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1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Improvements:
9 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
10 code in git's bash completion script.
11 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
12 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
13 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
14 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
15 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
16 scrolling 50% of the view width.
18 Bug fixes:
20 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
21 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
22 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
23 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
24 specific commit.
25 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
27 tig-0.14
28 --------
30 Incompatibilities:
32 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
33 users and was never meant to be exposed.
34 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
35 emitted for transition.
36 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
37 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
38 now set the "author" color.
40 Improvements:
42 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
43 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
45 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
46 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
47 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
49 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
50 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
51 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
52 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
53 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
54 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
55 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
56 is below 6 characters.
58 Bug fixes:
60 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
61 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
62 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
63 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
64 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
66 tig-0.13
67 --------
69 Incompatibilities:
71 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
72 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
73 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
74 in a script file.
76 Improvements:
78 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
79 tracked remotes, remotes.
80 - Add bash completion for blame.
81 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
82 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
83 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
85 Bug fixes:
87 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
88 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
89 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
90 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
91 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
92 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
93 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
95 tig-0.12.1
96 ----------
98 Improvements:
100 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
101 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
102 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
103 the command line.
104 - Log view: support for refreshing.
106 Bug fixes:
108 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
109 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
110 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
111 status view is not displayed.
112 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
113 unbound requests.
114 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
115 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
117 tig-0.12
118 --------
120 Improvements:
122 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
123 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
124 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
125 - Main view: support for refreshing.
126 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
127 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
128 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
129 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
130 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
131 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
132 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
134 Bug fixes:
136 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
137 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
138 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
139 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
140 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
141 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
142 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
143 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
144 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
146 tig-0.11
147 --------
149 Incompatibilities:
151 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
152 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
153 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
155 New features:
157 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
158 and the tree, status, and stage views.
159 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
160 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
161 - Add action to maximize the current view.
163 Improvements:
165 - Show the current branch in the status view.
166 - Show local/light-weight tags.
168 Bug fixes:
170 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
171 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
173 tig-0.10.1
174 ----------
176 Improvements:
178 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
179 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
180 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
181 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
183 Bug fixes:
185 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
186 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
187 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
188 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
190 tig-0.10
191 ---------
193 Incompatibilities:
195 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
196 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
197 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
198 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
199 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
200 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
201 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
202 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
203 environment variable
205 New features:
207 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
208 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
209 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
210 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
211 command is run.
212 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
213 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
214 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
216 Improvements:
218 - Main view: color the revision graph.
219 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
220 revision graph.
221 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
222 Bound to ',' by default.
223 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
224 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
225 ~/.tigrc.
226 - Misc. documentation improvements.
228 Bug fixes:
230 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
231 avoid running external diff drivers.
232 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
233 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
235 tig-0.9.1
236 ---------
238 Incompatibilities:
240 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
241 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
243 New features:
245 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
246 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
248 Improvements:
250 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
251 Bound to 'M' by default.
252 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
253 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
255 Bug fixes:
257 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
258 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
259 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
260 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
262 tig-0.9
263 -------
265 New features:
267 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
268 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
269 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
270 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
272 Improvements:
274 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
275 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
276 by default.
277 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.