Tig: text-mode interface for git

      Name                    Last modified      Size  Description
      Parent Directory                             -   
      releases/               12-Jun-2010 15:41    -   Release tarballs
      screenshots/            06-Mar-2009 14:22    -   Screenshots of tig in action
      tig.git/                29-Jun-2010 02:18    -   The public tig git repository
      NEWS.html               29-Jun-2010 02:18   31K  Release notes
      manual.html             29-Jun-2010 02:18   47K  The tig manual
      tig.1.html              29-Jun-2010 02:18   19K  The tig(1) manpage 
      tigrc.5.html            29-Jun-2010 02:18   47K  The tigrc(5) manpage

Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands.

When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to present the user with various views, such as summarized revision log and showing the commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.

Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and colorize it.

Resources

Installation instructions

Download a tarball from http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases or clone the tig repository http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git. Documentation files are available in the tarballs and in the release branch of the tig repository.

The quick and simple way to install tig with documentation is to run:

$ make
$ make install install-doc

From tig’s git repository it is also possible to install documentation directly from the release branch to avoid installing the documentation tool chain:

$ make install-release-doc

Optionally, you can use the configure script to detect dependencies:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

If your iconv library is not in the default library and include path, you’ll probably want to pass the "--with-libiconv" option to the "configure" script to tell it where to look. Note, if you are building from the tig repository, you need to first make the configure script:

$ make configure

Build settings are read from the file "config.make". To manually configure tig to use the ncurses library with wide character support, add the line:

LDLIBS = -lncursesw

Release notes documenting notable changes are available in the NEWS file. When upgrading, you are advised to also read them after you have completed the installation.

The following tools and packages are needed:

Tool Description

git-core

Tig is just a frontend for git.

ncurses or ncursesw

Be sure to have the development files installed. Usually they are available in a separate package ending with -dev. Note also that ncurses with wide character support (ncursesw) is required to properly handle UTF-8 encoded strings.

iconv

If iconv is not provided by the c library you need to change the Makefile to link it into the binary.

The following optional tools and packages are needed for creating the configure script and building documentation:

Tool Description

autoconf

Contains autoreconf for generating configure from configure.ac.

asciidoc (>= 8.4)

Generates HTML and (DocBook) XML from text.

xmlto

Generates manpages and chunked HTML from XML.

DocBook XSL (>= 1.72.0)

Used by xmlto for building manpages.

DocBook (DSSL/Jade) tools

Generates PDF from XML. Also known as docbook-utils.