Release notes

Make word-diff a toggleable option. (#1119, #1125)

Add Linux installation instructions. (#1121, #1126)

Allow :back to work across separate blame views. (#1123, #1127)

Add auto-refresh to log view. (#1128)

Expose %(file_old), useful for deleted and renamed files. (#1132)

Enable jumping back in main view. (#628, #1138)

Add PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) support. (#1137, #1143)

Pass command line args through to diff-files in status view. (#1152, #1155)

Remove quotes from TIG_LS_REMOTE to allow inline shell commands. (#1160, #1161)

Avoid pushing identical history state in main view.

Replace useless strncpy to avoid compilation warning with GCC 8.

Update utf8proc to v2.7.0.

Update distclean rule to preserve tarball contents. (#1167, #1169)

Add reference types stash and other. (#1160, #1172)

Auto refresh view upon option change.

Allow to toggle revision filtering. (#1173)

Fix null dereferences on unset format strings. (#1136, #1159)

Fix invalid read in log_read. (#1128)

Restore support for tig log --graph. (#1128)

Further fix to fullscreen navigation.

Fix blame when opened from an initial diff view. (#1135)

Fix stash view when using tig --all or tig revs. (#1146, #1147)

Avoiding null pointer dereference. (#1096)

Fix navigation between chunks after splitting chunk. (#1101, #1162)

Fix status line when toggling general options. (#1163, #1164)

Honor reference-format = hide:tag in diff view. (#1168, #1170)

Fix crash on :toggle file-args.

Add FreeBSD installation instructions. (#1093)

Add TIG_EDITOR environment variable to configure editor. (#889, #1098)

Enable mailmap by default to match git log’s behaviour. (#1104, #1105)

Enable tilde expansion for diff-highlight. (#1107)

Escape variables with %% in external commands. (#1091, #1095)

Fix parsing of -L argument. (#1100)

Bugfix: smart-case does not work when search term contains a space. (#1108)

Use ncursesw by default on Linux. (#920)

Replace obsolete macro ‘AC_CONFIG_HEADER’ in configure.ac.

Fix autoconf checking for readline. (#1072)

Fix segfault when saving a view with no column.

Reset view→parent when main view is promoted.

Fix segfault when pressing Enter in a child main view.

Restore lazy navigation.

Format time_t values portably and fix other values too. (#1084, #1085)

Fix loop when wrapping line with ISO-8859-1 character. (#1087, #1088)

Change directory from the next argument, from now use tig -C /path/to/repo. (#1079)

Jump from blame to commit. (#355)

Start blame of an uncommitted deleted line from HEAD so the line’s origin can be traced. (#1008, #1009)

Add line-graphics = auto. (#834, #1019)

Allow maxwidth to be expressed in % of the view width. (#1021)

Pass stash args through. (#1022, #1030)

Make build work on IBM i. (#1051, #1052)

Restore fullscreen navigation. (#1053)

Update utf8proc to v2.6.1.

Add some range so control chars ^{^ and} _ are also supported. (#1041, #1058)

Disable ncurses extended key values so that esc-codes can be used. (#1046, #1049)

Use id column for commit id only. (#1025, #1056)

Some minor updates for scrolling and for a double-click in diff. (#1060)

Add scroll-half-page-up and scroll-half-page-down actions. (#531, #1075)

Allow to generate a compilation database. (#1064)

New command stage-update-part.

The line number before a diff was applied is exposed as %(lineno_old). (#1081)

Fix wrapping of lines with multibyte characters. (#988)

Improve highlighting of search with $ regex. (#1000)

Update tracking branch when refreshing status view. (#1015)

Fix vertical lines in Putty with UTF-8 graphics. (#981, #983)

Fix parsing of three-way chunk headers with extra dashes.

Update tracking branch when refreshing status view. (#1015, #1020)

Handle filename with space in diff view. (#1035)

The stash view requires a working tree.

Replace useless strncpy to avoid compilation warning. (#1036)

Zsh completion fixes. (#940, #1047)

Handle undefined __git_complete. (#1011, #1055)

Fix help messages for half-page and page up. (#1054)

Let -S, -G and --grep= pattern override readline history.

Fix bash completion issue with worktrees (#1018).

