1 Release notes
2 =============
4 master
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7 Incompatibilities:
9 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
10 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
11 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
12 character support.
14 Improvements:
16 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
17 %(file) works as expected.
18 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
19 branch.
20 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
21 flag).
22 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
23 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
24 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
26 Bug fixes:
28 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
29 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
30 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
31 - Fix relative date.
32 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
34 tig-0.15
35 --------
37 Incompatibilities:
39 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
40 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
41 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
42 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
43 being installed.
45 Improvements:
47 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
48 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
49 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
50 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
51 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
52 help messages.
53 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
54 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
55 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
56 subdirectory.
57 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
58 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
59 ascending order.
60 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
61 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
62 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
63 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
65 color cursor white blue underline bold
67 Bug fixes:
69 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
70 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
71 - Tree view: fix searching.
73 tig-0.14.1
74 ----------
76 Improvements:
78 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
79 code in git's bash completion script.
80 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
81 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
82 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
83 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
84 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
85 scrolling 50% of the view width.
87 Bug fixes:
89 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
90 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
91 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
92 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
93 specific commit.
94 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
95 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
97 tig-0.14
98 --------
100 Incompatibilities:
102 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
103 users and was never meant to be exposed.
104 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
105 emitted for transition.
106 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
107 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
108 now set the "author" color.
110 Improvements:
112 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
113 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
115 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
116 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
117 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
119 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
120 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
121 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
122 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
123 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
124 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
125 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
126 is below 6 characters.
128 Bug fixes:
130 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
131 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
132 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
133 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
134 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
136 tig-0.13
137 --------
139 Incompatibilities:
141 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
142 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
143 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
144 in a script file or as a git alias.
146 Improvements:
148 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
149 tracked remotes, remotes.
150 - Add bash completion for blame.
151 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
152 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
153 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
155 Bug fixes:
157 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
158 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
159 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
160 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
161 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
162 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
163 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
165 tig-0.12.1
166 ----------
168 Improvements:
170 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
171 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
172 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
173 the command line.
174 - Log view: support for refreshing.
176 Bug fixes:
178 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
179 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
180 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
181 status view is not displayed.
182 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
183 unbound requests.
184 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
185 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
187 tig-0.12
188 --------
190 Improvements:
192 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
193 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
194 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
195 - Main view: support for refreshing.
196 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
197 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
198 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
199 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
200 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
201 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
202 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
204 Bug fixes:
206 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
207 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
208 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
209 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
210 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
211 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
212 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
213 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
214 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
216 tig-0.11
217 --------
219 Incompatibilities:
221 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
222 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
223 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
225 New features:
227 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
228 and the tree, status, and stage views.
229 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
230 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
231 - Add action to maximize the current view.
233 Improvements:
235 - Show the current branch in the status view.
236 - Show local/light-weight tags.
238 Bug fixes:
240 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
241 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
243 tig-0.10.1
244 ----------
246 Improvements:
248 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
249 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
250 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
251 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
253 Bug fixes:
255 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
256 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
257 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
258 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
260 tig-0.10
261 ---------
263 Incompatibilities:
265 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
266 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
267 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
268 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
269 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
270 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
271 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
272 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
273 environment variable
275 New features:
277 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
278 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
279 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
280 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
281 command is run.
282 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
283 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
284 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
286 Improvements:
288 - Main view: color the revision graph.
289 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
290 revision graph.
291 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
292 Bound to ',' by default.
293 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
294 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
295 ~/.tigrc.
296 - Misc. documentation improvements.
298 Bug fixes:
300 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
301 avoid running external diff drivers.
302 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
303 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
305 tig-0.9.1
306 ---------
308 Incompatibilities:
310 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
311 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
313 New features:
315 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
316 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
318 Improvements:
320 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
321 Bound to 'M' by default.
322 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
323 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
325 Bug fixes:
327 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
328 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
329 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
330 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
332 tig-0.9
333 -------
335 New features:
337 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
338 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
339 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
340 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
342 Improvements:
344 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
345 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
346 by default.
347 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.