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.
11 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
12 emitted for transition.
13 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
15 Improvements:
17 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
18 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
19 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
20 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
21 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
22 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
23 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
24 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
25 is below 6 characters.
27 Bug fixes:
29 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
30 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
31 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
32 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
33 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
35 tig-0.13
36 --------
38 Incompatibilities:
40 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
41 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
42 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
43 in a script file.
45 Improvements:
47 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
48 tracked remotes, remotes.
49 - Add bash completion for blame.
50 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
51 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
52 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
54 Bug fixes:
56 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
57 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
58 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
59 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
60 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
61 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
62 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
64 tig-0.12.1
65 ----------
67 Improvements:
69 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
70 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
71 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
72 the command line.
73 - Log view: support for refreshing.
75 Bug fixes:
77 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
78 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
79 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
80 status view is not displayed.
81 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
82 unbound requests.
83 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
84 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
86 tig-0.12
87 --------
89 Improvements:
91 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
92 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
93 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
94 - Main view: support for refreshing.
95 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
96 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
97 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
98 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
99 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
100 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
101 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
103 Bug fixes:
105 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
106 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
107 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
108 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
109 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
110 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
111 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
112 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
113 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
115 tig-0.11
116 --------
118 Incompatibilities:
120 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
121 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
122 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
124 New features:
126 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
127 and the tree, status, and stage views.
128 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
129 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
130 - Add action to maximize the current view.
132 Improvements:
134 - Show the current branch in the status view.
135 - Show local/light-weight tags.
137 Bug fixes:
139 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
140 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
142 tig-0.10.1
143 ----------
145 Improvements:
147 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
148 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
149 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
150 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
152 Bug fixes:
154 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
155 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
156 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
157 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
159 tig-0.10
160 ---------
162 Incompatibilities:
164 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
165 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
166 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
167 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
168 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
169 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
170 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
171 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
172 environment variable
174 New features:
176 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
177 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
178 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
179 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
180 command is run.
181 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
182 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
183 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
185 Improvements:
187 - Main view: color the revision graph.
188 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
189 revision graph.
190 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
191 Bound to ',' by default.
192 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
193 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
194 ~/.tigrc.
195 - Misc. documentation improvements.
197 Bug fixes:
199 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
200 avoid running external diff drivers.
201 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
202 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
204 tig-0.9.1
205 ---------
207 Incompatibilities:
209 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
210 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
212 New features:
214 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
215 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
217 Improvements:
219 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
220 Bound to 'M' by default.
221 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
222 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
224 Bug fixes:
226 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
227 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
228 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
229 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
231 tig-0.9
232 -------
234 New features:
236 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
237 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
238 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
239 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
241 Improvements:
243 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
244 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
245 by default.
246 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.