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