git commondir handling
    • Fixed repository scanning crash with lock files
    • Windows: Fixed argument quoting for MSYS2 Git
    • Windows: Fixed Git clone failing on Windows when clone directory didn't exist
    • Windows: Fixed tooltips sometimes not being removed
    • Windows: Fixed OpenGL related crash
    • Windows, Linux: Assigned Ctrl + F4 keybinding to close tab
    • Linux: User config and cache paths are now created at startup if not present
    • Linux: Fixed crash when switching windows with a context menu open
    • Linux, Mac: Attempt to find the license key for the user when using sudo
    • Mac: Better support for running as root
    • Mac: Fixed unresponsiveness on certain signed commits
    • Mac: Fixed various memory errors

    Build 2083

    6 February 2023

    New Features and Improvements

    • Automatically fetch with the new auto_fetch preference
    • Files tab: Added support for multi-select
    • Locations tab: Branches with invalid tracking information are now faded
    • Added preference for ordering commit graph by author date
    • Search: Selects the current search query when opening search page
    • Custom commands now support selectors anywhere in an argument
    • Added expand_untracked_files_by_default preference
    • Added re-run button to failed commands in the command history

    Fixes

    • Windows and Mac: Updated bundled Git to 2.39.1 (addresses CVE-2022-41903 and CVE-2022-23521)
    • Mac and Linux: Fixed large Git LFS diffs failing to load
    • Mac: Fixed Sublime Merge crashing when child processes crash
    • Fixed git filters hanging on Windows
    • Fixed crash when creating tags on certain commits
    • Fixed incorrect count in branch "ahead" indicator tooltips
    • Fixed syntax highlighting performance issue due to backtracking
    • Fixed modified commit messages being discarded when continuing cherry-pick
    • Fixed memory leak when searching with certain terms
    • Fixed HEAD indictator not updating when initializing submodules
    • Fixed some Git commands failing on branches called stash
    • Fixed "Resolve" conflict buttons not handling file deletions

    Build 2079

    14 November 2022
    • Added Open Submodule to command palette
    • Added Copy Tag Name to tag context menu
    • Added support for GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM and GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL environment variables
    • Improved unsafe repository detection
    • Added license date to about window
    • Fixed hunk header expansion selecting text beneath header
    • Fixed bug that disabled commit message editing
    • Fixed commit message loss when stashing in certain situations
    • Fixed commit edits failing when submodule changes are detected
    • Fixed signature verification failing for ssh signatures
    • Fixed crash when opening context menu below table of contents
    • Mac: Fixed license being removed due to mac address changing
    • Mac: Miscellaneous Ventura fixes

    Build 2077

    22 August 2022

    New Features and Improvements

    • Patches: Easily create and apply patches using the commit and file context menus. Apply patches using the application menu or command palette.
    • Stash: Added support for --staged flag
    • Diffs: Added/Deleted files are now always displayed as inline diffs
    • Commit Graph: Added commit_graph_author_date preference
    • Added Create Branch from Remote Branch back to command palette
    • Added Open Containing Folder to the command palette

    Fixes

    • Fixed open_in_editor command waiting
    • Update dialog now displays license validity information
    • Updated pull/push keybindings to remove conflicts with OS keybindings
    • Fixed table of contents files missing cherry pick and revert menu items
    • Fixed signature verification and commit editing failing on repositories with detached working directories
    • Fixed edit_commit_contents failing on commits with no grandparents
    • Fixed navigate_to_tag failing to find tags
    • Command history layout state now persists
    • Fixed empty condensed branch annotations appearing
    • Fixed file mode changes disappearing when all hunks are staged
    • Fixed crash when staging certain files with file mode changes
    • Improved commit message syntax highlighting
    • Tweaked theming for headers in dark theme
    • Various performance fixes
    • Mac: Fixed double clicking on title bar not zooming

    Build 2074

    9 June 2022

    New Features and Improvements

    • Application: Added dialog to mark unsafe repositories as safe
    • Tags: Added tags to checkout command
    • Search: file and path queries now support absolute paths and Windows-style paths
    • Files List: Added context menu for commit files
    • Revert: Added warning when checking out a branch when a revert is in progress
    • Various syntax highlighting improvements
    • Added ruler_style setting

    Fixes

    • Submodules: Fixed submodule diffs showing outdated hashes
    • Files List: Fixed discard filtered files ignoring the filter
    • Files List: Fixed files list filter applying to commit dialog context menus
    • Navigation: Fixed tab-navigation focusing on hidden dialogs
    • Filters: Fixed certain filters causing the application to hang
    • Commit Message: Removed extra padding in commit message input
    • Mac: Fixed bundled Git compatibility
    • Mac: Fixed context menu input focus bug

