9 - User-defined commands no longer needs to always be prefixed with '!'.
10 - Add auto-configuration for Cygwin (OS name: CYGWIN_NT-6.1). (GH #92)
11 - Add toggling for display files of untracked directories.
12 - Add main view pager mode that reads git-log's '--pretty=raw' data
13 from stdin, e.g. `git reflog --pretty=raw | tig --pretty=raw`.
14 - Document the Git commands supported by the pager mode. (GH #1)
18 - Fix stash diff display when reloading the stash view after a deleting.
19 - Correctly identify and highlight the remote branch tracked by HEAD.
20 - Pass --no-color after user defined arguments to ensure that colors do not
21 break the output parsing. (GH #191)
22 - Close stdin when pager mode is not supported.
29 - Move manual and man pages to doc/ directory and rename AsciiDoc files
30 to have .asciidoc as the extension to make them render on GitHub.
34 - Show blob sizes in the tree view either as bytes or using binary unit
35 prefixes. Example: `set show-file-size = units`. (GH #163)
36 - Reduce main view memory usage and startup time, especially when revision
37 graph rendering is disabled. (GH #160)
41 - Fix submodule-related setup to check for non-zero return value from
47 - Tig now has its own tag on Stack Overflow, where users are invited to
48 ask questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tig
52 - Prompt commands can be bound to keys. For example:
53 `bind diff F :set diff-options = --full-diff`. (GH #69, #116)
54 - Add a diff-options setting for specifying default diff options.
55 Example: `set diff-options = --patience`. (GH #116)
56 - Options in diff-options and blame-options matching Tig browsing state
57 variables are replaced.
58 - Show diff stats as wide as the terminal. (GH #109)
59 - Show line numbers in the branch view. (GH #135)
60 - Add toggles for showing author email or email user names. (GH #115)
61 - Open editor at the selected line by prefixing the file argument with
62 `+<lineno>`. Tested in vi, Vim, Emacs, Nano, Gedit, Geany. Disable
63 by adding `set editor-line-number = no` to ~/.tigrc. (GH #118, #119)
64 - Add toggle-files to control whether to show full commit diff or only
65 the diff concerning the currently selected file, e.g. for blame.
66 - Optionally highlight exceeding characters in long commit titles.
67 The default title max width is 50 characters. Customize using:
68 `set title-overflow = 50` (GH #125)
69 - Add +ESC key bindings. Example: `bind generic ^[v move-page-up` (GH #120)
70 - Create temporary files in TMPDIR, TEMP, or TMP before defaulting to /tmp.
71 - Reenable `tig log` as a subcommand. (GH #146)
72 - Enable tilde expansion in ~/.tigrc "source" commands. (GH #168)
73 - Introduce the stash view, bound to the 'y' keybinding. (GH #169, #174)
77 - Fix blame and status to work in directories starting with a dot. (GH #172)
78 - Reload current branch name when reloading the status view. (GH #93)
79 - Fix compile errors on old Solaris. (GH #97)
80 - Reload HEAD info when reloading the stage view. (GH #104, #93)
81 - Fix disappearing branch labels after external commands. (GH #148)
82 - Fix diff view display for staged/unstaged changes when using 'd'.
83 - Fix display of status messages when toggling view options. (GH #111)
84 - Fix illegal memory access. (GH #98)
85 - Fix display of all branches label in repos with short branch names.
86 - Fix rendering glitch for branch names.
87 - Do not apply diff styling to untracked files in the stage view. (GH #153)
88 - Fix tree indentation for entries containing combining characters. (GH #170)
89 - Ignore unrepresentable characters when transliterating text for rendering.
90 - Transliterate text to output encoding before trimming it to avoid
91 misalignment. (GH #86)
92 - Introduce a more natural context-sensitive log display. (GH #155)
99 - Disable diff move/copy detection by default, boosting diff
100 performance on larger projects. Use git config 'diff.renames' option
101 (Git-wide) to set your preferred behavior. Environment variable
102 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used to restore the old behavior.
103 - Fix manual keybinding for stage-single-line. (GH #108)
104 - Values set for author-width and filename-width will result in widths
105 one character bigger than previously.
109 - Typing a text in the prompt will be interpreted as a Tig command.
110 Prefixing the command with a '!' will execute this system command in
111 an external pager. Entering a single key will execute the
112 corresponding key binding.
113 - Basic support for wrapping long line in pager, diff, and stage views.
114 Enable using: `set wrap-lines = yes`. (GH #2)
115 - User-defined commands prefixed with a '?' means prompt before
116 execution. Example: `bind main B !?git rebase -i %(commit)`.