Fix parsing of commit line from git log --left-right output in pager view.

Fix %(lineno) computation for hunk postimages that span only one line. (#1062)

Align relative-compact dates to the right. (#1067)

Fix empty split diff view when navigating quickly in the stash view.

Avoid depending on wcwidth in test by removing Variation Selector. (#1065)

Open the blob view with the cursor correctly positioned.

Update %(text) when navigating diff contents. (#1082)

bash/zsh completion: reimplement and decrease runtime by factor 1863. (#795)

Add binding to reflog view to toggle reference display.

Fail if tig is given an invalid or ambiguous ref. (#980)

Make tig process-group leader an option. (#986, #951)

Handle GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable.

The blame view requires a working tree.

Fix use of deprecated vwprintw() function.

Update utf8proc to v2.5.0.

Add --word-diff=plain colorizing support. (#221)

Fix segmentation fault. (#971)

Fix cursor position after "Move to parent" in blame view. (#973)

Fix crash on adding a line to a view. (#523)

Fix memory leak in diff unit.

Fix loop after refresh or change in refs/main split view. (#991)

Fix occasional crash on custom key bindings. (#1001)

Single file view enters blame mode on "b". (#804)

Show untracked files in the default view. (#762)

Disable graph if log.follow is enabled and there is only one pathspec. (#881)

Disable graph for author searches.

git_colors: interpret ul as underline.

Add refname variable. (#900)

Add -C option to specify the working directory. (#570)

Improve behaviour of auto and periodic refresh modes. (#389, #441, #482, #794, #888, #932)

Add support for repos created with git --work-tree. (#872)

Add diff-highlight to pager mode.

Show annotated commits in main view. (#819)

Introduce reflog view. (#538)

Add option to start with cursor on HEAD commit. (#755)

Support combined diffs with more than 2 parents.

Improve how a toggle option value is shown on the status line. (#879)

Add options to filter refs output. (#694)

Update utf8proc to v2.4.0. (#961)

Fix garbled cursor line with older ncurses versions.

Fix diff highlighting of removed lines starting with — and added lines starting with ++. (#871, #875)

Fix loop when displaying search result if regex matches an empty string. (#866)

Add synchronous command description in tigrc.

Fix parsing of git rev-parse output. (#884)

Propagate --first-parent to diff arguments. (#861)

Use proper type for hash table size. (#858)

Fix incorrect cppcheck warning about realloc() use.

Don’t shift signed int by 31 bits.

Fix Vim going background after running Tig outside of a git repository. (#906)

make-builtin-config: use "read -r". (#912)

Fix segfaults with readline 8.0. (#893)

Reset state before closing stage view automatically.

Don’t use a child view as previous view.

Force reload of VIEW_FLEX_WIDTH views only when needed.

Combined diff uses @@@ as hunk marker.

Fix memory leak induced by tig grep.

Fix memory leak in main view.

Exit gracefully if refs view was defined without ref column. (#897)

Fix pager view not moving up when child view is open.

make-builtin-config: Fix unportable sed usage in read_tigrc().

Properly detect combined diffs. (#942)

Add CURSES_CFLAGS to CPPFLAGS. (#856, Linuxbrew/homebrew-core#8440)

Add send-child-enter option to control interaction with child views. (#791)

Update make config defaults for Cygwin to ncurses6. (#792)

Build against netbsd-curses. (#789)

Change the blame view to render more like git blame. (#812)

Improve worktree and submodule support. (#459, #781, #783)

Support running Tig via a Git alias. (#763)

Use ISO-8601 letters for short relative dates. (#759, #760)

Change date formatting to show time zones by default. (#428, #811)

Use utf8proc to handle Unicode characters. (#827)

Fix file(1) argument on Linux used for resolving encodings. (#788)

Fix underflow in the file search. (#800, #801)

Fix line numbers in grep view when scrolled. (#813)

Pass command line args through to the stage view. (#569, #823)

Fix resource leak. (#780)

Fix various compiler warnings and pointer arithmetic. (#799, #803)

Workaround potential null pointer dereferences. (#824)

Bind to single and double quotes by using the <SingleQuote> and <DoubleQuote> key mappings. (#821)

