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 %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
19 branch.
20 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
21 flag).
22 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
23 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
25 Bug fixes:
27 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
28 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
29 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
30 - Fix relative date.
31 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
33 tig-0.15
34 --------
36 Incompatibilities:
38 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
39 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
40 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
41 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
42 being installed.
44 Improvements:
46 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
47 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
48 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
49 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
50 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
51 help messages.
52 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
53 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
54 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
55 subdirectory.
56 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
57 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
58 ascending order.
59 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
60 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
61 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
62 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
64 color cursor white blue underline bold
66 Bug fixes:
68 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
69 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
70 - Tree view: fix searching.
72 tig-0.14.1
73 ----------
75 Improvements:
77 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
78 code in git's bash completion script.
79 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
80 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
81 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
82 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
83 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
84 scrolling 50% of the view width.
86 Bug fixes:
88 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
89 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
90 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
91 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
92 specific commit.
93 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
94 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
96 tig-0.14
97 --------
99 Incompatibilities:
101 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
102 users and was never meant to be exposed.
103 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
104 emitted for transition.
105 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
106 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
107 now set the "author" color.
109 Improvements:
111 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
112 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
114 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
115 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
116 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
118 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
119 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
120 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
121 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
122 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
123 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
124 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
125 is below 6 characters.
127 Bug fixes:
129 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
130 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
131 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
132 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
133 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
135 tig-0.13
136 --------
138 Incompatibilities:
140 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
141 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
142 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
143 in a script file or as a git alias.
145 Improvements:
147 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
148 tracked remotes, remotes.
149 - Add bash completion for blame.
150 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
151 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
152 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
154 Bug fixes:
156 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
157 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
158 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
159 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
160 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
161 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
162 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
164 tig-0.12.1
165 ----------
167 Improvements:
169 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
170 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
171 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
172 the command line.
173 - Log view: support for refreshing.
175 Bug fixes:
177 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
178 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
179 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
180 status view is not displayed.
181 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
182 unbound requests.
183 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
184 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
186 tig-0.12
187 --------
189 Improvements:
191 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
192 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
193 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
194 - Main view: support for refreshing.
195 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
196 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
197 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
198 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
199 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
200 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
201 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
203 Bug fixes:
205 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
206 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
207 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
208 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
209 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
210 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
211 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
212 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
213 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
215 tig-0.11
216 --------
218 Incompatibilities:
220 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
221 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
222 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
224 New features:
226 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
227 and the tree, status, and stage views.
228 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
229 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
230 - Add action to maximize the current view.
232 Improvements:
234 - Show the current branch in the status view.
235 - Show local/light-weight tags.
237 Bug fixes:
239 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
240 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
242 tig-0.10.1
243 ----------
245 Improvements:
247 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
248 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
249 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
250 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
252 Bug fixes:
254 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
255 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
256 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
257 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
259 tig-0.10
260 ---------
262 Incompatibilities:
264 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
265 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
266 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
267 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
268 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
269 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
270 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
271 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
272 environment variable
274 New features:
276 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
277 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
278 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
279 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
280 command is run.
281 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
282 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
283 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
285 Improvements:
287 - Main view: color the revision graph.
288 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
289 revision graph.
290 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
291 Bound to ',' by default.
292 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
293 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
294 ~/.tigrc.
295 - Misc. documentation improvements.
297 Bug fixes:
299 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
300 avoid running external diff drivers.
301 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
302 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
304 tig-0.9.1
305 ---------
307 Incompatibilities:
309 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
310 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
312 New features:
314 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
315 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
317 Improvements:
319 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
320 Bound to 'M' by default.
321 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
322 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
324 Bug fixes:
326 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
327 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
328 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
329 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
331 tig-0.9
332 -------
334 New features:
336 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
337 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
338 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
339 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
341 Improvements:
343 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
344 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
345 by default.
346 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.