1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig-0.17
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7 Improvements:
9 - Start rewrite of the revision graph renderer. Three modes are
10 supported UTF-8, ncurses line graphics, and ASCII. Also, enable
11 revision graph rendering by default.
13 Bug fixes:
15 - Fix ncurses 2.8 issue by passing non-zero column size to newwin(1).
16 - Fix opening of diffs when browsing branches.
18 tig-0.16.2
19 ----------
21 Bug fixes:
23 - Fix regression causing empty tree view.
24 - Fix set_tabsize() compile error for older versions of ncurses.
26 tig-0.16.1
27 ----------
29 Improvements:
31 - Add scroll-first-col action to jump to the first column. Bound to '|'
32 by default.
33 - Add 'status-untracked-dirs' option to ignore unknown directories
34 contents in the status view. On by default.
36 Bug fixes:
38 - Fix 'tig show <commit>' to show the provided commit.
39 - Fix problem with empty diff views when file specs were passed on the
40 command line.
41 - Fix segfault when starting tig in pager mode.
43 tig-0.16
44 --------
46 Incompatibilities:
48 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
49 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
50 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
51 character support.
52 - The use of TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables
53 has been deprecated. To allow configuration of the diff view,
54 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used.
56 Improvements:
58 - Plug several memory leaks.
59 - Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file
60 arguments and made available as %(diffargs), %(revargs), and
61 %(fileargs). Diff view will limit diffs using %(fileargs).
62 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
63 %(file) works as expected.
64 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
65 branch.
66 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
67 flag).
68 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
69 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
70 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
72 Bug fixes:
74 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
75 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
76 - Fix text expansion to not truncate long lines
77 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
78 - Fix relative date.
79 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
80 - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.
81 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
82 - Blame view: fix parent blame to detect renames. It uses "previous"
83 line info from the blame porcelain output added in git version 1.6.3.
85 tig-0.15
86 --------
88 Incompatibilities:
90 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
91 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
92 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
93 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
94 being installed.
96 Improvements:
98 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
99 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
100 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
101 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
102 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
103 help messages.
104 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
105 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
106 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
107 subdirectory.
108 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
109 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
110 ascending order.
111 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
112 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
113 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
114 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
116 color cursor white blue underline bold
118 Bug fixes:
120 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
121 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
122 - Tree view: fix searching.
124 tig-0.14.1
125 ----------
127 Improvements:
129 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
130 code in git's bash completion script.
131 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
132 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
133 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
134 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
135 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
136 scrolling 50% of the view width.
138 Bug fixes:
140 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
141 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
142 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
143 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
144 specific commit.
145 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
146 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
148 tig-0.14
149 --------
151 Incompatibilities:
153 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
154 users and was never meant to be exposed.
155 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
156 emitted for transition.
157 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
158 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
159 now set the "author" color.
161 Improvements:
163 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
164 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
166 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
167 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
168 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
170 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
171 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
172 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
173 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
174 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
175 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
176 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
177 is below 6 characters.
179 Bug fixes:
181 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
182 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
183 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
184 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
185 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
187 tig-0.13
188 --------
190 Incompatibilities:
192 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
193 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
194 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
195 in a script file or as a git alias.
197 Improvements:
199 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
200 tracked remotes, remotes.
201 - Add bash completion for blame.
202 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
203 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
204 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
206 Bug fixes:
208 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
209 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
210 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
211 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
212 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
213 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
214 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
216 tig-0.12.1
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219 Improvements:
221 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
222 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
223 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
224 the command line.
225 - Log view: support for refreshing.
227 Bug fixes:
229 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
230 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
231 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
232 status view is not displayed.
233 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
234 unbound requests.
235 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
236 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
238 tig-0.12
239 --------
241 Improvements:
243 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
244 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
245 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
246 - Main view: support for refreshing.
247 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
248 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
249 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
250 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
251 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
252 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
253 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
255 Bug fixes:
257 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
258 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
259 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
260 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
261 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
262 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
263 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
264 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
265 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
267 tig-0.11
268 --------
270 Incompatibilities:
272 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
273 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
274 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
276 New features:
278 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
279 and the tree, status, and stage views.
280 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
281 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
282 - Add action to maximize the current view.
284 Improvements:
286 - Show the current branch in the status view.
287 - Show local/light-weight tags.
289 Bug fixes:
291 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
292 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
294 tig-0.10.1
295 ----------
297 Improvements:
299 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
300 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
301 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
302 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
304 Bug fixes:
306 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
307 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
308 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
309 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
311 tig-0.10
312 ---------
314 Incompatibilities:
316 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
317 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
318 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
319 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
320 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
321 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
322 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
323 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
324 environment variable
326 New features:
328 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
329 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
330 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
331 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
332 command is run.
333 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
334 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
335 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
337 Improvements:
339 - Main view: color the revision graph.
340 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
341 revision graph.
342 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
343 Bound to ',' by default.
344 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
345 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
346 ~/.tigrc.
347 - Misc. documentation improvements.
349 Bug fixes:
351 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
352 avoid running external diff drivers.
353 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
354 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
356 tig-0.9.1
357 ---------
359 Incompatibilities:
361 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
362 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
364 New features:
366 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
367 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
369 Improvements:
371 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
372 Bound to 'M' by default.
373 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
374 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
376 Bug fixes:
378 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
379 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
380 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
381 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
383 tig-0.9
384 -------
386 New features:
388 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
389 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
390 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
391 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
393 Improvements:
395 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
396 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
397 by default.
398 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.