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1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
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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.
20 tig-0.12.1
21 ----------
23 Improvements:
25 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
26 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
27 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
28 the command line.
29 - Log view: support for refreshing.
31 Bug fixes:
33 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
34 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
35 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
36 status view is not displayed.
37 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
38 unbound requests.
39 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
40 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
42 tig-0.12
43 --------
45 Improvements:
47 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
48 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
49 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
50 - Main view: support for refreshing.
51 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
52 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
53 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
54 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
55 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
56 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
57 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
59 Bug fixes:
61 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
62 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
63 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
64 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
65 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
66 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
67 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
68 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
69 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
71 tig-0.11
72 --------
74 Incompatibilities:
76 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
77 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
78 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
80 New features:
82 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
83 and the tree, status, and stage views.
84 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
85 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
86 - Add action to maximize the current view.
88 Improvements:
90 - Show the current branch in the status view.
91 - Show local/light-weight tags.
93 Bug fixes:
95 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
96 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
98 tig-0.10.1
99 ----------
101 Improvements:
103 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
104 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
105 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
106 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
108 Bug fixes:
110 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
111 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
112 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
113 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
115 tig-0.10
116 ---------
118 Incompatibilities:
120 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
121 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
122 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
123 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
124 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
125 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
126 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
127 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
128 environment variable
130 New features:
132 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
133 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
134 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
135 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
136 command is run.
137 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
138 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
139 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
141 Improvements:
143 - Main view: color the revision graph.
144 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
145 revision graph.
146 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
147 Bound to ',' by default.
148 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
149 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
150 ~/.tigrc.
151 - Misc. documentation improvements.
153 Bug fixes:
155 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
156 avoid running external diff drivers.
157 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
158 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
160 tig-0.9.1
161 ---------
163 Incompatibilities:
165 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
166 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
168 New features:
170 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
171 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
173 Improvements:
175 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
176 Bound to 'M' by default.
177 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
178 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
180 Bug fixes:
182 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
183 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
184 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
185 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
187 tig-0.9
188 -------
190 New features:
192 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
193 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
194 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
195 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
197 Improvements:
199 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
200 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
201 by default.
202 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.