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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.
12 Improvements:
14 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
15 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
16 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
18 Bug fixes:
20 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
21 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
23 tig-0.13
24 --------
26 Incompatibilities:
28 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
29 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
30 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
31 in a script file.
33 Improvements:
35 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
36 tracked remotes, remotes.
37 - Add bash completion for blame.
38 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
39 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
40 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
42 Bug fixes:
44 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
45 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
46 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
47 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
48 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
49 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
50 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
52 tig-0.12.1
53 ----------
55 Improvements:
57 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
58 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
59 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
60 the command line.
61 - Log view: support for refreshing.
63 Bug fixes:
65 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
66 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
67 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
68 status view is not displayed.
69 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
70 unbound requests.
71 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
72 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
74 tig-0.12
75 --------
77 Improvements:
79 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
80 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
81 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
82 - Main view: support for refreshing.
83 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
84 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
85 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
86 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
87 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
88 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
89 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
91 Bug fixes:
93 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
94 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
95 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
96 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
97 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
98 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
99 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
100 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
101 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
103 tig-0.11
104 --------
106 Incompatibilities:
108 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
109 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
110 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
112 New features:
114 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
115 and the tree, status, and stage views.
116 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
117 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
118 - Add action to maximize the current view.
120 Improvements:
122 - Show the current branch in the status view.
123 - Show local/light-weight tags.
125 Bug fixes:
127 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
128 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
130 tig-0.10.1
131 ----------
133 Improvements:
135 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
136 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
137 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
138 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
140 Bug fixes:
142 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
143 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
144 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
145 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
147 tig-0.10
148 ---------
150 Incompatibilities:
152 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
153 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
154 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
155 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
156 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
157 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
158 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
159 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
160 environment variable
162 New features:
164 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
165 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
166 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
167 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
168 command is run.
169 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
170 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
171 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
173 Improvements:
175 - Main view: color the revision graph.
176 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
177 revision graph.
178 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
179 Bound to ',' by default.
180 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
181 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
182 ~/.tigrc.
183 - Misc. documentation improvements.
185 Bug fixes:
187 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
188 avoid running external diff drivers.
189 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
190 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
192 tig-0.9.1
193 ---------
195 Incompatibilities:
197 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
198 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
200 New features:
202 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
203 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
205 Improvements:
207 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
208 Bound to 'M' by default.
209 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
210 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
212 Bug fixes:
214 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
215 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
216 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
217 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
219 tig-0.9
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222 New features:
224 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
225 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
226 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
227 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
229 Improvements:
231 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
232 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
233 by default.
234 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.