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NAME
tigrc - Tig configuration file
SYNOPSIS
set variable = value
bind keymap key action
color area fgcolor bgcolor [attributes]
source path
DESCRIPTION
You can permanently set an option by putting it in the ~/.tigrc file. The file consists of a series of
commands. Each line of the file may contain only one command. Commands can span multiple lines if each
line is terminated by a backslash (\) character.
The hash mark (#) is used as a comment character. All text after the comment character to the end of the
line is ignored. You can use comments to annotate your initialization file.
Certain options can be manipulated at runtime via the option menu. In addition, options can also be
toggled with the :toggle prompt command or by entering the configuration command into the prompt.
In some environments, a user’s configuration will be stored in the alternate location
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tig/config. For brevity, this document will refer only to ~/.tigrc.
GIT CONFIGURATION
Alternatively to using ~/.tigrc, Tig options can be set by putting them in one of the Git configuration
files, which are read by Tig on startup. See git-config(1) for which files to use. The following example
show the basic syntax to use for settings, bindings and colors.
[tig] show-changes = true
[tig "color"] cursor = yellow red bold
[tig "bind"] generic = P parent
In addition to tig-specific options, the following Git options are read from the Git configuration:
color.*
Colors for the various UI types. Can be configured via the git-colors setting.
core.abbrev
The width of the commit ID. See also id-width option.
core.editor
The editor command. Can be overridden by setting GIT_EDITOR.
core.worktree
The path to the root of the working tree.
gui.encoding
The encoding to use for displaying of file content.
i18n.commitencoding
The encoding used for commits. The default is UTF-8.
SET COMMAND
A few selective variables can be configured via the set command. The syntax is:
set variables = value
Examples:
set commit-order = topo # Order commits topologically
set git-colors = no # Do not read Git's color settings.
set horizontal-scroll = 33% # Scroll 33% of the view width
set blame-options = -C -C -C # Blame lines from other files
# Wrap branch names with () and tags with <>
set reference-format = (branch) <tag>
# Configure blame view columns using command spanning multiple lines.
set blame-view = \
date:default \
author:abbreviated \
file-name:auto \
id:yes,color \
line-number:yes,interval=5 text
Or in the Git configuration files:
[tig]
line-graphics = no # Disable graphics characters
tab-size = 8 # Number of spaces per tab
The type of variables is either bool, int, string, or mixed.
Valid bool values
To set a bool variable to true use either "1", "true", or "yes". Any other value will set the
variable to false.
Valid int values
A non-negative integer.
Valid string values
A string of characters. Optionally, use either ' or " as delimiters.
Valid mixed values
These values are composites of the above types. The valid values are specified in the description.
Variables
The following variables can be set:
diff-options (string)
A space-separated string of diff options to use in the diff view. git-show(1) is used for formatting
and always passes --patch-with-stat. This option overrides any options specified in the TIG_DIFF_OPTS
environment variable (described in tig(1)), but is itself overridden by diff flags given on the
command line invocation.
blame-options (string)
A space-separated string of default blame options. Can be used for telling git-blame(1) how to detect
the origin of lines. The options are ignored when Tig is started in blame mode and given blame
options on the command line.
log-options (string)
A space-separated string of default options that should be passed to the git-log(1) command used by
the log view. Options can be overridden by command line options. Used internally override custom
‘pretty.format’ settings that break the log view.
main-options (string)
A space-separated string of default options that should be passed to the git-log(1) command used by
the main view. Options can be overridden by command line options.
reference-format (string)
A space-separated string of format strings used for formatting reference names. Wrap the name of the
reference type with the characters you would like to use for formatting, e.g. [tag] and <remote>. If
no format is specified for local-tag, the format for tag is used. Similarly, if no format is
specified for tracked-remote the remote format is used. Prefix with hide: to not show that reference
type, e.g. hide:remote. Supported reference types are:
• head : The current HEAD.
• tag : A signed tag.
• local-tag : An unsigned tag.
• remote : A remote.
• tracked-remote : The remote tracked by current HEAD.
• replace : A replaced reference.
• branch : Any other reference.
line-graphics (mixed) [ascii|default|utf-8|<bool>]
What type of character graphics for line drawing.
truncation-delimiter (mixed) [utf-8|<string>]
A single character to draw where columns are truncated. The default is "~". The special value "utf-8"
refers to the character "..." ("Midline Horizontal Ellipsis").
horizontal-scroll (mixed)
Interval to scroll horizontally in each step. Can be specified either as the number of columns, e.g.
