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 entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
19 flag).
20 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
22 Bug fixes:
24 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
25 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
26 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
28 tig-0.15
29 --------
31 Incompatibilities:
33 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
34 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
35 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
36 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
37 being installed.
39 Improvements:
41 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
42 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
43 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
44 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
45 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
46 help messages.
47 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
48 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
49 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
50 subdirectory.
51 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
52 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
53 ascending order.
54 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
55 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
56 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
57 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
59 color cursor white blue underline bold
61 Bug fixes:
63 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
64 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
65 - Tree view: fix searching.
67 tig-0.14.1
68 ----------
70 Improvements:
72 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
73 code in git's bash completion script.
74 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
75 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
76 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
77 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
78 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
79 scrolling 50% of the view width.
81 Bug fixes:
83 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
84 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
85 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
86 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
87 specific commit.
88 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
89 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
91 tig-0.14
92 --------
94 Incompatibilities:
96 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
97 users and was never meant to be exposed.
98 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
99 emitted for transition.
100 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
101 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
102 now set the "author" color.
104 Improvements:
106 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
107 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
109 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
110 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
111 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
113 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
114 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
115 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
116 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
117 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
118 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
119 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
120 is below 6 characters.
122 Bug fixes:
124 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
125 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
126 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
127 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
128 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
130 tig-0.13
131 --------
133 Incompatibilities:
135 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
136 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
137 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
138 in a script file or as a git alias.
140 Improvements:
142 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
143 tracked remotes, remotes.
144 - Add bash completion for blame.
145 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
146 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
147 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
149 Bug fixes:
151 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
152 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
153 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
154 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
155 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
156 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
157 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
159 tig-0.12.1
160 ----------
162 Improvements:
164 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
165 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
166 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
167 the command line.
168 - Log view: support for refreshing.
170 Bug fixes:
172 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
173 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
174 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
175 status view is not displayed.
176 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
177 unbound requests.
178 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
179 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
181 tig-0.12
182 --------
184 Improvements:
186 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
187 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
188 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
189 - Main view: support for refreshing.
190 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
191 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
192 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
193 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
194 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
195 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
196 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
198 Bug fixes:
200 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
201 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
202 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
203 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
204 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
205 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
206 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
207 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
208 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
210 tig-0.11
211 --------
213 Incompatibilities:
215 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
216 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
217 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
219 New features:
221 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
222 and the tree, status, and stage views.
223 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
224 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
225 - Add action to maximize the current view.
227 Improvements:
229 - Show the current branch in the status view.
230 - Show local/light-weight tags.
232 Bug fixes:
234 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
235 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
237 tig-0.10.1
238 ----------
240 Improvements:
242 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
243 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
244 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
245 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
247 Bug fixes:
249 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
250 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
251 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
252 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
254 tig-0.10
255 ---------
257 Incompatibilities:
259 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
260 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
261 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
262 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
263 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
264 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
265 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
266 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
267 environment variable
269 New features:
271 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
272 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
273 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
274 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
275 command is run.
276 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
277 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
278 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
280 Improvements:
282 - Main view: color the revision graph.
283 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
284 revision graph.
285 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
286 Bound to ',' by default.
287 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
288 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
289 ~/.tigrc.
290 - Misc. documentation improvements.
292 Bug fixes:
294 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
295 avoid running external diff drivers.
296 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
297 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
299 tig-0.9.1
300 ---------
302 Incompatibilities:
304 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
305 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
307 New features:
309 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
310 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
312 Improvements:
314 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
315 Bound to 'M' by default.
316 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
317 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
319 Bug fixes:
321 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
322 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
323 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
324 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
326 tig-0.9
327 -------
329 New features:
331 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
332 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
333 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
334 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
336 Improvements:
338 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
339 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
340 by default.
341 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.