Git Town 12 continues the effort to make the Git Town user experience more consistent and intuitive by modernizing Git Town's configuration system.

BREAKING CHANGES

• The new setup assistent (see below) replaces the existing CLI and Git commands to change the configuration.
• Removing the Git Town configuration is now done by running git town config remove instead of git town config reset (#3051).
• More intuitive names for the following configuration options. Git Town automatically updates the configuration, so no action is needed on your end.
  • code-hosting-platform is now hosting-platform (#3054)
  • code-hosting-origin-hostname is now hosting-origin-hostname (#3053)
  • ship-delete-remote-branch is now ship-delete-tracking-branch (#2929)
• Putting Git Town into offline mode is a top-level command again. Run git town offline yes to enable offline mode instead of git town config offline yes (#3049).
• All visual dialogs have been rewritten using a modern UI framework for a better look and to avoid the rendering issues encountered before (#2964).
• Nested feature branches are now called "stacked changes" to match the emerging industry term (#3062).

New Features

• Git Town v12 introduces Git Town's setup assistant (#2941). The setup assistant guides you through all of Git Town's configuration settings, including setting up the shorter aliases for Git Town commands. Run it by executing git town config setup. This assistant replaces the old configuration commands under git town config, the alias command, and the old "quick configuration" process.
• Git Town now supports storing non-confidential configuration entries in a configuration file with name .git-branches.toml (#2748). The best way to create one is the setup assistant. The setup assistant can also migrate your existing Git-based configuration to the config file.
• All commands now support the --dry-run flag to try them out safely (#2859).
• You can now install Git Town on Windows using Chocolatey: choco install git-town (#763)
• Massive performance improvements (exceeding 200%) on Windows thanks to not executing Git through the CMD shell anymore (#2881).
• The undo commands execute faster (#2863).

Bug Fixes

• Fix the --version command on Windows (#2900).

Statistics

• 294 contributions
• 31 resolved tickets

A heartfelt thanks to the contributors for this release: @alokpr, @brandonaut, @bryanlarsen, @ChrisMM, @eugef, @IGassmann, @Iron-Ham, @jakeleboeuf, @JaKXz, @kevgo, @koppor, @Nezteb, @ruudk, @zeronacer