jonas/tig

Text-mode interface for git

Matthew Lyon

@mattly

is there any hold up on the diff-so-fancy feature? jonas/tig#542

Mikhail Mirzoyan

@Seybo

Hi guys. I'm a newbie tig user and it feels like it is the thing that i was looking for long time. But there is a thing that i would really like to have there. Selected file path copying. Here is a usecase: I'm working in vim and then switch to tig, there i see a file with changes that i want to continue to work on. So i want to go back to vim and quickly open this file. By pasting it's path from buffer into my filesearch plugin. Is there a way i can do that?

Hsieh Chin Fan

@typebrook

bind generic xf +sh -c "echo -n %(file) | xclip -sel c && echo File Clipped"

Hsieh Chin Fan

@typebrook

I have code above in my .tigrc, press xf will copy file in current line into clipboard, and echo "File Clipped" in status bar.
Be aware the way woks with clipboard differs by OS. In this case, I use xclip in binding(Ubuntu) .
You should make your own based on your machine, go through docs for tigrc really helps.

Hsieh Chin Fan

@typebrook

Or just use tig built-in command, type :edit or press e can open current file in editor , see
https://github.com/jonas/tig/blob/6c1f9dde974319ca1b3aaa2c4d7fb9832eb4d0c7/tigrc#L303

Mikhail Mirzoyan

@Seybo

@typebrook thanks a lot! Works out of the box in my Ubuntu as well :)
Wish i had time for all the docs

i've seen :edit but it doesn't work for me as i want the file to be opened in my already opened vim session, not in a new one

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

Why there's no binding for git push? How to add one?

Why the binding doesn't work?

bind generic xf +sh -c "cat %(file) | pbcopy && echo File Copied Into The Cliboard (paste with Cmd-V)"

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

I've managed to add the binding for push. So what's left is only the above xf-binding that doesn't yield anything in the clipboard, and ends with "No output"

Hsieh Chin Fan

@typebrook

pbcopy is here so I guess you use mac. And here you want to store file content into clipboard.
Try to use command directly before set it as key binding, so you can try:

:!cat %(file)

to test it print file content correctly

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

@typebrook It's a funny thing because :!cat %(file) | pbcopy opens a pager

like if the redirection, the pipe was ignored and pbcopy not feed with the input

Ok, I've got it – it was the paren, it has to be quoted (syntax error otherwise)

Nitesh kumar

@smartnitesh

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Mikhail Mirzoyan

@Seybo

is there an (easy) way to stash some changes from different files one by one but under the same stash?

Hsieh Chin Fan

@typebrook

There is an useful command you can put in .gitconfig as alias

[alias]
    stashstaged = !git stash --keep-index && \
                   git stash && \
                   git stash apply stash@{1} && \
                   git stash show -p | git apply -R && \
                   git stash drop stash@{1}

Literally, it just stash changes in staged area, so you can:

only stage the changes/hunk you want to put into stash
call :!git stashstaged

Sorin Sbarnea

@ssbarnea

i really want to stop using gui git clients and replace them with a tui tool but someone I fail to figure out how to perform basic operations with tig, like commit current changes as new commit, ammend, pull, push. Someone the introduction documentation does not cover stuff line this.

Hsieh Chin Fan

@typebrook

Nope, the default configuration doesn't cover those commands. (Check https://github.com/jonas/tig/blob/master/tigrc or just press h to enter help view)
But since tig is just a pager for git commands, what make it powerful is you can bind your own commands/scripts with keys in different view.s

Here is my own .tigrc, nearly make me perform all frequently-used git commands in few seconds. For example:
c to commit with only title (in status view)
Cto have a full commit (in status view)
a to amend previous commit (in main and status view)
F to fetch current branch (in main view)
C-F to fetch remote in current line (in main view)
pp to directory push to remote of current branch
pP to force push
pr to push a given remote
pd to delete remote branch

Take a look and you'll find .tigrc is self-explained and so easy to configure. (Also, don't forget to read man tigrc)

Hsieh Chin Fan

@typebrook

And of course, you can always perform command at bottom line with decorator :

       !   Run the command in the foreground with
           output shown.

