1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Improvements:
9 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
10 code in git's bash completion script.
11 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
13 tig-0.14
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16 Incompatibilities:
18 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
19 users and was never meant to be exposed.
20 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
21 emitted for transition.
22 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
23 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
24 now set the "author" color.
26 Improvements:
28 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
29 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
31 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
32 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
33 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
35 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
36 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
37 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
38 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
39 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
40 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
41 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
42 is below 6 characters.
44 Bug fixes:
46 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
47 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
48 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
49 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
50 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
52 tig-0.13
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55 Incompatibilities:
57 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
58 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
59 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
60 in a script file.
62 Improvements:
64 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
65 tracked remotes, remotes.
66 - Add bash completion for blame.
67 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
68 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
69 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
71 Bug fixes:
73 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
74 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
75 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
76 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
77 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
78 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
79 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
81 tig-0.12.1
82 ----------
84 Improvements:
86 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
87 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
88 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
89 the command line.
90 - Log view: support for refreshing.
92 Bug fixes:
94 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
95 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
96 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
97 status view is not displayed.
98 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
99 unbound requests.
100 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
101 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
103 tig-0.12
104 --------
106 Improvements:
108 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
109 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
110 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
111 - Main view: support for refreshing.
112 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
113 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
114 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
115 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
116 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
117 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
118 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
120 Bug fixes:
122 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
123 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
124 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
125 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
126 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
127 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
128 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
129 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
130 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
132 tig-0.11
133 --------
135 Incompatibilities:
137 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
138 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
139 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
141 New features:
143 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
144 and the tree, status, and stage views.
145 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
146 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
147 - Add action to maximize the current view.
149 Improvements:
151 - Show the current branch in the status view.
152 - Show local/light-weight tags.
154 Bug fixes:
156 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
157 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
159 tig-0.10.1
160 ----------
162 Improvements:
164 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
165 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
166 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
167 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
169 Bug fixes:
171 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
172 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
173 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
174 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
176 tig-0.10
177 ---------
179 Incompatibilities:
181 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
182 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
183 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
184 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
185 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
186 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
187 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
188 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
189 environment variable
191 New features:
193 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
194 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
195 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
196 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
197 command is run.
198 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
199 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
200 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
202 Improvements:
204 - Main view: color the revision graph.
205 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
206 revision graph.
207 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
208 Bound to ',' by default.
209 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
210 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
211 ~/.tigrc.
212 - Misc. documentation improvements.
214 Bug fixes:
216 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
217 avoid running external diff drivers.
218 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
219 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
221 tig-0.9.1
222 ---------
224 Incompatibilities:
226 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
227 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
229 New features:
231 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
232 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
234 Improvements:
236 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
237 Bound to 'M' by default.
238 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
239 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
241 Bug fixes:
243 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
244 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
245 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
246 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
248 tig-0.9
249 -------
251 New features:
253 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
254 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
255 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
256 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
258 Improvements:
260 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
261 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
262 by default.
263 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.