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Release notes
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master
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Incompatibilities:

 - Change directory from the next argument, from now use `tig -C /path/to/repo`. (#1079)

Improvements:

 - Jump from blame to commit. (#355)
 - Start blame of an uncommitted deleted line from HEAD so the line's origin can be traced. (#1008, #1009)
 - Add line-graphics = auto. (#834, #1019)
 - Allow maxwidth to be expressed in % of the view width. (#1021)
 - Pass stash args through. (#1022, #1030)
 - Make build work on IBM i. (#1051, #1052)
 - Restore fullscreen navigation. (#1053)
 - Update utf8proc to v2.6.1.
 - Add some range so control chars ^^ and ^_ are also supported. (#1041, #1058)
 - Disable ncurses extended key values so that esc-codes can be used. (#1046, #1049)
 - Use id column for commit id only. (#1025, #1056)
 - Some minor updates for scrolling and for a double-click in diff. (#1060)
 - Add scroll-half-page-up and scroll-half-page-down actions. (#531, #1075)
 - Allow to generate a compilation database. (#1064)
 - New command stage-update-part.
 - The line number before a diff was applied is exposed as `%(lineno_old)`. (#1081)

Bug fixes:

 - Fix wrapping of lines with multibyte characters. (#988)
 - Improve highlighting of search with $ regex. (#1000)
 - Update tracking branch when refreshing status view. (#1015)
 - Fix vertical lines in Putty with UTF-8 graphics. (#981, #983)
 - Fix parsing of three-way chunk headers with extra dashes.
 - Update tracking branch when refreshing status view. (#1015, #1020)
 - Handle filename with space in diff view. (#1035)
 - The stash view requires a working tree.
 - Replace useless strncpy to avoid compilation warning. (#1036)
 - Zsh completion fixes. (#940, #1047)
 - Handle undefined __git_complete. (#1011, #1055)
 - Fix help messages for half-page and page up. (#1054)
 - Let `-S`, `-G` and `--grep=` pattern override readline history.
 - Fix bash completion issue with worktrees (#1018).
 - Fix parsing of commit line from `git log --left-right` output in pager view.
 - Fix %(lineno) computation for hunk postimages that span only one line. (#1062)
 - Align relative-compact dates to the right. (#1067)
 - Fix empty split diff view when navigating quickly in the stash view.
 - Avoid depending on wcwidth in test by removing Variation Selector. (#1065)
 - Open the blob view with the cursor correctly positioned.
 - Update %(text) when navigating diff contents. (#1082)

tig-2.5.1
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Improvements:

 - bash/zsh completion: reimplement and decrease runtime by factor 1863. (#795)
 - Add binding to reflog view to toggle reference display.
 - Fail if tig is given an invalid or ambiguous ref. (#980)
 - Make tig process-group leader an option. (#986, #951)
 - Handle GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable.
 - The blame view requires a working tree.
 - Fix use of deprecated vwprintw() function.
 - Update utf8proc to v2.5.0.
 - Add --word-diff=plain colorizing support. (#221)

Bug fixes:

 - Fix segmentation fault. (#971)
 - Fix cursor position after "Move to parent" in blame view. (#973)
 - Fix crash on adding a line to a view. (#523)
 - Fix memory leak in diff unit.
 - Fix loop after refresh or change in refs/main split view. (#991)
 - Fix occasional crash on custom key bindings. (#1001)

tig-2.5.0
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Improvements:

 - Single file view enters blame mode on "b". (#804)
 - Show untracked files in the default view. (#762)
 - Disable graph if log.follow is enabled and there is only one pathspec. (#881)
 - Disable graph for author searches.
 - git_colors: interpret 'ul' as 'underline'.
 - Add refname variable. (#900)
 - Add -C option to specify the working directory. (#570)
 - Improve behaviour of auto and periodic refresh modes. (#389, #441, #482, #794, #888, #932)
 - Add support for repos created with git --work-tree. (#872)
 - Add diff-highlight to pager mode.
 - Show annotated commits in main view. (#819)
 - Introduce reflog view. (#538)
 - Add option to start with cursor on HEAD commit. (#755)
 - Support combined diffs with more than 2 parents.
 - Improve how a toggle option value is shown on the status line. (#879)
 - Add options to filter refs output. (#694)
 - Update utf8proc to v2.4.0. (#961)

Bug fixes:

