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. Prefixing
19 the command with a '!' will execute this system command in an external
20 pager. Entering a single key will execute the corresponding key binding.
21 - Basic support for wrapping long line in pager, diff, and stage views.
22 Enable using: `set wrap-lines = yes`. (GH #2)
23 - User-defined commands prefixed with a '?' means prompt before execution.
24 Example: `bind main B !?git rebase -i %(commit)`.
25 - User-defined commands prefixed with a '<' means exit after execution.
26 Example: `bind main C !<git commit`. (GH #66)
27 - Configure case-insensitive searches using: `set ignore-case = yes`.
28 - Add "deleted mode" line type for better diff coloring.
29 - Open editor when requesting edit action from within a file diff.
30 - Update AX_WITH_CURSES to build under Cygwin.
31 - Improve tigrc(5) documentation. (Debian #682766)
32 - Allow to build on Mac OS 10.7 without the configure script. (GH #25)
33 - Add option to split the view vertically instead of horizontally.
34 Example: `set vertical-split = yes'. (GH #76)
35 - Add 'show-id' and 'id-width' options to configure the display of
36 commit IDs in the main view and ID width in the blame view. (GH #77)
40 - Fix commit graph regression when a path spec is specified. (GH #53)
41 - Main view: only show staged/unstaged changes for the current branch.
42 - Support submodules created with current version of git. (GH #54)
43 - Fix diff status message for file diffs with no content changes.
44 - Fix parent blaming when tig is launched in subdirectory. (GH #70)
49 The master repository is git://github.com/jonas/tig.git, and the old
50 master repository (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git) will be retired.
54 - Use git-log(1)s default commit ordering. The old behavior can be
55 restored by adding `set commit-order = topo` to ~/.tigrc.
56 - Support staging of single lines. Bound to '1' default. (GH #21)
57 - Use +<lineno> to open the initial view at an arbitrary line. (GH #20)
58 - Add show-notes ~/.tigrc option. Notes are displayed by default.
59 - Support jumping to specific SHAs in the main view.
60 - Decorate replaced commits.
61 - Display line numbers in main view.
62 - Colorize binary diff stats. (GH #17)
63 - Custom colorization of lines matching a string prefix (GH #16).
64 Example configuration: color "Reported-by:" green default
65 - Use git's color settings for the main, status and diff views.
66 Put `set read-git-colors = no` in ~/.tigrc to disable.
67 - Handle editor options with multiple arguments. (GH #12)
68 - Show filename when running tig blame with copy detection. (GH #19)
69 - Use 'source <path>' command to load additional files from ~/.tigrc
70 - User-defined commands prefixed with '@' are run with no console
73 bind generic 3 !@rm sys$command
75 - Make display of space changes togglable in the diff and stage view.
76 Bound to 'W' by default.
77 - Use per-file encoding specified in gitattributes(5) for blobs and
79 - Obsolete commit-encoding option and pass --encoding=UTF-8 to revision
81 - Main view: show uncommitted changes as staged/unstaged commits.
82 Can be disabled by putting `set show-changes = no` in ~/.tigrc.
83 - Add %(prompt) external command variable, which will prompt for the
85 - Log information about git commands when the TIG_TRACE environment
86 variable is set. Example: `TIG_TRACE=/tmp/tig.log tig`
87 - Branch view: Show the title of the last commit.
88 - Increase the author auto-abbreviation threshold to 10. (GH #49)
89 - For old commits show number of years in relative dates. (GH #50)
93 - Fix navigation behavior when going from branch to main view. (GH #38)
94 - Fix segfault when sorting the tree view by author name.
95 - Fix diff stat navigation for unmodified files with stat changes.
96 - Show branches/refs which names are a substring of the current branch.
97 - Stage view: fix off-by-one error when jumping to a file in a diff
99 - Fix diff-header colorization. (GH #15)
106 - Remove support for the deprecated TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD
107 environment variables.
111 - Pressing enter on diff stat file lines will jump to file's diff.
112 - Naïvely color blame IDs to distinguish lines.
113 - Document palette color options used for revision graph and blame IDs.
114 - Add support for blaming diff lines.
115 - Add diff-context option and bindings to increase the diff context in
116 the diff and stage view.
117 - (GH-6) Make blame configurable via extra options passed from the command
118 line and blame-options setting from ~/.tigrc. For example:
120 set blame-options = -C -C -C
124 - Expand browsing state variables for prompt. (LP #694780, Debian #635546)
125 - Fix segfault when sorting the branch view by author.
126 - Expand %(directory) to . for the root directory. (GH-3)
127 - Accept 'utf-8' for the line-graphics option as indicated in the docs.
128 - Use erasechar() to check for the correct backspace character.
135 - Start rewrite of the revision graph renderer. Three modes are
136 supported UTF-8, ncurses line graphics, and ASCII. Also, enable
137 revision graph rendering by default.
141 - Fix ncurses 5.8 issue by passing non-zero column size to newwin().
142 - Fix opening of diffs when browsing branches.
149 - Fix regression causing empty tree view.
150 - Fix set_tabsize() compile error for older versions of ncurses.
157 - Add scroll-first-col action to jump to the first column. Bound to '|'
159 - Add 'status-untracked-dirs' option to ignore unknown directories
160 contents in the status view. On by default.
164 - Fix 'tig show <commit>' to show the provided commit.
