$ make install
Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands.
When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to present the user with various views, such as summarized revision log and showing the commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.
Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and colorize it.
Homepage: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig
Releases: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases
Git URL: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git or git://repo.or.cz/tig.git
Download a tarball from http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases or clone the tig repository http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git. Documentation files are available either in the tarballs or in the above repository in the branch named release.
To install tig simply run:
$ make install
To install documentation run:
$ make install-docs
Edit the Makefile if you need to configure specific compiler or linker flags. On FreeBSD for example the c library does not support the iconv interface and to compile tig you need to append -L/usr/local/lib -liconv to LDLIBS and -I/usr/local/include to the CFLAGS variable.
The following tools and packages are needed:
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| git-core | Tig is just a frontend for git. |
| ncurses | Be sure to also have development files installed. Usually they are available in a separate package ending with -dev. |
| iconv | If iconv is not provided by the c library you need to change the Makefile to link it into the binary. |
| asciidoc (>= 7.0), xmlto | For building documentation. (Optional) |