    Build 2071

    25 April 2022

    New Features and Improvements

    • Files List: Stage filtered files using the file section context menus
    • Improved interface for staging/unstaging large changesets
    • Commit List: Added keyboard support for opening context menus
    • Branches: Combined all checkout commands into a single command
    • Branches: Added ability to unset upstreams
    • Search: Added auto-matching for quotes
    • Submodules: Added support for non-absorbed submodules
    • Create Tag: Added warning when tag name is invalid

    Fixes

    • Fixed scroll position being lost when dropping a commit
    • Fixed scroll tracking when staging large files
    • Fixed commit message container layout issues
    • Fixed hunk container layout issue for large hunks
    • Fixed OpenGL rendering issue related to the wrong context being active
    • Fixed shadow related OpenGL rendering bug
    • Fixed potential for corrupted menu items in commit message history
    • Fixed back button not working in file history
    • Syntax Highlighting: Fixed crash caused by starting a branch point at the end of a line
    • Windows and Mac: Updated bundled Git to 2.35.3 (addresses CVE-2022-24765 and CVE-2022-24767)
    • Mac: Fixed Ctrl+Mouse1 not opening commit graph context menus
    • Mac: Added work around for broken modal loops
    • Linux: Follow system scroll bar overlay setting
    • Linux: Fixed various issues caused by the C locale

    Build 2068

    21 December 2021

    New Features and Improvements

    • Search: Quickly write queries with auto-complete suggestions
    • Improved OpenGL rendering performance by automatically batching together controls
    • Fetch / Pull Command: Added ability to fetch tags
    • Merge Command: Merge unrelated histories using the allow-unrelated-histories flag
    • Set Upstream Command: Indicate the current upstream in the list of remote branches
    • Commit Details: Added context menus to commit metadata items
    • Commit Dialog: Stage submodule changes using Enter
    • Commit Messages: Added support for strip and default modes of commit.cleanup
    • Commit Messages: Warn when commit message only contains comments
    • Context Variables: Access the in-progress commit message via the commit_message variable
    • Settings: Highlight missing signatures and public keys as errors with signature_error_highlighting
    • Settings: Added draw_unicode_bidi setting, which is enabled by default
    • Recent Repositories: Added Clear missing menu item
    • Recent Repositories: Prompt to remove from list when opening non-existent repositories
    • Clone Page: Added tooltips to clone page inputs

    Fixes

    • Commit Editing: Fixed author information being updated
    • Fixed lines with whitespace preceding comment characters being treated as comments
    • Fixed light changelog displaying when dark theme is enabled
    • Fixed crash when selecting previous commit messages containing certain UTF-8 sequences
    • Fixed issue with rebase branch preview
    • Fixed data corruption potentially occurring if a crash happens while saving the session
    • Fixed crash when filtering table of contents
    • Windows: Fixed crash when OpenGL initialization fails
    • Mac and Windows: Fixed command line / terminal not taking focus after waiting
    • Mac: Fixed Window > Merge All Windows merging minimized windows
    • Mac: Fixed native tabs restoration resulting in odd behavior
    • Linux: Added missing libcurl dependency for package managers

    Build 2063

    26 Oct 2021

    New Features and Improvements

    • Search by branch using the branch: operator or via the branch context menus
    • Stage hunks and individual lines on untracked files
    • Navigate to commit references in commit messages using the context menu
    • Add comment and commit highlighting to commit messages
    • Added new update dialog that shows versions, license status and links to the changelog
    • Added indicators to repository tabs with uncommitted changes
    • Added context menus for uncommitted file tabs
    • Updated repository tabs to show the full repository path in a tooltip
    • Updated file tabs to show the relative path in a tooltip
    • Improved the authentication dialog for GitHub users
    • Improved hardware acceleration performance when rendering white space
    • Improved the update_remote_url command to populate with the current URL
    • Various syntax definition updates

    Fixes

    • Fixed gpg hanging on certain systems
    • Fixed the incorrect menu showing for staged files
    • Fixed diff selections not rendering correctly when line_padding is set
    • Windows: Fixed slow window creation when using OpenGL

    Build 2059

    23 July 2021

    New Features and Improvements

    • Cherry Pick multiple commits via the commit graph and context menu
    • Cherry Pick: added support for the-x flag
    • Revert multiple commits via the commit graph and context menu
    • Set commit templates via the Git config variable commit.template (see here for more info)
    • Hardware Acceleration: multiple performance improvements
    • Double click remote branches to create local branches in the Locations bar
    • Added Copy Repository Path to action menu
    • Added Update remote URL and Copy remote URL to remote context menu
    • Focus on the checked out branch using Ctrl+8 (Cmd+8 for MacOS)
    • Open recent commit messages using Ctrl+; (Cmd+; for MacOS)
    • Add Remote: name input is now validated
    • Updated "Pull" button to perform a fetch when in a detached HEAD state
    • Mac and Linux: open Quick Switch Repository via Ctrl+Alt+P/Cmd+Ctrl+P
    • Tweaked how the Push command is displayed in the command palette
    • Safe mode shortcuts can be disabled by creating a file in the data directory called .Disable Safe Mode Shortcut