165 - Fix problem with empty diff views when file specs were passed on the
167 - Fix segfault when starting tig in pager mode.
174 - Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance,
175 but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc.
176 Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide
178 - The use of TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables
179 has been deprecated. To allow configuration of the diff view,
180 TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used.
184 - Plug several memory leaks.
185 - Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file
186 arguments and made available as %(diffargs), %(revargs), and
187 %(fileargs). Diff view will limit diffs using %(fileargs).
188 - Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so
189 %(file) works as expected.
190 - Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected
192 - Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log's --all
194 - Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.
195 - Mark detached heads with [HEAD].
196 - Add support for displaying dates in local time.
200 - Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the
201 changes made to support blame view from sub directories.
202 - Fix text expansion to not truncate long lines
203 - Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.
205 - Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.
206 - Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.
207 - Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.
208 - Blame view: fix parent blame to detect renames. It uses "previous"
209 line info from the blame porcelain output added in git version 1.6.3.
216 - Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to
217 bold. The old 'lazy' behavior was a bug.
218 - Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in
219 git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git
224 - Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).
225 - Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time
226 info) and relative dates. Use 'D' to toggle between date formats.
227 - Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help
228 view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the
230 - Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main
231 view. Bound to 'H' by default.
232 - Tree view: show entry to parent directory ('..') when running from
234 - Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to
235 'i' by default, with 'I' controlling whether or not to sort in
237 - Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting
238 the 'split-view-height' variable to a number or a percentage.
239 Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.
240 - Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:
242 color cursor white blue underline bold
246 - Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view
247 and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)
248 - Tree view: fix searching.
255 - Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt
256 code in git's bash completion script.
257 - Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.
258 - Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.
259 - Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.
260 - Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the
261 'horizontal-scroll' variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to
262 scrolling 50% of the view width.
266 - Status view: show error when failing to open a file.
267 - Status view: report failures to update a file.
268 - Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.
269 - Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for
271 - Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.
272 - Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.
279 - The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for
280 users and was never meant to be exposed.
281 - The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be
282 emitted for transition.
283 - Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.
284 - The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will
285 now set the "author" color.
289 - Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.
290 - Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:
292 [tig] show-rev-graph = true
293 [tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
294 [tig "bind"] generic = P parent
296 - Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.
297 - Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.
298 - Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.
299 - Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.
300 - Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent
301 is queried. Bound to ',' by default via the existing "parent" action.
302 - Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column
303 is below 6 characters.
307 - Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.
308 - Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.
309 - Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.
310 - Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.
311 - Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.
318 - Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have
319 access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion.
320 The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands
321 in a script file or as a git alias.
325 - Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads,
326 tracked remotes, remotes.
327 - Add bash completion for blame.
328 - Tree view: edit files of the current branch.
329 - Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)
330 - Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).
334 - Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.
335 - Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.
336 - Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.
337 - Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.
338 - Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.
339 - Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.
340 - Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.
347 - Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with
348 changes. Bound to '!' by default.
349 - Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on
351 - Log view: support for refreshing.
355 - Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore
356 rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.
357 - Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while
358 status view is not displayed.
359 - Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "'?'" for
361 - Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.
362 - Do not maximize views when refreshing.
369 - F5 also refreshes the current view.
370 - Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.
371 - Main view: also include the reference names when searching.
372 - Main view: support for refreshing.
373 - Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when
374 they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)
375 - Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can
376 be staged. By default bound to '@'.
377 - Configure: check for the ncurses header files.
378 - Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column.
379 For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10
383 - Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.
384 - Bind the maximize view action to 'O'; it conflicted with the
385 keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.
386 - Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh)
387 installed as /bin/sh does not support it.
388 - Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.
389 - Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.
390 - Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals,
391 for example when refreshing doing background loading.
398 - Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.
399 - The first seen '--' will stop option parsing and is passed to git
400 instead of breaking out of tig's option parsing.
404 - Blame view; bound to 'B' by default, reachable from the command line
405 and the tree, status, and stage views.
406 - Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be
407 toggled on/off. Bound to 'D', 'A', and 'F' respectively.
408 - Add action to maximize the current view.
412 - Show the current branch in the status view.
413 - Show local/light-weight tags.
417 - Fix regressions for the pager mode.
418 - Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.
425 - Status view: detect renamed files and show them with 'R'.
426 - Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".
427 - Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.
428 - Configure: check for the ncursesw library.
432 - Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.
433 - Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when
434 git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.
435 - Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.
442 - Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more
443 compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S.
444 Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr.
445 Instead of '-S', use the new 'status' subcommand.
446 - Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.
447 - Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.
448 - Implement the cherry pick action (bound to 'C') using new support for
449 running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK
454 - Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind '.' to
455 running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to
456 your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as
457 %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the
459 - Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.
460 - Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change
461 user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.
465 - Main view: color the revision graph.
466 - Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with '^' in the
468 - Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree.
469 Bound to ',' by default.
470 - Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black
471 text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your
473 - Misc. documentation improvements.
477 - Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to
478 avoid running external diff drivers.
479 - Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).
480 - Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.
487 - Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files.
488 Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.
492 - Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the
493 current branch. Bound to 'C' by default.
497 - Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view.
498 Bound to 'M' by default.
499 - Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view
500 - Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.
504 - Fix iconv() checking in configure.
505 - Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.
506 - Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.
507 - Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by `make dist`.
514 - Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).
515 - Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.
516 - Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add
517 support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.
521 - Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.
522 - Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to 'e'
524 - Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.