6 tig - text-mode interface for git
11 tig [options] [revisions] [--] [paths]
12 tig show [options] [revisions] [--] [paths]
15 tig < [git command output]
19 Browse changes in a git repository. Additionally, tig(1) can also act
20 as a pager for output of various git commands.
22 When browsing repositories, tig(1) uses the underlying git commands
23 to present the user with various views, such as summarized commit log
24 and showing the commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.
26 Using tig(1) as a pager, it will display input from stdin and try
32 Command line options recognized by tig include all valid git-log(1) and
33 git-diff(1) options, as well as the following subcommands and tig specific
34 options. The first command line parameter not starting with "-" is interpreted
35 as being either a revision specification or a path and will end the option
36 parsing. All following options will be passed untouched to the underlying git
40 Open diff view using the given git show options.
43 Show given file annotated or blamed by commits.
44 Optionally limited from given revision.
47 Start up in status view.
50 Show version and exit.
53 Show help message and exit.
56 End of tig options. This ends tig option parsing, and passes any
57 following options untouched to the underlying git command. Kept for
58 compatibility and will be deprecated in a future version.
63 Display the current branch:
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68 Display one or more specific branches:
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78 Display differences between two branches:
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83 Display changes for a single file:
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88 Display contents of the README file in a specific revision:
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90 $ tig show tig-0.8:README
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93 Display revisions between two dates for a specific file:
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95 $ tig --after="2004-01-01" --before="2006-05-16" -- README
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101 In addition to environment variables used by git (e.g. GIT_DIR), tig defines
105 Path of the user configuration file (defaults to `~/.tigrc`).
108 Path of the system wide configuration file (defaults to
109 `{sysconfdir}/tigrc`).
112 Set command for retrieving all repository references. The command
113 should output data in the same format as git-ls-remote(1).
116 The command used for the diff view. By default, git show is used
120 The command used for the log view. If you prefer to have both
121 author and committer shown in the log view be sure to pass
122 `--pretty=fuller` to git log.
125 The command used for the main view. Note, you must always specify
126 the option: `--pretty=raw` since the main view parser expects to
132 The command used for the tree view. By default, git-ls-tree(1) is
133 used. The commands should expect first the commit ID and second
137 The command used for the blob view. By default, git-cat-file(1) is
138 used. The command gets the blob ID.
143 User configuration file. See gitlink:tigrc[5] for examples.
145 '{sysconfdir}/tigrc'::
146 System wide configuration file.
149 Repository config file. Read on start-up with the help of
156 Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
158 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
159 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
160 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
161 (at your option) any later version.
166 gitlink:tigrc[5], git(7), cogito(7), as well as other git repository browsers:
167 gitk(1), qgit(1), gitview(1).