117 - User-defined commands prefixed with a '<' means exit after execution.
118 Example: `bind main C !<git commit`. (GH #66)
119 - User-defined commands are executed unquoted to support shell commands.
120 Example: `bind generic I !@sh -c "echo -n %(commit) | xclip -selection c"`.
122 - Configure case-insensitive searches using: `set ignore-case = yes`.
123 - Add "deleted mode" line type for better diff coloring.
124 - Open editor when requesting edit action from within a file diff.
125 - Update AX_WITH_CURSES to build under Cygwin.
126 - Improve tigrc(5) documentation. (Debian #682766)
127 - Allow to build on Mac OS 10.7 without the configure script. (GH #25)
128 - Add option to split the view vertically instead of horizontally.
129 Example: `set vertical-split = yes'. (GH #76)
130 - Add 'show-id' and 'id-width' options to configure the display of
131 commit IDs in the main view and ID width in the blame view. (GH #77)
132 - Allow to override Git based encoding to UTF-8 by setting
133 'i18n.commitencoding' or 'gui.encoding'.
134 - Improve autobuild support to track generated files and work with
136 - Commit IDs are read from stdin when --stdin is given; works for main
137 and diff view, e.g. `tig --no-walk --stdin < cherry-picks.txt`.
138 - Add option to disable focusing of the child view when it's opened.
139 Disable using: `set focus-child = no`. (GH #83)
140 - Allow to open blob related with added content in a diff. (GH #91)
144 - Fix commit graph regression when a path spec is specified. (GH #53)
145 - Main view: only show staged/unstaged changes for the current branch.
146 - Support submodules created with current version of git. (GH #54)
147 - Fix diff status message for file diffs with no content changes.
148 - Fix parent blaming when Tig is launched in subdirectory. (GH #70)
149 - Do not show deleted branch when reloading the branch view.
154 The master repository is git://github.com/jonas/tig.git, and the old
155 master repository (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git) will be retired.
159 - Use git-log(1)s default commit ordering. The old behavior can be
160 restored by adding `set commit-order = topo` to ~/.tigrc.
161 - Support staging of single lines. Bound to '1' default. (GH #21)
162 - Use +<lineno> to open the initial view at an arbitrary line. (GH #20)
163 - Add show-notes ~/.tigrc option. Notes are displayed by default.
164 - Support jumping to specific SHAs in the main view.
165 - Decorate replaced commits.
166 - Display line numbers in main view.
167 - Colorize binary diff stats. (GH #17)
168 - Custom colorization of lines matching a string prefix (GH #16).
169 Example configuration: color "Reported-by:" green default
170 - Use Git's color settings for the main, status and diff views.
171 Put `set read-git-colors = no` in ~/.tigrc to disable.
172 - Handle editor options with multiple arguments. (GH #12)
173 - Show filename when running tig blame with copy detection. (GH #19)
174 - Use 'source <path>' command to load additional files from ~/.tigrc
175 - User-defined commands prefixed with '@' are run with no console
178 bind generic 3 !@rm sys$command
180 - Make display of space changes togglable in the diff and stage view.
181 Bound to 'W' by default.
182 - Use per-file encoding specified in gitattributes(5) for blobs and
184 - Obsolete commit-encoding option and pass --encoding=UTF-8 to revision
186 - Main view: show uncommitted changes as staged/unstaged commits.
187 Can be disabled by putting `set show-changes = no` in ~/.tigrc.
188 - Add %(prompt) external command variable, which will prompt for the
190 - Log information about Git commands when the TIG_TRACE environment
191 variable is set. Example: `TIG_TRACE=/tmp/tig.log tig`
192 - Branch view: Show the title of the last commit.
193 - Increase the author auto-abbreviation threshold to 10. (GH #49)
194 - For old commits show number of years in relative dates. (GH #50)
198 - Fix navigation behavior when going from branch to main view. (GH #38)
199 - Fix segfault when sorting the tree view by author name.
200 - Fix diff stat navigation for unmodified files with stat changes.
201 - Show branches/refs which names are a substring of the current branch.
202 - Stage view: fix off-by-one error when jumping to a file in a diff
204 - Fix diff-header colorization. (GH #15)
211 - Remove support for the deprecated TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD
212 environment variables.
216 - Pressing enter on diff stat file lines will jump to file's diff.
217 - Naïvely color blame IDs to distinguish lines.
218 - Document palette color options used for revision graph and blame IDs.
219 - Add support for blaming diff lines.
