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 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
15 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
16 help messages.
17 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
18 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
19 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
20 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
21 ascending order.
22 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
23 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
24 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
25 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
27 color cursor white blue underline bold
29 Bug fixes:
31 - Tree view: fix searching.
33 tig-0.14.1
34 ----------
36 Improvements:
38 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
39 code in git's bash completion script.
40 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
41 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
42 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
43 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
44 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
45 scrolling 50% of the view width.
47 Bug fixes:
49 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
50 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
51 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
52 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
53 specific commit.
54 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
55 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
57 tig-0.14
58 --------
60 Incompatibilities:
62 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
63 users and was never meant to be exposed.
64 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
65 emitted for transition.
66 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
67 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
68 now set the "author" color.
70 Improvements:
72 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
73 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
75 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
76 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
77 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
79 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
80 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
81 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
82 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
83 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
84 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
85 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
86 is below 6 characters.
88 Bug fixes:
90 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
91 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
92 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
93 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
94 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
96 tig-0.13
97 --------
99 Incompatibilities:
101 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
102 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
103 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
104 in a script file or as a git alias.
106 Improvements:
108 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
109 tracked remotes, remotes.
110 - Add bash completion for blame.
111 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
112 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
113 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
115 Bug fixes:
117 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
118 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
119 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
120 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
121 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
122 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
123 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
125 tig-0.12.1
126 ----------
128 Improvements:
130 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
131 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
132 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
133 the command line.
134 - Log view: support for refreshing.
136 Bug fixes:
138 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
139 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
140 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
141 status view is not displayed.
142 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
143 unbound requests.
144 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
145 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
147 tig-0.12
148 --------
150 Improvements:
152 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
153 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
154 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
155 - Main view: support for refreshing.
156 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
157 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
158 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
159 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
160 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
161 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
162 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
164 Bug fixes:
166 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
167 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
168 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
169 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
170 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
171 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
172 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
173 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
174 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
176 tig-0.11
177 --------
179 Incompatibilities:
181 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
182 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
183 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
185 New features:
187 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
188 and the tree, status, and stage views.
189 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
190 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
191 - Add action to maximize the current view.
193 Improvements:
195 - Show the current branch in the status view.
196 - Show local/light-weight tags.
198 Bug fixes:
200 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
201 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
203 tig-0.10.1
204 ----------
206 Improvements:
208 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
209 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
210 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
211 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
213 Bug fixes:
215 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
216 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
217 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
218 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
220 tig-0.10
221 ---------
223 Incompatibilities:
225 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
226 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
227 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
228 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
229 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
230 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
231 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
232 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
233 environment variable
235 New features:
237 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
238 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
239 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
240 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
241 command is run.
242 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
243 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
244 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
246 Improvements:
248 - Main view: color the revision graph.
249 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
250 revision graph.
251 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
252 Bound to ',' by default.
253 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
254 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
255 ~/.tigrc.
256 - Misc. documentation improvements.
258 Bug fixes:
260 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
261 avoid running external diff drivers.
262 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
263 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
265 tig-0.9.1
266 ---------
268 Incompatibilities:
270 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
271 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
273 New features:
275 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
276 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
278 Improvements:
280 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
281 Bound to 'M' by default.
282 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
283 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
285 Bug fixes:
287 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
288 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
289 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
290 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
292 tig-0.9
293 -------
295 New features:
297 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
298 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
299 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
300 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
302 Improvements:
304 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
305 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
306 by default.
307 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.