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258 <title>The tig Manual</title>
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262 <h1>The tig Manual</h1>
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263 <span id="author">Jonas Fonseca</span><br />
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264 <span id="email"><tt><<a href="mailto:fonseca@diku.dk">fonseca@diku.dk</a>></tt></span><br />
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266 <div id="preamble">
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267 <div class="sectionbody">
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268 <p>This is the manual for tig, the ncurses-based text-mode interface for git.
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269 Tig allows you to browse changes in a git repository and can additionally act
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270 as a pager for output of various git commands. When used as a pager, it will
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271 display input from stdin and colorize it.</p>
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272 <p>When browsing repositories, tig uses the underlying git commands to present
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273 the user with various views, such as summarized commit log and showing the
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274 commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.</p>
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275 <p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p>
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279 <a href="#calling-conventions">Calling Conventions</a>
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284 <a href="#pager-mode">Pager Mode</a>
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289 <a href="#cmd-options">Git Command Options</a>
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296 <a href="#env-variables">Environment Variables</a>
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301 <a href="#repo-refs">Repository References</a>
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306 <a href="#history-commands">History Commands</a>
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313 <a href="#viewer">The Viewer</a>
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318 <a href="#commit-id">Current Head and Commit ID</a>
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323 <a href="#views">Views</a>
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328 <a href="#title-window">Title Windows</a>
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333 <a href="#view-switching">View Switching</a>
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338 <a href="#view-manipulation">View Manipulation</a>
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343 <a href="#cursor-nav">Cursor Navigation</a>
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348 <a href="#view-scrolling">Scrolling</a>
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355 <a href="#refspec">Revision Specification</a>
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360 <a href="#path-limiting">Limit by Path Name</a>
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365 <a href="#date-number-limiting">Limit by Date or Number</a>
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370 <a href="#commit-range-limiting">Limiting by Commit Ranges</a>
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375 <a href="#reachability-limiting">Limiting by Reachability</a>
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380 <a href="#refspec-combi">Combining Revisions Specification</a>
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385 <a href="#refspec-all">Examining All Repository References</a>
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392 <a href="#copy-right">Copyright</a>
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397 <a href="#references">References and Related Tools</a>
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403 <h2><a id="calling-conventions"></a>1. Calling Conventions</h2>
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404 <div class="sectionbody">
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405 <h3><a id="pager-mode"></a>1.1. Pager Mode</h3>
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406 <p>If stdin is a pipe, any log or diff options will be ignored and the pager view
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407 will be opened loading data from stdin. The pager mode can be used for
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408 colorizing output from various git commands.</p>
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409 <p>Example on how to colorize the output of git-show(1):</p>
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410 <div class="listingblock">
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411 <div class="content">
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412 <pre><tt>$ git show | tig</tt></pre>
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414 <h3><a id="cmd-options"></a>1.2. Git Command Options</h3>
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415 <p>All git command options specified on the command line will be passed to the
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416 given command and all will be shell quoted before they are passed to the
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418 <div class="admonitionblock">
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421 <div class="title">Note</div>
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423 <td class="content">If you specify options for the main view, you should not use the
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424 <tt>—pretty</tt> option as this option will be set automatically to the format
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425 expected by the main view.</td>
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428 <p>Example on how to open the log view and show both author and committer
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430 <div class="listingblock">
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431 <div class="content">
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432 <pre><tt>$ tig log --pretty=fuller</tt></pre>
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434 <p>See the <a href="#refspec">"Specifying revisions"</a> section below for an introduction
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435 to revision options supported by the git commands. For details on specific git
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436 command options, refer to the man page of the command in question.</p>
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438 <h2><a id="env-variables"></a>2. Environment Variables</h2>
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439 <div class="sectionbody">
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440 <p>Several options related to the interface with git can be configured via
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441 environment options.</p>
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442 <h3><a id="repo-refs"></a>2.1. Repository References</h3>
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443 <p>Commits that are referenced by tags and branch heads will be marked by the
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444 reference name surrounded by <em>[</em> and <em>]</em>:</p>
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445 <div class="listingblock">
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446 <div class="content">
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447 <pre><tt>2006-03-26 19:42 Petr Baudis | [cogito-0.17.1] Cogito 0.17.1</tt></pre>
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449 <p>If you want to filter out certain directories under <tt>.git/refs/</tt>, say <tt>tmp</tt>
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450 you can do it by setting the following variable:</p>
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451 <div class="listingblock">
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452 <div class="content">
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453 <pre><tt>$ TIG_LS_REMOTE="git ls-remote . | sed /\/tmp\//d" tig</tt></pre>
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455 <p>Or set the variable permanently in your environment.</p>
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462 Set command for retrieving all repository references. The command
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463 should output data in the same format as git-ls-remote(1).
