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+++ b/NEWS
=============
tig master
+---------
+
+Incompatibilities:
+
+ - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
+ bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
+
+Improvements:
+
+ - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
+ info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
+ - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
+ view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
+ help messages.
+ - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
+ view. Bound to 'H' by default.
+ - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
+ subdirectory.
+ - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
+ 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
+ ascending order.
+ - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
+ the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
+ Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
+ - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
+
+ color cursor white blue underline bold
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+ - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when cwd is not the repo root.
+ (Debian bug 540766)
+ - Tree view: fix searching.
+
+tig-0.14.1
----------
+Improvements:
+
+ - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
+ code in git's bash completion script.
+ - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
+ - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
+ - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
+ - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
+ 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
+ scrolling 50% of the view width.
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+ - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
+ - Status view: report failures to update a file.
+ - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
+ - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
+ specific commit.
+ - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
+ - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
+
+tig-0.14
+--------
+
Incompatibilities:
- The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
users and was never meant to be exposed.
+ - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
+ emitted for transition.
+ - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
+ - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
+ now set the "author" color.
Improvements:
+ - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
+ - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
+
+ [tig] show-rev-graph = true
+ [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
+ [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
+
- Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
- Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
- Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
- Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
+ - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
+ is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
+ - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
+ is below 6 characters.
Bug fixes:
- Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
+ - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
+ - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
- Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
+ - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
tig-0.13
--------
- Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
- in a script file.
+ in a script file or as a git alias.
Improvements:
- Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
be staged. By default bound to '@'.
- Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
- - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
+ - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
Bug fixes:
Bug fixes:
- - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
+ - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
- Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
- Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.