1 Release notes
2 =============
4 master
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7 Incompatibilities:
9 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
10 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
11 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
12 character support.
14 Improvements:
16 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
17 %(file) works as expected.
18 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
19 flag).
21 tig-0.15
22 --------
24 Incompatibilities:
26 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
27 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
28 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
29 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
30 being installed.
32 Improvements:
34 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
35 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
36 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
37 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
38 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
39 help messages.
40 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
41 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
42 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
43 subdirectory.
44 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
45 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
46 ascending order.
47 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
48 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
49 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
50 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
52 color cursor white blue underline bold
54 Bug fixes:
56 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
57 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
58 - Tree view: fix searching.
60 tig-0.14.1
61 ----------
63 Improvements:
65 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
66 code in git's bash completion script.
67 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
68 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
69 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
70 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
71 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
72 scrolling 50% of the view width.
74 Bug fixes:
76 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
77 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
78 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
79 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
80 specific commit.
81 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
82 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
84 tig-0.14
85 --------
87 Incompatibilities:
89 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
90 users and was never meant to be exposed.
91 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
92 emitted for transition.
93 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
94 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
95 now set the "author" color.
97 Improvements:
99 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
100 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
102 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
103 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
104 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
106 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
107 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
108 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
109 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
110 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
111 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
112 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
113 is below 6 characters.
115 Bug fixes:
117 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
118 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
119 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
120 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
121 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
123 tig-0.13
124 --------
126 Incompatibilities:
128 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
129 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
130 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
131 in a script file or as a git alias.
133 Improvements:
135 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
136 tracked remotes, remotes.
137 - Add bash completion for blame.
138 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
139 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
140 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
142 Bug fixes:
144 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
145 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
146 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
147 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
148 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
149 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
150 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
152 tig-0.12.1
153 ----------
155 Improvements:
157 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
158 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
159 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
160 the command line.
161 - Log view: support for refreshing.
163 Bug fixes:
165 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
166 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
167 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
168 status view is not displayed.
169 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
170 unbound requests.
171 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
172 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
174 tig-0.12
175 --------
177 Improvements:
179 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
180 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
181 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
182 - Main view: support for refreshing.
183 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
184 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
185 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
186 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
187 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
188 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
189 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
191 Bug fixes:
193 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
194 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
195 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
196 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
197 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
198 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
199 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
200 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
201 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
203 tig-0.11
204 --------
206 Incompatibilities:
208 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
209 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
210 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
212 New features:
214 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
215 and the tree, status, and stage views.
216 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
217 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
218 - Add action to maximize the current view.
220 Improvements:
222 - Show the current branch in the status view.
223 - Show local/light-weight tags.
225 Bug fixes:
227 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
228 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
230 tig-0.10.1
231 ----------
233 Improvements:
235 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
236 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
237 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
238 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
240 Bug fixes:
242 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
243 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
244 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
245 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
247 tig-0.10
248 ---------
250 Incompatibilities:
252 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
253 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
254 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
255 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
256 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
257 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
258 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
259 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
260 environment variable
262 New features:
264 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
265 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
266 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
267 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
268 command is run.
269 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
270 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
271 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
273 Improvements:
275 - Main view: color the revision graph.
276 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
277 revision graph.
278 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
279 Bound to ',' by default.
280 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
281 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
282 ~/.tigrc.
283 - Misc. documentation improvements.
285 Bug fixes:
287 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
288 avoid running external diff drivers.
289 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
290 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
292 tig-0.9.1
293 ---------
295 Incompatibilities:
297 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
298 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
300 New features:
302 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
303 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
305 Improvements:
307 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
308 Bound to 'M' by default.
309 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
310 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
312 Bug fixes:
314 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
315 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
316 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
317 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
319 tig-0.9
320 -------
322 New features:
324 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
325 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
326 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
327 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
329 Improvements:
331 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
332 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
333 by default.
334 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.