    Fixes

    • Fixed cherry picks failing when the parent folder doesn't exist
    • Restored missing Continue button when a cherry pick has been paused
    • Restored missing commit button when unmerged files are present
    • Fixed up/down behavior in command palette
    • Fixed image diffs failing to load Git LFS images
    • Fixed default input focus for the files list
    • Fixed Sublime Merge opening a new window via Sublime Text integrations
    • Fixed crash when closing window
    • Disabled discard command for staged files
    • Windows: fixed globs not being expanded sometimes
    • Linux: Improved cancel/ok dialog ordering consistency

    Build 2056

    17 May 2021
    • Add $commit_message context variable for historical commits
    • Fix memory leak on Windows

    Build 2054

    4 May 2021
    • Mac releases now include native Apple Silicon binaries
    • Easily filter through large filesets using the new files filter
    • Cherry pick hunks using the … button on hunks
    • Moving the caret in diffs now scrolls the viewport
    • Added the chain command, which accepts a list of commands to run in its "commands" argument - useful for chaining Git commands together
    • Improved default selection behavior for switch repository
    • Commit message history: ensure entries are unique
    • Added support for Scroll Bar.sublime-mousemap to customize scrollbar interaction
    • Added "Report a Bug" entry in the Help menu
    • Linux: use native file dialogs, allowing use of the KDE dialogs
    • Windows: fixed clone dialog not pre-filling
    • Fixed gpg signature verification hanging
    • Fixed stale commit messages displaying when editing commit contents
    • Fixed memory issue when rebasing
    • Fixed command status popups not disappearing

    Build 2050

    12 March 2021
    • Allow command palette navigation with Tab / Shift + Tab
    • Fixed newlines appearing in the commit message history
    • Fixed blame tooltips not updating in certain circumstances
    • Fixed crash when staging files with certain file encodings
    • Windows and Mac: updated bundled Git to 2.30.2 (addresses CVE-2021-21300)
    • Windows: fixed clean and smudge filters hanging on certain files
    • Linux: improved application menu theming

    Build 2047

    23 February 2021

    New Features

    • Location bar: find branches easily with the new filter bar
    • Location bar: ahead / behind indicators can now be clicked to push / pull
    • Location bar: branch folders now have context menus
    • Tags: added command to checkout tags
    • Tags: added command to delete remote tags
    • Stashes: added command to delete all stashes (git stash clear)
    • Push: added --no-verify option
    • Remote branches: added command to checkout corresponding local branch
    • Custom commands: select remotes with the new select_remote selector
    • Added resize_window command
    • Added commit message tooltip to each parent in the parents section of a commit

    Improvements

    • Windows: upgraded the application title bar
    • Linux: upgraded the application title bar on Gnome
    • Image diffs: PSD, TGA, PPM, and PGM files now display a rich diff
    • Blame: significant loading time improvements
    • Commit graph: simplified context menus
    • Improved indentation detection
    • Switch Repository dialog: open new tabs via Ctrl key (Cmd for MacOS)
    • Updated Ctrl+R/Cmd+R to run navigate_to_branch command
    • Updated refresh command keybinding to Ctrl+Shift+H/Cmd+Shift+H
    • Updated diff titles to elide when space is limited
    • Updated theming of the files list
    • Added various syntax highlighting improvements
    • Detached HEAD state is now more explicit
    • Remember which workspace each window is in by default (controlled via the setting remember_workspace)
    • Parent folders of the currently checked out branch are now highlighted in the location bar
    • Navigation commands: a warning is displayed when exiting the merge tool
    • Askpass dialog now supports fingerprint input
    • Askpass dialog now detects keypad Enter
    • Added themed_title_bar setting
    • Menu files: added submenu IDs
    • Interactive rebase: the break flag is now supported
    • Mac: improved OpenGL rendering performance
    • Windows and Mac: Updated bundled Git to 2.29.2
    • Linux: added various performance optimisations

