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