1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ---------
7 Improvements:
9 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
10 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
11 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
12 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
13 ascending order.
14 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
15 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
16 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
18 Bug fixes:
20 - Tree view: fix searching.
22 tig-0.14.1
23 ----------
25 Improvements:
27 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
28 code in git's bash completion script.
29 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
30 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
31 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
32 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
33 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
34 scrolling 50% of the view width.
36 Bug fixes:
38 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
39 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
40 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
41 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
42 specific commit.
43 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
44 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
46 tig-0.14
47 --------
49 Incompatibilities:
51 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
52 users and was never meant to be exposed.
53 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
54 emitted for transition.
55 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
56 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
57 now set the "author" color.
59 Improvements:
61 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
62 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
64 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
65 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
66 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
68 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
69 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
70 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
71 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
72 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
73 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
74 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
75 is below 6 characters.
77 Bug fixes:
79 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
80 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
81 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
82 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
83 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
85 tig-0.13
86 --------
88 Incompatibilities:
90 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
91 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
92 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
93 in a script file or as a git alias.
95 Improvements:
97 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
98 tracked remotes, remotes.
99 - Add bash completion for blame.
100 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
101 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
102 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
104 Bug fixes:
106 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
107 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
108 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
109 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
110 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
111 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
112 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
114 tig-0.12.1
115 ----------
117 Improvements:
119 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
120 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
121 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
122 the command line.
123 - Log view: support for refreshing.
125 Bug fixes:
127 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
128 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
129 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
130 status view is not displayed.
131 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
132 unbound requests.
133 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
134 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
136 tig-0.12
137 --------
139 Improvements:
141 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
142 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
143 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
144 - Main view: support for refreshing.
145 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
146 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
147 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
148 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
149 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
150 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
151 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
153 Bug fixes:
155 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
156 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
157 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
158 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
159 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
160 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
161 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
162 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
163 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
165 tig-0.11
166 --------
168 Incompatibilities:
170 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
171 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
172 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
174 New features:
176 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
177 and the tree, status, and stage views.
178 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
179 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
180 - Add action to maximize the current view.
182 Improvements:
184 - Show the current branch in the status view.
185 - Show local/light-weight tags.
187 Bug fixes:
189 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
190 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
192 tig-0.10.1
193 ----------
195 Improvements:
197 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
198 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
199 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
200 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
202 Bug fixes:
204 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
205 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
206 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
207 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
209 tig-0.10
210 ---------
212 Incompatibilities:
214 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
215 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
216 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
217 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
218 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
219 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
220 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
221 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
222 environment variable
224 New features:
226 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
227 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
228 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
229 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
230 command is run.
231 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
232 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
233 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
235 Improvements:
237 - Main view: color the revision graph.
238 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
239 revision graph.
240 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
241 Bound to ',' by default.
242 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
243 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
244 ~/.tigrc.
245 - Misc. documentation improvements.
247 Bug fixes:
249 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
250 avoid running external diff drivers.
251 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
252 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
254 tig-0.9.1
255 ---------
257 Incompatibilities:
259 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
260 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
262 New features:
264 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
265 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
267 Improvements:
269 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
270 Bound to 'M' by default.
271 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
272 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
274 Bug fixes:
276 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
277 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
278 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
279 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
281 tig-0.9
282 -------
284 New features:
286 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
287 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
288 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
289 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
291 Improvements:
293 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
294 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
295 by default.
296 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.