1 Release notes
2 =============
4 tig master
5 ----------
7 Improvements:
9 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
10 tracked remotes, remotes.
11 - Add bash completion for blame.
13 Bug fixes:
15 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
16 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
17 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
19 tig-0.12.1
20 ----------
22 Improvements:
24 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
25 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
26 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
27 the command line.
28 - Log view: support for refreshing.
30 Bug fixes:
32 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
33 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
34 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
35 status view is not displayed.
36 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
37 unbound requests.
38 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
39 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
41 tig-0.12
42 --------
44 Improvements:
46 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
47 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
48 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
49 - Main view: support for refreshing.
50 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
51 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
52 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
53 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
54 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
55 - Add author-width option to costumize the width of the author column.
56 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
58 Bug fixes:
60 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
61 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
62 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
63 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
64 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
65 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
66 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
67 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
68 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
70 tig-0.11
71 --------
73 Incompatibilities:
75 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
76 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
77 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
79 New features:
81 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
82 and the tree, status, and stage views.
83 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
84 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
85 - Add action to maximize the current view.
87 Improvements:
89 - Show the current branch in the status view.
90 - Show local/light-weight tags.
92 Bug fixes:
94 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
95 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
97 tig-0.10.1
98 ----------
100 Improvements:
102 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
103 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
104 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
105 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
107 Bug fixes:
109 - Fix UTF8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
110 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
111 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
112 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
114 tig-0.10
115 ---------
117 Incompatibilities:
119 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
120 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
121 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
122 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
123 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
124 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
125 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
126 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
127 environment variable
129 New features:
131 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
132 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
133 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
134 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
135 command is run.
136 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
137 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
138 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
140 Improvements:
142 - Main view: color the revision graph.
143 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
144 revision graph.
145 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
146 Bound to ',' by default.
147 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
148 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
149 ~/.tigrc.
150 - Misc. documentation improvements.
152 Bug fixes:
154 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
155 avoid running external diff drivers.
156 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
157 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
159 tig-0.9.1
160 ---------
162 Incompatibilities:
164 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
165 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
167 New features:
169 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
170 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
172 Improvements:
174 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
175 Bound to 'M' by default.
176 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
177 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
179 Bug fixes:
181 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
182 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
183 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
184 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
186 tig-0.9
187 -------
189 New features:
191 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
192 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
193 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
194 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
196 Improvements:
198 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
199 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
200 by default.
201 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.