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.
12 Improvements:
14 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
15 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
16 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
17 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
19 Bug fixes:
21 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
22 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
24 tig-0.13
25 --------
27 Incompatibilities:
29 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
30 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
31 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
32 in a script file.
34 Improvements:
36 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
37 tracked remotes, remotes.
38 - Add bash completion for blame.
39 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
40 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
41 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
43 Bug fixes:
45 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
46 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
47 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
48 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
49 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
50 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
51 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
53 tig-0.12.1
54 ----------
56 Improvements:
58 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
59 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
60 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
61 the command line.
62 - Log view: support for refreshing.
64 Bug fixes:
66 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
67 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
68 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
69 status view is not displayed.
70 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
71 unbound requests.
72 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
73 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
75 tig-0.12
76 --------
78 Improvements:
80 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
81 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
82 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
83 - Main view: support for refreshing.
84 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
85 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
86 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
87 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
88 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
89 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
90 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
92 Bug fixes:
94 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
95 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
96 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
97 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
98 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
99 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
100 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
101 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
102 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
104 tig-0.11
105 --------
107 Incompatibilities:
109 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
110 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
111 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
113 New features:
115 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
116 and the tree, status, and stage views.
117 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
118 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
119 - Add action to maximize the current view.
121 Improvements:
123 - Show the current branch in the status view.
124 - Show local/light-weight tags.
126 Bug fixes:
128 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
129 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
131 tig-0.10.1
132 ----------
134 Improvements:
136 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
137 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
138 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
139 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
141 Bug fixes:
143 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
144 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
145 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
146 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
148 tig-0.10
149 ---------
151 Incompatibilities:
153 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
154 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
155 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
156 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
157 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
158 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
159 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
160 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
161 environment variable
163 New features:
165 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
166 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
167 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
168 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
169 command is run.
170 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
171 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
172 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
174 Improvements:
176 - Main view: color the revision graph.
177 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
178 revision graph.
179 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
180 Bound to ',' by default.
181 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
182 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
183 ~/.tigrc.
184 - Misc. documentation improvements.
186 Bug fixes:
188 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
189 avoid running external diff drivers.
190 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
191 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
193 tig-0.9.1
194 ---------
196 Incompatibilities:
198 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
199 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
201 New features:
203 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
204 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
206 Improvements:
208 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
209 Bound to 'M' by default.
210 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
211 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
213 Bug fixes:
215 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
216 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
217 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
218 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
220 tig-0.9
221 -------
223 New features:
225 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
226 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
227 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
228 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
230 Improvements:
232 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
233 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
234 by default.
235 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.