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467 <h3><a id="history-commands"></a>2.2. History Commands</h3>
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468 <p>It is possible to alter which commands are used for the different views. If
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469 for example you prefer commits in the main view to be sorted by date and only
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470 show 500 commits, use:</p>
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471 <div class="listingblock">
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472 <div class="content">
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473 <pre><tt>$ TIG_MAIN_CMD="git log --date-order -n500 --pretty=raw %s" tig</tt></pre>
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475 <p>Or set the variable permanently in your environment.</p>
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476 <p>Notice, how <tt>%s</tt> is used to specify the commit reference. There can be a
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477 maximum of 5 <tt>%s</tt> ref specifications.</p>
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484 The command used for the diff view. By default, git show is used
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493 The command used for the log view. If you prefer to have both
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494 author and committer shown in the log view be sure to pass
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495 <tt>—pretty=fuller</tt> to git log.
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503 The command used for the main view. Note, you must always specify
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504 the option: <tt>—pretty=raw</tt> since the main view parser expects to
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510 <h2><a id="viewer"></a>3. The Viewer</h2>
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511 <div class="sectionbody">
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512 <p>The display consists of a status window on the last line of the screen and one
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513 or more views. The default is to only show one view at the time but it is
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514 possible to split both the main and log view to also show the commit diff.</p>
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515 <p>If you are in the log view and press <em>Enter</em> when the current line is a commit
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517 <div class="listingblock">
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518 <div class="content">
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519 <pre><tt>commit 4d55caff4cc89335192f3e566004b4ceef572521</tt></pre>
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521 <p>You will split the view so that the log view is displayed in the top window
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522 and the diff view in the bottom window. You can switch between the two views
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523 by pressing <em>Tab</em>. To maximize the log view again, simply press <em>l</em>.</p>
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524 <h3><a id="commit-id"></a>3.1. Current Head and Commit ID</h3>
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525 <p>The viewer keeps track of both what head and commit ID you are currently
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526 viewing. The commit ID will follow the cursor line and change everytime time
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527 you highlight a different commit. Whenever you reopen the diff view it will be
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528 reloaded, if the commit ID changed.</p>
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529 <p>The head ID is used when opening the main and log view to indicate from what
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530 revision to show history.</p>
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531 <h3><a id="views"></a>3.2. Views</h3>
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532 <p>Various <em>views</em> of a repository is presented. Each view is based on output
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533 from an external command, most often <em>git log</em>, <em>git diff</em>, or <em>git show</em>.</p>
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540 Is the default view, and it shows a one line summary of each commit
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541 in the chosen list of revisions. The summary includes commit date,
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542 author, and the first line of the log message. Additionally, any
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543 repository references, such as tags, will be shown.
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551 Presents a more rich view of the revision log showing the whole log
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552 message and the diffstat.
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560 Shows either the diff of the current working tree, that is, what
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561 has changed since the last commit, or the commit diff complete
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562 with log message, diffstat and diff.
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570 Is used for displaying both input from stdin and output from git
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571 commands entered in the internal prompt.
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579 Displays key binding quick reference.
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583 <h3><a id="title-window"></a>3.3. Title Windows</h3>
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584 <p>Each view has a title window which shows the name of the view, current commit
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585 ID if available, and where the view is positioned:</p>
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586 <div class="listingblock">
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587 <div class="content">
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588 <pre><tt>[main] c622eefaa485995320bc743431bae0d497b1d875 - commit 1 of 61 (1%)</tt></pre>
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590 <p>By default, the title of the current view is highlighted using bold font. For
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591 long loading views (taking over 3 seconds) the time since loading started will
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593 <div class="listingblock">
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594 <div class="content">
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595 <pre><tt>[main] 77d9e40fbcea3238015aea403e06f61542df9a31 - commit 1 of 779 (0%) 5s</tt></pre>
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598 <h2><a id="keys"></a>4. Keys</h2>
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599 <div class="sectionbody">
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600 <p>Below the default key bindings are shown.</p>
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601 <h3><a id="view-switching"></a>4.1. View Switching</h3>
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608 Switch to main view.
