Subject: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.18

From: Jonas Fonseca <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:10:02 +0200

Hello,

This release brings several diff and blame view improvements, as well as
a handful of bug fixes. It also marks that the tig repository now sports
1001 commits. The full list of noteable changes are listed below. Enjoy!

What is tig?
------------
Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for git. It functions mainly
as a git repository browser, but can also assist in staging changes for
commit at chunk level and act as a pager for output from various git
commands.

 - Homepage:	http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/
 - Manual:	http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/manual.html
 - Tarballs:	http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases/
 - Git URL:	git://repo.or.cz/tig.git 
 - Gitweb:	http://repo.or.cz/w/tig.git

Release notes
-------------
Incompatibilities:

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

Improvements:

 - 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

Bug fixes:

 - 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.

Change summary
--------------
The diffstat and log summary for changes made in this release.

 Makefile            |    7 +-
 NEWS                |   31 +-
 VERSION             |    2 +-
 contrib/aspell.dict |    9 +-
 io.c                |    7 +
 manual.txt          |    2 +
 tig.1.txt           |    7 +-
 tig.c               | 1614 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 tig.h               |   27 +-
 tigrc.5.txt         |   76 ++-
 10 files changed, 1124 insertions(+), 658 deletions(-)

    58	Jonas Fonseca
     1	Ozan Çağlayan
     1	Pierre Habouzit
     2	Sebastian Harl
     3	Sven Wegener
     1	Tony Miller
     1	Von Fugal

-- 
Jonas Fonseca