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1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Improvements:
9 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
10 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
12 Bug fixes:
14 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
15 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
17 tig-0.13
18 --------
20 Incompatibilities:
22 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
23 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
24 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
25 in a script file.
27 Improvements:
29 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
30 tracked remotes, remotes.
31 - Add bash completion for blame.
32 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
33 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
34 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
36 Bug fixes:
38 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
39 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
40 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
41 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
42 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
43 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
44 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
46 tig-0.12.1
47 ----------
49 Improvements:
51 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
52 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
53 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
54 the command line.
55 - Log view: support for refreshing.
57 Bug fixes:
59 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
60 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
61 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
62 status view is not displayed.
63 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
64 unbound requests.
65 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
66 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
68 tig-0.12
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71 Improvements:
73 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
74 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
75 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
76 - Main view: support for refreshing.
77 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
78 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
79 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
80 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
81 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
82 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
83 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
85 Bug fixes:
87 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
88 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
89 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
90 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
91 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
92 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
93 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
94 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
95 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
97 tig-0.11
98 --------
100 Incompatibilities:
102 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
103 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
104 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
106 New features:
108 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
109 and the tree, status, and stage views.
110 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
111 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
112 - Add action to maximize the current view.
114 Improvements:
116 - Show the current branch in the status view.
117 - Show local/light-weight tags.
119 Bug fixes:
121 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
122 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
124 tig-0.10.1
125 ----------
127 Improvements:
129 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
130 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
131 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
132 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
134 Bug fixes:
136 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
137 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
138 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
139 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
141 tig-0.10
142 ---------
144 Incompatibilities:
146 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
147 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
148 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
149 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
150 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
151 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
152 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
153 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
154 environment variable
156 New features:
158 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
159 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
160 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
161 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
162 command is run.
163 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
164 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
165 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
167 Improvements:
169 - Main view: color the revision graph.
170 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
171 revision graph.
172 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
173 Bound to ',' by default.
174 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
175 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
176 ~/.tigrc.
177 - Misc. documentation improvements.
179 Bug fixes:
181 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
182 avoid running external diff drivers.
183 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
184 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
186 tig-0.9.1
187 ---------
189 Incompatibilities:
191 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
192 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
194 New features:
196 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
197 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
199 Improvements:
201 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
202 Bound to 'M' by default.
203 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
204 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
206 Bug fixes:
208 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
209 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
210 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
211 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
213 tig-0.9
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216 New features:
218 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
219 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
220 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
221 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
223 Improvements:
225 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
226 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
227 by default.
228 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.