1 Release notes
2 =============
4 master
5 ------
7 Improvements:
9 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so %(file) works as
10 expected.
12 tig-0.15
13 --------
15 Incompatibilities:
17 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
18 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
19 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
20 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
21 being installed.
23 Improvements:
25 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
26 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
27 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
28 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
29 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
30 help messages.
31 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
32 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
33 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
34 subdirectory.
35 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
36 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
37 ascending order.
38 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
39 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
40 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
41 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
43 color cursor white blue underline bold
45 Bug fixes:
47 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
48 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
49 - Tree view: fix searching.
51 tig-0.14.1
52 ----------
54 Improvements:
56 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
57 code in git's bash completion script.
58 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
59 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
60 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
61 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
62 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
63 scrolling 50% of the view width.
65 Bug fixes:
67 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
68 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
69 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
70 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
71 specific commit.
72 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
73 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
75 tig-0.14
76 --------
78 Incompatibilities:
80 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
81 users and was never meant to be exposed.
82 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
83 emitted for transition.
84 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
85 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
86 now set the "author" color.
88 Improvements:
90 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
91 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
93 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
94 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
95 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
97 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
98 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
99 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
100 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
101 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
102 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
103 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
104 is below 6 characters.
106 Bug fixes:
108 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
109 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
110 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
111 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
112 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
114 tig-0.13
115 --------
117 Incompatibilities:
119 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
120 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
121 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
122 in a script file or as a git alias.
124 Improvements:
126 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
127 tracked remotes, remotes.
128 - Add bash completion for blame.
129 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
130 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
131 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
133 Bug fixes:
135 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
136 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
137 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
138 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
139 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
140 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
141 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
143 tig-0.12.1
144 ----------
146 Improvements:
148 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
149 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
150 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
151 the command line.
152 - Log view: support for refreshing.
154 Bug fixes:
156 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
157 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
158 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
159 status view is not displayed.
160 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
161 unbound requests.
162 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
163 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
165 tig-0.12
166 --------
168 Improvements:
170 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
171 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
172 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
173 - Main view: support for refreshing.
174 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
175 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
176 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
177 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
178 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
179 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
180 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
182 Bug fixes:
184 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
185 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
186 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
187 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
188 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
189 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
190 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
191 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
192 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
194 tig-0.11
195 --------
197 Incompatibilities:
199 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
200 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
201 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
203 New features:
205 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
206 and the tree, status, and stage views.
207 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
208 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
209 - Add action to maximize the current view.
211 Improvements:
213 - Show the current branch in the status view.
214 - Show local/light-weight tags.
216 Bug fixes:
218 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
219 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
221 tig-0.10.1
222 ----------
224 Improvements:
226 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
227 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
228 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
229 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
231 Bug fixes:
233 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
234 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
235 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
236 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
238 tig-0.10
239 ---------
241 Incompatibilities:
243 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
244 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
245 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
246 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
247 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
248 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
249 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
250 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
251 environment variable
253 New features:
255 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
256 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
257 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
258 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
259 command is run.
260 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
261 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
262 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
264 Improvements:
266 - Main view: color the revision graph.
267 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
268 revision graph.
269 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
270 Bound to ',' by default.
271 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
272 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
273 ~/.tigrc.
274 - Misc. documentation improvements.
276 Bug fixes:
278 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
279 avoid running external diff drivers.
280 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
281 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
283 tig-0.9.1
284 ---------
286 Incompatibilities:
288 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
289 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
291 New features:
293 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
294 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
296 Improvements:
298 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
299 Bound to 'M' by default.
300 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
301 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
303 Bug fixes:
305 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
306 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
307 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
308 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
310 tig-0.9
311 -------
313 New features:
315 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
316 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
317 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
318 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
320 Improvements:
322 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
323 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
324 by default.
325 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.