1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Improvements:
9 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
10 code in git's bash completion script.
11 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
12 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
14 Bug fixes:
16 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
17 specific commit.
19 tig-0.14
20 --------
22 Incompatibilities:
24 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
25 users and was never meant to be exposed.
26 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
27 emitted for transition.
28 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
29 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
30 now set the "author" color.
32 Improvements:
34 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
35 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
37 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
38 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
39 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
41 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
42 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
43 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
44 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
45 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
46 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
47 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
48 is below 6 characters.
50 Bug fixes:
52 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
53 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
54 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
55 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
56 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
58 tig-0.13
59 --------
61 Incompatibilities:
63 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
64 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
65 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
66 in a script file.
68 Improvements:
70 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
71 tracked remotes, remotes.
72 - Add bash completion for blame.
73 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
74 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
75 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
77 Bug fixes:
79 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
80 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
81 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
82 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
83 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
84 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
85 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
87 tig-0.12.1
88 ----------
90 Improvements:
92 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
93 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
94 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
95 the command line.
96 - Log view: support for refreshing.
98 Bug fixes:
100 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
101 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
102 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
103 status view is not displayed.
104 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
105 unbound requests.
106 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
107 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
109 tig-0.12
110 --------
112 Improvements:
114 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
115 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
116 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
117 - Main view: support for refreshing.
118 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
119 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
120 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
121 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
122 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
123 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
124 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
126 Bug fixes:
128 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
129 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
130 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
131 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
132 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
133 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
134 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
135 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
136 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
138 tig-0.11
139 --------
141 Incompatibilities:
143 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
144 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
145 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
147 New features:
149 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
150 and the tree, status, and stage views.
151 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
152 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
153 - Add action to maximize the current view.
155 Improvements:
157 - Show the current branch in the status view.
158 - Show local/light-weight tags.
160 Bug fixes:
162 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
163 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
165 tig-0.10.1
166 ----------
168 Improvements:
170 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
171 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
172 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
173 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
175 Bug fixes:
177 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
178 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
179 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
180 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
182 tig-0.10
183 ---------
185 Incompatibilities:
187 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
188 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
189 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
190 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
191 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
192 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
193 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
194 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
195 environment variable
197 New features:
199 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
200 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
201 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
202 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
203 command is run.
204 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
205 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
206 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
208 Improvements:
210 - Main view: color the revision graph.
211 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
212 revision graph.
213 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
214 Bound to ',' by default.
215 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
216 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
217 ~/.tigrc.
218 - Misc. documentation improvements.
220 Bug fixes:
222 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
223 avoid running external diff drivers.
224 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
225 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
227 tig-0.9.1
228 ---------
230 Incompatibilities:
232 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
233 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
235 New features:
237 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
238 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
240 Improvements:
242 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
243 Bound to 'M' by default.
244 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
245 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
247 Bug fixes:
249 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
250 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
251 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
252 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
254 tig-0.9
255 -------
257 New features:
259 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
260 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
261 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
262 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
264 Improvements:
266 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
267 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
268 by default.
269 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.