9 - Add 'stage-split-chunk' action for splitting chunks in the stage view.
10 Bound to '\' by default. (GH #107)
11 - Add 'back' action bound to '<' by default, which will return the blame view
12 to the previous revision and line after moving e.g. to the parent. (GH #124)
13 - User-defined commands no longer needs to always be prefixed with '!'.
14 - Add auto-configuration for Cygwin (OS name: CYGWIN_NT-6.1). (GH #92)
15 - Add toggling for display files of untracked directories.
16 - Add main view pager mode that reads git-log's '--pretty=raw' data
17 from stdin, e.g. `git reflog --pretty=raw | tig --pretty=raw`.
18 - Document the Git commands supported by the pager mode. (GH #1)
22 - Fix stash diff display when reloading the stash view after a deleting.
23 - Correctly identify and highlight the remote branch tracked by HEAD.
24 - Pass --no-color after user defined arguments to ensure that colors do not
25 break the output parsing. (GH #191)
26 - Close stdin when pager mode is not supported.
27 - Show newly created branches in the main view. (GH #196)
34 - Move manual and man pages to doc/ directory and rename AsciiDoc files
35 to have .asciidoc as the extension to make them render on GitHub.
39 - Show blob sizes in the tree view either as bytes or using binary unit
40 prefixes. Example: `set show-file-size = units`. (GH #163)
41 - Reduce main view memory usage and startup time, especially when revision
42 graph rendering is disabled. (GH #160)
46 - Fix submodule-related setup to check for non-zero return value from
52 - Tig now has its own tag on Stack Overflow, where users are invited to
53 ask questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tig
57 - Prompt commands can be bound to keys. For example:
58 `bind diff F :set diff-options = --full-diff`. (GH #69, #116)
59 - Add a diff-options setting for specifying default diff options.
60 Example: `set diff-options = --patience`. (GH #116)
61 - Options in diff-options and blame-options matching Tig browsing state
62 variables are replaced.
63 - Show diff stats as wide as the terminal. (GH #109)
64 - Show line numbers in the branch view. (GH #135)
65 - Add toggles for showing author email or email user names. (GH #115)
66 - Open editor at the selected line by prefixing the file argument with
67 `+<lineno>`. Tested in vi, Vim, Emacs, Nano, Gedit, Geany. Disable
68 by adding `set editor-line-number = no` to ~/.tigrc. (GH #118, #119)
69 - Add toggle-files to control whether to show full commit diff or only
70 the diff concerning the currently selected file, e.g. for blame.
71 - Optionally highlight exceeding characters in long commit titles.
72 The default title max width is 50 characters. Customize using:
73 `set title-overflow = 50` (GH #125)
74 - Add +ESC key bindings. Example: `bind generic ^[v move-page-up` (GH #120)
75 - Create temporary files in TMPDIR, TEMP, or TMP before defaulting to /tmp.
76 - Reenable `tig log` as a subcommand. (GH #146)
77 - Enable tilde expansion in ~/.tigrc "source" commands. (GH #168)
78 - Introduce the stash view, bound to the 'y' keybinding. (GH #169, #174)
82 - Fix blame and status to work in directories starting with a dot. (GH #172)
83 - Reload current branch name when reloading the status view. (GH #93)
84 - Fix compile errors on old Solaris. (GH #97)
85 - Reload HEAD info when reloading the stage view. (GH #104, #93)
86 - Fix disappearing branch labels after external commands. (GH #148)
87 - Fix diff view display for staged/unstaged changes when using 'd'.
88 - Fix display of status messages when toggling view options. (GH #111)
89 - Fix illegal memory access. (GH #98)
90 - Fix display of all branches label in repos with short branch names.
91 - Fix rendering glitch for branch names.
92 - Do not apply diff styling to untracked files in the stage view. (GH #153)
93 - Fix tree indentation for entries containing combining characters. (GH #170)
94 - Ignore unrepresentable characters when transliterating text for rendering.
95 - Transliterate text to output encoding before trimming it to avoid
96 misalignment. (GH #86)
97 - Introduce a more natural context-sensitive log display. (GH #155)
104 - Disable diff move/copy detection by default, boosting diff
105 performance on larger projects. Use git config 'diff.renames' option
106 (Git-wide) to set your preferred behavior. Environment variable
107 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used to restore the old behavior.
108 - Fix manual keybinding for stage-single-line. (GH #108)
109 - Values set for author-width and filename-width will result in widths
110 one character bigger than previously.
114 - Typing a text in the prompt will be interpreted as a Tig command.
115 Prefixing the command with a '!' will execute this system command in
116 an external pager. Entering a single key will execute the
117 corresponding key binding.
