# git-cola v2.3

## Usability, bells and whistles

- The Interactive Rebase feature now works on Windows!

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/463

- The diff editor now understands vim-style hjkl navigation hotkeys.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/476

- Alt-{j,k} navigation hotkeys were added to allow changing to the next/previous file from the diff and commit editors.

- The Rename branch menu action is now disabled in empty repositories.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/475

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/459

- git cola now checks unmerged files for conflict markers before staging them. This feature can be disabled in the preferences.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/464

- git dag now remembers which commits were selected when refreshing so that it can restore the selection afterwards.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/480

- “Launch Editor”, “Launch Difftool”, “Stage/Unstage”, and “Move Up/Down” hotkeys now work when the commit message editor has focus.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453

- The diff editor now supports the Ctrl+u hotkey for reverting diff hunks and selected lines.

- The core.commentChar Git configuration value is now honored. Commit messages and rebase instruction sheets will now use the configured character for comments. This allows having commit messages that start with # when core.commentChar is configured to its non-default value.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/446

## Fixes

- Diff syntax highlighting was improved to handle more edge cases and false positives.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/467

- Setting commands in the interactive rebase editor was fixed.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/472

- git-cola no longer clobbers the Ctrl+Backspace text editing shortcut in the commit message editor.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/453

- The copy/paste clipboard now persists after git cola exits.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/484