5, or as a percentage of the view width, e.g. 33%, where the maximum is 100%. For percentages it is
always ensured that at least one column is scrolled. The default is to scroll 50% of the view width.
git-colors (list)
A space-separated list of "key=value" pairs where the key is a Git color name and the value is a Tig
color name, e.g. "branch.current=main-head" and "grep.filename=grep.file". Set to "no" to disable.
show-notes (mixed) [<reference>|<bool>]
Whether to show notes for a commit. When set to a note reference the reference is passed to git show
--notes=. Notes are enabled by default.
show-changes (bool)
Whether to show staged and unstaged changes in the main view.
vertical-split (mixed) [auto|<bool>]
Whether to split the view horizontally or vertically. "auto" (which is the default) means that it
will depend on the window dimensions. When true vertical orientation is used, and false sets the
orientation to horizontal.
split-view-height (mixed)
The height of the bottom view in a horizontally split display. Can be specified either as the number
of rows, e.g. 5, or as a percentage of the view height, e.g. 80%, where the maximum is 100%. It is
always ensured that the smaller of the views is at least four rows high. The default is 67%.
split-view-width (mixed)
Width of the right-most view in a vertically split display. Can be specified either as the number of
column, e.g. 5, or as a percentage of the view width, e.g. 80%, where the maximum is 100%. It is
always ensured that the smaller of the views is at least four columns wide. The default is 50%.
status-show-untracked-dirs (bool)
Show untracked directories contents in the status view (analog to git ls-files --directory option).
On by default.
status-show-untracked-files (bool)
Show untracked files in the status view (mirrors Git’s status.showUntrackedFiles option). On by
default.
tab-size (int)
Number of spaces per tab. The default is 8 spaces.
diff-context (int)
Number of context lines to show for diffs.
diff-highlight (mixed)
Whether to highlight diffs using Git’s diff-highlight program. Defaults to false. When set to true
then diff-highlight is used, else the option value is used as the path. When this option is in
effect, highlighted regions are governed by color diff-add-highlight and color diff-del-highlight.
ignore-space (mixed) [no|all|some|at-eol|<bool>]
Ignore space changes in diff view. By default no space changes are ignored. Changing this to "all",
"some" or "at-eol" is equivalent to passing "--ignore-all-space", "--ignore-space" or
"--ignore-space-at-eol" respectively to git diff or git show.
Warning: when ignore-space is set to some, all or at-eol, then the status-update and status-revert
may fail when updating or reverting chunks containing lines with space changes. Similarly,
stage-update-line may fail when updating a line adjacent to a line with space changes
commit-order (enum) [auto|default|topo|date|author-date|reverse]
Commit ordering using the default (chronological reverse) order, topological order, date order or
reverse order. When set to "auto" (which is the default), topological order is automatically used in
the main view when the commit graph is enabled. In repositories with a long commit history it is
advised to set this option to "default" to speed up loading of the main view.
ignore-case (enum) [no|yes|smart-case]
Ignore case in searches. "smart-case" ignores case if the search string doesn’t contain any uppercase
letters. By default, the search is case sensitive.
mailmap (bool)
Read canonical name and email addresses for authors and committers from .mailmap. Off by default. See
git-shortlog(1).
wrap-lines (bool)
Wrap long lines. By default, lines are not wrapped. Not compatible with line numbers enabled.
focus-child (bool)
Whether to focus the child view when it is opened. When disabled the focus will remain in the parent
view, avoiding reloads of the child view when navigating the parent view. True by default.
editor-line-number (bool)
Whether to pass the selected line number to the editor command. The line number is passed as
+<line-number> in front of the file name. Example: vim +10 tig.c
history-size (int)
Size of the persistent ~/.tig_history file when compiled with readline support. Default is 500. Set
to 0 to disable.
mouse (bool)
Whether to enable mouse support. Off by default since it makes selecting text from the terminal less
intuitive. When enabled hold down Shift (or Option on Mac) to select text. Mouse support requires
that ncurses itself support mouse events.
mouse-scroll (int)
Interval to scroll up or down using the mouse. The default is 3 lines. Mouse support requires that
ncurses itself support mouse events and that you have enabled mouse support in ~/.tigrc with set
mouse = true.
mouse-wheel-cursor (bool)
Whether to prefer moving the cursor to scrolling the view when using the mouse wheel. Off by default.