118 - Basic support for wrapping long line in pager, diff, and stage views.
119 Enable using: `set wrap-lines = yes`. (GH #2)
120 - User-defined commands prefixed with a '?' means prompt before
121 execution. Example: `bind main B !?git rebase -i %(commit)`.
122 - User-defined commands prefixed with a '<' means exit after execution.
123 Example: `bind main C !<git commit`. (GH #66)
124 - User-defined commands are executed unquoted to support shell commands.
125 Example: `bind generic I !@sh -c "echo -n %(commit) | xclip -selection c"`.
127 - Configure case-insensitive searches using: `set ignore-case = yes`.
128 - Add "deleted mode" line type for better diff coloring.
129 - Open editor when requesting edit action from within a file diff.
130 - Update AX_WITH_CURSES to build under Cygwin.
131 - Improve tigrc(5) documentation. (Debian #682766)
132 - Allow to build on Mac OS 10.7 without the configure script. (GH #25)
133 - Add option to split the view vertically instead of horizontally.
134 Example: `set vertical-split = yes'. (GH #76)
135 - Add 'show-id' and 'id-width' options to configure the display of
136 commit IDs in the main view and ID width in the blame view. (GH #77)
137 - Allow to override Git based encoding to UTF-8 by setting
138 'i18n.commitencoding' or 'gui.encoding'.
139 - Improve autobuild support to track generated files and work with
141 - Commit IDs are read from stdin when --stdin is given; works for main
142 and diff view, e.g. `tig --no-walk --stdin < cherry-picks.txt`.
143 - Add option to disable focusing of the child view when it's opened.
144 Disable using: `set focus-child = no`. (GH #83)
145 - Allow to open blob related with added content in a diff. (GH #91)
149 - Fix commit graph regression when a path spec is specified. (GH #53)
150 - Main view: only show staged/unstaged changes for the current branch.
151 - Support submodules created with current version of git. (GH #54)
152 - Fix diff status message for file diffs with no content changes.
153 - Fix parent blaming when Tig is launched in subdirectory. (GH #70)
154 - Do not show deleted branch when reloading the branch view.
159 The master repository is git://github.com/jonas/tig.git, and the old
160 master repository (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git) will be retired.
164 - Use git-log(1)s default commit ordering. The old behavior can be
165 restored by adding `set commit-order = topo` to ~/.tigrc.
166 - Support staging of single lines. Bound to '1' default. (GH #21)
167 - Use +<lineno> to open the initial view at an arbitrary line. (GH #20)
168 - Add show-notes ~/.tigrc option. Notes are displayed by default.
169 - Support jumping to specific SHAs in the main view.
170 - Decorate replaced commits.
171 - Display line numbers in main view.
172 - Colorize binary diff stats. (GH #17)
173 - Custom colorization of lines matching a string prefix (GH #16).
174 Example configuration: color "Reported-by:" green default
175 - Use Git's color settings for the main, status and diff views.
176 Put `set read-git-colors = no` in ~/.tigrc to disable.
177 - Handle editor options with multiple arguments. (GH #12)
178 - Show filename when running tig blame with copy detection. (GH #19)
179 - Use 'source <path>' command to load additional files from ~/.tigrc
180 - User-defined commands prefixed with '@' are run with no console
183 bind generic 3 !@rm sys$command
185 - Make display of space changes togglable in the diff and stage view.
186 Bound to 'W' by default.
187 - Use per-file encoding specified in gitattributes(5) for blobs and
189 - Obsolete commit-encoding option and pass --encoding=UTF-8 to revision
191 - Main view: show uncommitted changes as staged/unstaged commits.
192 Can be disabled by putting `set show-changes = no` in ~/.tigrc.
193 - Add %(prompt) external command variable, which will prompt for the
195 - Log information about Git commands when the TIG_TRACE environment
196 variable is set. Example: `TIG_TRACE=/tmp/tig.log tig`
197 - Branch view: Show the title of the last commit.
198 - Increase the author auto-abbreviation threshold to 10. (GH #49)
199 - For old commits show number of years in relative dates. (GH #50)
203 - Fix navigation behavior when going from branch to main view. (GH #38)
204 - Fix segfault when sorting the tree view by author name.
205 - Fix diff stat navigation for unmodified files with stat changes.
206 - Show branches/refs which names are a substring of the current branch.
207 - Stage view: fix off-by-one error when jumping to a file in a diff
209 - Fix diff-header colorization. (GH #15)
216 - Remove support for the deprecated TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD
217 environment variables.
221 - Pressing enter on diff stat file lines will jump to file's diff.
222 - Naïvely color blame IDs to distinguish lines.
