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 - Support staging of single lines. Bound to '1' default. (GH #21)
13 - Use +<lineno> to open the initial view at an arbitrary line. (GH #20)
14 - Add show-notes ~/.tigrc option.
15 - Support jumping to specific SHAs in the main view.
16 - Decorate replaced commits.
17 - Display line numbers in main view.
18 - Colorize binary diff stats. (GH #17)
19 - Custom colorization of lines matching a string prefix (GH #16).
20 Example configuration: color "Reported-by:" green default
21 - Handle editor options with multiple arguments. (GH #12)
22 - Show filename when running tig blame with copy detection. (GH #19)
23 - Use 'source <path>' command to load additional files from ~/.tigrc
24 - Make display of space changes togglable in the diff and stage view.
25 Bound to 'W' by default.
26 - Use per-file encoding specified in gitattributes(5) for blobs and
28 - Obsolete commit-encoding option and pass --encoding=UTF-8 to revision
33 - Fix segfault when sorting the tree view by author name.
34 - Show branches/refs which names are a substring of the current branch.
35 - Stage view: fix off-by-one error when jumping to a file in a diff
37 - Fix diff-header colorization. (GH #15)
44 - Remove support for the deprecated TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD
45 environment variables.
49 - Pressing enter on diff stat file lines will jump to file's diff.
50 - Naïvely color blame IDs to distinguish lines.
51 - Document palette color options used for revision graph and blame IDs.
52 - Add support for blaming diff lines.
53 - Add diff-context option and bindings to increase the diff context in
54 the diff and stage view.
55 - (GH-6) Make blame configurable via extra options passed from the command
56 line and blame-options setting from ~/.tigrc. For example:
58 set blame-options = -C -C -C
62 - Expand browsing state variables for prompt. (LP #694780, Debian #635546)
63 - Fix segfault when sorting the branch view by author.
64 - Expand %(directory) to . for the root directory. (GH-3)
65 - Accept 'utf-8' for the line-graphics option as indicated in the docs.
66 - Use erasechar() to check for the correct backspace character.
73 - Start rewrite of the revision graph renderer. Three modes are
74 supported UTF-8, ncurses line graphics, and ASCII. Also, enable
75 revision graph rendering by default.
79 - Fix ncurses 5.8 issue by passing non-zero column size to newwin().
80 - Fix opening of diffs when browsing branches.
87 - Fix regression causing empty tree view.
88 - Fix set_tabsize() compile error for older versions of ncurses.
95 - Add scroll-first-col action to jump to the first column. Bound to '|'
97 - Add 'status-untracked-dirs' option to ignore unknown directories
98 contents in the status view. On by default.
102 - Fix 'tig show <commit>' to show the provided commit.
103 - Fix problem with empty diff views when file specs were passed on the
105 - Fix segfault when starting tig in pager mode.
112 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
113 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
114 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
116 - The use of TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables
117 has been deprecated. To allow configuration of the diff view,
118 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used.
122 - Plug several memory leaks.
123 - Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file
124 arguments and made available as %(diffargs), %(revargs), and
125 %(fileargs). Diff view will limit diffs using %(fileargs).
126 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
127 %(file) works as expected.
128 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
130 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
132 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
133 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
134 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
138 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
139 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
140 - Fix text expansion to not truncate long lines
141 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
143 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
144 - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.
145 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
146 - Blame view: fix parent blame to detect renames. It uses "previous"
147 line info from the blame porcelain output added in git version 1.6.3.
154 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
155 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
156 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
157 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
162 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
163 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
164 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
165 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
166 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
168 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
169 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
170 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
172 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
173 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
175 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
176 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
177 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
178 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
180 color cursor white blue underline bold
184 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
185 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
186 - Tree view: fix searching.
193 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
194 code in git's bash completion script.
195 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
196 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
197 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
198 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
199 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
200 scrolling 50% of the view width.
204 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
205 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
206 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
207 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
209 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
210 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
217 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
218 users and was never meant to be exposed.
219 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
220 emitted for transition.
221 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
222 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
223 now set the "author" color.
227 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
228 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
230 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
231 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
232 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
234 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
235 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
236 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
237 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
238 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
239 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
240 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
241 is below 6 characters.
245 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
246 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
247 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
248 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
249 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
256 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
257 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
258 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
259 in a script file or as a git alias.
263 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
264 tracked remotes, remotes.
265 - Add bash completion for blame.
266 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
267 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
268 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
272 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
273 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
274 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
275 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
276 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
277 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
278 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
285 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
286 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
287 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
289 - Log view: support for refreshing.
293 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
294 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
295 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
296 status view is not displayed.
297 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
299 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
300 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
307 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
308 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
309 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
310 - Main view: support for refreshing.
311 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
312 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
313 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
314 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
315 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
316 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
317 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
321 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
322 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
323 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
324 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
325 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
326 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
327 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
328 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
329 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
336 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
337 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
338 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
342 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
343 and the tree, status, and stage views.
344 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
345 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
346 - Add action to maximize the current view.
350 - Show the current branch in the status view.
351 - Show local/light-weight tags.
355 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
356 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
363 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
364 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
365 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
366 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
370 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
371 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
372 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
373 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
380 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
381 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
382 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
383 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
384 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
385 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
386 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
387 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
392 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
393 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
394 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
395 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
397 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
398 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
399 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
403 - Main view: color the revision graph.
404 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
406 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
407 Bound to ',' by default.
408 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
409 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
411 - Misc. documentation improvements.
415 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
416 avoid running external diff drivers.
417 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
418 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
425 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
426 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
430 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
431 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
435 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
436 Bound to 'M' by default.
437 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
438 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
442 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
443 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
444 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
445 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
452 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
453 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
454 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
455 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
459 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
460 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
462 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.