1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig-0.15
5 --------
7 Incompatibilities:
9 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
10 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
11 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
12 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
13 being installed.
15 Improvements:
17 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
18 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
19 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
20 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
21 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
22 help messages.
23 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
24 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
25 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
26 subdirectory.
27 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
28 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
29 ascending order.
30 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
31 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
32 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
33 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
35 color cursor white blue underline bold
37 Bug fixes:
39 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
40 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
41 - Tree view: fix searching.
43 tig-0.14.1
44 ----------
46 Improvements:
48 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
49 code in git's bash completion script.
50 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
51 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
52 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
53 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
54 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
55 scrolling 50% of the view width.
57 Bug fixes:
59 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
60 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
61 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
62 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
63 specific commit.
64 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
65 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
67 tig-0.14
68 --------
70 Incompatibilities:
72 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
73 users and was never meant to be exposed.
74 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
75 emitted for transition.
76 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
77 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
78 now set the "author" color.
80 Improvements:
82 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
83 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
85 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
86 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
87 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
89 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
90 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
91 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
92 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
93 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
94 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
95 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
96 is below 6 characters.
98 Bug fixes:
100 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
101 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
102 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
103 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
104 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
106 tig-0.13
107 --------
109 Incompatibilities:
111 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
112 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
113 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
114 in a script file or as a git alias.
116 Improvements:
118 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
119 tracked remotes, remotes.
120 - Add bash completion for blame.
121 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
122 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
123 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
125 Bug fixes:
127 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
128 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
129 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
130 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
131 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
132 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
133 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
135 tig-0.12.1
136 ----------
138 Improvements:
140 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
141 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
142 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
143 the command line.
144 - Log view: support for refreshing.
146 Bug fixes:
148 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
149 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
150 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
151 status view is not displayed.
152 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
153 unbound requests.
154 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
155 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
157 tig-0.12
158 --------
160 Improvements:
162 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
163 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
164 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
165 - Main view: support for refreshing.
166 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
167 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
168 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
169 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
170 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
171 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
172 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
174 Bug fixes:
176 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
177 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
178 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
179 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
180 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
181 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
182 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
183 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
184 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
186 tig-0.11
187 --------
189 Incompatibilities:
191 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
192 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
193 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
195 New features:
197 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
198 and the tree, status, and stage views.
199 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
200 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
201 - Add action to maximize the current view.
203 Improvements:
205 - Show the current branch in the status view.
206 - Show local/light-weight tags.
208 Bug fixes:
210 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
211 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
213 tig-0.10.1
214 ----------
216 Improvements:
218 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
219 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
220 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
221 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
223 Bug fixes:
225 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
226 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
227 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
228 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
230 tig-0.10
231 ---------
233 Incompatibilities:
235 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
236 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
237 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
238 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
239 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
240 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
241 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
242 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
243 environment variable
245 New features:
247 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
248 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
249 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
250 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
251 command is run.
252 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
253 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
254 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
256 Improvements:
258 - Main view: color the revision graph.
259 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
260 revision graph.
261 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
262 Bound to ',' by default.
263 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
264 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
265 ~/.tigrc.
266 - Misc. documentation improvements.
268 Bug fixes:
270 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
271 avoid running external diff drivers.
272 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
273 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
275 tig-0.9.1
276 ---------
278 Incompatibilities:
280 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
281 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
283 New features:
285 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
286 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
288 Improvements:
290 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
291 Bound to 'M' by default.
292 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
293 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
295 Bug fixes:
297 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
298 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
299 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
300 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
302 tig-0.9
303 -------
305 New features:
307 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
308 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
309 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
310 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
312 Improvements:
314 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
315 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
316 by default.
317 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.