the user with various views, such as summarized commit log and showing the
commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.
+ifndef::backend-docbook[]
+*Table of Contents*
+
+include::manual.toc[]
+endif::backend-docbook[]
+
+[[calling-conventions]]
Calling Conventions
-------------------
+[[pager-mode]]
Pager Mode
~~~~~~~~~~
Example on how to colorize the output of git-show(1):
- $ git show | tig
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ git show | tig
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+[[cmd-options]]
Git Command Options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Example on how to open the log view and show both author and committer
information:
- $ tig log --pretty=fuller
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ tig log --pretty=fuller
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
See the <<refspec, "Specifying revisions">> section below for an introduction
to revision options supported by the git commands. For details on specific git
command options, refer to the man page of the command in question.
+[[env-variables]]
Environment Variables
---------------------
Several options related to the interface with git can be configured via
environment options.
+[[repo-refs]]
Repository References
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Commits that are referenced by tags and branch heads will be marked by the
reference name surrounded by '[' and ']':
- 2006-03-26 19:42 Petr Baudis | [cogito-0.17.1] Cogito 0.17.1
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+2006-03-26 19:42 Petr Baudis | [cogito-0.17.1] Cogito 0.17.1
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you want to filter out certain directories under `.git/refs/`, say `tmp`
you can do it by setting the following variable:
- $ TIG_LS_REMOTE="git ls-remote . | sed /\/tmp\//d" tig
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ TIG_LS_REMOTE="git ls-remote . | sed /\/tmp\//d" tig
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Or set the variable permanently in your environment.
for example you prefer commits in the main view to be sorted by date and only
show 500 commits, use:
- $ TIG_MAIN_CMD="git log --date-order -n500 --pretty=raw %s" tig
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ TIG_MAIN_CMD="git log --date-order -n500 --pretty=raw %s" tig
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Or set the variable permanently in your environment.
the option: `--pretty=raw` since the main view parser expects to
read that format.
+[[tree-commands]]
+Tree Commands
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+TIG_TREE_CMD::
+ The command used for the tree view. Takes two arguments, the first
+ is the revision ID and the second is the path of the directory tree,
+ empty for the root directory. Defaults to "git ls-tree %s %s".
+
+TIG_BLOB_CMD::
+ The command used for the blob view. Takes one argument which is
+ the blob ID. Defaults to "git cat-file blob %s".
+
+[[viewer]]
The Viewer
----------
If you are in the log view and press 'Enter' when the current line is a commit
line, such as:
- commit 4d55caff4cc89335192f3e566004b4ceef572521
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+commit 4d55caff4cc89335192f3e566004b4ceef572521
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
You will split the view so that the log view is displayed in the top window
and the diff view in the bottom window. You can switch between the two views
by pressing 'Tab'. To maximize the log view again, simply press 'l'.
+[[commit-id]]
Current Head and Commit ID
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The viewer keeps track of both what head and commit ID you are currently
-viewing. The commit ID will follow the cursor line and change everytime time
+viewing. The commit ID will follow the cursor line and change every time
you highlight a different commit. Whenever you reopen the diff view it will be
reloaded, if the commit ID changed.
The head ID is used when opening the main and log view to indicate from what
revision to show history.
+[[views]]
Views
~~~~~
-tig(1) presents various 'views' of a repository. Each view is based on output
+Various 'views' of a repository is presented. Each view is based on output
from an external command, most often 'git log', 'git diff', or 'git show'.
The main view::
has changed since the last commit, or the commit diff complete
with log message, diffstat and diff.
+The tree view::
+ Lists directory trees associated with the current revision allowing
+ subdirectories to be descended or ascended and file blobs to be
+ viewed.
+
+The blob view::
+ Displays the file content or "blob" of data associated with a file
+ name.
+
The pager view::
Is used for displaying both input from stdin and output from git
commands entered in the internal prompt.
The help view::
- Displays the information from the tig(1) man page. For the help view
- to work you need to have the tig(1) man page installed.
+ Displays key binding quick reference.
