What changed

0.1.10

26 September 2026

Switchyard now updates itself. It checks shortly after it starts and every six hours, downloads in the background, and asks before restarting. Help → Check for updates asks straight away.

Upgrading from 0.1.8 or earlier: uninstall the old Switchyard first (Settings → Apps → Installed apps). The app's ID changed in 0.1.9, when it took its studio's name, so Windows treats this as a separate program. Your open repositories and settings are kept. Copies from 0.1.10 on update themselves.

0.1.9 was never published on its own, so this covers everything since 0.1.8.

New

• Resolve conflicts in the app. When a merge, pull, rebase, cherry-pick or revert stops on conflicts, a banner names the operation and how many files are left. Take ours or theirs for a whole file — including when one side deleted it — or open a file both sides edited in the three-pane merge editor and settle each conflict on its own. Continue and Abort are in the banner.
• Stage part of a file — a hunk at a time with Stage hunk, or single lines: click lines in a diff (Shift-click for a range) and stage just those. Unstaging works the same way.
• Side-by-side compare — double-click a file to open both versions in a window of their own. Both sides scroll together, the part of a line that changed is highlighted, and every difference is marked down the right edge.
• A branch menu beside the repository name: filter your branches, switch to one that exists only on the remote, make a new one, or merge a branch into the one you are on.
• One sync button that does what the branch needs next — publish, pull, push or fetch — with every action a click away beside it. It shows how long ago the remote was last read.
• Commit and push, and Commit and sync, from the arrow beside Commit. Ctrl+Enter commits from the message box.
• Clone a repository from the repository menu, the welcome screen or Ctrl+Shift+O, with progress as it goes, and a Cancel that removes the half-made folder.
• All repositories at a glance — All repos in the top bar lists what is staged, changed, untracked, conflicted or not yet pushed in every open repository.
• Command palette — Ctrl+Shift+P finds and runs any action by typing a few letters of it.
• Cherry-pick commits onto the current branch, from the commit's menu.
• Rewrite history — reorder, reword, squash, fix up or drop the commits after any point, in one dialog.
• Go back to an earlier point — the reflog, listing where the branch has been, with what each choice would take away and bring back.
• Recent repositories in the repository menu and on the welcome screen. You can also drag a folder onto the window to open it.
• Undo a stash apply that conflicted. The stash stays in the list, and changes you had not staged are kept. Anything you had staged is reset along with the apply — the confirmation lists every file first.
• Help — the ? in the top bar, or F1, opens the documentation.

Better

• Large repositories stay smooth. Tested on 150,000 commits, nearly 2,400 branches and 22,000 changed files: while scrolling the graph, 95% of frames are drawn in 17 ms or less, and a 25,000-line diff opens without freezing the window.
• Long diffs keep the hunk's buttons in reach: the header of the hunk you are reading stays pinned at the top.
• The commit button says what it will do ("Commit 3 files"), and why it cannot yet. Amend brings the last message back to edit, and with nothing staged it rewords the last commit.
• Changes you cannot see are labelled. A line that differs only by a byte order mark, spaces at its end or its line ending says so, instead of looking as though it was replaced by itself.
• Files that are not UTF-8 show and stage correctly.
• Easier to read and to hit: text contrast meets WCAG AA in both themes, including while a button is hovered; buttons and rows are at least 24px (the panel edges you drag stay thin, and have arrow keys instead); and counts read 22,000 rather than 22000.
• The graph's text is sharper, including at display scaling such as 125%.
• While the filter box has text, each list's heading counts what it shows — Unstaged 3 of 147 — and a list the filter empties says so.
• Opening a repository selects the commit you have checked out.
• A stash shows as one row in the history, and lists its new files.

Fixed

• The app kept re-reading the repository after the first save, for as long as the window was open.
• On a narrow window, Refresh and Open sat under the window's own buttons. The top bar now keeps clear of them, and trades its labels for icons when space runs short.
• With a search on, the graph drew lines between matching commits as though they were parent and child. It now shows the commits alone.
• After switching branches, the name shown could stay on the old branch.
• Switching to a branch that shares its name with a file could be refused or misread. Switching now always means the branch.
• Publishing a branch failed in a clone whose remote is not called origin. Pushing now goes where git itself would send it — including a remote.pushDefault or a branch's pushRemote — and the buttons name that remote.
• A renamed file showed as one path, old => new, with an empty diff.
• A file that only gained lines was listed as added.
• Binary and empty files showed a blank diff instead of saying what changed.
• Every diff ended in an extra, empty numbered line.
• Ctrl+Shift+C, which copies the files the selected commits changed, did nothing.

0.1.8

20 September 2026

The earliest version listed here. What it does:

• The commit graph — one commit per row, branches that keep their column, a search by message, author or commit id, and more history as you scroll.
• Changes as folder trees — stage and unstage a file, a folder or everything; discard, always behind a confirmation.
• Committing — commit and amend; undo the last commit and keep its changes; revert an older one.
• Branches and stashes — create and switch branches; stash, bring back and drop.
• Fetch, pull and push, with pull by rebase, and a force push that uses a lease, so it cannot overwrite work someone else has pushed.
• A commit's details — its message, the files it changed as a tree, and each file's diff. Copy the list of files one commit or several changed, or compare the oldest of a selection with the newest.
• Copy files between repositories, with a review of what would change before anything is written.
• Panels you can resize, which remember their width; light, dark or the system's theme; and a view that refreshes by itself when the repository changes on disk.

0.1.8 does not update itself. To move on from it, uninstall it first (Settings → Apps → Installed apps), then install the latest version — see 0.1.10 for why. Your open repositories and settings are kept.