1 Release notes
2 =============
4 master
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7 Improvements:
9 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
10 %(file) works as expected.
11 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
12 flag).
14 tig-0.15
15 --------
17 Incompatibilities:
19 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
20 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
21 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
22 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
23 being installed.
25 Improvements:
27 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
28 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
29 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
30 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
31 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
32 help messages.
33 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
34 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
35 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
36 subdirectory.
37 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
38 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
39 ascending order.
40 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
41 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
42 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
43 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
45 color cursor white blue underline bold
47 Bug fixes:
49 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
50 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
51 - Tree view: fix searching.
53 tig-0.14.1
54 ----------
56 Improvements:
58 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
59 code in git's bash completion script.
60 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
61 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
62 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
63 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
64 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
65 scrolling 50% of the view width.
67 Bug fixes:
69 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
70 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
71 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
72 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
73 specific commit.
74 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
75 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
77 tig-0.14
78 --------
80 Incompatibilities:
82 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
83 users and was never meant to be exposed.
84 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
85 emitted for transition.
86 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
87 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
88 now set the "author" color.
90 Improvements:
92 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
93 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
95 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
96 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
97 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
99 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
100 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
101 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
102 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
103 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
104 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
105 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
106 is below 6 characters.
108 Bug fixes:
110 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
111 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
112 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
113 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
114 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
116 tig-0.13
117 --------
119 Incompatibilities:
121 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
122 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
123 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
124 in a script file or as a git alias.
126 Improvements:
128 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
129 tracked remotes, remotes.
130 - Add bash completion for blame.
131 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
132 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
133 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
135 Bug fixes:
137 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
138 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
139 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
140 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
141 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
142 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
143 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
145 tig-0.12.1
146 ----------
148 Improvements:
150 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
151 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
152 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
153 the command line.
154 - Log view: support for refreshing.
156 Bug fixes:
158 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
159 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
160 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
161 status view is not displayed.
162 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
163 unbound requests.
164 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
165 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
167 tig-0.12
168 --------
170 Improvements:
172 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
173 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
174 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
175 - Main view: support for refreshing.
176 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
177 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
178 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
179 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
180 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
181 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
182 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
184 Bug fixes:
186 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
187 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
188 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
189 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
190 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
191 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
192 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
193 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
194 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
196 tig-0.11
197 --------
199 Incompatibilities:
201 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
202 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
203 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
205 New features:
207 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
208 and the tree, status, and stage views.
209 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
210 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
211 - Add action to maximize the current view.
213 Improvements:
215 - Show the current branch in the status view.
216 - Show local/light-weight tags.
218 Bug fixes:
220 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
221 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
223 tig-0.10.1
224 ----------
226 Improvements:
228 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
229 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
230 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
231 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
233 Bug fixes:
235 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
236 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
237 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
238 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
240 tig-0.10
241 ---------
243 Incompatibilities:
245 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
246 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
247 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
248 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
249 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
250 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
251 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
252 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
253 environment variable
255 New features:
257 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
258 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
259 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
260 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
261 command is run.
262 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
263 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
264 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
266 Improvements:
268 - Main view: color the revision graph.
269 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
270 revision graph.
271 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
272 Bound to ',' by default.
273 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
274 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
275 ~/.tigrc.
276 - Misc. documentation improvements.
278 Bug fixes:
280 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
281 avoid running external diff drivers.
282 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
283 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
285 tig-0.9.1
286 ---------
288 Incompatibilities:
290 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
291 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
293 New features:
295 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
296 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
298 Improvements:
300 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
301 Bound to 'M' by default.
302 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
303 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
305 Bug fixes:
307 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
308 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
309 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
310 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
312 tig-0.9
313 -------
315 New features:
317 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
318 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
319 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
320 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
322 Improvements:
324 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
325 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
326 by default.
327 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.