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.
14 Improvements:
16 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
17 %(file) works as expected.
18 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
19 flag).
20 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
21 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
23 Bug fixes:
25 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
26 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
27 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
28 - Fix relative date.
30 tig-0.15
31 --------
33 Incompatibilities:
35 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
36 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
37 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
38 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
39 being installed.
41 Improvements:
43 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
44 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
45 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
46 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
47 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
48 help messages.
49 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
50 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
51 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
52 subdirectory.
53 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
54 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
55 ascending order.
56 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
57 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
58 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
59 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
61 color cursor white blue underline bold
63 Bug fixes:
65 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
66 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
67 - Tree view: fix searching.
69 tig-0.14.1
70 ----------
72 Improvements:
74 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
75 code in git's bash completion script.
76 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
77 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
78 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
79 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
80 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
81 scrolling 50% of the view width.
83 Bug fixes:
85 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
86 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
87 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
88 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
89 specific commit.
90 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
91 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
93 tig-0.14
94 --------
96 Incompatibilities:
98 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
99 users and was never meant to be exposed.
100 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
101 emitted for transition.
102 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
103 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
104 now set the "author" color.
106 Improvements:
108 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
109 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
111 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
112 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
113 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
115 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
116 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
117 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
118 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
119 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
120 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
121 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
122 is below 6 characters.
124 Bug fixes:
126 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
127 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
128 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
129 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
130 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
132 tig-0.13
133 --------
135 Incompatibilities:
137 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
138 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
139 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
140 in a script file or as a git alias.
142 Improvements:
144 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
145 tracked remotes, remotes.
146 - Add bash completion for blame.
147 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
148 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
149 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
151 Bug fixes:
153 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
154 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
155 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
156 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
157 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
158 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
159 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
161 tig-0.12.1
162 ----------
164 Improvements:
166 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
167 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
168 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
169 the command line.
170 - Log view: support for refreshing.
172 Bug fixes:
174 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
175 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
176 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
177 status view is not displayed.
178 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
179 unbound requests.
180 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
181 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
183 tig-0.12
184 --------
186 Improvements:
188 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
189 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
190 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
191 - Main view: support for refreshing.
192 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
193 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
194 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
195 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
196 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
197 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
198 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
200 Bug fixes:
202 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
203 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
204 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
205 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
206 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
207 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
208 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
209 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
210 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
212 tig-0.11
213 --------
215 Incompatibilities:
217 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
218 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
219 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
221 New features:
223 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
224 and the tree, status, and stage views.
225 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
226 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
227 - Add action to maximize the current view.
229 Improvements:
231 - Show the current branch in the status view.
232 - Show local/light-weight tags.
234 Bug fixes:
236 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
237 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
239 tig-0.10.1
240 ----------
242 Improvements:
244 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
245 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
246 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
247 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
249 Bug fixes:
251 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
252 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
253 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
254 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
256 tig-0.10
257 ---------
259 Incompatibilities:
261 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
262 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
263 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
264 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
265 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
266 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
267 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
268 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
269 environment variable
271 New features:
273 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
274 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
275 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
276 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
277 command is run.
278 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
279 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
280 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
282 Improvements:
284 - Main view: color the revision graph.
285 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
286 revision graph.
287 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
288 Bound to ',' by default.
289 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
290 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
291 ~/.tigrc.
292 - Misc. documentation improvements.
294 Bug fixes:
296 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
297 avoid running external diff drivers.
298 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
299 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
301 tig-0.9.1
302 ---------
304 Incompatibilities:
306 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
307 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
309 New features:
311 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
312 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
314 Improvements:
316 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
317 Bound to 'M' by default.
318 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
319 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
321 Bug fixes:
323 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
324 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
325 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
326 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
328 tig-0.9
329 -------
331 New features:
333 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
334 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
335 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
336 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
338 Improvements:
340 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
341 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
342 by default.
343 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.