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.
17 tig-0.12.1
18 ----------
20 Improvements:
22 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
23 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
24 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
25 the command line.
26 - Log view: support for refreshing.
28 Bug fixes:
30 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
31 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
32 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
33 status view is not displayed.
34 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
35 unbound requests.
36 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
37 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
39 tig-0.12
40 --------
42 Improvements:
44 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
45 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
46 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
47 - Main view: support for refreshing.
48 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
49 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
50 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
51 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
52 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
53 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
54 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
56 Bug fixes:
58 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
59 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
60 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
61 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
62 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
63 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
64 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
65 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
66 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
68 tig-0.11
69 --------
71 Incompatibilities:
73 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
74 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
75 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
77 New features:
79 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
80 and the tree, status, and stage views.
81 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
82 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
83 - Add action to maximize the current view.
85 Improvements:
87 - Show the current branch in the status view.
88 - Show local/light-weight tags.
90 Bug fixes:
92 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
93 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
95 tig-0.10.1
96 ----------
98 Improvements:
100 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
101 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
102 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
103 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
105 Bug fixes:
107 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
108 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
109 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
110 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
112 tig-0.10
113 ---------
115 Incompatibilities:
117 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
118 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
119 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
120 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
121 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
122 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
123 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
124 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
125 environment variable
127 New features:
129 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
130 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
131 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
132 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
133 command is run.
134 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
135 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
136 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
138 Improvements:
140 - Main view: color the revision graph.
141 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
142 revision graph.
143 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
144 Bound to ',' by default.
145 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
146 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
147 ~/.tigrc.
148 - Misc. documentation improvements.
150 Bug fixes:
152 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
153 avoid running external diff drivers.
154 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
155 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
157 tig-0.9.1
158 ---------
160 Incompatibilities:
162 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
163 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
165 New features:
167 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
168 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
170 Improvements:
172 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
173 Bound to 'M' by default.
174 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
175 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
177 Bug fixes:
179 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
180 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
181 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
182 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
184 tig-0.9
185 -------
187 New features:
189 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
190 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
191 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
192 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
194 Improvements:
196 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
197 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
198 by default.
199 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.