1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Improvements:
9 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
10 tracked remotes, remotes.
11 - Add bash completion for blame.
13 Bug fixes:
15 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
16 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
18 tig-0.12.1
19 ----------
21 Improvements:
23 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
24 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
25 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
26 the command line.
27 - Log view: support for refreshing.
29 Bug fixes:
31 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
32 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
33 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
34 status view is not displayed.
35 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
36 unbound requests.
37 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
38 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
40 tig-0.12
41 --------
43 Improvements:
45 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
46 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
47 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
48 - Main view: support for refreshing.
49 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
50 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
51 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
52 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
53 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
54 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
55 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
57 Bug fixes:
59 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
60 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
61 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
62 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
63 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
64 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
65 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
66 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
67 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
69 tig-0.11
70 --------
72 Incompatibilities:
74 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
75 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
76 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
78 New features:
80 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
81 and the tree, status, and stage views.
82 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
83 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
84 - Add action to maximize the current view.
86 Improvements:
88 - Show the current branch in the status view.
89 - Show local/light-weight tags.
91 Bug fixes:
93 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
94 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
96 tig-0.10.1
97 ----------
99 Improvements:
101 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
102 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
103 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
104 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
106 Bug fixes:
108 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
109 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
110 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
111 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
113 tig-0.10
114 ---------
116 Incompatibilities:
118 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
119 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
120 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
121 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
122 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
123 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
124 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
125 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
126 environment variable
128 New features:
130 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
131 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
132 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
133 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
134 command is run.
135 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
136 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
137 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
139 Improvements:
141 - Main view: color the revision graph.
142 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
143 revision graph.
144 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
145 Bound to ',' by default.
146 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
147 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
148 ~/.tigrc.
149 - Misc. documentation improvements.
151 Bug fixes:
153 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
154 avoid running external diff drivers.
155 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
156 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
158 tig-0.9.1
159 ---------
161 Incompatibilities:
163 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
164 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
166 New features:
168 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
169 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
171 Improvements:
173 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
174 Bound to 'M' by default.
175 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
176 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
178 Bug fixes:
180 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
181 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
182 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
183 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
185 tig-0.9
186 -------
188 New features:
190 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
191 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
192 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
193 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
195 Improvements:
197 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
198 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
199 by default.
200 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.