6 tig - text-mode interface for git
11 tig [options] [revisions] [--] [paths]
12 tig show [options] [revisions] [--] [paths]
14 tig < [git command output]
18 Browse changes in a git repository. Additionally, tig(1) can also act
19 as a pager for output of various git commands.
21 When browsing repositories, tig(1) uses the underlying git commands
22 to present the user with various views, such as summarized commit log
23 and showing the commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.
25 Using tig(1) as a pager, it will display input from stdin and try
31 Command line options recognized by tig include all valid git-log(1) and
32 git-diff(1) options, as well as the following subcommands and tig specific
33 options. The first command line parameter not starting with "-" is interpreted
34 as being either a revision specification or a path and will end the option
35 parsing. All following options will be passed untouched to the underlying git
39 Open diff view using the given git show options.
42 Start up in status view.
45 Show version and exit.
48 Show help message and exit.
51 End of tig options. This ends tig option parsing, and passes any
52 following options untouched to the underlying git command. Kept for
53 compatibility and will be deprecated in a future version.
58 Display the current branch:
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63 Display one or more specific branches:
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73 Display differences between two branches:
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78 Display changes for a single file:
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83 Display contents of the README file in a specific revision:
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85 $ tig show tig-0.8:README
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88 Display revisions between two dates for a specific file:
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90 $ tig --after="2004-01-01" --before="2006-05-16" -- README
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96 In addition to environment variables used by git (e.g. GIT_DIR), tig defines
100 Path of the user configuration file (defaults to `~/.tigrc`).
103 Path of the system wide configuration file (defaults to
104 `{sysconfdir}/tigrc`).
107 Set command for retrieving all repository references. The command
108 should output data in the same format as git-ls-remote(1).
111 The command used for the diff view. By default, git show is used
115 The command used for the log view. If you prefer to have both
116 author and committer shown in the log view be sure to pass
117 `--pretty=fuller` to git log.
120 The command used for the main view. Note, you must always specify
121 the option: `--pretty=raw` since the main view parser expects to
127 The command used for the tree view. By default, git-ls-tree(1) is
128 used. The commands should expect first the commit ID and second
132 The command used for the blob view. By default, git-cat-file(1) is
133 used. The command gets the blob ID.
138 User configuration file. See gitlink:tigrc[5] for examples.
140 '{sysconfdir}/tigrc'::
141 System wide configuration file.
144 Repository config file. Read on start-up with the help of
151 Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
153 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
154 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
155 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
156 (at your option) any later version.
161 gitlink:tigrc[5], git(7), cogito(7), as well as other git repository browsers:
162 gitk(1), qgit(1), gitview(1).