1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Improvements:
9 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
11 Bug fixes:
13 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
14 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
16 tig-0.13
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19 Incompatibilities:
21 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
22 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
23 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
24 in a script file.
26 Improvements:
28 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
29 tracked remotes, remotes.
30 - Add bash completion for blame.
31 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
32 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
33 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
35 Bug fixes:
37 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
38 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
39 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
40 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
41 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
42 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
43 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
45 tig-0.12.1
46 ----------
48 Improvements:
50 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
51 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
52 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
53 the command line.
54 - Log view: support for refreshing.
56 Bug fixes:
58 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
59 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
60 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
61 status view is not displayed.
62 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
63 unbound requests.
64 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
65 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
67 tig-0.12
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70 Improvements:
72 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
73 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
74 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
75 - Main view: support for refreshing.
76 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
77 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
78 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
79 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
80 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
81 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
82 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
84 Bug fixes:
86 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
87 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
88 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
89 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
90 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
91 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
92 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
93 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
94 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
96 tig-0.11
97 --------
99 Incompatibilities:
101 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
102 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
103 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
105 New features:
107 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
108 and the tree, status, and stage views.
109 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
110 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
111 - Add action to maximize the current view.
113 Improvements:
115 - Show the current branch in the status view.
116 - Show local/light-weight tags.
118 Bug fixes:
120 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
121 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
123 tig-0.10.1
124 ----------
126 Improvements:
128 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
129 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
130 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
131 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
133 Bug fixes:
135 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
136 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
137 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
138 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
140 tig-0.10
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143 Incompatibilities:
145 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
146 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
147 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
148 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
149 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
150 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
151 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
152 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
153 environment variable
155 New features:
157 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
158 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
159 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
160 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
161 command is run.
162 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
163 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
164 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
166 Improvements:
168 - Main view: color the revision graph.
169 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
170 revision graph.
171 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
172 Bound to ',' by default.
173 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
174 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
175 ~/.tigrc.
176 - Misc. documentation improvements.
178 Bug fixes:
180 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
181 avoid running external diff drivers.
182 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
183 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
185 tig-0.9.1
186 ---------
188 Incompatibilities:
190 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
191 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
193 New features:
195 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
196 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
198 Improvements:
200 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
201 Bound to 'M' by default.
202 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
203 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
205 Bug fixes:
207 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
208 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
209 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
210 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
212 tig-0.9
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215 New features:
217 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
218 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
219 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
220 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
222 Improvements:
224 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
225 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
226 by default.
227 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.