 - Fix garbled cursor line with older ncurses versions.
 - Fix diff highlighting of removed lines starting with -- and added lines
   starting with ++. (#871, #875)
 - Fix loop when displaying search result if regex matches an empty string. (#866)
 - Add synchronous command description in tigrc.
 - Fix parsing of git rev-parse output. (#884)
 - Propagate --first-parent to diff arguments. (#861)
 - Use proper type for hash table size. (#858)
 - Fix incorrect cppcheck warning about realloc() use.
 - Don't shift signed int by 31 bits.
 - Fix Vim going background after running Tig outside of a git repository. (#906)
 - make-builtin-config: use "read -r". (#912)
 - Fix segfaults with readline 8.0. (#893)
 - Reset state before closing stage view automatically.
 - Don't use a child view as previous view.
 - Force reload of VIEW_FLEX_WIDTH views only when needed.
 - Combined diff uses @@@ as hunk marker.
 - Fix memory leak induced by 'tig grep'.
 - Fix memory leak in main view.
 - Exit gracefully if refs view was defined without ref column. (#897)
 - Fix pager view not moving up when child view is open.
 - make-builtin-config: Fix unportable sed usage in read_tigrc().
 - Properly detect combined diffs. (#942)

tig-2.4.1
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Bug fixes:

 - Add `CURSES_CFLAGS` to `CPPFLAGS`. (#856, Linuxbrew/homebrew-core#8440)

tig-2.4.0
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Improvements:

 - Add 'send-child-enter' option to control interaction with child views. (#791)
 - Update make config defaults for Cygwin to ncurses6. (#792)
 - Build against netbsd-curses. (#789)
 - Change the blame view to render more like `git blame`. (#812)
 - Improve worktree and submodule support. (#459, #781, #783)
 - Support running Tig via a Git alias. (#763)
 - Use ISO-8601 letters for short relative dates. (#759, #760)
 - Change date formatting to show time zones by default. (#428, #811)
 - Use utf8proc to handle Unicode characters. (#827)

Bug fixes:

 - Fix `file(1)` argument on Linux used for resolving encodings. (#788)
 - Fix underflow in the file search. (#800, #801)
 - Fix line numbers in grep view when scrolled. (#813)
 - Pass command line args through to the stage view. (#569, #823)
 - Fix resource leak. (#780)
 - Fix various compiler warnings and pointer arithmetic. (#799, #803)
 - Workaround potential null pointer dereferences. (#824)
 - Bind to single and double quotes by using the *<SingleQuote>* and
   *<DoubleQuote>* key mappings. (#821)
 - Make Tig the process-group leader and clean child processes. (#828, #837)
 - Fix sh compatibility in `contrib/tig-pick`. (#832)
 - Fix incorrect behaviour of up and down keys in diff view when opened from
   diff preview. (#802, #835)
 - Open the stage view when maximizing a split diff view of (un)staged changes.
   (#836)
 - Use fully qualified reference name for tags when conflicting with branch
   name. (#746, #787, #849)
 - Fix resize not working after entering command. (#845) (#846)
 - Use stack allocated memory to handle `TIG_LS_REMOTE`. (#839)
 - Fix deleted file mode line remains highlighted after hovering in diff or stage view. (#851)
 - Fix `TIG_LS_REMOTE` not working with git-ls-remote(1). (#853, #854)

tig-2.3.3
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Bug fixes:

 - Revert "Handle \n like \r (#758)". (GH #769)
 - Fix GH #164 by catching SIGHUP.
 - Change `refs_tags` type to `size_t`.

tig-2.3.2
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Bug fixes:

 - Fix busy loop detection to handle large repos. (GH #164)

tig-2.3.1
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Improvements:

 - Restore TTY attributes. (GH #725)
 - Handle `\n` like `\r`. (GH #758)

Bug fixes:

 - Add workaround that detects busy loops when Tig loses the TTY. This may
   happen if Tig does not receive the HUP signal (e.g. when started with
   `nohup`). (GH #164)
 - Fix compatibility with ncurses-5.4 which caused copy-pasting to not work
   in the prompt. (GH #767)
 - tig(1): document correct environment variable. (GH #752)

tig-2.3.0
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Incompatibilities:

 - The `width` setting on the `status`, `text` and `commit-title` columns was
   never applied and has been removed. (GH #617)

Improvements:

