1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ---------
7 Incompatibilities:
9 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
10 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
12 Improvements:
14 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
15 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
16 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
17 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
18 help messages.
19 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
20 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
21 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
22 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
23 ascending order.
24 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
25 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
26 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
27 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
29 color cursor white blue underline bold
31 Bug fixes:
33 - Tree view: fix searching.
35 tig-0.14.1
36 ----------
38 Improvements:
40 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
41 code in git's bash completion script.
42 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
43 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
44 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
45 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
46 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
47 scrolling 50% of the view width.
49 Bug fixes:
51 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
52 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
53 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
54 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
55 specific commit.
56 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
57 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
59 tig-0.14
60 --------
62 Incompatibilities:
64 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
65 users and was never meant to be exposed.
66 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
67 emitted for transition.
68 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
69 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
70 now set the "author" color.
72 Improvements:
74 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
75 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
77 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
78 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
79 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
81 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
82 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
83 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
84 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
85 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
86 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
87 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
88 is below 6 characters.
90 Bug fixes:
92 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
93 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
94 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
95 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
96 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
98 tig-0.13
99 --------
101 Incompatibilities:
103 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
104 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
105 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
106 in a script file or as a git alias.
108 Improvements:
110 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
111 tracked remotes, remotes.
112 - Add bash completion for blame.
113 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
114 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
115 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
117 Bug fixes:
119 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
120 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
121 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
122 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
123 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
124 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
125 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
127 tig-0.12.1
128 ----------
130 Improvements:
132 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
133 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
134 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
135 the command line.
136 - Log view: support for refreshing.
138 Bug fixes:
140 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
141 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
142 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
143 status view is not displayed.
144 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
145 unbound requests.
146 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
147 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
149 tig-0.12
150 --------
152 Improvements:
154 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
155 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
156 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
157 - Main view: support for refreshing.
158 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
159 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
160 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
161 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
162 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
163 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
164 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
166 Bug fixes:
168 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
169 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
170 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
171 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
172 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
173 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
174 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
175 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
176 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
178 tig-0.11
179 --------
181 Incompatibilities:
183 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
184 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
185 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
187 New features:
189 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
190 and the tree, status, and stage views.
191 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
192 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
193 - Add action to maximize the current view.
195 Improvements:
197 - Show the current branch in the status view.
198 - Show local/light-weight tags.
200 Bug fixes:
202 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
203 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
205 tig-0.10.1
206 ----------
208 Improvements:
210 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
211 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
212 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
213 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
215 Bug fixes:
217 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
218 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
219 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
220 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
222 tig-0.10
223 ---------
225 Incompatibilities:
227 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
228 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
229 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
230 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
231 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
232 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
233 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
234 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
235 environment variable
237 New features:
239 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
240 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
241 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
242 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
243 command is run.
244 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
245 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
246 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
248 Improvements:
250 - Main view: color the revision graph.
251 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
252 revision graph.
253 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
254 Bound to ',' by default.
255 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
256 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
257 ~/.tigrc.
258 - Misc. documentation improvements.
260 Bug fixes:
262 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
263 avoid running external diff drivers.
264 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
265 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
267 tig-0.9.1
268 ---------
270 Incompatibilities:
272 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
273 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
275 New features:
277 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
278 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
280 Improvements:
282 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
283 Bound to 'M' by default.
284 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
285 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
287 Bug fixes:
289 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
290 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
291 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
292 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
294 tig-0.9
295 -------
297 New features:
299 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
300 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
301 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
302 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
304 Improvements:
306 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
307 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
308 by default.
309 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.