jonas/tig

Text-mode interface for git

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

Hsieh Chin Fan

@typebrook

Wow! I'll give it a try later

Ruslan Yakauleu

@QuAzI

Hi! Does tig can show file (f) with highlight for changed rows? Any quick navigation available (next change/prev change) in this mode? Can file view mode (f) been opened on position same with currently selected line (from diff mode)?

Hathor

@oshodeva_twitter

Hello

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

Oh, my view started to divide horizontally instead of vertically, how to revert to the previous behavior?

ah, I've removed my config, ok

Sorin Sbarnea

@ssbarnea

@psprint remember to git yout tig! ;)

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

hehe yes :) I've did this, so it's all back to normal now :)

Kapil Thangavelu

@kapilt

So I’ve been wondering is it possible to program a view in tig? Custom views are great, but is the answer entering a separate curses prog from that view?

Pavel Roskin

@proski

Can somebody have a look at my PR #983? It fixes vertical lines in Putty. When in the UTF-8 graphic mode, tig uses UTF-8 characters for graphs and curses drawing lines for other vertical lines (window separators and line number separators). That's inconsistent. With my change, only UTF-8 symbols are used in the UTF-8 mode. I added a test for vertical lines in all 3 modes.

Landon Gilbert-Bland

@vimalloc

Aloha. With git diff it highlights trailing whitespace in red. Is it possible to have that behavior when looking over code changes with tig? I tried playing the W / :toggle ignore-space, but can't get the trailing whitespace displayed.

Hsieh Chin Fan

@typebrook

@vimalloc
add set diff-highlight = true in your tigrc and tig will use diff-highlight in your PATH

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

I'm having problems to undestand how u works. Shouldn't it stage/unstage the currently active block? Instead, it does that with the top block or all blocks… … …

Johannes Altmanninger

@krobelus

@psprint > Shouldn't it stage/unstage the currently active block?
That works for me, it only stages all blocks in a file if I select the file

Sebastian Gniazdowski

@psprint

@krobelus and it stages unstages only the selected blocks?

Johannes Altmanninger

@krobelus

@psprint yes, only the selected block which is bounded by the hunk markers starting with @@

the cursor needs to be within the hunk

Ruslan Yakauleu

@QuAzI

Can tig show tree of changed files since last merge with master?
Something like git diff --name-only HEAD..master but with tree of files at left side?
Or maybe git can do something like tree?

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maletin

@maletin

is anybody using the Triangular Work Flow?
per default i pull from remote-1 and push to remote-2.

$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'remote-1/master'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean

here i miss the information Your branch is ahead of 'remote-2/master' by 1 commit.

$ git push
To /tmp/demo/remote-2/.
   727c2ed..588321f  master -> master

is it a good idea to get this information from .git/config and display it in refs-view and status-view?

Pavel Roskin

@proski

Could someone please have a look at PR #983? It fixes a known issue with vertical lines in Putty. Just because the latest Putty versions can be configured to support ACS graphics in UTF-8 mode, it doesn't make my changes less valuable. Most time I use Putty I don't have permissions or time to do any tweaks. Using ACS in UTF-8 mode is unnecessary and inconsistent with other tig code (graph drawing specifically) that is careful to use UTF-8 graphics in UTF-8 mode. It took me hours to find a fix and then many more hours to make the code consistent (look at the commit history). For instance, since I cannot use the line character as background in the UTF-8 mode, I made the code fill the window that represents the line. Then I changed the code to do it in all modes. Then I optimized the code to skip erasing the window. I added tests for all three modes. The PR have been in review since January and there has been no feedback :(

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