Release notes

Disable diff move/copy detection by default, boosting diff performance on larger projects. Use git config diff.renames option (git-wide) to set your preferred behavior. Environment variable TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used to restore the old behavior.

Values set for author-width and filename-width will result in widths one character bigger than previously.

Typing a text in the prompt will be interpreted as a tig command. Prefixing the command with a ! will execute this system command in an external pager. Entering a single key will execute the corresponding key binding.

Basic support for wrapping long line in pager, diff, and stage views. Enable using: set wrap-lines = yes. (GH #2)

User-defined commands prefixed with a ? means prompt before execution. Example: bind main B !?git rebase -i %(commit).

User-defined commands prefixed with a < means exit after execution. Example: bind main C !<git commit. (GH #66)

User-defined commands are executed unquoted to support shell commands. Example: bind generic I !@sh -c "echo -n %(commit) | xclip -selection c". (GH #65)

Configure case-insensitive searches using: set ignore-case = yes.

Add "deleted mode" line type for better diff coloring.

Open editor when requesting edit action from within a file diff.

Update AX_WITH_CURSES to build under Cygwin.

Improve tigrc(5) documentation. (Debian #682766)

Allow to build on Mac OS 10.7 without the configure script. (GH #25)

Add option to split the view vertically instead of horizontally. Example: ‘set vertical-split = yes’. (GH #76)

Add show-id and id-width options to configure the display of commit IDs in the main view and ID width in the blame view. (GH #77)

Allow to override git-based encoding to UTF-8 by setting i18n.commitencoding or gui.encoding.

Improve autobuild support to track generated files and work with autoreconf 2.61.

Commit IDs are read from stdin when --stdin is given; works for main and diff view, e.g. tig --no-walk --stdin < cherry-picks.txt.

Add option to disable focusing of the child view when it’s opened. Disable using: set focus-child = no. (GH #83)

Allow to open blob related with added content in a diff. (GH #91)

Fix commit graph regression when a path spec is specified. (GH #53)

Main view: only show staged/unstaged changes for the current branch.

Support submodules created with current version of git. (GH #54)

Fix diff status message for file diffs with no content changes.

Fix parent blaming when tig is launched in subdirectory. (GH #70)

Do not show deleted branch when reloading the branch view.

Use git-log(1)s default commit ordering. The old behavior can be restored by adding set commit-order = topo to ~/.tigrc.

Support staging of single lines. Bound to 1 default. (GH #21)

Use +<lineno> to open the initial view at an arbitrary line. (GH #20)

Add show-notes ~/.tigrc option. Notes are displayed by default.

Support jumping to specific SHAs in the main view.

Decorate replaced commits.

Display line numbers in main view.

Colorize binary diff stats. (GH #17)

Custom colorization of lines matching a string prefix (GH #16). Example configuration: color "Reported-by:" green default

Use git’s color settings for the main, status and diff views. Put set read-git-colors = no in ~/.tigrc to disable.

Handle editor options with multiple arguments. (GH #12)

Show filename when running tig blame with copy detection. (GH #19)

Use source <path> command to load additional files from ~/.tigrc

User-defined commands prefixed with @ are run with no console output, e.g.

bind generic 3 !@rm sys$command

Make display of space changes togglable in the diff and stage view. Bound to W by default.

Use per-file encoding specified in gitattributes(5) for blobs and unstaged files.

Obsolete commit-encoding option and pass --encoding=UTF-8 to revision commands.

Main view: show uncommitted changes as staged/unstaged commits. Can be disabled by putting set show-changes = no in ~/.tigrc.

Add %(prompt) external command variable, which will prompt for the argument value.

Log information about git commands when the TIG_TRACE environment variable is set. Example: TIG_TRACE=/tmp/tig.log tig

Branch view: Show the title of the last commit.

Increase the author auto-abbreviation threshold to 10. (GH #49)

For old commits show number of years in relative dates. (GH #50)

Fix navigation behavior when going from branch to main view. (GH #38)

Fix segfault when sorting the tree view by author name.

Fix diff stat navigation for unmodified files with stat changes.

Show branches/refs which names are a substring of the current branch.

Stage view: fix off-by-one error when jumping to a file in a diff with only one file.

Fix diff-header colorization. (GH #15)

Remove support for the deprecated TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables.

Pressing enter on diff stat file lines will jump to file’s diff.

Naïvely color blame IDs to distinguish lines.

Document palette color options used for revision graph and blame IDs.

Add support for blaming diff lines.

Add diff-context option and bindings to increase the diff context in the diff and stage view.

(GH-6) Make blame configurable via extra options passed from the command line and blame-options setting from ~/.tigrc. For example:

set blame-options = -C -C -C

Expand browsing state variables for prompt. (LP #694780, Debian #635546)

Fix segfault when sorting the branch view by author.

Expand %(directory) to . for the root directory. (GH-3)

Accept utf-8 for the line-graphics option as indicated in the docs.

Use erasechar() to check for the correct backspace character.

Start rewrite of the revision graph renderer. Three modes are supported UTF-8, ncurses line graphics, and ASCII. Also, enable revision graph rendering by default.

