9 - Disable diff move/copy detection by default, boosting diff
10 performance on larger projects. Use git config 'diff.renames' option
11 (git-wide) to set your preferred behavior. Environment variable
12 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used to restore the old behavior.
13 - Values set for author-width and filename-width will result in widths
14 one character bigger than previously.
18 - Typing a text in the prompt will be interpreted as a tig command.
19 Prefixing the command with a '!' will execute this system command in
20 an external pager. Entering a single key will execute the
21 corresponding key binding.
22 - Basic support for wrapping long line in pager, diff, and stage views.
23 Enable using: `set wrap-lines = yes`. (GH #2)
24 - User-defined commands prefixed with a '?' means prompt before
25 execution. Example: `bind main B !?git rebase -i %(commit)`.
26 - User-defined commands prefixed with a '<' means exit after execution.
27 Example: `bind main C !<git commit`. (GH #66)
28 - User-defined commands are executed unquoted to support shell commands.
29 Example: `bind generic I !@sh -c "echo -n %(commit) | xclip -selection c"`.
31 - Configure case-insensitive searches using: `set ignore-case = yes`.
32 - Add "deleted mode" line type for better diff coloring.
33 - Open editor when requesting edit action from within a file diff.
34 - Update AX_WITH_CURSES to build under Cygwin.
35 - Improve tigrc(5) documentation. (Debian #682766)
36 - Allow to build on Mac OS 10.7 without the configure script. (GH #25)
37 - Add option to split the view vertically instead of horizontally.
38 Example: `set vertical-split = yes'. (GH #76)
39 - Add 'show-id' and 'id-width' options to configure the display of
40 commit IDs in the main view and ID width in the blame view. (GH #77)
41 - Allow to override git-based encoding to UTF-8 by setting
42 'i18n.commitencoding' or 'gui.encoding'.
43 - Improve autobuild support to track generated files and work with
45 - Commit IDs are read from stdin when --stdin is given; works for main
46 and diff view, e.g. `tig --no-walk --stdin < cherry-picks.txt`.
47 - Add option to disable focusing of the child view when it's opened.
48 Disable using: `set focus-child = no`. (GH #83)
52 - Fix commit graph regression when a path spec is specified. (GH #53)
53 - Main view: only show staged/unstaged changes for the current branch.
54 - Support submodules created with current version of git. (GH #54)
55 - Fix diff status message for file diffs with no content changes.
56 - Fix parent blaming when tig is launched in subdirectory. (GH #70)
57 - Do not show deleted branch when reloading the branch view.
62 The master repository is git://github.com/jonas/tig.git, and the old
63 master repository (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git) will be retired.
67 - Use git-log(1)s default commit ordering. The old behavior can be
68 restored by adding `set commit-order = topo` to ~/.tigrc.
69 - Support staging of single lines. Bound to '1' default. (GH #21)
70 - Use +<lineno> to open the initial view at an arbitrary line. (GH #20)
71 - Add show-notes ~/.tigrc option. Notes are displayed by default.
72 - Support jumping to specific SHAs in the main view.
73 - Decorate replaced commits.
74 - Display line numbers in main view.
75 - Colorize binary diff stats. (GH #17)
76 - Custom colorization of lines matching a string prefix (GH #16).
77 Example configuration: color "Reported-by:" green default
78 - Use git's color settings for the main, status and diff views.
79 Put `set read-git-colors = no` in ~/.tigrc to disable.
80 - Handle editor options with multiple arguments. (GH #12)
81 - Show filename when running tig blame with copy detection. (GH #19)
82 - Use 'source <path>' command to load additional files from ~/.tigrc
83 - User-defined commands prefixed with '@' are run with no console
86 bind generic 3 !@rm sys$command
88 - Make display of space changes togglable in the diff and stage view.
89 Bound to 'W' by default.
90 - Use per-file encoding specified in gitattributes(5) for blobs and
92 - Obsolete commit-encoding option and pass --encoding=UTF-8 to revision
94 - Main view: show uncommitted changes as staged/unstaged commits.
95 Can be disabled by putting `set show-changes = no` in ~/.tigrc.
96 - Add %(prompt) external command variable, which will prompt for the
98 - Log information about git commands when the TIG_TRACE environment
99 variable is set. Example: `TIG_TRACE=/tmp/tig.log tig`
100 - Branch view: Show the title of the last commit.
101 - Increase the author auto-abbreviation threshold to 10. (GH #49)
102 - For old commits show number of years in relative dates. (GH #50)
106 - Fix navigation behavior when going from branch to main view. (GH #38)
107 - Fix segfault when sorting the tree view by author name.
108 - Fix diff stat navigation for unmodified files with stat changes.
109 - Show branches/refs which names are a substring of the current branch.
