Syntax highlighting in the source view:

Blame view:

There are several bug fixes and tweaks, the most important of which is that creating gists on GitHub works again.

I’ve added an improved search interface for finding commits in the history.

Commits that match the search are highlighted in the table view and you can step between them with the stepper or with cmd-G and cmd-shift-G.

Git’s pickaxe search is supported. This means that any commit that adds or removes the matching string or the matching regular expression will be highlighted. In addition there is a search option for any commit that touches a given path.

There are two new table columns, one for relative dates and one for a short SHA (right-click on the table view headers to show or hide individual columns).

There are new commands for the gitx command-line tool that allow you to control the new interface elements (like the branch filter), start searches, and init a new repository and open it up in GitX.app. For example: gitx --all develop/working will open the current repository in the history view, select the All branch filter to show the history of all commits and then select the commit pointed at by the branch develop/working. See gitx --help for more information.

You may need to re-enable the terminal usage by going to the menu GitX->Enable Terminal Usage…

In addition to the above there are quite a few bug fixes. If you find any more let me know, if you fix any then send me a Github pull request :)

Download the current binary from the github download page.

Some of the things I’ve added are:

• Sidebar/source view

I started with Pieter de Bie’s sidebar branch and went to town.

• Remote Operations

Fetch, pull, push, add remote, clone, and clone to.

• Commit operations

Merge, cherry-pick, and rebase.

• Checkout file

In the contextual menu for files. Checkout the file as it existed in the selected commit to the index.

• Diff commits and files

In the contextual menu for commits and files. Opens a new window with a diff against the current HEAD. A commit diffs the state of the repository as it existed at that commit. A file diffs the state of the file as it existed in that commit.

• File Browser selection

The file browser now maintains it’s selection when you change to a different commit.

• Quick Look support for 10.6

Now supports the public API for quick look.

If you use git on OS X 10.5+ give my GitX fork a try and let me know what you think.

UPDATE (9/12/2010): I released a newer version of my experimental GitX fork.

You can find my fork at my GitHub page.

I made the mistake of starting on a subfork of GitX. I did this because someone had added a feature that I wanted to use. But instead of downloading a binary I had to download the code and compile it. Once I had the code I started looking at it and found a bit here and there that I could add/improve.

But after a bit I decided that I wanted to get serious about getting these features into the main GitX release. So now I am working on integrating these features back into Pieter de Bie’s master branch.

If you would like to help out and are running OS X 10.6 I could use some feedback on the UX of the features I’ve added and bug reports.

One current problem I’ve had reported is that staging/discarding hunks is not always working. I’ve fixed one problem, but I’ve been told it still does not always work. But it’s always working for me so I need a test case that fails so I can track down the problem.