 - Improve load performance by throttling screen updates. (GH #622, #629)
 - Speed up graph rendering. (GH #638)
 - Enable scroll optimizations for Terminal.app and iTerm2. (GH #637)
 - Improve the test suite portability to not depend on GNU sed. (GH #609, #614)
 - Make build reproducible. (https://reproducible-builds.org/) (GH #613)
 - Enable binding to more symbolic keys and keys with control modifier:
   `F13`-`F19`, `ShiftLeft`, `ShiftRight`, `ShiftDel`, `ShiftHome`, `ShiftEnd`,
   `ShiftTab`, `Ctrl-C`, `Ctrl-V`, `Ctrl-S`, and `Ctrl-@`. (GH #314, #619, #642)
 - Persist readline history to `~/.tig_history` or `$XDG_DATA_HOME/tig/history`.
   Use `history-size` to control the number of entries to save. (GH #620, #713,
   #714, #718)
 - Preload last search from persistent history. (GH #630)
 - Add `view-close-no-quit` action, unbound by default. (GH #607)
 - Add `mouse-wheel-cursor` option (off by default) when set to true causes
   wheel actions to prefer moving the cursor instead of scrolling. (GH #608)
 - Add `truncation-delimiter` option, set to `~` by default. (GH #646)
 - Add `-q` parameter to `source` for "source-if-present". (GH #612)
 - Add `:echo` prompt command to display text in the status bar. (GH #626, #636)
 - Make `diff-highlight` colors configurable. (GH #625, #633)
 - Let Ctrl-C exit Y/N dialog, menu prompts and the file finder. (GH #632, #648)
 - Hide cursor unless at textual prompt. (GH #643)
 - Expand tilde ('~') in `:script` paths. (GH #674)
 - Show single-line output of external command in status bar. (GH #200, #557,
   #678)
 - Disable the graph when `--no-merges` is passed. (GH #687) 
 - Print backtraces on segfault in debug mode.
 - Ignore script lines starting with `#` (comment). (GH #705)
 - Complete `repo:*` variables when readline is enabled. (GH #702)
 - Incorporate XTerm's `wcwidth.c` to find Unicode widths. (GH #691)

Bug fixes:

 - Fix graph display issues. (GH #419, #638)
 - Fix and improve rendering of Unicode characters. (GH #330, #621, #644, #682)
 - Handle hyphenated directory names when listing content. (GH #602)
 - Do not jump to next match when cancelling the search prompt. (GH #627)
 - Fix clearing of the status line after `Ctrl-C`. (GH #623, #649)
 - Fix handling of width on line-number and trimmed width of 1. (GH #617)
 - Set cursor position when not updating prompt contents. (GH #647)
 - Erase status line at exit time for users without altscreen-capable terminals.
   (GH #589)
 - Fix unexpected keys when restoring from suspend (`Ctrl-Z`). (GH #232)
 - contrib/vim.tigrc: Also bind G in the main as a workaround for limitations of
   the `none` action. (GH #594, #599)
 - Only override `blame-options` when commands are given and fix parsing of
   `-C`. (GH #597)
 - Fix diff name discovery to better handle prefixes.
 - Interpret button5 as wheel-down. (GH #321, #606)
 - Fix `back` / `parent` in tree view. (GH #641)
 - Fix memory corruption in `concat_argv` and file finder. (GH #634, #655)
 - Fix reading from stdin for `tig show`.
 - Document problem of outdated system-wide `tigrc` files in Homebrew. (GH #598)
 - Repaint the display when toggling `line-graphics`. (GH #527)
 - Fix custom date formatting support longer strings. (GH #522)
 - Don't segfault on ":exec" irregular args. (GH #686)
 - Fix segfault when calling htab_empty. (GH #663, #745)

tig-2.2.2
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Upgrade instructions:

 - The `status-untracked-dirs` option was renamed to
   `status-show-untracked-dirs` to match the new `status-show-untracked-files`
   option.

Improvements:

 - Use `diff-options` when preparing the diff in the stage view to make the diff
   state configurable. (GH #545)
 - Add 'status-show-untracked-files' option mirroring Git's
   'status.showUntrackedFiles' to toggle display of untracked files.  in the
   status view. On by default. (GH #562)
 - Update `ax_with_curses.m4` and use `pkg-config` to detect. (GH #546)
 - Add `tig-pick` script for using Tig as a commit picker. (GH #575, #580)
 - Add "smart case" option ('set ignore-case = smart-case') to ignore case when
   the search string is lower-case only. (GH #320, #579)

Bug fixes:

 - Fix author ident cache being keyed by email only. (GH #424, #526, #547)
 - Fix periodic refresh mode to properly detect ref changes. (GH #430, #591)
 - Add workaround for detecting failure to start the diff-highlight process.
 - Show diffs in the stash view when `set mailmap = true`. (GH #556)
 - Fix parsing of git-log revision arguments, such as `--exclude=...` in
   conjunction with `--all`. (GH #555)
 - Fix diff stat parsing for binary copies.
 - Fix crash when resizing terminal while search is in progress. (GH #515, #550)
 - Fix argument filtering to pass more arguments through to Git.
 - Check for termcap support in split tinfo libs. (GH #568, #585)

tig-2.2.1
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Tarballs should now be downloaded from GitHub. Either go to
https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases or use the following pattern:

    https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-VERSION/tig-VERSION.tar.gz

MD5 checksums can be found at:

    https:/