1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Improvements:
9 - Add scroll-first-col action to jump to the first column. Bound to '|'
10 by default.
12 Bug fixes:
14 - Fix problem with empty diff views when file specs were passed on the
15 command line.
16 - Fix segfault when starting tig in pager mode.
18 tig-0.16
19 --------
21 Incompatibilities:
23 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
24 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
25 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
26 character support.
27 - The use of TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables
28 has been deprecated. To allow configuration of the diff view,
29 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used.
31 Improvements:
33 - Plug several memory leaks.
34 - Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file
35 arguments and made available as %(diffargs), %(revargs), and
36 %(fileargs). Diff view will limit diffs using %(fileargs).
37 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
38 %(file) works as expected.
39 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
40 branch.
41 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
42 flag).
43 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
44 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
45 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
47 Bug fixes:
49 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
50 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
51 - Fix text expansion to not truncate long lines
52 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
53 - Fix relative date.
54 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
55 - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.
56 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
57 - Blame view: fix parent blame to detect renames. It uses "previous"
58 line info from the blame porcelain output added in git version 1.6.3.
60 tig-0.15
61 --------
63 Incompatibilities:
65 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
66 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
67 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
68 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
69 being installed.
71 Improvements:
73 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
74 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
75 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
76 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
77 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
78 help messages.
79 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
80 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
81 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
82 subdirectory.
83 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
84 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
85 ascending order.
86 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
87 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
88 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
89 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
91 color cursor white blue underline bold
93 Bug fixes:
95 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
96 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
97 - Tree view: fix searching.
99 tig-0.14.1
100 ----------
102 Improvements:
104 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
105 code in git's bash completion script.
106 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
107 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
108 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
109 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
110 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
111 scrolling 50% of the view width.
113 Bug fixes:
115 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
116 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
117 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
118 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
119 specific commit.
120 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
121 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
123 tig-0.14
124 --------
126 Incompatibilities:
128 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
129 users and was never meant to be exposed.
130 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
131 emitted for transition.
132 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
133 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
134 now set the "author" color.
136 Improvements:
138 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
139 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
141 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
142 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
143 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
145 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
146 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
147 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
148 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
149 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
150 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
151 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
152 is below 6 characters.
154 Bug fixes:
156 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
157 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
158 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
159 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
160 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
162 tig-0.13
163 --------
165 Incompatibilities:
167 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
168 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
169 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
170 in a script file or as a git alias.
172 Improvements:
174 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
175 tracked remotes, remotes.
176 - Add bash completion for blame.
177 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
178 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
179 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
181 Bug fixes:
183 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
184 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
185 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
186 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
187 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
188 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
189 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
191 tig-0.12.1
192 ----------
194 Improvements:
196 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
197 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
198 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
199 the command line.
200 - Log view: support for refreshing.
202 Bug fixes:
204 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
205 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
206 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
207 status view is not displayed.
208 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
209 unbound requests.
210 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
211 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
213 tig-0.12
214 --------
216 Improvements:
218 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
219 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
220 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
221 - Main view: support for refreshing.
222 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
223 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
224 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
225 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
226 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
227 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
228 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
230 Bug fixes:
232 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
233 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
234 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
235 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
236 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
237 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
238 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
239 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
240 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
242 tig-0.11
243 --------
245 Incompatibilities:
247 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
248 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
249 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
251 New features:
253 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
254 and the tree, status, and stage views.
255 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
256 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
257 - Add action to maximize the current view.
259 Improvements:
261 - Show the current branch in the status view.
262 - Show local/light-weight tags.
264 Bug fixes:
266 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
267 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
269 tig-0.10.1
270 ----------
272 Improvements:
274 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
275 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
276 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
277 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
279 Bug fixes:
281 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
282 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
283 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
284 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
286 tig-0.10
287 ---------
289 Incompatibilities:
291 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
292 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
293 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
294 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
295 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
296 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
297 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
298 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
299 environment variable
301 New features:
303 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
304 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
305 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
306 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
307 command is run.
308 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
309 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
310 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
312 Improvements:
314 - Main view: color the revision graph.
315 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
316 revision graph.
317 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
318 Bound to ',' by default.
319 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
320 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
321 ~/.tigrc.
322 - Misc. documentation improvements.
324 Bug fixes:
326 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
327 avoid running external diff drivers.
328 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
329 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
331 tig-0.9.1
332 ---------
334 Incompatibilities:
336 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
337 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
339 New features:
341 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
342 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
344 Improvements:
346 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
347 Bound to 'M' by default.
348 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
349 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
351 Bug fixes:
353 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
354 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
355 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
356 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
358 tig-0.9
359 -------
361 New features:
363 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
364 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
365 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
366 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
368 Improvements:
370 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
371 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
372 by default.
373 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.