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Tig 1.0 released - ncurses text-mode interface for git

56 points by keyist 14y ago

Sodaware 14y ago
The main project site has more information, as well as some screenshots: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/ http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/
melicerte 14y ago
Good to see people still develop using ncurse. It is quite different from the "SaaS in the cloud" trend.
antidoh 14y ago
Tig is the only git viewer that I like.
- GrandTheftR 14y ago
  Just tried it, very impressed. Pretty sure it will be my favorite git viewer.
- zem 14y ago
  what do you not like about gitk?
  - antidoh 14y ago
    http://lwn.net/Articles/140350/ http://lwn.net/Articles/140350/ It's fine. I have nothing against it. I just generally like doing as much as I can in the terminal, when that makes sense. gitk is OK, but I like tig. Personal quirks.
    - zem 14y ago
      fair enough. i'm just the other way around - i usually prefer terminal-based apps, but i really like gitk and git-cola. the gui really enhances the user experience for both those apps.
martiell 14y ago
My favourite things about Tig: * It's fast. * It's there in the terminal, right where you're using git. * Hence, easy to use over ssh :) * Familiar keyboard shortcuts (press 'h' for help). * Combined log/diff view, where each scrolls independently. * 'tig --all' I've often wished I could use it to start a rebase, but besides that, I find it damn near perfect.
- jonasf 14y ago
  As an avid rebase user, I want to add rebase support eventually. Something like interactive rebase, however, the question is how to improve something that is nearly perfect.
  - martiell 14y ago
    That'd be awesome. :) If tig started "git rebase" (with or without -i) and then helped me through fixing any conflicts (merge tool?), that'd be awesome. I sometimes forget where I am during a rebase, so showing how many more commits to go would be cool.
askedrelic 14y ago
Sweet! I use tig daily as my main git viewer. Here are some bindings my in .tigrc, which I use in the log viewer window, to make it more vim like: bind generic g move-first-line bind generic G move-last-line bind generic n next bind generic p previous I generally use n/p to flip between commits in log view, hit enter to view a specific commit, and then j/k to move lines on the commit view.
bct 14y ago
Interesting. It looks similar to the vim plugin fugitive: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2975 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2975
- askedrelic 14y ago
  Fugitive is pretty great once figure out most of it. Extradite is a wrapper around fugitive to provide a log view similar to tig's log view, but seemed a bit clunky to me last time I tried it. https://github.com/int3/vim-extradite https://github.com/int3/vim-extradite
grimborg 14y ago
I love it, shame that most of the time I work with Mercurial... Is there anything like a tig for hg? I haven't been able to find it.

56 points by keyist 14y ago

The main project site has more information, as well as some screenshots: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/ http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/

melicerte 14y ago

Good to see people still develop using ncurse. It is quite different from the "SaaS in the cloud" trend.

antidoh 14y ago

Tig is the only git viewer that I like.

GrandTheftR 14y ago
Just tried it, very impressed. Pretty sure it will be my favorite git viewer.
zem 14y ago
what do you not like about gitk?
- antidoh 14y ago
  http://lwn.net/Articles/140350/ http://lwn.net/Articles/140350/ It's fine. I have nothing against it. I just generally like doing as much as I can in the terminal, when that makes sense. gitk is OK, but I like tig. Personal quirks.
  - zem 14y ago
    fair enough. i'm just the other way around - i usually prefer terminal-based apps, but i really like gitk and git-cola. the gui really enhances the user experience for both those apps.

martiell 14y ago

My favourite things about Tig: * It's fast. * It's there in the terminal, right where you're using git. * Hence, easy to use over ssh :) * Familiar keyboard shortcuts (press 'h' for help). * Combined log/diff view, where each scrolls independently. * 'tig --all' I've often wished I could use it to start a rebase, but besides that, I find it damn near perfect.

jonasf 14y ago
As an avid rebase user, I want to add rebase support eventually. Something like interactive rebase, however, the question is how to improve something that is nearly perfect.
- martiell 14y ago
  That'd be awesome. :) If tig started "git rebase" (with or without -i) and then helped me through fixing any conflicts (merge tool?), that'd be awesome. I sometimes forget where I am during a rebase, so showing how many more commits to go would be cool.

askedrelic 14y ago

Sweet! I use tig daily as my main git viewer. Here are some bindings my in .tigrc, which I use in the log viewer window, to make it more vim like: bind generic g move-first-line bind generic G move-last-line bind generic n next bind generic p previous I generally use n/p to flip between commits in log view, hit enter to view a specific commit, and then j/k to move lines on the commit view.

bct 14y ago

Interesting. It looks similar to the vim plugin fugitive: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2975 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2975

askedrelic 14y ago
Fugitive is pretty great once figure out most of it. Extradite is a wrapper around fugitive to provide a log view similar to tig's log view, but seemed a bit clunky to me last time I tried it. https://github.com/int3/vim-extradite https://github.com/int3/vim-extradite

grimborg 14y ago

I love it, shame that most of the time I work with Mercurial... Is there anything like a tig for hg? I haven't been able to find it.