223 - Document palette color options used for revision graph and blame IDs.
224 - Add support for blaming diff lines.
225 - Add diff-context option and bindings to increase the diff context in
226 the diff and stage view.
227 - (GH-6) Make blame configurable via extra options passed from the command
228 line and blame-options setting from ~/.tigrc. For example:
230 set blame-options = -C -C -C
234 - Expand browsing state variables for prompt. (LP #694780, Debian #635546)
235 - Fix segfault when sorting the branch view by author.
236 - Expand %(directory) to . for the root directory. (GH-3)
237 - Accept 'utf-8' for the line-graphics option as indicated in the docs.
238 - Use erasechar() to check for the correct backspace character.
245 - Start rewrite of the revision graph renderer. Three modes are
246 supported UTF-8, ncurses line graphics, and ASCII. Also, enable
247 revision graph rendering by default.
251 - Fix ncurses 5.8 issue by passing non-zero column size to newwin().
252 - Fix opening of diffs when browsing branches.
259 - Fix regression causing empty tree view.
260 - Fix set_tabsize() compile error for older versions of ncurses.
267 - Add scroll-first-col action to jump to the first column. Bound to '|'
269 - Add 'status-untracked-dirs' option to ignore unknown directories
270 contents in the status view. On by default.
274 - Fix 'tig show <commit>' to show the provided commit.
275 - Fix problem with empty diff views when file specs were passed on the
277 - Fix segfault when starting Tig in pager mode.
284 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
285 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
286 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
288 - The use of TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables
289 has been deprecated. To allow configuration of the diff view,
290 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used.
294 - Plug several memory leaks.
295 - Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file
296 arguments and made available as %(diffargs), %(revargs), and
297 %(fileargs). Diff view will limit diffs using %(fileargs).
298 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
299 %(file) works as expected.
300 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
302 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
304 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
305 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
306 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
310 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
311 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
312 - Fix text expansion to not truncate long lines
313 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
315 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
316 - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.
317 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
318 - Blame view: fix parent blame to detect renames. It uses "previous"
319 line info from the blame porcelain output added in Git version 1.6.3.
326 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
327 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
328 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
329 Git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on Git
334 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
335 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
336 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
337 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
338 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
340 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
341 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
342 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
344 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
345 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
347 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
348 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
349 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
350 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
352 color cursor white blue underline bold
356 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
357 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
358 - Tree view: fix searching.
365 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
366 code in Git's bash completion script.
367 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
368 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
369 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
370 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
371 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
372 scrolling 50% of the view width.
376 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
377 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
378 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
379 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
381 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
382 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
389 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
390 users and was never meant to be exposed.
391 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
392 emitted for transition.
393 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
394 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
395 now set the "author" color.
399 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
400 - Read tigrc(5) options from Git configuration files using the syntax:
402 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
403 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
404 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
406 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
407 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
408 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
409 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
410 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
411 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
412 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
413 is below 6 characters.
417 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
418 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
419 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
420 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
421 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
428 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
429 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
430 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
431 in a script file or as a Git alias.
435 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
436 tracked remotes, remotes.
437 - Add bash completion for blame.
438 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
439 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
440 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
444 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
445 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
446 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
447 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
448 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
449 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
450 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
457 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
458 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
459 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
461 - Log view: support for refreshing.
465 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
466 rules are effective. The option was added in Git version 1.5.4.
467 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
468 status view is not displayed.
469 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
471 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
472 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
479 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
480 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
481 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
482 - Main view: support for refreshing.
483 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
484 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
485 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
486 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
487 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
488 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
489 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
493 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
494 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
495 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
496 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
497 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
498 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
499 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
500 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
501 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
508 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
509 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to Git
510 instead of breaking out of Tig's option parsing.
514 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
515 and the tree, status, and stage views.
516 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
517 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
518 - Add action to maximize the current view.
522 - Show the current branch in the status view.
523 - Show local/light-weight tags.
527 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
528 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
535 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
536 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
537 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
538 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
542 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
543 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
544 Git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
545 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
552 - Deprecate most Tig specific command line options to make Tig more
553 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
554 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
555 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
556 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
557 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
558 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
559 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
564 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
565 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
566 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
567 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
569 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
570 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
571 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
575 - Main view: color the revision graph.
576 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
578 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
579 Bound to ',' by default.
580 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
581 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
583 - Misc. documentation improvements.
587 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
588 avoid running external diff drivers.
589 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
590 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
597 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
598 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
602 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
603 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
607 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
608 Bound to 'M' by default.
609 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
610 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
614 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
615 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
616 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
617 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
624 - Add bash completion script for Tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
625 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
626 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
627 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
631 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
632 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
634 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.