       @   Run the command in the background with no
           output.

       +   Run the command synchronously, and echo the
           first line of output to the status bar.

       ?   Prompt the user before executing the
           command.

      >  For a new tig instance

       <   Exit Tig after executing the command.

Sorin Sbarnea

@ssbarnea

thanks for the update. Still there is a serious issue with the approach of "do everything via git". It makes the tool less portable because everyone would have to sync the tool configuration to a never ending list of machines. Also means that if I step in on someone else terminal to help with something i will be guaranteed to miss my custom aliases.

that is why I value a tool that does not need customization, so I can just install it and ripe the benefits.

(basic operations, i do not expect to implement everything). there is a lot of value in aliases.

Hsieh Chin Fan

@typebrook

If you think the tig's default key-bindings is not enough, then I'll suggest lazygit

Sorin Sbarnea

@ssbarnea

Thanks for the hint, at least on paper it looks like what I was looking for. Sadly, first command caused jesseduffield/lazygit#501

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

Can you somehow send a command to tig through e.g. a file? I want to change the current directory from the outside of tig

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

Isn't this possible?

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

Really no way to do this?

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

Or can you maybe change the PWD of tig at all?

/j #gentoo

Hsieh Chin Fan

@typebrook

Not sure what you mean, could you describe more about what you want to achieve?

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

I want to write a Zsh plugin that would attach tmux session with tig running in it, automatically cd-ing into the current directory

Hsieh Chin Fan

@typebrook

I am not sure if it is possible. But I think quit tig and relaunch it when directory changes would be good enough

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

Yes I thought about this too

Paolo

@ear

hello, was wondering, is it possible to set the default sort-field for ref-view? I can't find it in man tig nor in man tigrc

(also a bit flummoxed that setting sort-filed = date and then inverting it with 'I' puts the header, "All references", at the bottom!)

Piotr Zierhoffer

@pzierhoffer_gitlab

Hi everyone. I'm looking for an option to add a binding that will search for a result of a bash command. To be precise, I'd want to do something like /!git merge-base %(commit) master, but of course the syntax does not work like that. Is this solvable?

Martin Uddén

@CMartinUdden

Is it possible to create a powerline-like status line in tig? It seems that control of the status line is not possible right now from configuration?

Erik Berdonces Bonelo

@Sturgelose

Hey there, I'm starting with Tig and I love, it, but I'm having some trouble with switching views.... Mostly, what I want is to stage a chunk of a file

For example, I open tig status to open status view.
Then I select the file I want to stage (move with arrows <up> <down> and then press <enter>). This splits the view in two.
Here, I'd guess I can switch to the new view pressing <tab>, and then move in that view with <up> <down> arrows, but it's not the case. I can only move with <j> and <k>, and the focus window changes if I press <tab>.

Is this the expected behaviour or I may have found a bug? (I'm in MacOS and tried already with bash and zsh shell)

Dmitry Valter

@dvalter

@Sturgelose looks like it's not the case by default. Help (h) says they [<Down> and j]'re binded to different actions.
Anyway you may configure it in tigrc like

$ cat ~/.tigrc 
bind generic <Down> move-down
bind generic <Up> move-up

Ben LeMasurier

@benlemasurier

is it possible to get a log view for single file?

Hsieh Chin Fan

@typebrook

@benlemasurier
use tig --[file] directly

if you want to do it inside tig, just add binding like:

bind tree m >tig -- %(file)

Ben LeMasurier

@benlemasurier

makes sense. thank you

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

I have a feature request: could a TIGRC_EXTRA be added, to point to an additional configuration file?

I'm thinking about creating a plugin for Zsh, but also possibly for Bash, that would supply e.g.: a bindings that would display a fzf-backed list of Makefile targets and run a selected target. To supply such additional functionality in a pluggable fashion I would need that environment variable

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

I've created a PR with this extension: #970

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

And here's the plugin, I've managed to accomplish the goal without TIGRC_EXTRA, however I still think that it would be a meanigful extension and I'm hoping for #970 merging. The plugin: https://github.com/zdharma/zsh-tig-plugin

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