    Fixes

    • Editing commits now signs the edited commits
    • Added back missing progress bar for long-running commands
    • Fixed newly cloned repositories not loading preferences
    • Previous commit messages are now saved per-repository
    • Fixed incorrect context menus displaying in location bar
    • Improved compatibility on filesystems with large timestamp imprecision
    • Fixed inability to revert files if their parent directory does not exist
    • Fixed crash when closing the preferences page
    • Fixed empty selections being rendered as a line
    • Fixed window positions not restoring correctly in certain situations
    • Mac: smerge now correctly restores window positions
    • Mac: updated icon to follow macOS 11 style
    • Mac: added a workaround for Apple M1 OpenGL graphics driver bug that caused text to be rendered incorrectly
    • Mac: fixed bug in batching of large Git commands
    • Mac: added workaround for the command line helper when app translocation is in effect
    • Windows: added a workaround for Intel OpenGL graphics driver bug that caused black bars at the top of some windows
    • Windows: fixed glyph rendering bugs
    • Windows: fixed flashing when using OpenGL and resizing a window
    • Windows: fixed bug in subpixel antialiasing
    • Linux and Mac: fixed clean and smudge filters hanging on certain files
    • Linux: fixed bug with the caret not moving after performing a text drag
    • Linux: fixed freezing on KDE Plasma

    Build 2038

    30 October 2020

    New Features and Improvements 💎

    • Added commit graph theming improvements - branch colors now match graph edge colors
    • Updated custom git commands to support launching editor
    • Updated custom git commands to allow for selecting branches and other refs - see the docs for details
    • Improved commit dialog scroll tracking
    • Added navigate_to_stash command
    • Added Drop Stash… to the command palette
    • Tweaked merge algorithm to merge nearby conflicts
    • Updated clone page to trim leading and trailing whitespace
    • Updated create_branch/rename_branch command to convert whitespace to hyphens
    • Improved lexer performance

    Preferences 🎚️

    • Added editor_wait_args to preferences
    • Added preference set GIT_SSH env var (useful for overriding the default SSH client)
    • Updated preference categories

    Git ⚙️

    • Updated image diff file size limit
    • Fixed bug were commits only reachable by tags were not visible
    • Fixed edge case bug when staging single lines
    • Fixed revert hunk displaying success message in some failure cases
    • Fixed bug where some Scalar pack files weren't loaded
    • Windows: fixed bug with git config path resolution

    Miscellaneous Fixes 🐞

    • Fixed incorrect ordering of commit dialog tabs
    • Fixed smerge not preserving session information in some situations
    • Fixed session loading bug with multiple repository tabs
    • Fixed bug with Korean IME
    • Fixed commit summary sizing bug
    • Fixed inability to scroll to the end of the commit dialog in some circumstances
    • Fixed invalid initialize submodule menu item
    • Renamed Show Branch… to Show Hidden Branch…
    • Fixed edge-case in delete_remote command
    • Fixed theme reloading twice
    • Fixed clone page not receiving input focus by default
    • OpenGL: fixed rendering issue due to AMD driver bug on Windows
    • OpenGL: fixed blurry checkboxes
    • OpenGL: improved bold rendering with bugged intel drivers
    • Syntax Definitions: fixed infinite loop bug
    • Syntax Definitions: renamed TypeScript to TSX, and added a new vanilla TypeScript syntax

    Build 2032

    25 August 2020

    New Features and Improvements 💎

    • Added full file diffs - click the toggle button in the hunk header to toggle between individual changes and the full file
    • Added Git LFS image diff support
    • Improved performance when loading image diffs
    • Added history dropdown to the search page
    • Added tab selector to the repository tab bar
    • Improved --set-upstream behavior
    • Linux: added touch event handling

    Rendering 🎨

    • Fixed an OpenGL text rendering issue
    • OpenGL: fixed glyph corruption due to an AMD driver bug on Windows
    • Mac: fixed rendering bug

    Diffs 📃

    • Fixed clean filters not applying to modified files
    • Fixed context dragger not displaying for some diffs
    • Fixed scrolling behavior regression in commit dialog
    • Windows: fixed directory junctions being marked as untracked
    • Fixed line-based operations failing occasionally

    Miscellaneous Fixes 🐞

    • Updated show_all_refs to display when any refs are hidden
    • Fixed incorrect context menu behavior when the underlying controls are updated
    • Fixed signed tags failing when no tag message is supplied
    • Fixed custom themes not loading into askpass dialogs
    • Fixed input focus handling in commit dialog
    • Improved scrolling behavior in preferences page
    • Windows: fixed crash on Windows due to IME
    • Windows: fixed clone page not automatically populating source URL
    • Windows: fixed bug in open_dir_in_sublime_text
    • Mac: added support for editor arguments in preferences
    • Windows: fixed crash when window edge overlaps with faded text

    Build 2027

    28 July 2020
    • Fixed high memory usage associated with image diffs
    • Windows: fixed open_dir_in_sublime_text sometimes missing on Windows