+[[title-window]]
Title Windows
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Each view has a title window which shows the name of the view, current commit
ID if available, and where the view is positioned:
- [main] c622eefaa485995320bc743431bae0d497b1d875 - commit 1 of 61 (1%)
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+[main] c622eefaa485995320bc743431bae0d497b1d875 - commit 1 of 61 (1%)
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
By default, the title of the current view is highlighted using bold font. For
long loading views (taking over 3 seconds) the time since loading started will
be appended:
- [main] 77d9e40fbcea3238015aea403e06f61542df9a31 - commit 1 of 779 (0%) 5s
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+[main] 77d9e40fbcea3238015aea403e06f61542df9a31 - commit 1 of 779 (0%) 5s
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Keys
-----
+[[keys]]
+Default Keybindings
+-------------------
Below the default key bindings are shown.
+[[view-switching]]
View Switching
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-m::
- Switch to main view.
-d::
- Switch to diff view.
-l::
- Switch to log view.
-p::
- Switch to pager view.
-h::
- Show man page.
+`-------`--------------------------------------------------------------------
+Key Action
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+m Switch to main view.
+d Switch to diff view.
+l Switch to log view.
+p Switch to pager view.
+t Switch to (directory) tree view.
+f Switch to (file) blob view.
+h Show man page.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[[view-manipulation]]
View Manipulation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-q::
- Close view, if multiple views are open it will jump back to the
- previous view in the view stack. If it is the last open view it
+
+`-------`--------------------------------------------------------------------
+Key Action
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+q Close view, if multiple views are open it will jump back to the \
+ previous view in the view stack. If it is the last open view it \
will quit. Use 'Q' to quit all views at once.
-Enter::
- This key is "context sensitive" depending on what view you are
- currently in. When in log view on a commit line or in the main
- view, split the view and show the commit diff. In the diff view
+Enter This key is "context sensitive" depending on what view you are \
+ currently in. When in log view on a commit line or in the main \
+ view, split the view and show the commit diff. In the diff view \
pressing Enter will simply scroll the view one line down.
-Tab::
- Switch to next view.
-Up::
- This key is "context sensitive" and will move the cursor one
- line up. However, uf you opened a diff view from the main view
- (split- or full-screen) it will change the cursor to point to
- the previous commit in the main view and update the diff view
+Tab Switch to next view.
+Up This key is "context sensitive" and will move the cursor one \
+ line up. However, if you opened a diff view from the main view \
+ (split- or full-screen) it will change the cursor to point to \
+ the previous commit in the main view and update the diff view \
to display it.
-Down::
- Similar to 'Up' but will move down.
+Down Similar to 'Up' but will move down.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+[[cursor-nav]]
Cursor Navigation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-j::
- Move cursor one line up.
-k::
- Move cursor one line down.
-PgUp::
-b::
--::
- Move cursor one page up.
-PgDown::
-Space::
- Move cursor one page down.
-Home::
- Jump to first line.
-End::
- Jump to last line.
+`-------`--------------------------------------------------------------------
+Key Action
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+j Move cursor one line up.
+k Move cursor one line down.
+PgUp,\
+-,a Move cursor one page up.
+PgDown Space Move cursor one page down.
+Home Jump to first line.
+End Jump to last line.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[[view-scrolling]]
Scrolling
~~~~~~~~~
-Insert::
- Scroll view one line up.
-Delete::
- Scroll view one line down.
-w::
- Scroll view one page up.
-s::
- Scroll view one page down.
+`-------`--------------------------------------------------------------------
+Key Action
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Insert Scroll view one line up.
+Delete Scroll view one line down.
+w Scroll view one page up.
+s Scroll view one page down.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[[searching]]
+Searching
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+`-------`--------------------------------------------------------------------
+Key Action
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+/ Search the view. Opens a prompt for entering search regex to use.
+? Search backwards in the view. Also prompts for regex.
+n Find next match for the current search regex.
+N Find previous match for the current search regex.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[[misc-keys]]
Misc
~~~~
-Q::
- Quit.
-r::
- Redraw screen.
