NAME

       tig - text-mode interface for Git

SYNOPSIS

       tig        [options] [revisions] [--] [paths]
       tig log    [options] [revisions] [--] [paths]
       tig show   [options] [revisions] [--] [paths]
       tig blame  [options] [rev] [--] path
       tig stash
       tig status
       tig <      [Git command output]

DESCRIPTION

       Browse changes in a Git repository. Additionally, tig(1) can also act as a pager for
       output of various Git commands.

       When browsing repositories, tig(1) uses the underlying Git commands to present the user
       with various views, such as summarized commit log and showing the commit with the log
       message, diffstat, and the diff.

       Using tig(1) as a pager, it will display input from stdin and try to colorize it.

OPTIONS

       Command line options recognized by Tig include all valid git-log(1) and git-diff(1)
       options, as well as the following subcommands and Tig specific options. The first command
       line parameter not starting with "-" is interpreted as being either a revision
       specification or a path and will end the option parsing. All following options will be
       passed untouched to the underlying Git command.

       show
           Open diff view using the given git-show(1) options.

       blame
           Show given file annotated by commits. Takes zero or more git-blame(1) options.
           Optionally limited from given revision.

       status
           Start up in status view.

       log
           Start up in log view, displaying git-log(1) output.

       +<number>
           Show the first view with line <number> visible and selected.

       -v, --version
           Show version and exit.

       -h, --help
           Show help message and exit.

EXAMPLES

       Display the current branch:

           $ tig

       Display one or more specific branches:

           $ tig test master

       Display all branches:

           $ tig --all

       Display differences between two branches:

           $ tig test..master

       Display changes for sub-module versions:

           $ tig --submodule

       Display changes for a single file:

           $ tig -- README

       Display contents of the README file in a specific revision:

           $ tig show tig-0.8:README

       Display revisions between two dates for a specific file:

           $ tig --after="2004-01-01" --before="2006-05-16" -- README

       Blame file with copy detection enabled:

           $ tig blame -C README

       Display the list of stashes:

           $ tig stash

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       In addition to environment variables used by Git (e.g. GIT_DIR), Tig defines the ones
       below. The command related environment variables have access to the internal state of Tig
       via replacement variables, such as %(commit) and %(blob). See tigrc(5) for a full list.

       TIGRC_USER
           Path of the user configuration file (defaults to ~/.tigrc).

       TIGRC_SYSTEM
           Path of the system wide configuration file (defaults to {sysconfdir}/tigrc).

       TIG_LS_REMOTE
           Set command for retrieving all repository references. The command should output data
           in the same format as git-ls-remote(1).

       TIG_DIFF_OPTS
           The diff options to use in the diff view. The diff view uses git-show(1) for
           formatting and always passes --patch-with-stat. You may also set the diff-options
           setting in your tigrc(5).

       TIG_TRACE
           Path for trace file where information about Git commands are logged.

FILES

       ~/.tigrc
           User configuration file. See tigrc(5) for examples.

       /etc/tigrc
           System wide configuration file.

       $GIT_DIR/config, '~/.gitconfig, '/etc/gitconfig
           Git configuration files. Read on start-up with the help of git-config(1).

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2006-2012 Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk[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

       tigrc(5), tigmanual(7), git(7)

NOTES

        1. fonseca@diku.dk
           mailto:fonseca@diku.dk