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 %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
19 branch.
20 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
21 flag).
22 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
23 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
24 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
26 Bug fixes:
28 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
29 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
30 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
31 - Fix relative date.
32 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
33 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
35 tig-0.15
36 --------
38 Incompatibilities:
40 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
41 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
42 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
43 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
44 being installed.
46 Improvements:
48 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
49 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
50 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
51 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
52 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
53 help messages.
54 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
55 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
56 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
57 subdirectory.
58 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
59 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
60 ascending order.
61 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
62 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
63 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
64 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
66 color cursor white blue underline bold
68 Bug fixes:
70 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
71 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
72 - Tree view: fix searching.
74 tig-0.14.1
75 ----------
77 Improvements:
79 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
80 code in git's bash completion script.
81 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
82 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
83 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
84 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
85 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
86 scrolling 50% of the view width.
88 Bug fixes:
90 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
91 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
92 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
93 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
94 specific commit.
95 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
96 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
98 tig-0.14
99 --------
101 Incompatibilities:
103 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
104 users and was never meant to be exposed.
105 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
106 emitted for transition.
107 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
108 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
109 now set the "author" color.
111 Improvements:
113 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
114 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
116 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
117 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
118 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
120 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
121 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
122 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
123 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
124 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
125 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
126 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
127 is below 6 characters.
129 Bug fixes:
131 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
132 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
133 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
134 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
135 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
137 tig-0.13
138 --------
140 Incompatibilities:
142 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
143 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
144 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
145 in a script file or as a git alias.
147 Improvements:
149 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
150 tracked remotes, remotes.
151 - Add bash completion for blame.
152 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
153 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
154 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
156 Bug fixes:
158 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
159 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
160 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
161 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
162 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
163 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
164 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
166 tig-0.12.1
167 ----------
169 Improvements:
171 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
172 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
173 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
174 the command line.
175 - Log view: support for refreshing.
177 Bug fixes:
179 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
180 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
181 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
182 status view is not displayed.
183 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
184 unbound requests.
185 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
186 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
188 tig-0.12
189 --------
191 Improvements:
193 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
194 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
195 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
196 - Main view: support for refreshing.
197 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
198 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
199 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
200 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
201 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
202 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
203 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
205 Bug fixes:
207 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
208 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
209 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
210 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
211 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
212 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
213 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
214 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
215 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
217 tig-0.11
218 --------
220 Incompatibilities:
222 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
223 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
224 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
226 New features:
228 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
229 and the tree, status, and stage views.
230 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
231 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
232 - Add action to maximize the current view.
234 Improvements:
236 - Show the current branch in the status view.
237 - Show local/light-weight tags.
239 Bug fixes:
241 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
242 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
244 tig-0.10.1
245 ----------
247 Improvements:
249 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
250 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
251 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
252 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
254 Bug fixes:
256 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
257 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
258 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
259 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
261 tig-0.10
262 ---------
264 Incompatibilities:
266 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
267 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
268 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
269 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
270 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
271 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
272 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
273 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
274 environment variable
276 New features:
278 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
279 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
280 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
281 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
282 command is run.
283 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
284 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
285 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
287 Improvements:
289 - Main view: color the revision graph.
290 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
291 revision graph.
292 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
293 Bound to ',' by default.
294 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
295 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
296 ~/.tigrc.
297 - Misc. documentation improvements.
299 Bug fixes:
301 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
302 avoid running external diff drivers.
303 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
304 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
306 tig-0.9.1
307 ---------
309 Incompatibilities:
311 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
312 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
314 New features:
316 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
317 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
319 Improvements:
321 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
322 Bound to 'M' by default.
323 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
324 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
326 Bug fixes:
328 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
329 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
330 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
331 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
333 tig-0.9
334 -------
336 New features:
338 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
339 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
340 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
341 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
343 Improvements:
345 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
346 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
347 by default.
348 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.