[ANNOUNCE] tig-0.13

[ANNOUNCE] tig-0.13

[Jonas Fonseca]

Hello,

This release contains a major rewrite of the IO layer of tig to use
fork+exec instead of popen() and remove use of stdio's fopen() and
friends. The new IO API removes the need for shell quoting and improves
the overall speed of loading view data. On the downside, it brings a few
incompatibilities wrt. commands given via the environment. While the
patch series began by being based on git's run-command.c module, the
final version contains no code from git.

The release also brings a few new features, such as new identifiers for
use in external commands as well as a handful of bug fixes.

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:

 - 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.

Improvements:

 - 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).

Bug fixes:

 - 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.

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

 NEWS                        |   29 +
 VERSION                     |    2 +-
 contrib/announcement.sh     |    2 +-
 contrib/tig-completion.bash |   25 +-
 manual.txt                  |  281 ++++---
 tig.1.txt                   |    6 +-
 tig.c                       | 1774 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 tigrc.5.txt                 |   23 +-
 8 files changed, 1325 insertions(+), 817 deletions(-)

    53	Jonas Fonseca

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Jonas Fonseca

Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.13

[Ted Pavlic]

Thanks for this. It's a nice tool.

> 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

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.13

[bill lam]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for git. It functions mainly

The Makefile does not link to the unicode version ncursesw, does it
still work for wide characters?

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.13

[Jonas Fonseca]

bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> wrote Thu, Jan 15, 2009:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> > Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for git. It functions mainly
> 
> The Makefile does not link to the unicode version ncursesw, does it
> still work for wide characters?

Yes, it works. You can either create a file called config.make with a
line saying:

	LDLIBS = -lncursesw

or use the configure file. If you are not using the tarball generate it
with:

	make configure

-- 
Jonas Fonseca

Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.13

[bill lam]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> Yes, it works. You can either create a file called config.make with a
> line saying:
> 
> 	LDLIBS = -lncursesw
> 
> or use the configure file. If you are not using the tarball generate it
> with:
> 
> 	make configure

I use the git source. Even after make configure and  ./configure, it
still links to the non-unicode ncurses. Should it make ncursesw as 
default if detected available albeit this can be changed manually?

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.13

[Jonas Fonseca]

bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> wrote Thu, Jan 15, 2009:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> > Yes, it works. You can either create a file called config.make with a
> > line saying:
> > 
> > 	LDLIBS = -lncursesw
> > 
> > or use the configure file. If you are not using the tarball generate it
> > with:
> > 
> > 	make configure
> 
> I use the git source. Even after make configure and  ./configure, it
> still links to the non-unicode ncurses.

I haven't tested the configure script on a lot of system, so it might be
a bit debian/ubuntu/gentoo centered in that use of ncursesw requires the
presence of a {/usr/incude/}ncursesw/ncurses.h header. Where are the
unicode ncurses.h files found on your system?

> Should it make ncursesw as 
> default if detected available albeit this can be changed manually?

I would prefer that the "default" (running make without configure) has
as few dependencies as possible. Since the unicode version of ncurses is
probably more rare than the non-unicode version it is probably a bad
idea to use ncursesw by default. However, if you use the configure
script ncursesw is the default, when it is available.

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.13

[bill lam]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> presence of a {/usr/incude/}ncursesw/ncurses.h header. Where are the
> unicode ncurses.h files found on your system?

on ubuntu,
/usr/incude/ncursesw/curses.h 
/usr/incude/ncursesw/ncurses.h  ( just a sym link to curses.h above ) 

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.13

[Adeodato Simó]

* bill lam [Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:50:03 +0800]:

> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> > presence of a {/usr/incude/}ncursesw/ncurses.h header. Where are the
> > unicode ncurses.h files found on your system?

> on ubuntu,
> /usr/incude/ncursesw/curses.h 
> /usr/incude/ncursesw/ncurses.h  ( just a sym link to curses.h above ) 

You should send the output of ./configure, and publish the resulting
config.log file somewhere.

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.13

[Jonas Fonseca]

bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> wrote Thu, Jan 15, 2009:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> > presence of a {/usr/incude/}ncursesw/ncurses.h header. Where are the
> > unicode ncurses.h files found on your system?
> 
> on ubuntu,
> /usr/incude/ncursesw/curses.h 
> /usr/incude/ncursesw/ncurses.h  ( just a sym link to curses.h above ) 

Then I am puzzled why the configure script doesn't find it. Can you send
me your config.log and the output of running configure. Maybe off-list.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca

Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.13

[bill lam]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> Then I am puzzled why the configure script doesn't find it. Can you send
> me your config.log and the output of running configure. Maybe off-list.

I just delete everything and do a git reset --hard, ./configure does
detect ncursesw and link to it.  I'm not sure my previous error was
resulted from config cache.  I ldd tig and confirm indeed it linked to
the unicode version.  

Sorry for the noise.  m(__)m

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