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