    Build 2025

    22 Jul 2020

    New Features and Improvements 💎

    • Added image diffs
    • Added Revert Hunk
    • Added rename_remote command
    • Added --set-upstream option to push menu
    • Added always_show_command_status preference
    • Commit Signatures: added GPG4Win support
    • Search: added tree operator, which matches commits with the given tree hash
    • Improved merge algorithm for merge tool
    • Improved gitflow finish support
    • Added drag-drop support to welcome page

    Rendering 🎨

    • Fixed several OpenGL related rendering issues
    • Color Schemes: Fixed text background drawing over underlines

    Syntax Definitions 📝

    • Added out of the box support for TypeScript and JSX, with thanks to Thomas Smith
    • Added "extends" keyword in .sublime-syntax
    • Added "version: 2" in .sublime-syntax to fix edge cases while retaining backwards compatibility
    • Added lazy loading of external "embed" actions
    • Reduced cache size on disk
    • Prevent infinite include loops via with_prototype
    • Improved matching performance and memory usage
    • Added "hidden_extensions" in .sublime-syntax
    • Allow combining "pop" with "push"/"set"/"embed"/"branch"
    • Fixed a number of scope related bugs
    • Fixed some regex capture related bugs

    Input Handling ⌨️

    • Added forward and back navigation to mousemap
    • Mac: Fixed ctrl+mouse1 not matching the behavior of mouse2
    • Windows: Fixed IME bugs

    Miscellaneous Fixes 🐞

    • Windows: safe mode is now activated via shift+alt
    • Search: fixed typographical error
    • Fixed git command output scrolling when output overflows dialog
    • Fixed freeze when switching tabs while command palette is open
    • Fixed some symlinks being incorrectly marked as modified on Windows
    • Session is now saved when application is notified of system shutdown
    • Improved contrast between selected and unselected repository tabs
    • Fixed minor file tab theming bugs
    • Fixed crash when core.ignorecase is enabled
    • Fixed crash when navigating to a commit message while rebasing
    • Location Bar: fixed incorrect branch count with nested branches
    • Files Bar: fixed selection regression in tree view
    • Fixed selection bug in command palette

    Build 2020

    26 May 2020

    General

    • New UI, including repository tabs
    • GPU Rendering
    • UI: Reworked Commit Dialog
    • UI: Added repository tabs, to have multiple repositories open in a single window
    • UI: Added file tabs when viewing the contents of a commit
    • Implement commit signature creation and validation
    • Added a lines changed indicator to commits
    • Added command history, available from the Show Git Output icon in the tool bar
    • Added commit message history, available from the dropdown arrow in the commit message box
    • Added support for non-overlay scrollbars in diffs
    • Added Resolve Ours / Resolve Theirs dropdown to unmerged files
    • URLs in commit messages and git output can be opened via the context menu
    • Left and Right keys can be used to expand/collapse merge commits
    • Added Navigate/Go to Child
    • Stash commands no longer supply -q by default, to work around a bug in Git 2.24
    • Checking out a hidden ref will make the ref visible
    • Add Recent Repositories to Welcome Page
    • Search: Added before and after operators
    • Added set_preference and toggle_preference commands
    • Added gitflow publish support
    • Preferences: Updating settings via the preferences dialog no longer clears comments in the settings file
    • Preferences: Added Preferences entry for Ignore Whitespace in diffs
    • Added checks for pushDefault and pushRemote when pushing
    • Added Tools/Show Console
    • Improved selection behavior while loading large repositories
    • Improved menu auto hide behavior on Linux and Windows
    • Improved performance with a very large number of untracked or modified files
    • Improved performance in repositories with a large number of authors
    • Running smerge without any arguments will focus the current window, if any
    • Fixed not being able to commit when email is set to empty string
    • Fixed a bug in destination path calculation in the clone dialog
    • Fixed Create Tag with an empty message creating the tag incorrectly
    • Fixed hunk staging using the wrong encoding in some scenarios
    • Fixed shift+enter staging a file even when focus is in commit message box

    Merge Tool

    • Indentation settings are now automatically detected from the contents of the file
    • Saving a file with unresolved conflicts will warn before saving
    • Added a preference to trim trailing whitespace on save

    GPU Rendering

    • New hardware_acceleration setting will composite the UI on the GPU
    • By default, GPU rendering is enabled on Mac, and disabled on Windows and Linux. This can be changed via the Preferences dialog.
    • Details about the active GPU will be displayed in the Console

    Git

    • Git: Added support for smudge and clean filters, enabling Git LFS support
    • Git: Improved handling of the working-tree-encoding attribute
    • Git: Improved parsing of .gitattributes files
    • Git: Added support for GUI encoding config
    • Windows and Mac: Updated bundled Git to 2.26.2
    • Windows: Fixed core.worktree support
    • Submodules: Added Initialize All Submodules context menu
    • Submodules: The location bar now indicates the value of HEAD for each submodule