Combines well with set mouse-scroll = 1. Mouse support requires that ncurses itself support mouse
events and that you have enabled mouse support in ~/.tigrc with set mouse = true.
refresh-mode (mixed) [manual|auto|after-command|periodic|<bool>]
Configures how views are refreshed based on modifications to watched files in the repository. When
set to manual, nothing is refreshed automatically. When set to auto, views are refreshed when a
modification is detected. When set to after-command only refresh after returning from an external
command. When set to periodic, visible views are refreshed periodically using refresh-interval.
refresh-interval (int)
Interval in seconds between view refresh update checks when refresh-mode is set to periodic.
file-args (args)
Command line arguments referring to files. These are filtered using git-rev-parse(1).
rev-args (args)
Command line arguments referring to revisions. These are filtered using git-rev-parse(1).
View settings
The view settings define the order and options for the different columns of a view. Each view setting
expects a space-separated list of column specifications. Column specifications starts with the column
type, and can optionally be followed by a colon (:) and a list of column options. E.g. the following
column specification defines an author column displaying the author email and with a maximum width of 20
characters: author:email,width=20.
The first option value in a column specification is always the display option. When no display value is
given, yes is assumed. For display options expecting an enumerated value this will automatically resolve
to the default enum value. For example, file-name will automatically have its display setting resolve to
auto.
Specifications can also be given for a single column, for example to override the defaults in the system
tigrc file. To override a single column, use the column name as a suffix after the view setting name,
e.g. main-view-date will allow to set the date in the main view.
Examples:
# Enable both ID and line numbers in the blame view
set blame-view = date:default author:full file-name:auto id:yes,color \
line-number:yes,interval=5 text
# Change grep view to be similar to `git grep` format
set grep-view = file-name:yes line-number:yes,interval=1 text
# Show file sizes as units
set tree-view = line-number:no,interval=5 mode author:full \
file-size:units date:default id:no file-name
# Show line numbers for every 10th line in the pager view
set pager-view = line-number:yes,interval=10 text
# Shorthands to change view settings for a previously defined column
set main-view-date = custom
set main-view-date-format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"
set blame-view-line-number = no
# Use Git's default commit order, even when the commit graph is enabled.
set commit-order = default
The following list shows which the available view settings and what column types they support:
blob-view, diff-view, log-view, pager-view, stage-view
line-number, text
blame-view
author, date, file-name, id, line-number, text
grep-view
file-name, line-number, text
main-view
author, date, commit-title, id, line-number
refs-view
author, date, commit-title, id, line-number, ref
stash-view
author, date, commit-title, id, line-number
status-view
file-name, line-number, status
tree-view
author, date, id, file-name, file-size, line-number, mode
Supported column types and their respective column options:
author
• display (mixed) [full|abbreviated|email|email-user|<bool>]: How to display author names. If set
to "abbreviated" author initials will be shown.
• width (int): Width of the column. When set to a value between 1 and 10, the author name will be
abbreviated to the author’s initials. When set to zero, the width is automatically sized to fit
the content.
commit-title
• graph (mixed) [no|v2|v1]: Whether to show the revision graph in the main view on start-up. "v1"
refers to the old graph rendering, which is less accurate but faster and thus recommended in
large repositories. See also the line-graphics options.
• refs (bool): Whether to show references (branches, tags, and remotes) in the main view. Can be
toggled.
• overflow (bool or int): Whether to highlight text in commit titles exceeding a given width. When
set to a boolean, it enables or disables the highlighting using the default width of 50
character. When set to an int, the assigned value is used as the maximum character width.
date
• display (mixed) [relative|relative-compact|custom|default|<bool>]: How to display dates. If set
to "relative" or "relative-compact" a relative date will be used, e.g. "2 minutes ago" or "2m".
If set to "custom", the strftime(3) string format specified in the "format" option is used.
• local (bool): If true, use localtime(3) to convert to local timezone. Note that relative dates
always use local offsets.
• format (string): format string to pass to strftime(3) when custom display mode has been selected.
