The GitHub-developed Atom text editor emphasizes capabilities to improve commits with the version 1.34 upgrade, released earlier this month. A beta release of Atom 1.35 has been made available as well, featuring a new pane for previewing individual commits.

With the commit previews capability in Atom 1.34, developers can see all staged changes in a single pane, via a button above the commit message box. The new feature allows developers to view changes before committing them. Other capabilities in Atom 1.34 include:

Atom 1.35 features several changes including the introduction of a pane item in the GitHub package to display contents of an individual commit. Other changes include:

Follow these links to download Atom 1.34 and the Atom 1.35 beta from GitHub.

This story, "GitHub’s Atom editor unveils commit previews" was originally published by InfoWorld.