14 DAY TRIAL // The GNOME Project announced recently that the GitG software, which allows users to view and browser Git software repositories with ease, has enter the development cycle for version 3.18, which will be distributed as part of the forthcoming GNOME 3.18 desktop environment, due for release on September 23, 2015.
According to the internal changelog, which we have attached at the end of the article, GitG 3.17.1 is now capable of using the Gravatar service (users can enable the option in the Preferences dialog), adds support for deleting untracked files, and improves the overview/dash user experience.
Moreover, it adds the '--all', '--remotes', '--branches', and '--tags' command-line arguments, which can be used to modify the default history of the activity selection, improves the collapse and uncollapse behavior of the diff view, and adds the ability to stage or unstage all selected itesm when pressing the Enter key.
There are of course numerous bugfixes in the first milestone towards GitG 3.18, among which we can mention support for correctly resizing icons in the diff view, more polishing of the user interface, cloning authentication fixes, a race conditions in the loading of a Git repository, and issues with collation errors for Python diffs.
Lastly, GitG now uses animations only if the gtk_enable_animations function is set. Those of you who want to test this development version of GitG can download the GitG 3.17.1 sources right now from Softpedia, but please keep in mind that it's a pre-release version, not to be used on production environments.