1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Incompatibilities:
9 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
10 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
11 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
12 in a script file.
14 Improvements:
16 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
17 tracked remotes, remotes.
18 - Add bash completion for blame.
19 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
20 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
22 Bug fixes:
24 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
25 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
26 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
27 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
28 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
29 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
31 tig-0.12.1
32 ----------
34 Improvements:
36 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
37 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
38 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
39 the command line.
40 - Log view: support for refreshing.
42 Bug fixes:
44 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
45 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
46 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
47 status view is not displayed.
48 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
49 unbound requests.
50 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
51 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
53 tig-0.12
54 --------
56 Improvements:
58 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
59 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
60 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
61 - Main view: support for refreshing.
62 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
63 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
64 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
65 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
66 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
67 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
68 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
70 Bug fixes:
72 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
73 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
74 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
75 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
76 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
77 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
78 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
79 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
80 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
82 tig-0.11
83 --------
85 Incompatibilities:
87 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
88 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
89 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
91 New features:
93 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
94 and the tree, status, and stage views.
95 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
96 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
97 - Add action to maximize the current view.
99 Improvements:
101 - Show the current branch in the status view.
102 - Show local/light-weight tags.
104 Bug fixes:
106 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
107 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
109 tig-0.10.1
110 ----------
112 Improvements:
114 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
115 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
116 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
117 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
119 Bug fixes:
121 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
122 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
123 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
124 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
126 tig-0.10
127 ---------
129 Incompatibilities:
131 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
132 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
133 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
134 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
135 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
136 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
137 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
138 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
139 environment variable
141 New features:
143 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
144 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
145 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
146 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
147 command is run.
148 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
149 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
150 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
152 Improvements:
154 - Main view: color the revision graph.
155 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
156 revision graph.
157 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
158 Bound to ',' by default.
159 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
160 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
161 ~/.tigrc.
162 - Misc. documentation improvements.
164 Bug fixes:
166 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
167 avoid running external diff drivers.
168 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
169 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
171 tig-0.9.1
172 ---------
174 Incompatibilities:
176 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
177 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
179 New features:
181 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
182 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
184 Improvements:
186 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
187 Bound to 'M' by default.
188 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
189 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
191 Bug fixes:
193 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
194 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
195 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
196 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
198 tig-0.9
199 -------
201 New features:
203 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
204 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
205 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
206 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
208 Improvements:
210 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
211 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
212 by default.
213 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.