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 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
15 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
16 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
17 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
18 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
19 help messages.
20 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
21 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
22 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
23 subdirectory.
24 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
25 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
26 ascending order.
27 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
28 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
29 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
30 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
32 color cursor white blue underline bold
34 Bug fixes:
36 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
37 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
38 - Tree view: fix searching.
40 tig-0.14.1
41 ----------
43 Improvements:
45 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
46 code in git's bash completion script.
47 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
48 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
49 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
50 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
51 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
52 scrolling 50% of the view width.
54 Bug fixes:
56 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
57 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
58 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
59 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
60 specific commit.
61 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
62 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
64 tig-0.14
65 --------
67 Incompatibilities:
69 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
70 users and was never meant to be exposed.
71 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
72 emitted for transition.
73 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
74 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
75 now set the "author" color.
77 Improvements:
79 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
80 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
82 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
83 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
84 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
86 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
87 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
88 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
89 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
90 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
91 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
92 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
93 is below 6 characters.
95 Bug fixes:
97 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
98 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
99 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
100 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
101 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
103 tig-0.13
104 --------
106 Incompatibilities:
108 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
109 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
110 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
111 in a script file or as a git alias.
113 Improvements:
115 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
116 tracked remotes, remotes.
117 - Add bash completion for blame.
118 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
119 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
120 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
122 Bug fixes:
124 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
125 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
126 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
127 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
128 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
129 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
130 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
132 tig-0.12.1
133 ----------
135 Improvements:
137 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
138 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
139 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
140 the command line.
141 - Log view: support for refreshing.
143 Bug fixes:
145 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
146 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
147 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
148 status view is not displayed.
149 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
150 unbound requests.
151 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
152 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
154 tig-0.12
155 --------
157 Improvements:
159 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
160 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
161 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
162 - Main view: support for refreshing.
163 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
164 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
165 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
166 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
167 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
168 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
169 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
171 Bug fixes:
173 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
174 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
175 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
176 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
177 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
178 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
179 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
180 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
181 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
183 tig-0.11
184 --------
186 Incompatibilities:
188 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
189 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
190 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
192 New features:
194 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
195 and the tree, status, and stage views.
196 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
197 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
198 - Add action to maximize the current view.
200 Improvements:
202 - Show the current branch in the status view.
203 - Show local/light-weight tags.
205 Bug fixes:
207 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
208 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
210 tig-0.10.1
211 ----------
213 Improvements:
215 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
216 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
217 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
218 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
220 Bug fixes:
222 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
223 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
224 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
225 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
227 tig-0.10
228 ---------
230 Incompatibilities:
232 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
233 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
234 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
235 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
236 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
237 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
238 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
239 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
240 environment variable
242 New features:
244 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
245 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
246 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
247 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
248 command is run.
249 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
250 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
251 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
253 Improvements:
255 - Main view: color the revision graph.
256 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
257 revision graph.
258 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
259 Bound to ',' by default.
260 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
261 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
262 ~/.tigrc.
263 - Misc. documentation improvements.
265 Bug fixes:
267 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
268 avoid running external diff drivers.
269 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
270 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
272 tig-0.9.1
273 ---------
275 Incompatibilities:
277 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
278 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
280 New features:
282 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
283 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
285 Improvements:
287 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
288 Bound to 'M' by default.
289 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
290 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
292 Bug fixes:
294 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
295 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
296 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
297 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
299 tig-0.9
300 -------
302 New features:
304 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
305 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
306 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
307 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
309 Improvements:
311 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
312 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
313 by default.
314 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.