Make Tig the process-group leader and clean child processes. (#828, #837)

Fix sh compatibility in contrib/tig-pick. (#832)

Fix incorrect behaviour of up and down keys in diff view when opened from diff preview. (#802, #835)

Open the stage view when maximizing a split diff view of (un)staged changes. (#836)

Use fully qualified reference name for tags when conflicting with branch name. (#746, #787, #849)

Fix resize not working after entering command. (#845) (#846)

Use stack allocated memory to handle TIG_LS_REMOTE. (#839)

Fix deleted file mode line remains highlighted after hovering in diff or stage view. (#851)

Fix TIG_LS_REMOTE not working with git-ls-remote(1). (#853, #854)

Revert "Handle \n like \r (#758)". (GH #769)

Fix GH #164 by catching SIGHUP.

Change refs_tags type to size_t.

Fix busy loop detection to handle large repos. (GH #164)

Restore TTY attributes. (GH #725)

Handle \n like \r. (GH #758)

Add workaround that detects busy loops when Tig loses the TTY. This may happen if Tig does not receive the HUP signal (e.g. when started with nohup). (GH #164)

Fix compatibility with ncurses-5.4 which caused copy-pasting to not work in the prompt. (GH #767)

tig(1): document correct environment variable. (GH #752)

The width setting on the status, text and commit-title columns was never applied and has been removed. (GH #617)

Improve load performance by throttling screen updates. (GH #622, #629)

Speed up graph rendering. (GH #638)

Enable scroll optimizations for Terminal.app and iTerm2. (GH #637)

Improve the test suite portability to not depend on GNU sed. (GH #609, #614)

Make build reproducible. (https://reproducible-builds.org/) (GH #613)

Enable binding to more symbolic keys and keys with control modifier: F13-F19, ShiftLeft, ShiftRight, ShiftDel, ShiftHome, ShiftEnd, ShiftTab, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-S, and Ctrl-@. (GH #314, #619, #642)

Persist readline history to ~/.tig_history or $XDG_DATA_HOME/tig/history. Use history-size to control the number of entries to save. (GH #620, #713, #714, #718)

Preload last search from persistent history. (GH #630)

Add view-close-no-quit action, unbound by default. (GH #607)

Add mouse-wheel-cursor option (off by default) when set to true causes wheel actions to prefer moving the cursor instead of scrolling. (GH #608)

Add truncation-delimiter option, set to ~ by default. (GH #646)

Add -q parameter to source for "source-if-present". (GH #612)

Add :echo prompt command to display text in the status bar. (GH #626, #636)

Make diff-highlight colors configurable. (GH #625, #633)

Let Ctrl-C exit Y/N dialog, menu prompts and the file finder. (GH #632, #648)

Hide cursor unless at textual prompt. (GH #643)

Expand tilde (~) in :script paths. (GH #674)

Show single-line output of external command in status bar. (GH #200, #557, #678)

Disable the graph when --no-merges is passed. (GH #687)

Print backtraces on segfault in debug mode.

Ignore script lines starting with # (comment). (GH #705)

Complete repo:* variables when readline is enabled. (GH #702)

Incorporate XTerm’s wcwidth.c to find Unicode widths. (GH #691)

Fix graph display issues. (GH #419, #638)

Fix and improve rendering of Unicode characters. (GH #330, #621, #644, #682)

Handle hyphenated directory names when listing content. (GH #602)

Do not jump to next match when cancelling the search prompt. (GH #627)

Fix clearing of the status line after Ctrl-C. (GH #623, #649)

Fix handling of width on line-number and trimmed width of 1. (GH #617)

Set cursor position when not updating prompt contents. (GH #647)

Erase status line at exit time for users without altscreen-capable terminals. (GH #589)

Fix unexpected keys when restoring from suspend (Ctrl-Z). (GH #232)

contrib/vim.tigrc: Also bind G in the main as a workaround for limitations of the none action. (GH #594, #599)

Only override blame-options when commands are given and fix parsing of -C. (GH #597)

Fix diff name discovery to better handle prefixes.

Interpret button5 as wheel-down. (GH #321, #606)

Fix back / parent in tree view. (GH #641)

Fix memory corruption in concat_argv and file finder. (GH #634, #655)

Fix reading from stdin for tig show.

