# git-cola v1.4.1

This feature release adds two new features directly from git cola‘s github issues backlog. On the developer front, further work was done towards modularizing the code base.

## Usability, bells and whistles

- Dragging and dropping patches invokes git am

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/3

- A dialog to allow opening or cloning a repository is presented when git cola is launched outside of a git repository.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/22

- Warn when push is used to create a new branch

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/35

- Optimized startup time by removing several calls to git.

## Portability

- git cola is once again compatible with PyQt 4.3.x.

## Developer

- cola.gitcmds was added to factor out git command-line utilities
- cola.gitcfg was added for interacting with git config
- cola.models.browser was added to factor out repobrowser data
- Added more tests