• width (int): Width of the column. When set to zero, the width is automatically sized to fit the
content.
file-name
• display (mixed) [auto|always|<bool>]: When to display file names. If set to "auto" file names are
shown only when needed, e.g. when running: tig blame -C <file>.
• width (int): Width of the column. When set to zero, the width is automatically sized to fit the
content.
file-size
• display (mixed) [default|units|<bool>]: How to display file sizes. When set to "units", sizes are
shown using binary prefixes, e.g. 12524 bytes is shown as "12.2K".
• width (int): Width of the filename column. When set to zero, the width is automatically sized to
fit the content.
id
• display (bool): Whether to show commit IDs in the main view.
• width (int) : Width of the commit ID. When unset Tig will use the value of core.abbrev if found.
See git-config(1) on how to set core.abbrev. When set to zero the width is automatically sized to
fit the content of reflog (e.g. ref/stash@{4}) IDs and otherwise default to 7.
line-number
• display (bool): Whether to show line numbers.
• interval (int): Interval between line numbers.
• width (int): Width of the column. When set to zero, the width is automatically sized to fit the
content.
mode
• display (bool): Whether to show file modes.
• width (int): Width of the column. When set to zero, the width is automatically sized to fit the
content.
ref
• display (bool): Whether to show the reference name.
• width (int): Width of the column. When set to zero, the width is automatically sized to fit the
content.
status
• display (mixed) [no|short|long|<bool>]: How to display the status label.
text
• commit-title-overflow (bool or int): Whether to highlight commit titles exceeding a given width
in the diff view. When set to a boolean, it enables or disables the highlighting using the
default width of 50 character. When set to an int, the assigned value is used as the maximum
character width.
All column options can be toggled. For display options, use the option name as the prefix followed by a
dash and the column name. E.g. :toggle author-display will toggle the display option in the author
column. For all other options use the column name followed by a dash and then the option name as the
suffix. E.g. :toggle commit-title-graph will toggle the graph option in the commit-title column.
Alternatively, use the option menu to manipulate options.
BIND COMMAND
Using bind commands, keys can be mapped to an action when pressed in a given key map. The syntax is:
bind keymap key action
Examples:
# Add keybinding to quickly jump to the next diff chunk in the stage view
bind stage <Enter> :/^@@
# Disable the default mapping for running git-gc
bind generic G none
# User-defined external command to amend the last commit
bind status + !git commit --amend
# User-defined internal command that reloads ~/.tigrc
bind generic S :source ~/.tigrc
# UTF8-encoded characters can be used as key values.
bind generic ø @sh -c "printf '%s' %(commit) | pbcopy"
Or in the Git configuration files:
[tig "bind"]
# 'unbind' the default quit key binding
main = Q none
# Cherry-pick current commit onto current branch
generic = C !git cherry-pick %(commit)
Keys are mapped by first searching the keybindings for the current view, then the keybindings for the
generic keymap, and last the default keybindings. Thus, the view keybindings override the generic
keybindings which override the built-in keybindings.
Keybindings at the line-entry prompt are typically governed by the readline library, and are configured
separately in ~/.inputrc. See readline(1). Tig respects but does not require an $if tig section in
~/.inputrc.
Keymaps
Valid keymaps are: main, diff, log, help, pager, status, stage, tree, blob, blame, refs, stash, grep
and generic. Use generic to set key mapping in all keymaps. Use search to define keys for navigating
search results during search.
Key values
Key values should never be quoted. Use either an ASCII or UTF8-encoded character or one of the
following symbolic key names. Symbolic key names are case insensitive and starts with "<" and ends
with ">". Use <Hash> to bind to the # key, since the hash mark is used as a comment character. Use
<LessThan> to bind to the < key.
<Enter>, <Space>, <Backspace>, <Tab>, <Escape> or <Esc>, <Left>, <Right>, <Up>, <Down>, <Insert> or
<Ins>, <Delete> or <Del>, <Hash>, <LessThan> or <LT>, <Home>, <End>, <PageUp> or <PgUp>, <PageDown> or
<PgDown>, <ScrollBack> or <SBack>, <ScrollFwd> or <SFwd>, <ShiftTab> or <BackTab>, <ShiftLeft>,
<ShiftRight>, <ShiftDelete> or <ShiftDel>, <ShiftHome>, <ShiftEnd>, <F1> ... <F19>
To define key mappings with the Ctrl key, use <Ctrl-key>. In addition, key combos consisting of an
initial Escape key followed by a normal key value can be bound using <Esc>key.