Document problem of outdated system-wide tigrc files in Homebrew. (GH #598)

Repaint the display when toggling line-graphics. (GH #527)

Fix custom date formatting support longer strings. (GH #522)

Don’t segfault on ":exec" irregular args. (GH #686)

Fix segfault when calling htab_empty. (GH #663, #745)

The status-untracked-dirs option was renamed to status-show-untracked-dirs to match the new status-show-untracked-files option.

Use diff-options when preparing the diff in the stage view to make the diff state configurable. (GH #545)

Add status-show-untracked-files option mirroring Git’s status.showUntrackedFiles to toggle display of untracked files. in the status view. On by default. (GH #562)

Update ax_with_curses.m4 and use pkg-config to detect. (GH #546)

Add tig-pick script for using Tig as a commit picker. (GH #575, #580)

Add "smart case" option (set ignore-case = smart-case) to ignore case when the search string is lower-case only. (GH #320, #579)

Fix author ident cache being keyed by email only. (GH #424, #526, #547)

Fix periodic refresh mode to properly detect ref changes. (GH #430, #591)

Add workaround for detecting failure to start the diff-highlight process.

Show diffs in the stash view when set mailmap = true. (GH #556)

Fix parsing of git-log revision arguments, such as --exclude=... in conjunction with --all. (GH #555)

Fix diff stat parsing for binary copies.

Fix crash when resizing terminal while search is in progress. (GH #515, #550)

Fix argument filtering to pass more arguments through to Git.

Check for termcap support in split tinfo libs. (GH #568, #585)

Support Git’s diff-highlight program when diff-highlight is set to either true or the path of the script to use for post-processing.

Add navigation between merge commits. (GH #525)

Add A as a binding to apply a stash without dropping it.

Bind Ctrl-D and Ctrl-U to half-page movements by default.

manual: Mention how to change default Up/Down behavior in diff view.

Reorganize checking of libraries for termcap functions.

Fix :goto <id> error message.

Note that all user-defined commands are now executed at the repository root instead of whatever subdirectory Tig was started in. (GH #412)

Remove cmdline-args option to avoid problems where setting it in ~/.tigrc potentially breaks other views due to its "context-sensitive" nature, where a git-log option maybe cause git-grep to fail. (GH #431)

Use .mailmap to show canonical name and email addresses, off by default. Add set mailmap = yes to ~/.tigrc to enable. (GH #411)

Highlight search results, configurable via search-result color. (GH #493)

Wrap around when searching, configurable via wrap-search setting.

Populate %(file) with file names from diff stat. (GH #404)

tig --merge implies --boundary similar to gitk.

Expose repository variables to external commands, e.g. %(repo:head) gives the branch name of the current HEAD and %(repo:cdup) for the repo root path.

Add make uninstall. (GH #417)

Add ZSH completion file (based on Bash completion) (GH #433)

Expose the text of the currently selected line as the %(text) (GH #457)

Allow users to specify rev arguments to blame (GH #439)

Update OSX make config to find brew installed ncurses

Add sample git-flow keybinding (GH #421)

Add chocolate theme (GH #432)

Show stash diffs. (GH #328)

Make user tigrc location configurable. (GH #479)

Compact relative date display mode. (GH #331)

Add date column option controlling whether to show local date.

Move to parent commit in the main view. (GH #388)

Add :goto <rev> prompt command to go to a git-rev-parse`d revision, e.g. `:goto some/branch or :goto %(commit)^2.

Respect the XDG standard for configuration files. (GH #513)

Show tracking information in tig status (GH #504)

Resolve diff paths when diff.noprefix is true. (GH #487, #488)

Support for custom strftime(3) date formats, e.g.:

set main-view-date = custom
set main-view-date-format = "%Y-%m-%d"

Prevent staged rename from displaying unstaged changes (GH #472, #491)

Fix corrupt chunk header during staging of single lines. (GH #410)

Fix out of bounds read in graph-v2 module. (GH #402)

Add currently checked out branch to %(branch). (GH #416)

Size diff stats correctly for split views.

Fix git-worktree support by using git-show-ref. (GH #437)