    Editor Control

    • Expanded draw_white_space setting, supporting leading and trailing white space
    • Unicode white space characters, such as the zero width no-break space, are now drawn as hex values. Controlled via draw_unicode_white_space setting.
    • Spell Checking: Added support for languages with upper case characters after start of word
    • Spell Checking: Updated dictionaries
    • Spell Checking: Added support for non-utf8 dictionaries
    • Spell Checking: System dictionaries are now available on Linux
    • Spell Checking: Dictionaries in ~/Library/Spelling are now available on Mac
    • Linux: Text drag and drop is now supported
    • Linux: Added support for alternate font weight names
    • Linux: Selection is no longer cleared when another application makes a selection

    Text Commands

    • Improved behavior of Wrap Paragraph
    • Improved behavior of Swap Lines
    • Added Selection/Expand Selection as a general mechanism to expand the selection
    • Selection/Split into Lines will now split a selection into words if the selection doesn't contain any newlines
    • Fixed swap_line_down not being able to swap an empty line onto the last line of a file

    Input Handling

    • Modifier key taps can now be used as part of a key binding. For example, ["ctrl", "ctrl"] will trigger when Ctrl is pressed twice without pressing any other keys in between.
    • Linux: AltGr can now be used in key bindings via altgr
    • Linux: Added a workaround for a touchscreen driver bug, which would cause right click and mouse scrolling to stop working
    • Linux: When the menu is hidden, pressing alt will show it
    • Linux: Improved compatibility with some keyboard layouts
    • Mac: Fix Pinyin input
    • Mac: Keypad keys can now be bound to as expected
    • Mac: Improved compatibility with some keyboard layouts
    • Windows, Linux: Hide mouse cursor when typing. Controlled via hide_pointer_while_typing setting.
    • Windows, Linux: Fixed being unable to bind Ctrl+Break
    • Windows: Improved IME support
    • Windows, Linux: Added Shift+F10 key binding to open the context menu

    UI

    • Added highlight_gutter and highlight_line_number settings
    • Themes now have a style property for title_bar element, for better integration with OS "dark modes"
    • Color Schemes: Added glow font option to color schemes
    • Color Schemes: Added support for the underline font style
    • Linux: Show sequential key bindings in the menu
    • Linux: Fixed context menu position being slightly offset

    Rendering

    • Windows, Linux: Added support for per-display subpixel ordering
    • Mac: Improved window resize performance
    • Windows: Fixed rendering bug where other applications could cause persistent artifacts via window animations

    Application Behavior

    • Added Safe Mode, to simulate a clean install. Enabled by passing --safe-mode on the command line.
    • Holding down Shift on Windows, or Option on macOS, will start Sublime Merge in Safe Mode
    • Settings containing a UTF-8 BOM will no longer fail to load

    Syntax Definitions

    • Added ability to "branch" within syntax definitions, for non-deterministic or multi-line constructs
    • Many syntax highlighting improvements, including significant improvements to:
    • Improved syntax definition load time
    • Fixed a performance issue with bounded repeats in regular expressions

    Build 1116

    3 June 2019
    • Large files are now only diffed when clicked on
    • Merge Tool: Added Take Left and Take Right options
    • Merge Tool: Can now Save and Stage in one action
    • --no-verify can be passed when committing
    • Rebase Commit is now available in the context menu for all commits
    • Revert Commit now works with merge commits
    • Added separate key bindings for Stage All and Stage All Modified files for clarity
    • Added an explicit close button to the search bar
    • Table of Contents: Clicking an already selected row no longer closes the diff
    • Various syntax highlighting improvements
    • Improved behavior when doing a line restricted file history search and toggling ignore whitespace
    • Added support for the intent-to-add flag in the index
    • Fixed includeIf handling in git config files not interpreting ~ relative paths correctly
    • Fixed UTF8 BOMs not being handled correctly in .gitignore files
    • Fixed Edit Commit Message not working in work trees
    • Fixed standalone merge tool not supporting the key binding for Next Conflict
    • Fixed smerge mergetool not handling relative paths correctly
    • Fixed smerge log <dir> not working as expected
    • Mac: Added a workaround for a macOS OpenGL driver bug in 10.14.4
    • Linux: Fixed incorrect file ownership in the deb packages
    • Linux: Added support for text drag and drop
    • Linux: Improved high dpi handling under KDE