Examples:
bind main R refresh
bind main <Down> next
bind main <Ctrl-f> scroll-page-down
bind main <Esc>o options
bind main <ShiftTab> parent
Notes
• Tig reads keystrokes via ncurses and is subject to various limitations. See ncurses(3x) and
terminfo(5) (or termcap).
• Ctrl-m and Ctrl-i cannot be bound as they conflict with Enter and Tab respectively.
• Case differences cannot be distinguished in control sequences such as Ctrl-f and Ctrl-F.
• Ctrl-<Space> is typically translated to Ctrl-@, which is available for binding.
• Only some subset of special symbolic keys such as <ShiftTab> will be available in any given terminal
emulator.
• Ctrl-z is automatically used for process control and will suspend Tig and open a subshell (use fg to
reenter Tig).
Actions
Actions are either specified as user-defined commands (external or internal) or using action
names as described in the following sections.
External user-defined command
These actions start with one or more of the following option flags followed by the command that should be
executed.
! Run the command in the foreground
with output shown.
@ Run the command in the background
with no output.
+ Run the command synchronously, and
echo the first line of output to the
status bar.
? Prompt the user before executing the
command.
< Exit Tig after executing the command.
Unless otherwise specified, commands are run in the foreground with their console output shown (as if !
was specified). When multiple command options are specified their behavior are combined, e.g. "?<git
commit" will prompt the user whether to execute the command and will exit Tig after completion.
Browsing state variables
User-defined commands can optionally refer to Tig’s internal state using the following variable
names, which are substituted before commands are run:
%(head) The currently viewed head ID.
Defaults to HEAD
%(commit) The currently selected commit ID.
%(blob) The currently selected blob ID.
%(branch) The currently selected branch name.
%(remote) The currently selected remote name.
For remote branches %(branch) will
contain the branch name.
%(tag) The currently selected tag name.
%(stash) The currently selected stash name.
%(directory) The current directory path in the
tree view or "." if undefined.
%(file) The currently selected file.
%(lineno) The currently selected line number.
Defaults to 0.
%(ref) The reference given to blame or HEAD
if undefined.
%(revargs) The revision arguments passed on the
command line.
%(fileargs) The file arguments passed on the
command line.
%(cmdlineargs) All other options passed on the
command line.
%(diffargs) Options from diff-options or
TIG_DIFF_OPTS used by the diff and
stage view.
%(blameargs) Options from blame-options used by
the blame view.
%(logargs) Options from log-options used by the
log view.
%(mainargs) Options from main-options used by the
main view.
%(prompt) Prompt for the argument value.
Optionally specify a custom prompt
using "%(prompt Enter branch name: )"
%(text) The text of the currently selected
line.
%(repo:head) The name of the checked out branch,
e.g. master
%(repo:head-id) The commit ID of the checked out
branch.
%(repo:remote) The remote associated with the
checked out branch, e.g.
origin/master.
%(repo:cdup) The path to change directory to the
repository root, e.g. ../
%(repo:prefix) The path prefix of the current work
directory, e.g subdir/.
%(repo:git-dir) The path to the Git directory, e.g.
/src/repo/.git.
%(repo:is-inside-work-tree) Whether Tig is running inside a work
tree, either true or false.
Examples:
# Save the current commit as a patch file when the user selects a commit
# in the main view and presses 'S'.
bind main S !git format-patch -1 %(commit)
# Create and checkout a new branch; specify custom prompt
bind main B ?git checkout -b "%(prompt Enter new branch name: )"
# Show commit statistics for the author under the cursor
bind main U +sh -c 'git --no-pager shortlog -s --author="$(git show -s --format=%aE %(commit))" </dev/tty'
Advanced shell-like commands
If your command requires use of dynamic features, such as subshells, expansion of environment
variables and process control, this can be achieved by using a shell command:
Example 1. Configure a binding to copy the current commit ID to the clipboard.
bind generic I @sh -c "echo -n %(commit) | xclip -selection c"
Or by using a combination of Git aliases and Tig external commands. The following example entries can
be put in either the .gitconfig or .git/config file:
Example 2. Git configuration which binds Tig keys to Git command aliases.