Fix ncurses 5.8 issue by passing non-zero column size to newwin().

Fix opening of diffs when browsing branches.

Fix regression causing empty tree view.

Fix set_tabsize() compile error for older versions of ncurses.

Add scroll-first-col action to jump to the first column. Bound to | by default.

Add status-untracked-dirs option to ignore unknown directories contents in the status view. On by default.

Fix tig show <commit> to show the provided commit.

Fix problem with empty diff views when file specs were passed on the command line.

Fix segfault when starting tig in pager mode.

Encode everything internally as UTF-8. This can affect performance, but should in general improve handling of character lengths etc. Also, to properly handle UTF-8 environments use ncurses with wide character support.

The use of TIG_{MAIN,DIFF,LOG,TREE,BLOB}_CMD environment variables has been deprecated. To allow configuration of the diff view, TIG_DIFF_OPTS can be used.

Plug several memory leaks.

Command line arguments are split into diff, revision, and file arguments and made available as %(diffargs), %(revargs), and %(fileargs). Diff view will limit diffs using %(fileargs).

Status view: update the file variable when a line is selected so %(file) works as expected.

Branch view: add %(branch) symbol providing access to the selected branch.

Branch view: add entry to browse all branches (uses git-log’s --all flag).

Abbreviation of author names can now be configured and toggled.

Mark detached heads with [HEAD].

Add support for displaying dates in local time.

Status view: fix usage from sub directories, which was broken by the changes made to support blame view from sub directories.

Fix text expansion to not truncate long lines

Fix parsing of boolean show-date values.

Fix relative date.

Fix unbind to behave as if the keybinding was never defined.

Fix unbind to also cover built-in run requests.

Fix parsing of unknown keymap names.

Blame view: fix parent blame to detect renames. It uses "previous" line info from the blame porcelain output added in git version 1.6.3.

Setting the cursor color no longer automatically sets the text to bold. The old lazy behavior was a bug.

Remove check for git-repo-config, which was officially deprecated in git version 1.5.4. The configure script no longer depends on git being installed.

Provide the manual as a man page named tigmanual(7).

Add ability to toggle between showing shorter dates (without time info) and relative dates. Use D to toggle between date formats.

Show the active (instead of the default) keybindings in the help view. Furthermore, honor the keymap when suggesting actions in the help messages.

Add branch view for choosing which branch to display in the main view. Bound to H by default.

Tree view: show entry to parent directory (..) when running from subdirectory.

Tree view: sort entries by name, date or author. Toggling is bound to i by default, with I controlling whether or not to sort in ascending order.

Make height of the lower view in a split view configurable by setting the split-view-height variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to 2/3 of the total view height.

Allow multiple text attributes for color commands:

color cursor white blue underline bold

Blame view: fix loading of blame data when opened from the tree view and CWD is not the repo root. (Debian bug 540766)

Tree view: fix searching.

Status view: improve "on branch" information inspired by the prompt code in git’s bash completion script.

Colors for 256-capable terminals can be specified as colorN.

Entering a number in the prompt will jump to that line number.

Handle core.worktree by setting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.

Make behavior of horizontal scrolling configurable by setting the horizontal-scroll variable to a number or a percentage. Defaults to scrolling 50% of the view width.

Status view: show error when failing to open a file.

Status view: report failures to update a file.

Blame view: fix problem with uninitialized variable.

Blame view: use line number information when loading blame for specific commit.

Fix handling of quoted strings in the config file.

Fix horizontal scrolling glitches.

The screen-resize action has been deprecated. It had no real use for users and was never meant to be exposed.

The "tree-parent" action was renamed to "parent". Warnings will be emitted for transition.

Remove parsing of deprecated option -S and subcommands log and diff.

The "author" color replaces "main-author". Setting the latter will now set the "author" color.

Horizontal scrolling. Bound to Left/Right by default.

Read tigrc(5) options from git configuration files using the syntax:

[tig] show-rev-graph = true
[tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
[tig "bind"] generic = P parent

Tree view: avoid flickering when updating.

Tree view: annotate entries with commit information.

Tree & blob view: open any blob in an editor.

Stage & main view: restore view position when reloading.

Blame view: load blame for parent commit. For merge commits the parent is queried. Bound to , by default via the existing "parent" action.

Abbreviate author names to initials when the width of the author column is below 6 characters.

Tree view: fix memory corruption bug when updating.

Tree view: improve handling of empty trees.

Status view: fix reverting of unmerged files.

Fix regression for non-UTF-8 locales corrupting the view data.

Fix regression parsing multiple spaces in ~/.tigrc.

Commands from the environment (e.g. TIG_MAIN_CMD) will no longer have access to shell features, such as subshells and variable expansion. The easiest way to upgrade your configuration is to put such commands in a script file or as a git alias.

Display repository references in the sorted order: tags, heads, tracked remotes, remotes.

Add bash completion for blame.

Tree view: edit files of the current branch.

Run requests: new identifiers %(directory), %(file), and %(ref)

Improve responsiveness and view loading speed by using select(2).

