# git-cola v1.7.0

## Usability, bells and whistles

- Export a patch series from git dag into a patches/ directory.

- git dag learned to diff commits, slice history along paths, etc.

- Added instant-preview to the git stash widget.

- A simpler preferences editor is used to edit git config values.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/89

- Previous commit messages can be re-loaded from the message editor.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/33

## Fixes

- Display commits with no file changes.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/82

- Improved the diff editor’s copy/paste behavior

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/90

## Packaging

- Bumped version number to ceil(minimum git version). git cola now requires git >= 1.6.3.
- Simplified git-cola’s versioning when building from tarballs outside of git. We no longer check for a ‘version’ file at the root of the repository. We instead keep a default version in cola/version.py and use it when git cola‘s .git repository is not available.