[alias]
gitk-bg = !"gitk HEAD --not $(git rev-parse --remotes) &"
publish = !"for i in origin public; do git push $i; done"
[tig "bind"]
# @-prefix means that the console output will not be shown.
generic = V !@git gitk-bg
generic = > !git publish
Internal user-defined commands
Actions beginning with a : will be run and interpreted as internal commands and act similar to commands
run via Tig’s prompt. Valid internal commands are configuration file options (as described in this
document) and pager view commands. Examples:
# Reload ~/.tigrc when 'S' is pressed
bind generic S :source .tigrc
# Change diff view to show all commit changes regardless of file limitations
bind diff F :set diff-options = --full-diff
# Show the output of git-reflog(1) in the pager view
bind generic W :!git reflog
# Search for previous diff (c)hunk and next diff header
bind stage 2 :?^@@
bind stage D :/^diff --(git|cc)
bind main I :toggle id # Show/hide the ID column
bind diff D :toggle diff-options --minimal # Use minimal diff algorithm
bind diff [ :toggle diff-context -3 # Decrease context (-U arg)
bind diff ] :toggle diff-context +3 # Increase context
bind generic V :toggle split-view-height -10% # Decrease split height
Similar to external commands, pager view commands can contain variable names that will be substituted
before the command is run.
Action names
Valid action names are described below. Note, all action names are case-insensitive, and you may use -,
_, and . interchangeably, e.g. "view-main", "View.Main", and "VIEW_MAIN" are the same.
View switching
view-main Show main view
view-diff Show diff view
view-log Show log view
view-tree Show tree view
view-blob Show blob view
view-blame Show blame view
view-refs Show refs view
view-status Show status view
view-stage Show stage view
view-stash Show stash view
view-grep Show grep view
view-pager Show pager view
view-help Show help view
View manipulation
enter Enter and open selected line
back Go back to the previous view state
next Move to next
previous Move to previous
parent Move to parent
view-next Move focus to the next view
refresh Reload and refresh view
maximize Maximize the current view
view-close Close the current view
view-close-no-quit Close the current view without
quitting
quit Close all views and quit
View-specific actions
status-update Stage/unstage chunk or file changes
status-revert Revert chunk or file changes
status-merge Merge file using external tool
stage-update-line Stage/unstage single line
stage-split-chunk Split current diff chunk
Cursor navigation
move-up Move cursor one line up
move-down Move cursor one line down
move-page-down Move cursor one page down
move-page-up Move cursor half a page up
move-half-page-down Move cursor half a page down
move-half-page-up Move cursor one page up
move-first-line Move cursor to first line
move-last-line Move cursor to last line
move-next-merge Move cursor to next merge commit
move-prev-merge Move cursor to previous merge commit
Scrolling
scroll-line-up Scroll one line up
scroll-line-down Scroll one line down
scroll-page-up Scroll one page up
scroll-page-down Scroll one page down
scroll-first-col Scroll to the first line columns
scroll-left Scroll two columns left
scroll-right Scroll two columns right
Searching
search Search the view
search-back Search backwards in the view
find-next Find next search match
find-prev Find previous search match
Misc
edit Open in editor
prompt Open the prompt
options Open the options menu
screen-redraw Redraw the screen
stop-loading Stop all loading views
show-version Show version information
none Do nothing
COLOR COMMAND
Color commands control highlighting and the user interface styles. If your terminal supports color, these
commands can be used to assign foreground and background combinations to certain areas. Optionally, an
attribute can be given as the last parameter. The syntax is:
color area fgcolor bgcolor [attributes]
Examples:
# Override the default terminal colors to white on black.
color default white black
# Diff colors
color diff-header yellow default
color diff-index blue default
color diff-chunk magenta default
color "Reported-by:" green default
# View-specific color
color tree.date black cyan bold
Or in the Git configuration files:
[tig "color"]
# A strange looking cursor line
cursor = red default underline
# UI colors
title-blur = white blue
title-focus = white blue bold
# View-specific color
[tig "color.tree"]
date = cyan default bold
Area names
Can be either a built-in area name or a custom quoted string. The latter allows custom color rules to
be added for lines matching a quoted string. Valid built-in area names are described below. Note, all
names are case-insensitive, and you may use -, and _ interchangeably, e.g. "Diff-Header" and
"DIFF_HEADER" are the same. View-specific colors can be defined by prefixing the view name to the
area name, e.g. "stage.diff-chunk" and "diff.diff-chunk".
