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