[ANNOUNCE] tig-2.5.9

Thomas Koutcher· Mar 30, 2024, 15:09 UTC · lore

Hi,

I am pleased to announce Tig version 2.5.9 which brings some improvements and bugfixes. See the release notes below for a detailed list of changes.

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:https://jonas.github.io/tig/
- Manual:https://jonas.github.io/tig/doc/manual.html
- Tarballs:https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases
- Gitter:https://gitter.im/jonas/tig
- Q&A:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tig

Release notes ------------- Improvements:

  - Update utf8proc to v2.9.0, supporting Unicode 15.1.
  - Also use lightweight tags in the Refs line of the diff view. (#1235)
  - Support %(text) in all views with a text column. (#1275)
  - Use HTTPS for GitHub clone URLs. (#1310)
  - Move default log view options to tigrc.
  - Allow to go to stage view without Enter. (#1284)
  - Add new "prefetch" reference type for refs created by `git maintenance`
    (hidden in default config). (#1318)
  - Show the selected commit in the blame view title window.
  - Improve the blob view experience.
  - Clear keybinding from all keymaps (unbind) with `bind generic <key> 
none`.

Bug fixes:

  - Fix "dangling pointer" warning. (#1268)
  - Don't use array size in function arguments. (#1269)
  - Fix rpmbuild -ta. (#1276)
  - Initialise struct timezone. (#1291)
  - Fix NULL dereference at startup. (#1293)
  - Enforce a blank before view scroll percentage.
  - Fix refresh-mode periodic not updating branch labels. (#1270)
  - Fix display non-ascii character. (#1299)
  - Fix readline echo when stdin is redirected. (#1229)
  - Fix tig blame --reverse. (#1300)
  - Fix status view lockup.
  - Fix untracked changes and chunk staging behaviour in plain stage view.
  - Reset state variables when selecting a commit with no reference.
  - Fix parsing of `git ls-tree` for submodules. (#1282)

Thanks to everyone who contributed (in alphabetical order): Abhinav Gupta, Armin Brauns, Conor Lowry, Jakub Wilk, Johannes Altmanninger, Kimihiro Nonaka, Pavel Roskin, Thomas Koutcher, Wesley Moore.

-- Thomas Koutcher