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.
14 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
15 now set the "author" color.
17 Improvements:
19 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
20 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
21 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
22 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
23 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
24 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
25 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
26 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
27 is below 6 characters.
29 Bug fixes:
31 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
32 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
33 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
34 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
35 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
37 tig-0.13
38 --------
40 Incompatibilities:
42 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
43 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
44 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
45 in a script file.
47 Improvements:
49 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
50 tracked remotes, remotes.
51 - Add bash completion for blame.
52 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
53 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
54 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
56 Bug fixes:
58 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
59 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
60 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
61 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
62 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
63 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
64 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
66 tig-0.12.1
67 ----------
69 Improvements:
71 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
72 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
73 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
74 the command line.
75 - Log view: support for refreshing.
77 Bug fixes:
79 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
80 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
81 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
82 status view is not displayed.
83 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
84 unbound requests.
85 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
86 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
88 tig-0.12
89 --------
91 Improvements:
93 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
94 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
95 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
96 - Main view: support for refreshing.
97 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
98 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
99 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
100 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
101 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
102 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
103 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
105 Bug fixes:
107 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
108 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
109 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
110 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
111 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
112 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
113 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
114 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
115 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
117 tig-0.11
118 --------
120 Incompatibilities:
122 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
123 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
124 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
126 New features:
128 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
129 and the tree, status, and stage views.
130 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
131 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
132 - Add action to maximize the current view.
134 Improvements:
136 - Show the current branch in the status view.
137 - Show local/light-weight tags.
139 Bug fixes:
141 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
142 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
144 tig-0.10.1
145 ----------
147 Improvements:
149 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
150 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
151 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
152 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
154 Bug fixes:
156 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
157 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
158 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
159 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
161 tig-0.10
162 ---------
164 Incompatibilities:
166 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
167 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
168 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
169 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
170 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
171 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
172 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
173 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
174 environment variable
176 New features:
178 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
179 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
180 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
181 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
182 command is run.
183 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
184 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
185 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
187 Improvements:
189 - Main view: color the revision graph.
190 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
191 revision graph.
192 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
193 Bound to ',' by default.
194 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
195 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
196 ~/.tigrc.
197 - Misc. documentation improvements.
199 Bug fixes:
201 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
202 avoid running external diff drivers.
203 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
204 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
206 tig-0.9.1
207 ---------
209 Incompatibilities:
211 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
212 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
214 New features:
216 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
217 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
219 Improvements:
221 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
222 Bound to 'M' by default.
223 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
224 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
226 Bug fixes:
228 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
229 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
230 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
231 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
233 tig-0.9
234 -------
236 New features:
238 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
239 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
240 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
241 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
243 Improvements:
245 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
246 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
247 by default.
248 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.