1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Improvements:
9 - Add scroll-first-col action to jump to the first column. Bound to '|'
10 by default.
11 - Add 'status-untracked-dirs' option to ignore unknown directories
12 contents in the status view. On by default.
14 Bug fixes:
16 - Fix problem with empty diff views when file specs were passed on the
17 command line.
18 - Fix segfault when starting tig in pager mode.
20 tig-0.16
21 --------
23 Incompatibilities:
25 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
26 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
27 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
28 character support.
29 - The use of TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables
30 has been deprecated. To allow configuration of the diff view,
31 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used.
33 Improvements:
35 - Plug several memory leaks.
36 - Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file
37 arguments and made available as %(diffargs), %(revargs), and
38 %(fileargs). Diff view will limit diffs using %(fileargs).
39 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
40 %(file) works as expected.
41 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
42 branch.
43 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
44 flag).
45 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
46 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
47 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
49 Bug fixes:
51 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
52 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
53 - Fix text expansion to not truncate long lines
54 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
55 - Fix relative date.
56 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
57 - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.
58 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
59 - Blame view: fix parent blame to detect renames. It uses "previous"
60 line info from the blame porcelain output added in git version 1.6.3.
62 tig-0.15
63 --------
65 Incompatibilities:
67 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
68 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
69 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
70 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
71 being installed.
73 Improvements:
75 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
76 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
77 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
78 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
79 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
80 help messages.
81 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
82 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
83 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
84 subdirectory.
85 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
86 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
87 ascending order.
88 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
89 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
90 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
91 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
93 color cursor white blue underline bold
95 Bug fixes:
97 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
98 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
99 - Tree view: fix searching.
101 tig-0.14.1
102 ----------
104 Improvements:
106 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
107 code in git's bash completion script.
108 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
109 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
110 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
111 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
112 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
113 scrolling 50% of the view width.
115 Bug fixes:
117 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
118 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
119 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
120 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
121 specific commit.
122 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
123 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
125 tig-0.14
126 --------
128 Incompatibilities:
130 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
131 users and was never meant to be exposed.
132 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
133 emitted for transition.
134 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
135 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
136 now set the "author" color.
138 Improvements:
140 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
141 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
143 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
144 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
145 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
147 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
148 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
149 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
150 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
151 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
152 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
153 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
154 is below 6 characters.
156 Bug fixes:
158 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
159 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
160 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
161 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
162 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
164 tig-0.13
165 --------
167 Incompatibilities:
169 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
170 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
171 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
172 in a script file or as a git alias.
174 Improvements:
176 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
177 tracked remotes, remotes.
178 - Add bash completion for blame.
179 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
180 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
181 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
183 Bug fixes:
185 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
186 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
187 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
188 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
189 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
190 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
191 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
193 tig-0.12.1
194 ----------
196 Improvements:
198 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
199 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
200 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
201 the command line.
202 - Log view: support for refreshing.
204 Bug fixes:
206 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
207 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
208 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
209 status view is not displayed.
210 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
211 unbound requests.
212 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
213 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
215 tig-0.12
216 --------
218 Improvements:
220 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
221 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
222 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
223 - Main view: support for refreshing.
224 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
225 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
226 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
227 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
228 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
229 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
230 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
232 Bug fixes:
234 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
235 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
236 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
237 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
238 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
239 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
240 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
241 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
242 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
244 tig-0.11
245 --------
247 Incompatibilities:
249 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
250 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
251 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
253 New features:
255 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
256 and the tree, status, and stage views.
257 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
258 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
259 - Add action to maximize the current view.
261 Improvements:
263 - Show the current branch in the status view.
264 - Show local/light-weight tags.
266 Bug fixes:
268 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
269 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
271 tig-0.10.1
272 ----------
274 Improvements:
276 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
277 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
278 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
279 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
281 Bug fixes:
283 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
284 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
285 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
286 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
288 tig-0.10
289 ---------
291 Incompatibilities:
293 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
294 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
295 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
296 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
297 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
298 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
299 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
300 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
301 environment variable
303 New features:
305 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
306 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
307 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
308 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
309 command is run.
310 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
311 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
312 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
314 Improvements:
316 - Main view: color the revision graph.
317 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
318 revision graph.
319 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
320 Bound to ',' by default.
321 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
322 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
323 ~/.tigrc.
324 - Misc. documentation improvements.
326 Bug fixes:
328 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
329 avoid running external diff drivers.
330 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
331 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
333 tig-0.9.1
334 ---------
336 Incompatibilities:
338 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
339 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
341 New features:
343 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
344 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
346 Improvements:
348 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
349 Bound to 'M' by default.
350 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
351 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
353 Bug fixes:
355 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
356 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
357 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
358 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
360 tig-0.9
361 -------
363 New features:
365 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
366 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
367 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
368 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
370 Improvements:
372 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
373 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
374 by default.
375 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.