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616 Switch to diff view.
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624 Switch to log view.
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632 Switch to pager view.
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644 <h3><a id="view-manipulation"></a>4.2. View Manipulation</h3>
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651 Close view, if multiple views are open it will jump back to the
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652 previous view in the view stack. If it is the last open view it
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653 will quit. Use <em>Q</em> to quit all views at once.
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661 This key is "context sensitive" depending on what view you are
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662 currently in. When in log view on a commit line or in the main
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663 view, split the view and show the commit diff. In the diff view
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664 pressing Enter will simply scroll the view one line down.
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672 Switch to next view.
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680 This key is "context sensitive" and will move the cursor one
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681 line up. However, uf you opened a diff view from the main view
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682 (split- or full-screen) it will change the cursor to point to
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683 the previous commit in the main view and update the diff view
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692 Similar to <em>Up</em> but will move down.
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696 <h3><a id="cursor-nav"></a>4.3. Cursor Navigation</h3>
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703 Move cursor one line up.
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711 Move cursor one line down.
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725 Move cursor one page up.
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736 Move cursor one page down.
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744 Jump to first line.
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756 <h3><a id="view-scrolling"></a>4.4. Scrolling</h3>
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763 Scroll view one line up.
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771 Scroll view one line down.
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779 Scroll view one page up.
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787 Scroll view one page down.
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791 <h3><a id="misc-keys"></a>4.5. Misc</h3>
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814 Stop all background loading. This can be useful if you use
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815 tig in a repository with a long history without limiting
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832 Toggle line numbers on/off.
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840 Toggle revision graph visualization on/off.
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848 Open prompt. This allows you to specify what git command
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851 <div class="literalblock">
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852 <div class="content">
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853 <pre><tt>:log -p</tt></pre>
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858 <h2><a id="refspec"></a>5. Revision Specification</h2>
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859 <div class="sectionbody">
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860 <p>This section describes various ways to specify what revisions to display or
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861 otherwise limit the view to. Tig does not itself parse the described
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862 revision options so refer to the relevant git man pages for futher
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863 information. Relevant man pages besides git-log(1) are git-diff(1) and
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864 git-rev-list(1).</p>
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865 <p>You can tune the interaction with git by making use of the options explained
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866 in this section. For example, by configuring the environment variables
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867 described in the <a href="#history-commands">"History commands"</a> section.</p>
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868 <h3><a id="path-limiting"></a>5.1. Limit by Path Name</h3>
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869 <p>If you are interested only in those revisions that made changes to a specific
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870 file (or even several files) list the files like this:</p>
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871 <div class="listingblock">
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872 <div class="content">
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873 <pre><tt>$ tig log Makefile README</tt></pre>
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875 <p>To avoid ambiguity with repository references such as tag name, be sure to
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876 separate file names from other git options using "--". So if you have a file
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877 named <em>master</em> it will clash with the reference named <em>master</em>, and thus you
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878 will have to use:</p>
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879 <div class="listingblock">
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880 <div class="content">
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881 <pre><tt>$ tig log -- master</tt></pre>
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883 <div class="admonitionblock">
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886 <div class="title">Note</div>
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888 <td class="content">For the main view, avoiding ambiguity will in some cases require you to
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889 specify two "--" options. The first will make tig stop option processing
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890 and the latter will be passed to git log.</td>
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893 <h3><a id="date-number-limiting"></a>5.2. Limit by Date or Number</h3>
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894 <p>To speed up interaction with git, you can limit the amount of commits to show
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895 both for the log and main view. Either limit by date using e.g.
