NAME
tig - text-mode interface for git
SYNOPSIS
tig [options] [revisions] [--] [paths]
tig show [options] [revisions] [--] [paths]
tig blame [rev] path
tig status
tig < [git command output]
DESCRIPTION
Browse changes in a git repository. Additionally, tig(1) can also act
as a pager for output of various git commands.
When browsing repositories, tig(1) uses the underlying git commands to
present the user with various views, such as summarized commit log and
showing the commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.
Using tig(1) as a pager, it will display input from stdin and try to
colorize it.
OPTIONS
Command line options recognized by tig include all valid git-log(1) and
git-diff(1) options, as well as the following subcommands and tig
specific options. The first command line parameter not starting with
"-" is interpreted as being either a revision specification or a path
and will end the option parsing. All following options will be passed
untouched to the underlying git command.
show
Open diff view using the given git show options.
blame
Show given file annotated or blamed by commits. Optionally limited
from given revision.
status
Start up in status view.
-v, --version
Show version and exit.
-h, --help
Show help message and exit.
EXAMPLES
Display the current branch:
$ tig
Display one or more specific branches:
$ tig test master
Display all branches:
$ tig --all
Display differences between two branches:
$ tig test..master
Display changes for a single file:
$ tig -- README
Display contents of the README file in a specific revision:
$ tig show tig-0.8:README
Display revisions between two dates for a specific file:
$ tig --after="2004-01-01" --before="2006-05-16" -- README
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
In addition to environment variables used by git (e.g. GIT_DIR), tig
defines the ones below. The command related environment variables have
access to the internal state of tig via replacement variables, such as
%(commit) and %(blob). See manpage:tigrc[5] for a full list.
TIGRC_USER
Path of the user configuration file (defaults to ~/.tigrc).
TIGRC_SYSTEM
Path of the system wide configuration file (defaults to
{sysconfdir}/tigrc).
TIG_LS_REMOTE
Set command for retrieving all repository references. The command
should output data in the same format as git-ls-remote(1).
TIG_DIFF_OPTS
The diff options to use in the diff view. The diff view uses
git-show(1) for formatting and always passes --patch-with-stat,
--find-copies-harder, and -C.
FILES
~/.tigrc
User configuration file. See manpage:tigrc[5] for examples.
/etc/tigrc
System wide configuration file.
$GIT_DIR/config, '~/.gitconfig, '/etc/etc/gitconfig
Git configuration files. Read on start-up with the help of
git-config(1).
BUGS
Known bugs and problems:
· Proper locale support: in it’s current state tig is pretty much
UTF-8 only.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk[1]>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
SEE ALSO
manpage:tigrc[5], manpage:tigmanual[7], git(7), gitk(1)
Online resources:
· 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 (mirror) or
http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git (master)
· Gitweb: http://repo.or.cz/w/tig.git
NOTES
1. fonseca@diku.dk
mailto:fonseca@diku.dk