1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
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7 Bug fixes:
9 - Fix opening of diffs when browsing branches.
11 tig-0.16.2
12 ----------
14 Bug fixes:
16 - Fix regression causing empty tree view.
17 - Fix set_tabsize() compile error for older versions of ncurses.
19 tig-0.16.1
20 ----------
22 Improvements:
24 - Add scroll-first-col action to jump to the first column. Bound to '|'
25 by default.
26 - Add 'status-untracked-dirs' option to ignore unknown directories
27 contents in the status view. On by default.
29 Bug fixes:
31 - Fix 'tig show <commit>' to show the provided commit.
32 - Fix problem with empty diff views when file specs were passed on the
33 command line.
34 - Fix segfault when starting tig in pager mode.
36 tig-0.16
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39 Incompatibilities:
41 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
42 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
43 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
44 character support.
45 - The use of TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables
46 has been deprecated. To allow configuration of the diff view,
47 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used.
49 Improvements:
51 - Plug several memory leaks.
52 - Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file
53 arguments and made available as %(diffargs), %(revargs), and
54 %(fileargs). Diff view will limit diffs using %(fileargs).
55 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
56 %(file) works as expected.
57 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
58 branch.
59 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
60 flag).
61 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
62 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
63 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
65 Bug fixes:
67 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
68 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
69 - Fix text expansion to not truncate long lines
70 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
71 - Fix relative date.
72 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
73 - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.
74 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
75 - Blame view: fix parent blame to detect renames. It uses "previous"
76 line info from the blame porcelain output added in git version 1.6.3.
78 tig-0.15
79 --------
81 Incompatibilities:
83 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
84 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
85 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
86 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
87 being installed.
89 Improvements:
91 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
92 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
93 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
94 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
95 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
96 help messages.
97 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
98 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
99 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
100 subdirectory.
101 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
102 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
103 ascending order.
104 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
105 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
106 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
107 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
109 color cursor white blue underline bold
111 Bug fixes:
113 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
114 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
115 - Tree view: fix searching.
117 tig-0.14.1
118 ----------
120 Improvements:
122 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
123 code in git's bash completion script.
124 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
125 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
126 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
127 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
128 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
129 scrolling 50% of the view width.
131 Bug fixes:
133 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
134 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
135 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
136 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
137 specific commit.
138 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
139 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
141 tig-0.14
142 --------
144 Incompatibilities:
146 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
147 users and was never meant to be exposed.
148 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
149 emitted for transition.
150 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
151 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
152 now set the "author" color.
154 Improvements:
156 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
157 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
159 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
160 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
161 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
163 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
164 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
165 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
166 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
167 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
168 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
169 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
170 is below 6 characters.
172 Bug fixes:
174 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
175 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
176 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
177 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
178 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
180 tig-0.13
181 --------
183 Incompatibilities:
185 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
186 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
187 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
188 in a script file or as a git alias.
190 Improvements:
192 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
193 tracked remotes, remotes.
194 - Add bash completion for blame.
195 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
196 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
197 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
199 Bug fixes:
201 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
202 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
203 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
204 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
205 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
206 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
207 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
209 tig-0.12.1
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212 Improvements:
214 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
215 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
216 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
217 the command line.
218 - Log view: support for refreshing.
220 Bug fixes:
222 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
223 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
224 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
225 status view is not displayed.
226 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
227 unbound requests.
228 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
229 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
231 tig-0.12
232 --------
234 Improvements:
236 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
237 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
238 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
239 - Main view: support for refreshing.
240 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
241 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
242 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
243 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
244 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
245 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
246 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
248 Bug fixes:
250 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
251 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
252 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
253 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
254 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
255 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
256 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
257 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
258 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
260 tig-0.11
261 --------
263 Incompatibilities:
265 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
266 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
267 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
269 New features:
271 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
272 and the tree, status, and stage views.
273 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
274 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
275 - Add action to maximize the current view.
277 Improvements:
279 - Show the current branch in the status view.
280 - Show local/light-weight tags.
282 Bug fixes:
284 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
285 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
287 tig-0.10.1
288 ----------
290 Improvements:
292 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
293 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
294 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
295 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
297 Bug fixes:
299 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
300 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
301 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
302 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
304 tig-0.10
305 ---------
307 Incompatibilities:
309 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
310 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
311 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
312 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
313 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
314 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
315 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
316 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
317 environment variable
319 New features:
321 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
322 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
323 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
324 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
325 command is run.
326 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
327 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
328 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
330 Improvements:
332 - Main view: color the revision graph.
333 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
334 revision graph.
335 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
336 Bound to ',' by default.
337 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
338 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
339 ~/.tigrc.
340 - Misc. documentation improvements.
342 Bug fixes:
344 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
345 avoid running external diff drivers.
346 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
347 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
349 tig-0.9.1
350 ---------
352 Incompatibilities:
354 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
355 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
357 New features:
359 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
360 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
362 Improvements:
364 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
365 Bound to 'M' by default.
366 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
367 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
369 Bug fixes:
371 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
372 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
373 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
374 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
376 tig-0.9
377 -------
379 New features:
381 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
382 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
383 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
384 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
386 Improvements:
388 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
389 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
390 by default.
391 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.