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896 <tt>—since=1.month</tt> or limit by the number of commits using <tt>-n400</tt>.</p>
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897 <p>If you are only interested in changed that happened between two dates you can
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899 <div class="listingblock">
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900 <div class="content">
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901 <pre><tt>$ tig -- --after="May 5th" --before="2006-05-16 15:44"</tt></pre>
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903 <div class="admonitionblock">
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906 <div class="title">Note</div>
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908 <td class="content">If you want to avoid having to quote dates containing spaces you can use
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909 "." instead, e.g. <tt>—after=May.5th</tt>.</td>
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912 <h3><a id="commit-range-limiting"></a>5.3. Limiting by Commit Ranges</h3>
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913 <p>Alternatively, commits can be limited to a specific range, such as "all
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914 commits between <em>tag-1.0</em> and <em>tag-2.0</em>". For example:</p>
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915 <div class="listingblock">
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916 <div class="content">
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917 <pre><tt>$ tig log tag-1.0..tag-2.0</tt></pre>
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919 <p>This way of commit limiting makes it trivial to only browse the commits which
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920 haven't been pushed to a remote branch. Assuming <em>origin</em> is your upstream
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921 remote branch, using:</p>
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922 <div class="listingblock">
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923 <div class="content">
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924 <pre><tt>$ tig log origin..HEAD</tt></pre>
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926 <p>will list what will be pushed to the remote branch. Optionally, the ending
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927 <em>HEAD</em> can be left out since it is implied.</p>
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928 <h3><a id="reachability-limiting"></a>5.4. Limiting by Reachability</h3>
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929 <p>Git interprets the range specifier "tag-1.0..tag-2.0" as "all commits
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930 reachable from <em>tag-2.0</em> but not from <em>tag-1.0</em>". Where reachability refers
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931 to what commits are ancestors (or part of the history) of the branch or tagged
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932 revision in question.</p>
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933 <p>If you prefer to specify which commit to preview in this way use the
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935 <div class="listingblock">
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936 <div class="content">
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937 <pre><tt>$ tig log tag-2.0 ^tag-1.0</tt></pre>
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939 <p>You can think of <em>^</em> as a negation operator. Using this alternate syntax, it
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940 is possible to further prune commits by specifying multiple branch cut offs.</p>
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941 <h3><a id="refspec-combi"></a>5.5. Combining Revisions Specification</h3>
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942 <p>Revisions options can to some degree be combined, which makes it possible to
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943 say "show at most 20 commits from within the last month that changed files
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944 under the Documentation/ directory."</p>
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945 <div class="listingblock">
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946 <div class="content">
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947 <pre><tt>$ tig -- --since=1.month -n20 -- Documentation/</tt></pre>
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949 <h3><a id="refspec-all"></a>5.6. Examining All Repository References</h3>
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950 <p>In some cases, it can be useful to query changes across all references in a
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951 repository. An example is to ask "did any line of development in this
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952 repository change a particular file within the last week". This can be
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953 accomplished using:</p>
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954 <div class="listingblock">
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955 <div class="content">
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956 <pre><tt>$ tig -- --all --since=1.week -- Makefile</tt></pre>
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960 <div class="sectionbody">
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961 <p>Known bugs and problems:</p>
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965 In it's current state tig is pretty much UTF-8 only.
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970 If the screen width is very small the main view can draw
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971 outside the current view causing bad wrapping. Same goes
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972 for title and status windows.
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977 The cursor can wrap-around on the last line and cause the
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983 <h2><a id="copy-right"></a>7. Copyright</h2>
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984 <div class="sectionbody">
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985 <p>Copyright (c) 2006 Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk></p>
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986 <p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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987 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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988 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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989 (at your option) any later version.</p>
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991 <h2><a id="references"></a>8. References and Related Tools</h2>
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992 <div class="sectionbody">
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997 <a href="tig.1.html">tig(1)</a>
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1002 <a href="tigrc.5.html">tigrc(5)</a>
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1006 <p>Online resources:</p>
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1010 Homepage: <a href="http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig</a>
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1015 Releases: <a href="http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases</a>
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1020 Git URL: <a href="http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git</a>
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1025 Gitweb: <a href="http://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi?p=tig.git;a=summary">http://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi?p=tig.git;a=summary</a>
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1029 <p>Git porcelains:</p>
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1033 <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/">git</a>,
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1038 <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/docs/">Cogito</a>
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1042 <p>Other git repository browsers:</p>
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