59a36c487e0a3d4df88442a7515cfc5a9943fe49
1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Incompatibilities:
9 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
10 users and was never meant to be exposed.
12 Improvements:
14 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
15 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
17 Bug fixes:
19 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
20 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
22 tig-0.13
23 --------
25 Incompatibilities:
27 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
28 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
29 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
30 in a script file.
32 Improvements:
34 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
35 tracked remotes, remotes.
36 - Add bash completion for blame.
37 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
38 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
39 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
41 Bug fixes:
43 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
44 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
45 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
46 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
47 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
48 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
49 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
51 tig-0.12.1
52 ----------
54 Improvements:
56 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
57 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
58 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
59 the command line.
60 - Log view: support for refreshing.
62 Bug fixes:
64 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
65 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
66 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
67 status view is not displayed.
68 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
69 unbound requests.
70 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
71 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
73 tig-0.12
74 --------
76 Improvements:
78 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
79 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
80 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
81 - Main view: support for refreshing.
82 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
83 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
84 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
85 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
86 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
87 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
88 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
90 Bug fixes:
92 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
93 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
94 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
95 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
96 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
97 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
98 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
99 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
100 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
102 tig-0.11
103 --------
105 Incompatibilities:
107 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
108 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
109 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
111 New features:
113 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
114 and the tree, status, and stage views.
115 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
116 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
117 - Add action to maximize the current view.
119 Improvements:
121 - Show the current branch in the status view.
122 - Show local/light-weight tags.
124 Bug fixes:
126 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
127 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
129 tig-0.10.1
130 ----------
132 Improvements:
134 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
135 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
136 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
137 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
139 Bug fixes:
141 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
142 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
143 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
144 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
146 tig-0.10
147 ---------
149 Incompatibilities:
151 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
152 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
153 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
154 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
155 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
156 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
157 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
158 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
159 environment variable
161 New features:
163 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
164 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
165 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
166 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
167 command is run.
168 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
169 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
170 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
172 Improvements:
174 - Main view: color the revision graph.
175 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
176 revision graph.
177 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
178 Bound to ',' by default.
179 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
180 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
181 ~/.tigrc.
182 - Misc. documentation improvements.
184 Bug fixes:
186 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
187 avoid running external diff drivers.
188 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
189 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
191 tig-0.9.1
192 ---------
194 Incompatibilities:
196 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
197 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
199 New features:
201 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
202 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
204 Improvements:
206 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
207 Bound to 'M' by default.
208 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
209 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
211 Bug fixes:
213 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
214 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
215 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
216 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
218 tig-0.9
219 -------
221 New features:
223 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
224 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
225 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
226 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
228 Improvements:
230 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
231 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
232 by default.
233 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.