1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Improvements:
9 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
10 tracked remotes, remotes.
12 tig-0.12.1
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15 Improvements:
17 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
18 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
19 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
20 the command line.
21 - Log view: support for refreshing.
23 Bug fixes:
25 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
26 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
27 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
28 status view is not displayed.
29 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
30 unbound requests.
31 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
32 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
34 tig-0.12
35 --------
37 Improvements:
39 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
40 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
41 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
42 - Main view: support for refreshing.
43 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
44 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
45 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
46 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
47 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
48 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
49 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
51 Bug fixes:
53 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
54 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
55 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
56 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
57 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
58 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
59 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
60 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
61 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
63 tig-0.11
64 --------
66 Incompatibilities:
68 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
69 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
70 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
72 New features:
74 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
75 and the tree, status, and stage views.
76 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
77 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
78 - Add action to maximize the current view.
80 Improvements:
82 - Show the current branch in the status view.
83 - Show local/light-weight tags.
85 Bug fixes:
87 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
88 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
90 tig-0.10.1
91 ----------
93 Improvements:
95 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
96 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
97 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
98 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
100 Bug fixes:
102 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
103 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
104 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
105 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
107 tig-0.10
108 ---------
110 Incompatibilities:
112 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
113 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
114 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
115 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
116 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
117 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
118 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
119 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
120 environment variable
122 New features:
124 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
125 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
126 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
127 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
128 command is run.
129 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
130 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
131 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
133 Improvements:
135 - Main view: color the revision graph.
136 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
137 revision graph.
138 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
139 Bound to ',' by default.
140 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
141 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
142 ~/.tigrc.
143 - Misc. documentation improvements.
145 Bug fixes:
147 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
148 avoid running external diff drivers.
149 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
150 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
152 tig-0.9.1
153 ---------
155 Incompatibilities:
157 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
158 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
160 New features:
162 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
163 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
165 Improvements:
167 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
168 Bound to 'M' by default.
169 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
170 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
172 Bug fixes:
174 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
175 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
176 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
177 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
179 tig-0.9
180 -------
182 New features:
184 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
185 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
186 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
187 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
189 Improvements:
191 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
192 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
193 by default.
194 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.