Separate blame revision and file argument by "--" to avoid problems.

Main view: fix redrawing of the last commit wrt. the revision graph.

Fix waiting for input after executing a run request in pager mode.

Status & stage view: refuse to open directories and deleted files.

Tree view: show error when requesting blame for all non-file entries.

Do not draw loading views, which are not displayed.

Fix launching of mergetool from a subdirectory.

Status view: revert uncommitted diff chunks and unstaged files with changes. Bound to ! by default.

Main view: use --topo-order also when rev-list arguments are given on the command line.

Log view: support for refreshing.

Status view: use ls-files' --exclude-standard so user specific ignore rules are effective. The option was added in git version 1.5.4.

Stage view: fix assertion failure triggered when updating while status view is not displayed.

Help view: avoid confusion by showing "(no key)" instead of "?" for unbound requests.

Reload repository references when refreshing the main (and log) view.

Do not maximize views when refreshing.

F5 also refreshes the current view.

Allow line graphics to be disabled with new line-graphics option.

Main view: also include the reference names when searching.

Main view: support for refreshing.

Main view: disable boundary commits by default. Use --boundary when they should be shown. (Debian bug 498628)

Stage view: add stage-next action to jump to next diff chunk that can be staged. By default bound to @.

Configure: check for the ncurses header files.

Add author-width option to customize the width of the author column. For example, put the following in ~/.tigrc: set author-width = 10

Fix regression when staging all diff chunks in a section.

Bind the maximize view action to O; it conflicted with the keybinding to launch the merge tool in the status view.

Fix problem with $(cmd) usage in shell code. Some shells (jsh) installed as /bin/sh does not support it.

Do not show incomplete boundary commits when --no-walk is used.

Documentation: Rename gitlink macro to support AsciiDoc 8.2.3.

Ignore pipe reads with errno "Success" reported after a signals, for example when refreshing doing background loading.

Remove parsing of deprecated options: -g, -l, -d.

The first seen -- will stop option parsing and is passed to git instead of breaking out of tig’s option parsing.

Blame view; bound to B by default, reachable from the command line and the tree, status, and stage views.

Blame/main view: allow display of date, author, and references to be toggled on/off. Bound to D, A, and F respectively.

Add action to maximize the current view.

Show the current branch in the status view.

Show local/light-weight tags.

Fix regressions for the pager mode.

Fix refreshing of the index with working directory info.

Status view: detect renamed files and show them with R.

Status view: refresh the index to avoid "empty diffs".

Diff view: make diff headers more verbose to include e.g. committer.

Configure: check for the ncursesw library.

Fix UTF-8 handling for tag names and commit messages.

Fix the check for git-config(1) in configure to handle the case when git has been installed using a libexecdir which is not in the path.

Fix replacing of SYSCONFDIR when installing from released tarballs.

Deprecate most tig specific command line options to make tig more compatible with gitk. The deprecated options are: -g, -l, -d, and -S. Use of any of them will result in a warning being printed to stderr. Instead of -S, use the new status subcommand.

Make man page building depend on DocBook XSL version >= 1.72.0.

Install man pages in $(prefix)/share/man.

Implement the cherry pick action (bound to C) using new support for running external commands. This obsoletes the TIG_CHEERY_PICK environment variable

Add support for binding keys to external commands. To bind . to running git-commit(1), add the line: "bind generic . !git commit" to your ~/.tigrc. Each command can have replacement string such as %(commit), %(head), and %(blob), which are substituted before the command is run.

Add system-wide configuration file defaulting to $(prefix)/etc/tigrc.

Add the environment variables TIGRC_USER and TIGRC_SYSTEM to change user and system-wide configuration files, respectively.

Main view: color the revision graph.

Main view: show boundary commits; they are marked with ^ in the revision graph.

Tree view: add tree-parent action to jump to view of the parent tree. Bound to , by default.

Allow the default terminal colors to be overwritten. To use black text on white, add the line "color default white black" to your ~/.tigrc.

Misc. documentation improvements.

Use git-diff-index(1) and git-diff-files(1) instead of git-diff(1) to avoid running external diff drivers.

Use --no-color when calling git-log(1).

Fix crash when opening mergetool for lines that are not unmerged.

Make the clean rule to never remove generated documentation files. Use the distclean rule for accomplishing this.

Add support for cherry-picking commits in the main view to the current branch. Bound to C by default.

Add support for launching git-mergetool(1) from the status view. Bound to M by default.

Add support for refreshing/reloading the status view

Detect working trees and disable the status view when it is missing.

Fix iconv() checking in configure.

Fix editor invocation to make paths relative to the project root.

Fix out-of-range current line when reloading the status view.

Include autoconf files in the tarball generated by make dist.

Add bash completion script for tig (contrib/tig-completion.bash).

Add optional autoconf-based build infrastructure.

Add stage view for showing changes in the working tree and add support for staging individual diff chunks for commit.

Status view: allow all files in a section to be staged for commit.

Status view: Add support for opening files in an editor. Bound to e by default.

Tree view: use a stack for remembering the lines for parent tree.