Kaleidoscope for Mac

New

• Live Working Copy Changes. Working copy changesets now update in real time as files change, whether those changes come from you, your editor, or a coding agent. The document stays connected to your working copy — no more reopening to see the latest state. This also works when launching a comparison via git difftool. If you work with coding agents, try leaving a changeset open while an agent works in the background!
  • The sidebar keeps up, too: files that become modified appear automatically, even files that were clean when you opened the document.
  • Untracked files appear in real time as well, marked with a question mark until you add them to Git.
  • The staging state of each file is visible at a glance: fully staged files use a solid icon, partly staged files a hollow one.
  • When Kaleidoscope is in the background, notifications report changes and Git operations such as commits and reverts. Clicking a notification takes you directly to the relevant changes.
  • New toolbar controls let you pause and resume live updates, and configure which notifications you receive.
  • Git worktrees are fully supported.
• Unified Changeset Navigation. Using Navigate > Next Change and Navigate > Previous Change, you can now optionally jump across file boundaries, letting you review an entire changeset with a single set of keyboard shortcuts, ⌘↓ and ⌘↑.
• Commit Graph. The Commit History introduced in Kaleidoscope 6.7 now visualizes the Git commit graph, helping you understand branches, merges, and commit relationships.

Enhancements

• Initial adjustments for macOS Golden Gate (27.0 Beta). Please let us know if you run into issues.
• Improved performance when switching between files in changesets.
• Syntax highlighting for various kinds of Xojo files, Dockerfile syntax, and several F# file types.
• Added support for the Insiders edition of VS Code as an external text editor.
• Support for the Otty Terminal app.
• Better detection of external text editors installed via Homebrew or in ~/Applications.
• Modernized the available Shortcuts actions and added two new ones:
  • Open Changeset. Given a commit hash (SHA), it will open all changes of that commit. The repository needs to be known to Kaleidoscope so it can find the commit.
  • Open Live Working Copy Changes. Given a path to a Git repository, this opens the live working copy changes for that repository.

Improvements to the kaleidoscope URL scheme:

• Use kaleidoscope://changeset?path= to open live working copy changes for that directory. ~ will be resolved as expected.
• To open a commit changeset use kaleidoscope://changeset with the parameter ?sha= or ?hash= for better distinction.
• New command kaleidoscope://commit?sha= or hash= to open a particular commit in the Lookup Commit window. As usual, the containing repository needs to be in the Repositories list.
• When Kaleidoscope is unable to fulfill a URL request, you now get a response in the form of a notification.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash with ksdiff --changeset --filelist file1.txt file2.txt.
• Various smaller fixes and improvements.