Color names
Valid colors include: white, black, green, magenta, blue, cyan, yellow, red, default. Use default to
refer to the default terminal colors, for example, to keep the background transparent when you are
using a terminal with a transparent background.
Colors can also be specified using the keywords color0, color1, ..., colorN-1 (where N is the number
of colors supported by your terminal). This is useful when you remap the colors for your display or
want to enable colors supported by 88-color and 256-color terminals. Note that the color prefix is
optional. If you prefer, you can specify colors directly by their numbers 0, 1, ..., N-1 instead,
just like in the configuration file of Git.
Attribute names
Valid attributes include: normal, blink, bold, dim, reverse, standout, and underline. Note, not all
attributes may be supported by the terminal.
UI colors
The colors and attributes to be used for the text that is not highlighted or that specify the use of the
default terminal colors can be controlled by setting the default color option.
Table 1. General
default Override default terminal colors (see
above).
cursor The cursor line.
status The status window showing info
messages.
title-focus The title window for the current
view.
title-blur The title window of any backgrounded
view.
search-result Highlighted search result.
delimiter Delimiter shown for truncated lines.
header The view header lines. Use
status.header to color the staged,
unstaged, and untracked sections in
the status view. Use help.header to
color the keymap sections in the help
view.
line-number Line numbers.
id The commit ID.
date The author date.
author The commit author.
mode The file mode holding the permissions
and type.
overflow Title text overflow.
directory The directory name.
file The file name.
file-size File size.
Table 2. Main view colors
graph-commit The commit dot in the revision graph.
palette-[0-13] 14 different colors, used for
distinguishing branches or commits.
By default, the palette uses the
ASCII colors, where the second half
of them have the bold attribute
enabled to give a brighter color.
Example: palette-0 = red
main-commit The commit comment.
main-head Label of the current branch.
main-remote Label of a remote.
main-tracked Label of the remote tracked by the
current branch.
main-tag Label of a signed tag.
main-local-tag Label of a local tag.
main-ref Label of any other reference.
main-replace Label of replaced reference.
Table 3. Status view
stat-none Empty status label.
stat-staged Status flag of staged files.
stat-unstaged Status flag of unstaged files.
stat-untracked Status flag of untracked files.
Table 4. Help view
help-group Help group name.
help-action Help action name.
Highlighting
Diff markup
Options concerning diff start, chunks and lines added and deleted.
diff-header, diff-chunk, diff-add, diff-add2, diff-del, diff-del2, diff-add-highlight, diff-del-highlight
Enhanced Git diff markup
Extra diff information emitted by the Git diff machinery, such as mode changes, rename detection, and
similarity.
diff-oldmode, diff-newmode, diff-copy-from, diff-copy-to, diff-similarity, diff-index
Pretty print commit headers
Commit diffs and the revision logs are usually formatted using pretty printed headers , unless
--pretty=raw was given. This includes lines, such as merge info, commit ID, and author and committer
date.
pp-refs, pp-reflog, pp-reflogmsg, pp-merge
Raw commit header
Usually shown when --pretty=raw is given, however commit is pretty much omnipresent.
commit, parent, tree, author, committer
Commit message
Signed-off-by, Acked-by, Reviewed-by and Tested-by lines are colorized. Characters in the commit
title exceeding a predefined width can be highlighted.
Tree markup
Colors for information of the tree view.
tree-dir, tree-file
SOURCE COMMAND
Source commands make it possible to read additional configuration files. Sourced files are included
in-place, meaning when a source command is encountered the file will be immediately read. Any commands
later in the current configuration file will take precedence.
If the given path does not exist, tig will proceed with a warning. Give the -q parameter to suppress the
warning.
The syntax is:
source [-q] path
Examples:
source ~/.tig/colorscheme.tigrc
source ~/.tig/keybindings.tigrc
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2006-2014 Jonas Fonseca <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com[1]>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
SEE ALSO
tig(1), tigmanual(7), git(7), git-config(1)
NOTES
1. jonas.fonseca@gmail.com
mailto:jonas.fonseca@gmail.com