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1 Release notes
2 =============
4 master
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7 Incompatibilities:
9 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
10 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
11 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
12 character support.
13 - The use of TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables
14 has been deprecated. To allow configuration of the diff view,
15 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used.
17 Improvements:
19 - Plug several memory leaks.
20 - Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file
21 arguments and made available as %(diffargs), %(revargs), and
22 %(fileargs). Diff view will limit diffs using %(fileargs).
23 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
24 %(file) works as expected.
25 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
26 branch.
27 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
28 flag).
29 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
30 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
31 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
33 Bug fixes:
35 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
36 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
37 - Fix text expansion to not truncate long lines
38 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
39 - Fix relative date.
40 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
41 - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.
42 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
43 - Blame view: fix parent blame to detect renames. It uses "previous"
44 line info from the blame porcelain output added in git version 1.6.3.
46 tig-0.15
47 --------
49 Incompatibilities:
51 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
52 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
53 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
54 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
55 being installed.
57 Improvements:
59 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
60 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
61 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
62 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
63 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
64 help messages.
65 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
66 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
67 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
68 subdirectory.
69 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
70 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
71 ascending order.
72 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
73 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
74 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
75 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
77 color cursor white blue underline bold
79 Bug fixes:
81 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
82 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
83 - Tree view: fix searching.
85 tig-0.14.1
86 ----------
88 Improvements:
90 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
91 code in git's bash completion script.
92 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
93 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
94 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
95 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
96 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
97 scrolling 50% of the view width.
99 Bug fixes:
101 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
102 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
103 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
104 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
105 specific commit.
106 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
107 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
109 tig-0.14
110 --------
112 Incompatibilities:
114 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
115 users and was never meant to be exposed.
116 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
117 emitted for transition.
118 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
119 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
120 now set the "author" color.
122 Improvements:
124 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
125 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
127 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
128 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
129 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
131 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
132 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
133 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
134 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
135 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
136 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
137 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
138 is below 6 characters.
140 Bug fixes:
142 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
143 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
144 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
145 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
146 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
148 tig-0.13
149 --------
151 Incompatibilities:
153 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
154 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
155 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
156 in a script file or as a git alias.
158 Improvements:
160 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
161 tracked remotes, remotes.
162 - Add bash completion for blame.
163 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
164 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
165 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
167 Bug fixes:
169 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
170 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
171 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
172 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
173 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
174 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
175 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
177 tig-0.12.1
178 ----------
180 Improvements:
182 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
183 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
184 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
185 the command line.
186 - Log view: support for refreshing.
188 Bug fixes:
190 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
191 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
192 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
193 status view is not displayed.
194 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
195 unbound requests.
196 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
197 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
199 tig-0.12
200 --------
202 Improvements:
204 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
205 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
206 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
207 - Main view: support for refreshing.
208 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
209 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
210 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
211 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
212 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
213 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
214 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
216 Bug fixes:
218 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
219 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
220 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
221 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
222 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
223 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
224 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
225 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
226 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
228 tig-0.11
229 --------
231 Incompatibilities:
233 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
234 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
235 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
237 New features:
239 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
240 and the tree, status, and stage views.
241 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
242 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
243 - Add action to maximize the current view.
245 Improvements:
247 - Show the current branch in the status view.
248 - Show local/light-weight tags.
250 Bug fixes:
252 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
253 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
255 tig-0.10.1
256 ----------
258 Improvements:
260 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
261 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
262 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
263 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
265 Bug fixes:
267 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
268 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
269 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
270 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
272 tig-0.10
273 ---------
275 Incompatibilities:
277 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
278 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
279 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
280 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
281 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
282 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
283 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
284 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
285 environment variable
287 New features:
289 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
290 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
291 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
292 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
293 command is run.
294 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
295 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
296 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
298 Improvements:
300 - Main view: color the revision graph.
301 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
302 revision graph.
303 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
304 Bound to ',' by default.
305 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
306 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
307 ~/.tigrc.
308 - Misc. documentation improvements.
310 Bug fixes:
312 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
313 avoid running external diff drivers.
314 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
315 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
317 tig-0.9.1
318 ---------
320 Incompatibilities:
322 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
323 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
325 New features:
327 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
328 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
330 Improvements:
332 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
333 Bound to 'M' by default.
334 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
335 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
337 Bug fixes:
339 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
340 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
341 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
342 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
344 tig-0.9
345 -------
347 New features:
349 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
350 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
351 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
352 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
354 Improvements:
356 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
357 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
358 by default.
359 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.