1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Improvements:
9 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
10 code in git's bash completion script.
11 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
12 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
14 Bug fixes:
16 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
17 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
18 specific commit.
20 tig-0.14
21 --------
23 Incompatibilities:
25 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
26 users and was never meant to be exposed.
27 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
28 emitted for transition.
29 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
30 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
31 now set the "author" color.
33 Improvements:
35 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
36 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
38 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
39 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
40 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
42 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
43 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
44 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
45 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
46 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
47 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
48 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
49 is below 6 characters.
51 Bug fixes:
53 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
54 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
55 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
56 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
57 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
59 tig-0.13
60 --------
62 Incompatibilities:
64 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
65 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
66 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
67 in a script file.
69 Improvements:
71 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
72 tracked remotes, remotes.
73 - Add bash completion for blame.
74 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
75 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
76 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
78 Bug fixes:
80 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
81 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
82 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
83 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
84 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
85 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
86 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
88 tig-0.12.1
89 ----------
91 Improvements:
93 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
94 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
95 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
96 the command line.
97 - Log view: support for refreshing.
99 Bug fixes:
101 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
102 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
103 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
104 status view is not displayed.
105 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
106 unbound requests.
107 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
108 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
110 tig-0.12
111 --------
113 Improvements:
115 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
116 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
117 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
118 - Main view: support for refreshing.
119 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
120 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
121 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
122 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
123 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
124 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
125 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
127 Bug fixes:
129 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
130 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
131 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
132 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
133 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
134 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
135 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
136 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
137 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
139 tig-0.11
140 --------
142 Incompatibilities:
144 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
145 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
146 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
148 New features:
150 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
151 and the tree, status, and stage views.
152 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
153 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
154 - Add action to maximize the current view.
156 Improvements:
158 - Show the current branch in the status view.
159 - Show local/light-weight tags.
161 Bug fixes:
163 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
164 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
166 tig-0.10.1
167 ----------
169 Improvements:
171 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
172 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
173 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
174 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
176 Bug fixes:
178 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
179 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
180 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
181 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
183 tig-0.10
184 ---------
186 Incompatibilities:
188 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
189 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
190 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
191 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
192 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
193 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
194 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
195 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
196 environment variable
198 New features:
200 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
201 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
202 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
203 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
204 command is run.
205 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
206 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
207 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
209 Improvements:
211 - Main view: color the revision graph.
212 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
213 revision graph.
214 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
215 Bound to ',' by default.
216 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
217 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
218 ~/.tigrc.
219 - Misc. documentation improvements.
221 Bug fixes:
223 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
224 avoid running external diff drivers.
225 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
226 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
228 tig-0.9.1
229 ---------
231 Incompatibilities:
233 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
234 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
236 New features:
238 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
239 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
241 Improvements:
243 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
244 Bound to 'M' by default.
245 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
246 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
248 Bug fixes:
250 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
251 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
252 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
253 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
255 tig-0.9
256 -------
258 New features:
260 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
261 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
262 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
263 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
265 Improvements:
267 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
268 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
269 by default.
270 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.