220 - Add diff-context option and bindings to increase the diff context in
221 the diff and stage view.
222 - (GH-6) Make blame configurable via extra options passed from the command
223 line and blame-options setting from ~/.tigrc. For example:
225 set blame-options = -C -C -C
229 - Expand browsing state variables for prompt. (LP #694780, Debian #635546)
230 - Fix segfault when sorting the branch view by author.
231 - Expand %(directory) to . for the root directory. (GH-3)
232 - Accept 'utf-8' for the line-graphics option as indicated in the docs.
233 - Use erasechar() to check for the correct backspace character.
240 - Start rewrite of the revision graph renderer. Three modes are
241 supported UTF-8, ncurses line graphics, and ASCII. Also, enable
242 revision graph rendering by default.
246 - Fix ncurses 5.8 issue by passing non-zero column size to newwin().
247 - Fix opening of diffs when browsing branches.
254 - Fix regression causing empty tree view.
255 - Fix set_tabsize() compile error for older versions of ncurses.
262 - Add scroll-first-col action to jump to the first column. Bound to '|'
264 - Add 'status-untracked-dirs' option to ignore unknown directories
265 contents in the status view. On by default.
269 - Fix 'tig show <commit>' to show the provided commit.
270 - Fix problem with empty diff views when file specs were passed on the
272 - Fix segfault when starting Tig in pager mode.
279 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
280 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
281 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
283 - The use of TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables
284 has been deprecated. To allow configuration of the diff view,
285 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used.
289 - Plug several memory leaks.
290 - Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file
291 arguments and made available as %(diffargs), %(revargs), and
292 %(fileargs). Diff view will limit diffs using %(fileargs).
293 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
294 %(file) works as expected.
295 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
297 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
299 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
300 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
301 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
305 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
306 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
307 - Fix text expansion to not truncate long lines
308 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
310 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
311 - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.
312 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
313 - Blame view: fix parent blame to detect renames. It uses "previous"
314 line info from the blame porcelain output added in Git version 1.6.3.
321 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
322 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
323 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
324 Git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on Git
329 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
330 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
331 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
332 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
333 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
335 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
336 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
337 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
339 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
340 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
342 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
343 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
344 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
345 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
347 color cursor white blue underline bold
351 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
352 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
353 - Tree view: fix searching.
360 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
361 code in Git's bash completion script.
362 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
363 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
364 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
365 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
366 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
367 scrolling 50% of the view width.
371 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
372 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
373 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
374 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
376 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
377 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
384 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
385 users and was never meant to be exposed.
386 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
387 emitted for transition.
388 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
389 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
390 now set the "author" color.
394 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
395 - Read tigrc(5) options from Git configuration files using the syntax:
397 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
398 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
399 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
401 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
402 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
403 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
404 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
405 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
406 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
407 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
408 is below 6 characters.
412 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
413 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
414 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
415 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
416 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
423 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
424 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
425 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
426 in a script file or as a Git alias.
430 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
431 tracked remotes, remotes.
432 - Add bash completion for blame.
433 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
434 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
435 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
439 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
440 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
441 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
442 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
443 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
444 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
445 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
452 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
453 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
454 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
456 - Log view: support for refreshing.
460 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
461 rules are effective. The option was added in Git version 1.5.4.
462 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
463 status view is not displayed.
464 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
466 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
467 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
474 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
475 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
476 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
477 - Main view: support for refreshing.
478 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
479 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
480 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
481 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
482 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
483 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
484 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
488 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
489 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
490 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
491 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
492 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
493 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
494 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
495 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
496 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
503 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
504 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to Git
505 instead of breaking out of Tig's option parsing.
509 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
510 and the tree, status, and stage views.
511 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
512 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
513 - Add action to maximize the current view.
517 - Show the current branch in the status view.
518 - Show local/light-weight tags.
522 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
523 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
530 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
531 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
532 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
533 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
537 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
538 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
539 Git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
540 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
547 - Deprecate most Tig specific command line options to make Tig more
548 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
549 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
550 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
551 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
552 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
553 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
554 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
559 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
560 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
561 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
562 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
564 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
565 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
566 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
570 - Main view: color the revision graph.
571 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
573 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
574 Bound to ',' by default.
575 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
576 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
578 - Misc. documentation improvements.
582 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
583 avoid running external diff drivers.
584 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
585 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
592 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
593 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
597 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
598 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
602 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
603 Bound to 'M' by default.
604 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
605 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
609 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
610 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
611 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
612 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
619 - Add bash completion script for Tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
620 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
621 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
622 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
626 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
627 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
629 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.