110 - Stage view: fix off-by-one error when jumping to a file in a diff
112 - Fix diff-header colorization. (GH #15)
119 - Remove support for the deprecated TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD
120 environment variables.
124 - Pressing enter on diff stat file lines will jump to file's diff.
125 - Naïvely color blame IDs to distinguish lines.
126 - Document palette color options used for revision graph and blame IDs.
127 - Add support for blaming diff lines.
128 - Add diff-context option and bindings to increase the diff context in
129 the diff and stage view.
130 - (GH-6) Make blame configurable via extra options passed from the command
131 line and blame-options setting from ~/.tigrc. For example:
133 set blame-options = -C -C -C
137 - Expand browsing state variables for prompt. (LP #694780, Debian #635546)
138 - Fix segfault when sorting the branch view by author.
139 - Expand %(directory) to . for the root directory. (GH-3)
140 - Accept 'utf-8' for the line-graphics option as indicated in the docs.
141 - Use erasechar() to check for the correct backspace character.
148 - Start rewrite of the revision graph renderer. Three modes are
149 supported UTF-8, ncurses line graphics, and ASCII. Also, enable
150 revision graph rendering by default.
154 - Fix ncurses 5.8 issue by passing non-zero column size to newwin().
155 - Fix opening of diffs when browsing branches.
162 - Fix regression causing empty tree view.
163 - Fix set_tabsize() compile error for older versions of ncurses.
170 - Add scroll-first-col action to jump to the first column. Bound to '|'
172 - Add 'status-untracked-dirs' option to ignore unknown directories
173 contents in the status view. On by default.
177 - Fix 'tig show <commit>' to show the provided commit.
178 - Fix problem with empty diff views when file specs were passed on the
180 - Fix segfault when starting tig in pager mode.
187 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
188 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
189 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
191 - The use of TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables
192 has been deprecated. To allow configuration of the diff view,
193 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used.
197 - Plug several memory leaks.
198 - Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file
199 arguments and made available as %(diffargs), %(revargs), and
200 %(fileargs). Diff view will limit diffs using %(fileargs).
201 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
202 %(file) works as expected.
203 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
205 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
207 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
208 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
209 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
213 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
214 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
215 - Fix text expansion to not truncate long lines
216 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
218 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
219 - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.
220 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
221 - Blame view: fix parent blame to detect renames. It uses "previous"
222 line info from the blame porcelain output added in git version 1.6.3.
229 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
230 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
231 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
232 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
237 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
238 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
239 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
240 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
241 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
243 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
244 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
245 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
247 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
248 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
250 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
251 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
252 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
253 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
255 color cursor white blue underline bold
259 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
260 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
261 - Tree view: fix searching.
268 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
269 code in git's bash completion script.
270 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
271 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
272 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
273 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
274 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
275 scrolling 50% of the view width.
279 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
280 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
281 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
282 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
284 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
285 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
292 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
293 users and was never meant to be exposed.
294 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
295 emitted for transition.
296 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
297 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
298 now set the "author" color.
302 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
303 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
305 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
306 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
307 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
309 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
310 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
311 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
312 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
313 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
314 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
315 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
316 is below 6 characters.
320 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
321 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
322 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
323 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
324 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
331 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
332 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
333 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
334 in a script file or as a git alias.
338 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
339 tracked remotes, remotes.
340 - Add bash completion for blame.
341 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
342 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
343 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
347 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
348 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
349 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
350 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
351 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
352 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
353 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
360 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
361 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
362 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
364 - Log view: support for refreshing.
368 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
369 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
370 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
371 status view is not displayed.
372 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
374 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
375 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
382 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
383 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
384 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
385 - Main view: support for refreshing.
386 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
387 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
388 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
389 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
390 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
391 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
392 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
396 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
397 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
398 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
399 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
400 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
401 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
402 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
403 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
404 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
411 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
412 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
413 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
417 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
418 and the tree, status, and stage views.
419 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
420 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
421 - Add action to maximize the current view.
425 - Show the current branch in the status view.
426 - Show local/light-weight tags.
430 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
431 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
438 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
439 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
440 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
441 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
445 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
446 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
447 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
448 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
455 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
456 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
457 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
458 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
459 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
460 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
461 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
462 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
467 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
468 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
469 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
470 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
472 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
473 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
474 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
478 - Main view: color the revision graph.
479 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
481 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
482 Bound to ',' by default.
483 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
484 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
486 - Misc. documentation improvements.
490 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
491 avoid running external diff drivers.
492 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
493 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
500 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
501 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
505 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
506 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
510 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
511 Bound to 'M' by default.
512 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
513 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
517 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
518 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
519 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
520 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
527 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
528 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
529 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
530 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
534 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
535 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
537 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.