X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=d03fea86c5ababa7dfee109efe617bebde19f6ad;hb=4702c2a6720b8480acf5698e77848710e018b28d;hp=626c8243f85258e7fd2904c9249d364f0a74dfb9;hpb=50efd29ce94c4dd90421db29d2516fdde675f8e8;p=tig.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 626c824..d03fea8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,14 +1,207 @@ Release notes ============= -tig master branch ------------------ +master +------ + +Incompatibilities: + + - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance, + but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc. + Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide + character support. + +Improvements: + + - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so + %(file) works as expected. + - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected + branch. + - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all + flag). + - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled. + - Mark detached heads with [HEAD]. + - Add support for displaying dates in local time. + +Bug fixes: + + - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the + changes made to support blame view from sub directories. + - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values. + - Fix relative date. + - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined. + - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests. + - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names. + +tig-0.15 +-------- + +Incompatibilities: + + - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to + bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug. + - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in + git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git + being installed. + +Improvements: + + - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7). + - 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 opened from the tree view + and 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 +-------- + +Incompatibilities: + + - 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 or as a git alias. + +Improvements: + + - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads, + tracked remotes, remotes. + - Add bash completion for blame. + - Tree view: edit files of the current branch. + - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref) + - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2). + +Bug fixes: + + - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems. + - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph. + - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode. + - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files. + - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries. + - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed. + - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory. + +tig-0.12.1 +---------- + +Improvements: + + - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with + changes. Bound to '!' by default. + - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on + the command line. + - Log view: support for refreshing. + +Bug fixes: + + - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore + rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4. + - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while + status view is not displayed. + - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for + unbound requests. + - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view. + - Do not maximize views when refreshing. + +tig-0.12 +-------- Improvements: - F5 also refreshes the current view. - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option. - - Also include the reference names when searching. + - Main view: also include the reference names when searching. + - Main view: support for refreshing. + - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when + they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628) + - 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 customize the width of the author column. + For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10 Bug fixes: @@ -17,6 +210,10 @@ Bug fixes: keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view. - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh) installed as /bin/sh does not support it. + - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used. + - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3. + - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals, + for example when refreshing doing background loading. tig-0.11 -------- @@ -57,7 +254,7 @@ Improvements: 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.