    Build 1107

    12 March 2019
    • The Contents section of the sidebar can now be switched between showing changed files and all files
    • Sublime Merge can now be used as a standalone merge tool, via the smerge command line helper. See smerge --help for details.
    • Merge tool: Improved UI for switching between the Base file and the Merged file
    • Added Navigate/Go to Parent menu item
    • Improved clone dialog
    • Improved side bar context menus
    • Various syntax highlighting improvements
    • Merge tool now indicates which lines have been modified in the merged file
    • Merge tool: swap_line_up, swap_line_down and duplicate_line commands are now supported
    • Fixed git flow commands appearing inconsistently
    • Mac: Add full support for macOS native tabs
    • Mac: Ensure context menus are shown without scrolling
    • Mac: Error message dialogs can now be closed with the escape key
    • Linux: Color glyphs are now drawn properly on light backgrounds
    • Windows: Fix DirectWrite handling of fonts with lineGap > 0

    Build 1103

    24 January 2019
    • New Preferences Dialog
    • New Merge Dialog
    • Added support for includeIf in Git config files
    • Various syntax highlighting improvements
    • Windows and Linux: Improved IME compatibility
    • Added Navigate to Branch
    • Added Navigate to Tag
    • Added Set Branch Upstream to the Command Palette
    • Added Hide Branch to the branch context menu
    • Added Hard Reset option to the diverged banner
    • The diverged banner now shows the exact git commands that will be run in tooltips
    • Improved behavior of clone dialog when selecting a target directory

    Build 1097

    6 December 2018
    • Various syntax highlighting improvements
    • Fixed backspace not discarding selected lines
    • Mac: Improved resize performance
    • Mac: Fixed missing key bindings in menu items
    • Windows: Fixed Clone dialog not working correctly
    • Windows: Updated Git Credential Manager to 1.18.1
    • Linux: GTK3 + Wayland compatibility fixes
    • Linux: Fixed GTK3 double and triple click handling
    • Linux: Fixed a crash when using GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

    Build 1092

    29 November 2018
    • Added Contents view in the side bar, to focus on individual files
    • Double-clicking or pressing space in the commit graph will focus on the first file of the selected commit
    • Added Word Wrap
    • Clone: Can now change the directory name being cloned into
    • Added hide_menu setting
    • Edit Commit: Added Edit Commit Contents
    • Edit Commit: Added Fixup Commits
    • Edit Commit: Can now Drop multiple commits at once
    • Edit Commit: All Edit Commit operations now work with a detached head
    • Preferences: Can now set rulers via the preferences menu
    • Added Open Repository in Sublime Text menu item
    • Binary file detection heuristic now matches Git
    • Search help text is scrollable
    • Unicode: Improved rendering of combining characters
    • Ignore whitespace now only ignores space and tab changes, not newline changes
    • smerge blame now starts the blame from HEAD, rather than the selected commit
    • Fixed Delete Branch not always prompting for force delete when it needs to
    • Fixed line history not showing the initial commit that added the file
    • Fixed smerge blame not navigating to the target line when Sublime Merge is already running
    • Fixed search results being cleared when the repository is modified
    • Fixed viewing trees from search results not working when the commit is folded away
    • Git Flow: Fixed menu commands not working as expected
    • Fixed SSH Askpass helper only showing the first prompt line
    • Windows: Fixed handling of daylight saving time
    • Linux: Moved to GTK3

    Build 1084

    29 October 2018
    • Search: Added contents: operator, to find commits introducing or removing text
    • Can now ignore whitespace changes in diffs (available from the context menu)
    • Edit Commit: Added Squash Selected Commits
    • Support for core.worktree
    • Window state is now restored when re-opening a repository
    • Search: Merge commits are now automatically excluded when the query includes path:, file: or contents:. Specify min-parents: 0 to include them.
    • Location Bar: Tags are grouped into folders if they have a slash in their name
    • Tweaked commit graph rendering
    • Add new preference, time_format
    • Preferences: Default values are now indicated, rather than null
    • Preferences: Unquoted strings are accepted
    • Improved handling of network issues when working with repositories over a networked file system
    • Navigate to Commit now works as expected for hidden commits
    • Fixed context splitter showing through hunk headers
    • Fixed expand_merge_commits_by_default not being applied correctly at startup
    • Fixed bold text sometimes being applied incorrectly in the side bar
    • Fixed a blame regression in 1079
    • Mac: Added gpu_window_buffer setting, to disable usage of OpenGL

    Build 1079

    21 October 2018
    • Added "Merge With…" context menu to merge a branch with flags (--squash, --no-ff, etc)
    • Edit Commit: Added Move Commit Up
    • Edit Commit: Added Move Commit Down
    • Edit Commit: Added Drop Commit
    • Commit context menu tweaks
    • Location Bar: Refs are sorted via natural sorting, making numeric refs sort as expected
    • Make tag message optional for git flow finish command
    • Add git_env preference, to set the env vars git is launched with
    • Fixed a crash regression in 1075
    • Fixed stash labels having the wrong size

