7 The master repository is git://github.com/jonas/tig.git, and the old
8 master repository (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git) will be retired.
12 - Use git-log(1)s default commit ordering. The old behavior can be
13 restored by adding `set commit-order = topo` to ~/.tigrc.
14 - Support staging of single lines. Bound to '1' default. (GH #21)
15 - Use +<lineno> to open the initial view at an arbitrary line. (GH #20)
16 - Add show-notes ~/.tigrc option. Notes are displayed by default.
17 - Support jumping to specific SHAs in the main view.
18 - Decorate replaced commits.
19 - Display line numbers in main view.
20 - Colorize binary diff stats. (GH #17)
21 - Custom colorization of lines matching a string prefix (GH #16).
22 Example configuration: color "Reported-by:" green default
23 - Use git's color settings for the main, status and diff views.
24 Put `set read-git-colors = no` in ~/.tigrc to disable.
25 - Handle editor options with multiple arguments. (GH #12)
26 - Show filename when running tig blame with copy detection. (GH #19)
27 - Use 'source <path>' command to load additional files from ~/.tigrc
28 - User-defined commands prefixed with '@' are run with no console
31 bind generic 3 !@rm sys$command
33 - Make display of space changes togglable in the diff and stage view.
34 Bound to 'W' by default.
35 - Use per-file encoding specified in gitattributes(5) for blobs and
37 - Obsolete commit-encoding option and pass --encoding=UTF-8 to revision
39 - Main view: show uncommitted changes as staged/unstaged commits.
40 Can be disabled by putting `set show-changes = no` in ~/.tigrc.
41 - Add %(prompt) external command variable, which will prompt for the
43 - Log information about git commands when the TIG_TRACE environment
44 variable is set. Example: `TIG_TRACE=/tmp/tig.log tig`
48 - Fix navigation behavior when going from branch to main view. (GH #38)
49 - Fix segfault when sorting the tree view by author name.
50 - Show branches/refs which names are a substring of the current branch.
51 - Stage view: fix off-by-one error when jumping to a file in a diff
53 - Fix diff-header colorization. (GH #15)
60 - Remove support for the deprecated TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD
61 environment variables.
65 - Pressing enter on diff stat file lines will jump to file's diff.
66 - Naïvely color blame IDs to distinguish lines.
67 - Document palette color options used for revision graph and blame IDs.
68 - Add support for blaming diff lines.
69 - Add diff-context option and bindings to increase the diff context in
70 the diff and stage view.
71 - (GH-6) Make blame configurable via extra options passed from the command
72 line and blame-options setting from ~/.tigrc. For example:
74 set blame-options = -C -C -C
78 - Expand browsing state variables for prompt. (LP #694780, Debian #635546)
79 - Fix segfault when sorting the branch view by author.
80 - Expand %(directory) to . for the root directory. (GH-3)
81 - Accept 'utf-8' for the line-graphics option as indicated in the docs.
82 - Use erasechar() to check for the correct backspace character.
89 - Start rewrite of the revision graph renderer. Three modes are
90 supported UTF-8, ncurses line graphics, and ASCII. Also, enable
91 revision graph rendering by default.
95 - Fix ncurses 5.8 issue by passing non-zero column size to newwin().
96 - Fix opening of diffs when browsing branches.
103 - Fix regression causing empty tree view.
104 - Fix set_tabsize() compile error for older versions of ncurses.
111 - Add scroll-first-col action to jump to the first column. Bound to '|'
113 - Add 'status-untracked-dirs' option to ignore unknown directories
114 contents in the status view. On by default.
118 - Fix 'tig show <commit>' to show the provided commit.
119 - Fix problem with empty diff views when file specs were passed on the
121 - Fix segfault when starting tig in pager mode.
128 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
129 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
130 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
132 - The use of TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables
133 has been deprecated. To allow configuration of the diff view,
134 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used.
138 - Plug several memory leaks.
139 - Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file
140 arguments and made available as %(diffargs), %(revargs), and
141 %(fileargs). Diff view will limit diffs using %(fileargs).
142 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
143 %(file) works as expected.
144 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
146 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
148 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
149 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
150 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
154 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
155 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
156 - Fix text expansion to not truncate long lines
157 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
159 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
160 - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.
161 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
162 - Blame view: fix parent blame to detect renames. It uses "previous"
163 line info from the blame porcelain output added in git version 1.6.3.
170 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
171 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
172 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
173 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
178 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
179 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
180 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
181 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
182 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
184 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
185 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
186 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
188 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
189 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
191 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
192 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
193 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
194 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
196 color cursor white blue underline bold
200 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
201 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
202 - Tree view: fix searching.
209 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
210 code in git's bash completion script.
211 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
212 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
213 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
214 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
215 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
216 scrolling 50% of the view width.
220 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
221 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
222 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
223 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
225 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
226 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
233 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
234 users and was never meant to be exposed.
235 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
236 emitted for transition.
237 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
238 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
239 now set the "author" color.
243 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
244 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
246 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
247 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
248 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
250 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
251 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
252 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
253 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
254 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
255 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
256 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
257 is below 6 characters.
261 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
262 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
263 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
264 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
265 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
272 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
273 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
274 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
275 in a script file or as a git alias.
279 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
280 tracked remotes, remotes.
281 - Add bash completion for blame.
282 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
283 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
284 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
288 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
289 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
290 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
291 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
292 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
293 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
294 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
301 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
302 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
303 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
305 - Log view: support for refreshing.
309 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
310 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
311 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
312 status view is not displayed.
313 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
315 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
316 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
323 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
324 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
325 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
326 - Main view: support for refreshing.
327 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
328 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
329 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
330 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
331 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
332 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
333 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
337 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
338 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
339 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
340 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
341 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
342 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
343 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
344 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
345 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
352 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
353 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
354 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
358 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
359 and the tree, status, and stage views.
360 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
361 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
362 - Add action to maximize the current view.
366 - Show the current branch in the status view.
367 - Show local/light-weight tags.
371 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
372 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
379 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
380 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
381 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
382 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
386 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
387 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
388 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
389 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
396 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
397 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
398 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
399 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
400 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
401 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
402 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
403 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
408 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
409 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
410 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
411 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
413 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
414 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
415 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
419 - Main view: color the revision graph.
420 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
422 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
423 Bound to ',' by default.
424 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
425 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
427 - Misc. documentation improvements.
431 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
432 avoid running external diff drivers.
433 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
434 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
441 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
442 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
446 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
447 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
451 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
452 Bound to 'M' by default.
453 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
454 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
458 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
459 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
460 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
461 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
468 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
469 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
470 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
471 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
475 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
476 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
478 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.