6 tig - text-mode interface for git
11 tig [options] [revisions] [--] [paths]
12 tig show [options] [revisions] [--] [paths]
13 tig blame [options] [rev] path
15 tig < [git command output]
19 Browse changes in a git repository. Additionally, tig(1) can also act
20 as a pager for output of various git commands.
22 When browsing repositories, tig(1) uses the underlying git commands
23 to present the user with various views, such as summarized commit log
24 and showing the commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.
26 Using tig(1) as a pager, it will display input from stdin and try
32 Command line options recognized by tig include all valid git-log(1) and
33 git-diff(1) options, as well as the following subcommands and tig specific
34 options. The first command line parameter not starting with "-" is interpreted
35 as being either a revision specification or a path and will end the option
36 parsing. All following options will be passed untouched to the underlying git
40 Open diff view using the given git-show(1) options.
43 Show given file annotated by commits.
44 Takes zero or more git-blame(1) options.
45 Optionally limited from given revision.
48 Start up in status view.
51 Show version and exit.
54 Show help message and exit.
59 Display the current branch:
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64 Display one or more specific branches:
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74 Display differences between two branches:
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79 Display changes for a single file:
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84 Display contents of the README file in a specific revision:
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86 $ tig show tig-0.8:README
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89 Display revisions between two dates for a specific file:
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91 $ tig --after="2004-01-01" --before="2006-05-16" -- README
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97 In addition to environment variables used by git (e.g. GIT_DIR), tig defines
98 the ones below. The command related environment variables have access to the
99 internal state of tig via replacement variables, such as `%(commit)` and
100 `%(blob)`. See manpage:tigrc[5] for a full list.
103 Path of the user configuration file (defaults to `~/.tigrc`).
106 Path of the system wide configuration file (defaults to
107 `{sysconfdir}/tigrc`).
110 Set command for retrieving all repository references. The command
111 should output data in the same format as git-ls-remote(1).
114 The diff options to use in the diff view. The diff view uses
115 git-show(1) for formatting and always passes --patch-with-stat,
116 --find-copies-harder, and -C.
121 User configuration file. See manpage:tigrc[5] for examples.
123 '{sysconfdir}/tigrc'::
124 System wide configuration file.
128 '{sysconfdir}/etc/gitconfig::
129 Git configuration files. Read on start-up with the help of
136 Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
138 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
139 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
140 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
141 (at your option) any later version.
146 manpage:tigrc[5], manpage:tigmanual[7], git(7), gitk(1)