[ANNOUNCE] tig 0.8

Hello,

A new version of tig has been released. It mainly contains bugfixes, most importantly for regressions in the pager mode.

Get the tarball at http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases/ or pull it from git://repo.or.cz/tig.git

The shortlog for this release:

Jakub Narebski (3):
      Remove PDF version of manual from being build and installed
      Include documentation sources for rpmbuild with '--without docs'
      Refresh VERSION file when building distribution tarball in "make dist"

James Bowes (1):
      Allow CFLAGS to be overridden while preserving VERSION

Jeffrey C. Ollie (1):
      Supply explicit permission bits to 'install'

Jonas Fonseca (14):
      tig-0.7.git
      Fix typo the INSTALL file
      Make dist rule more robust using '&&'; create .tar.gz.md5 file
      Merge branch 'jn/rpm-updates'
      Fix string_copy macro to use sizeof(src) for the source buffer
      Fix use of the status view from subdirectories
      Fix wrong uses of string_copy() with pointer instead of buffer
      read_properties: use size_t instead of int for callback
      Grab path to the git directory; use it when listing untracked files
      Only emit one "Not a git repository" error message
      Add TODO about using non-blocking I/O for incremental view loading
      Fix (another) integer type mismatch on 64-bit systems
      Fix pager mode regressions
      tig-0.8

Steven Grimm (1):
      Fix integer type mismatch on 64-bit systems

Jonas> A new version of tig has been released. It mainly contains bugfixes, Jonas> most importantly for regressions in the pager mode.

I know you know what tig is. I know *I* could figure out what tig is by going through the mailing list, or by pulling down the entire distro from the following:

Jonas> Get the tarball at http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases/ Jonas> or pull it from git://repo.or.cz/tig.git

But an affect announcement of "tig" (even an update release) should probably include at least one sentence of what it is, so I can decide whether to be interested or ignore it. My default is ignore it.

Since you have boilerplace for this, you can fix this once, and not worry about it after that. :)

I'm saying this publicly so that other announcements might also be improved, not that I've previously noticed any other confusion.

Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote Tue, Jun 19, 2007:

 
Yeah, you are right. I got the hint from a cgit release not so long ago
that was also "blamed" for lacking a small project introduction. I was
in a hurry and forgot all about it this morning ...