    Build 1075

    16 October 2018
    • Submodules are shown in the location bar
    • Submodules: Double clicking on a submodule will open the corresponding repository
    • Submodules: The number of modified and untracked files are shown next to each submodule
    • Submodules: New submodules can be added by right clicking in the location bar, or via the Command Palette
    • Submodules: Added functionality for Initialize, Update and Sync
    • Git Flow: Added support for git flow commands, via the Command Palette
    • Added setting expand_merge_commits_by_default, to unfold all merge commits by default
    • Show line and column position when entering a commit message
    • Partially entered commit messages are stored in the session
    • Hovering over a remote in the location bar will show its URL
    • Added key bindings for Pull and Push
    • Stage All will set input focus to the Commit Message entry box
    • Fixed Stash key bindings not being set correctly on Windows and Linux
    • Fixed per-branch ahead/behind counters not matching git output
    • Fixed entries removed from .gitmodules not being handled the same way as git
    • Fixed always visible scrollbars for submodule changes
    • Fixed a case where remote branches would be displayed incorrectly in the location bar
    • Fixed remotes with dots in their name not being parsed correctly
    • Fixed unix domain sockets showing up as untracked files
    • Windows: Updated bundled git to 2.19.1
    • Windows: Fixed extraneous horizontal scrollbar in some high dpi modes
    • Windows: Minimized and Maximized windows are now restored as expected
    • Mac: Updated bundled git to 2.19.0
    • Mac: Clicking on the dock icon will create a window if there are none

    Build 1070

    10 October 2018
    • Commit Folding: Merge commits are now folded by default; click on their icon to unfold
    • Location Bar: Branches can be hidden by clicking on the new eye icon
    • Location Bar: Alt-clicking will hide everything but the clicked on branch
    • Location Bar: The location bar is now a tree
    • Location Bar: Branches with slashes in their name are grouped in folders
    • Location Bar: Added per-branch ahead/behind counters
    • Location Bar: Width is stored in the session
    • Added Copy to Clipboard in the branch context menu
    • The commit message is now preserved when git commit fails
    • Added a Tools/Password Caching menu to easily setup credential caching on Linux
    • Added a git_config command to set git configuration options via the keyboard or menu
    • Clicking next to the author label no longer shows the Edit User dialog
    • Allow creating tags with empty messages
    • Fixed incorrect submodule handling with core.ignorecase turned on
    • Fixed a regression where the Continue Rebase button wasn't being shown
    • Fixed a case where git attributes weren't interpreted correctly
    • Changed handling of invalid gitignore rules, such as **\test to treat them the same way as Git
    • Fixed a crash that could occur when parsing git config files
    • Fixed a crash that could occur when closing a repository
    • Mac: Improved font rendering on Mojave
    • Mac: Fixed some commands not working when using the bundled version of git

    Build 1065

    2 October 2018
    • Added Stage All and Discard All buttons
    • Git worktrees are now supported
    • Support for .git directories populated with symlinks, as in AOSP
    • core.commentchar is now understood
    • Improved comment filtering when entering commit messages: only automatically generated comments will be stripped
    • Improved rename detection when viewing diffs and searching for files
    • Search: Now accepts "commit:" terms for search by commit hash
    • Restyled git error popup
    • Stash can now accept a message
    • Merge Tool: Improved LF vs CRLF selection logic
    • Fixed incorrect default value for core.excludesfiles
    • Fixed handling of backslashes in .gitignore files
    • Ctrl+F/Cmd+F no longer starts searching while in merge mode
    • Mac: Fixed windows being created offscreen in some setups
    • Mac: Fixed alpha blended windows on Mojave

    Build 1062

    27 September 2018
    • Fixed a regression in 1061 where unmerged files weren't updating
    • Mac: Basic support for Mojave Dark Mode

    Build 1061

    26 September 2018
    • Full core.ignorecase support, fixing some cases where status output differed from git
    • Added support for core.precomposedunicode
    • Added support for core.filemode
    • Added support for core.symlinks
    • Mac: Query login shell for default env vars
    • Fixed not checking $HOME/.config/git/config as a default config file path
    • Improve change descriptions for submodule changes
    • Merge Tool: Improved LF vs CRLF selection logic
    • Tweaked scroll delta when scrolling with the mouse wheel
    • Windows: Adjust $HOME calculation to match Git

    Build 1058

    21 September 2018
    • .gitgnore rule handling improvements
    • Improve handling of case-insensitive repositories
    • Allow committing to a detached head
    • Support for files marked --assume-unchanged and --skip-worktree
    • Fix dropping of stashes from the location bar not working correctly
    • Windows: Added SSH askpass support

    Build 1055

    20 September 2018
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