1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Incompatibilities:
9 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
10 users and was never meant to be exposed.
11 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
12 emitted for transition.
14 Improvements:
16 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
17 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
18 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
19 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
20 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
21 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
22 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
23 is below 6 characters.
25 Bug fixes:
27 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
28 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
29 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
31 tig-0.13
32 --------
34 Incompatibilities:
36 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
37 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
38 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
39 in a script file.
41 Improvements:
43 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
44 tracked remotes, remotes.
45 - Add bash completion for blame.
46 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
47 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
48 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
50 Bug fixes:
52 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
53 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
54 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
55 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
56 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
57 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
58 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
60 tig-0.12.1
61 ----------
63 Improvements:
65 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
66 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
67 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
68 the command line.
69 - Log view: support for refreshing.
71 Bug fixes:
73 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
74 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
75 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
76 status view is not displayed.
77 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
78 unbound requests.
79 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
80 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
82 tig-0.12
83 --------
85 Improvements:
87 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
88 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
89 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
90 - Main view: support for refreshing.
91 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
92 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
93 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
94 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
95 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
96 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
97 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
99 Bug fixes:
101 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
102 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
103 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
104 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
105 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
106 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
107 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
108 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
109 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
111 tig-0.11
112 --------
114 Incompatibilities:
116 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
117 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
118 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
120 New features:
122 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
123 and the tree, status, and stage views.
124 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
125 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
126 - Add action to maximize the current view.
128 Improvements:
130 - Show the current branch in the status view.
131 - Show local/light-weight tags.
133 Bug fixes:
135 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
136 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
138 tig-0.10.1
139 ----------
141 Improvements:
143 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
144 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
145 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
146 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
148 Bug fixes:
150 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
151 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
152 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
153 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
155 tig-0.10
156 ---------
158 Incompatibilities:
160 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
161 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
162 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
163 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
164 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
165 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
166 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
167 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
168 environment variable
170 New features:
172 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
173 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
174 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
175 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
176 command is run.
177 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
178 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
179 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
181 Improvements:
183 - Main view: color the revision graph.
184 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
185 revision graph.
186 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
187 Bound to ',' by default.
188 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
189 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
190 ~/.tigrc.
191 - Misc. documentation improvements.
193 Bug fixes:
195 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
196 avoid running external diff drivers.
197 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
198 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
200 tig-0.9.1
201 ---------
203 Incompatibilities:
205 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
206 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
208 New features:
210 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
211 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
213 Improvements:
215 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
216 Bound to 'M' by default.
217 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
218 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
220 Bug fixes:
222 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
223 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
224 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
225 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
227 tig-0.9
228 -------
230 New features:
232 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
233 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
234 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
235 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
237 Improvements:
239 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
240 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
241 by default.
242 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.