-z::
- Stop all background loading. This can be useful if you use
- tig(1) in a repository with a long history without limiting
- the revision log.
-v::
- Show version.
-n::
- Toggle line numbers on/off.
-':'::
- Open prompt. This allows you to specify what git command
- to run. Example:
- :log -p
+`-------`--------------------------------------------------------------------
+Key Action
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Q Quit.
+r Redraw screen.
+z Stop all background loading. This can be useful if you use \
+ tig in a repository with a long history without limiting \
+ the revision log.
+v Show version.
+'.' Toggle line numbers on/off.
+g Toggle revision graph visualization on/off.
+':' Open prompt. This allows you to specify what git command \
+ to run. Example `:log -p`
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[[refspec]]
Revision Specification
----------------------
This section describes various ways to specify what revisions to display or
-otherwise limit the view to. tig(1) does not itself parse the described
-revision options so refer to the relevant git man pages for futher
+otherwise limit the view to. Tig does not itself parse the described
+revision options so refer to the relevant git man pages for further
information. Relevant man pages besides git-log(1) are git-diff(1) and
git-rev-list(1).
in this section. For example, by configuring the environment variables
described in the <<history-commands, "History commands">> section.
+[[path-limiting]]
Limit by Path Name
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you are interested only in those revisions that made changes to a specific
file (or even several files) list the files like this:
- $ tig log Makefile README
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ tig log Makefile README
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
To avoid ambiguity with repository references such as tag name, be sure to
separate file names from other git options using "\--". So if you have a file
named 'master' it will clash with the reference named 'master', and thus you
will have to use:
- $ tig log -- master
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ tig log -- master
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTE: For the main view, avoiding ambiguity will in some cases require you to
-specify two "\--" options. The first will make tig(1) stop option processing
+specify two "\--" options. The first will make tig stop option processing
and the latter will be passed to git log.
+[[date-number-limiting]]
Limit by Date or Number
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you are only interested in changed that happened between two dates you can
use:
- $ tig -- --after="May 5th" --before="2006-05-16 15:44"
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ tig -- --after="May 5th" --before="2006-05-16 15:44"
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTE: If you want to avoid having to quote dates containing spaces you can use
"." instead, e.g. `--after=May.5th`.
+[[commit-range-limiting]]
Limiting by Commit Ranges
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Alternatively, commits can be limited to a specific range, such as "all
commits between 'tag-1.0' and 'tag-2.0'". For example:
- $ tig log tag-1.0..tag-2.0
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ tig log tag-1.0..tag-2.0
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
This way of commit limiting makes it trivial to only browse the commits which
haven't been pushed to a remote branch. Assuming 'origin' is your upstream
remote branch, using:
- $ tig log origin..HEAD
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ tig log origin..HEAD
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
will list what will be pushed to the remote branch. Optionally, the ending
'HEAD' can be left out since it is implied.
+[[reachability-limiting]]
Limiting by Reachability
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you prefer to specify which commit to preview in this way use the
following:
- $ tig log tag-2.0 ^tag-1.0
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ tig log tag-2.0 ^tag-1.0
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
You can think of '^' as a negation operator. Using this alternate syntax, it
is possible to further prune commits by specifying multiple branch cut offs.
+[[refspec-combi]]
Combining Revisions Specification
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
say "show at most 20 commits from within the last month that changed files
under the Documentation/ directory."
- $ tig -- --since=1.month -n20 -- Documentation/
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ tig -- --since=1.month -n20 -- Documentation/
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+[[refspec-all]]
Examining All Repository References
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
repository change a particular file within the last week". This can be
accomplished using:
- $ tig -- --all --since=1.week -- Makefile
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ tig -- --all --since=1.week -- Makefile
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
include::BUGS[]
+[[copy-right]]
Copyright
---------
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
+[[references]]
References and Related Tools
----------------------------
+Manpages:
+
+ - gitlink:tig[1]
+ - gitlink:tigrc[5]
+
+Online resources:
+
include::SITES[]
Git porcelains:
~mdw / tig / blobdiff