1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Bug fixes:
9 - Fix problem with empty diff views when file specs were passed on the
10 command line.
12 tig-0.16
13 --------
15 Incompatibilities:
17 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
18 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
19 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
20 character support.
21 - The use of TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables
22 has been deprecated. To allow configuration of the diff view,
23 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used.
25 Improvements:
27 - Plug several memory leaks.
28 - Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file
29 arguments and made available as %(diffargs), %(revargs), and
30 %(fileargs). Diff view will limit diffs using %(fileargs).
31 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
32 %(file) works as expected.
33 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
34 branch.
35 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
36 flag).
37 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
38 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
39 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
41 Bug fixes:
43 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
44 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
45 - Fix text expansion to not truncate long lines
46 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
47 - Fix relative date.
48 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
49 - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.
50 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
51 - Blame view: fix parent blame to detect renames. It uses "previous"
52 line info from the blame porcelain output added in git version 1.6.3.
54 tig-0.15
55 --------
57 Incompatibilities:
59 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
60 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
61 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
62 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
63 being installed.
65 Improvements:
67 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
68 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
69 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
70 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
71 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
72 help messages.
73 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
74 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
75 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
76 subdirectory.
77 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
78 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
79 ascending order.
80 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
81 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
82 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
83 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
85 color cursor white blue underline bold
87 Bug fixes:
89 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
90 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
91 - Tree view: fix searching.
93 tig-0.14.1
94 ----------
96 Improvements:
98 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
99 code in git's bash completion script.
100 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
101 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
102 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
103 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
104 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
105 scrolling 50% of the view width.
107 Bug fixes:
109 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
110 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
111 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
112 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
113 specific commit.
114 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
115 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
117 tig-0.14
118 --------
120 Incompatibilities:
122 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
123 users and was never meant to be exposed.
124 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
125 emitted for transition.
126 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
127 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
128 now set the "author" color.
130 Improvements:
132 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
133 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
135 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
136 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
137 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
139 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
140 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
141 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
142 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
143 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
144 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
145 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
146 is below 6 characters.
148 Bug fixes:
150 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
151 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
152 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
153 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
154 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
156 tig-0.13
157 --------
159 Incompatibilities:
161 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
162 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
163 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
164 in a script file or as a git alias.
166 Improvements:
168 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
169 tracked remotes, remotes.
170 - Add bash completion for blame.
171 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
172 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
173 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
175 Bug fixes:
177 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
178 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
179 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
180 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
181 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
182 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
183 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
185 tig-0.12.1
186 ----------
188 Improvements:
190 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
191 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
192 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
193 the command line.
194 - Log view: support for refreshing.
196 Bug fixes:
198 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
199 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
200 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
201 status view is not displayed.
202 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
203 unbound requests.
204 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
205 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
207 tig-0.12
208 --------
210 Improvements:
212 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
213 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
214 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
215 - Main view: support for refreshing.
216 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
217 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
218 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
219 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
220 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
221 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
222 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
224 Bug fixes:
226 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
227 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
228 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
229 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
230 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
231 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
232 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
233 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
234 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
236 tig-0.11
237 --------
239 Incompatibilities:
241 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
242 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
243 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
245 New features:
247 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
248 and the tree, status, and stage views.
249 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
250 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
251 - Add action to maximize the current view.
253 Improvements:
255 - Show the current branch in the status view.
256 - Show local/light-weight tags.
258 Bug fixes:
260 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
261 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
263 tig-0.10.1
264 ----------
266 Improvements:
268 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
269 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
270 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
271 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
273 Bug fixes:
275 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
276 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
277 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
278 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
280 tig-0.10
281 ---------
283 Incompatibilities:
285 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
286 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
287 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
288 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
289 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
290 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
291 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
292 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
293 environment variable
295 New features:
297 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
298 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
299 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
300 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
301 command is run.
302 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
303 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
304 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
306 Improvements:
308 - Main view: color the revision graph.
309 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
310 revision graph.
311 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
312 Bound to ',' by default.
313 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
314 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
315 ~/.tigrc.
316 - Misc. documentation improvements.
318 Bug fixes:
320 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
321 avoid running external diff drivers.
322 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
323 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
325 tig-0.9.1
326 ---------
328 Incompatibilities:
330 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
331 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
333 New features:
335 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
336 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
338 Improvements:
340 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
341 Bound to 'M' by default.
342 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
343 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
345 Bug fixes:
347 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
348 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
349 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
350 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
352 tig-0.9
353 -------
355 New features:
357 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
358 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
359 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
360 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
362 Improvements:
364 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
365 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
366 by default.
367 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.