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).
21 Bug fixes:
23 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
24 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
26 tig-0.15
27 --------
29 Incompatibilities:
31 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
32 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
33 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
34 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
35 being installed.
37 Improvements:
39 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
40 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
41 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
42 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
43 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
44 help messages.
45 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
46 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
47 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
48 subdirectory.
49 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
50 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
51 ascending order.
52 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
53 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
54 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
55 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
57 color cursor white blue underline bold
59 Bug fixes:
61 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
62 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
63 - Tree view: fix searching.
65 tig-0.14.1
66 ----------
68 Improvements:
70 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
71 code in git's bash completion script.
72 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
73 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
74 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
75 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
76 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
77 scrolling 50% of the view width.
79 Bug fixes:
81 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
82 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
83 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
84 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
85 specific commit.
86 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
87 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
89 tig-0.14
90 --------
92 Incompatibilities:
94 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
95 users and was never meant to be exposed.
96 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
97 emitted for transition.
98 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
99 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
100 now set the "author" color.
102 Improvements:
104 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
105 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
107 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
108 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
109 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
111 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
112 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
113 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
114 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
115 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
116 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
117 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
118 is below 6 characters.
120 Bug fixes:
122 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
123 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
124 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
125 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
126 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
128 tig-0.13
129 --------
131 Incompatibilities:
133 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
134 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
135 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
136 in a script file or as a git alias.
138 Improvements:
140 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
141 tracked remotes, remotes.
142 - Add bash completion for blame.
143 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
144 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
145 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
147 Bug fixes:
149 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
150 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
151 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
152 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
153 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
154 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
155 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
157 tig-0.12.1
158 ----------
160 Improvements:
162 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
163 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
164 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
165 the command line.
166 - Log view: support for refreshing.
168 Bug fixes:
170 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
171 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
172 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
173 status view is not displayed.
174 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
175 unbound requests.
176 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
177 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
179 tig-0.12
180 --------
182 Improvements:
184 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
185 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
186 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
187 - Main view: support for refreshing.
188 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
189 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
190 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
191 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
192 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
193 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
194 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
196 Bug fixes:
198 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
199 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
200 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
201 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
202 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
203 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
204 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
205 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
206 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
208 tig-0.11
209 --------
211 Incompatibilities:
213 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
214 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
215 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
217 New features:
219 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
220 and the tree, status, and stage views.
221 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
222 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
223 - Add action to maximize the current view.
225 Improvements:
227 - Show the current branch in the status view.
228 - Show local/light-weight tags.
230 Bug fixes:
232 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
233 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
235 tig-0.10.1
236 ----------
238 Improvements:
240 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
241 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
242 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
243 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
245 Bug fixes:
247 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
248 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
249 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
250 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
252 tig-0.10
253 ---------
255 Incompatibilities:
257 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
258 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
259 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
260 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
261 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
262 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
263 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
264 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
265 environment variable
267 New features:
269 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
270 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
271 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
272 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
273 command is run.
274 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
275 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
276 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
278 Improvements:
280 - Main view: color the revision graph.
281 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
282 revision graph.
283 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
284 Bound to ',' by default.
285 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
286 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
287 ~/.tigrc.
288 - Misc. documentation improvements.
290 Bug fixes:
292 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
293 avoid running external diff drivers.
294 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
295 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
297 tig-0.9.1
298 ---------
300 Incompatibilities:
302 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
303 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
305 New features:
307 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
308 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
310 Improvements:
312 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
313 Bound to 'M' by default.
314 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
315 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
317 Bug fixes:
319 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
320 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
321 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
322 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
324 tig-0.9
325 -------
327 New features:
329 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
330 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
331 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
332 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
334 Improvements:
336 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
337 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
338 by default.
339 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.