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