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 - Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file
17 arguments and made available as %(diff-args), %(rev-args), and
18 %(file-args). Diff view will limit diffs using %(file-args).
19 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
20 %(file) works as expected.
21 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
22 branch.
23 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
24 flag).
25 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
26 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
27 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
29 Bug fixes:
31 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
32 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
33 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
34 - Fix relative date.
35 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
36 - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.
37 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
39 tig-0.15
40 --------
42 Incompatibilities:
44 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
45 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
46 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
47 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
48 being installed.
50 Improvements:
52 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
53 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
54 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
55 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
56 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
57 help messages.
58 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
59 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
60 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
61 subdirectory.
62 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
63 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
64 ascending order.
65 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
66 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
67 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
68 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
70 color cursor white blue underline bold
72 Bug fixes:
74 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
75 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
76 - Tree view: fix searching.
78 tig-0.14.1
79 ----------
81 Improvements:
83 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
84 code in git's bash completion script.
85 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
86 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
87 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
88 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
89 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
90 scrolling 50% of the view width.
92 Bug fixes:
94 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
95 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
96 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
97 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
98 specific commit.
99 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
100 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
102 tig-0.14
103 --------
105 Incompatibilities:
107 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
108 users and was never meant to be exposed.
109 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
110 emitted for transition.
111 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
112 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
113 now set the "author" color.
115 Improvements:
117 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
118 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
120 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
121 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
122 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
124 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
125 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
126 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
127 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
128 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
129 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
130 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
131 is below 6 characters.
133 Bug fixes:
135 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
136 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
137 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
138 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
139 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
141 tig-0.13
142 --------
144 Incompatibilities:
146 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
147 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
148 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
149 in a script file or as a git alias.
151 Improvements:
153 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
154 tracked remotes, remotes.
155 - Add bash completion for blame.
156 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
157 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
158 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
160 Bug fixes:
162 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
163 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
164 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
165 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
166 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
167 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
168 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
170 tig-0.12.1
171 ----------
173 Improvements:
175 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
176 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
177 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
178 the command line.
179 - Log view: support for refreshing.
181 Bug fixes:
183 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
184 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
185 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
186 status view is not displayed.
187 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
188 unbound requests.
189 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
190 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
192 tig-0.12
193 --------
195 Improvements:
197 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
198 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
199 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
200 - Main view: support for refreshing.
201 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
202 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
203 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
204 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
205 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
206 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
207 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
209 Bug fixes:
211 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
212 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
213 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
214 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
215 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
216 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
217 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
218 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
219 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
221 tig-0.11
222 --------
224 Incompatibilities:
226 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
227 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
228 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
230 New features:
232 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
233 and the tree, status, and stage views.
234 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
235 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
236 - Add action to maximize the current view.
238 Improvements:
240 - Show the current branch in the status view.
241 - Show local/light-weight tags.
243 Bug fixes:
245 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
246 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
248 tig-0.10.1
249 ----------
251 Improvements:
253 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
254 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
255 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
256 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
258 Bug fixes:
260 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
261 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
262 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
263 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
265 tig-0.10
266 ---------
268 Incompatibilities:
270 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
271 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
272 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
273 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
274 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
275 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
276 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
277 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
278 environment variable
280 New features:
282 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
283 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
284 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
285 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
286 command is run.
287 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
288 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
289 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
291 Improvements:
293 - Main view: color the revision graph.
294 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
295 revision graph.
296 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
297 Bound to ',' by default.
298 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
299 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
300 ~/.tigrc.
301 - Misc. documentation improvements.
303 Bug fixes:
305 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
306 avoid running external diff drivers.
307 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
308 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
310 tig-0.9.1
311 ---------
313 Incompatibilities:
315 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
316 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
318 New features:
320 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
321 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
323 Improvements:
325 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
326 Bound to 'M' by default.
327 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
328 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
330 Bug fixes:
332 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
333 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
334 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
335 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
337 tig-0.9
338 -------
340 New features:
342 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
343 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
344 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
345 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
347 Improvements:
349 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
350 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
351 by default.
352 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.