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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.
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.
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-rev-graph = 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 completely disabled by setting read-git-colors.
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 show-author = abbreviated # Show abbreviated author names.
set show-date = relative # Show relative commit date.
set show-rev-graph = yes # Show revision graph?
set show-refs = yes # Show references?
set commit-order = topo # Order commits topologically
set read-git-colors = no # Do not read Git's color settings.
set show-line-numbers = no # Show line numbers?
set line-number-interval = 5 # Interval between line numbers
set horizontal-scroll = 33% # Scroll 33% of the view width
set blame-options = -C -C -C # Blame lines from other files
Or in the Git configuration files:
[tig]
show-date = yes # Show commit date?
author-width = 10 # Set width of the author column
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:
author-width (int)
Width of the author column. When set to 5 or below, the author name will be abbreviated to the
author’s initials.
filename-width (int)
Width of the filename column.
id-width (int)
Width of the commit ID. When unset Tig will use the value of core.abbrev if found or default to 7.
See git-config(1) on how to set core.abbrev.
diff-options (string)
A space separate 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 extra blame options. Can be used for telling git-blame(1) how to detect
the origin of lines. The value is ignored when Tig is started in blame mode and given blame options
on the command line.
line-graphics (mixed) [ "ascii" | "default" | "utf-8" | bool]
What type of character graphics for line drawing.
line-number-interval (int)
Interval between line numbers. Note, you have to toggle on line numbering with ".". The default is to
number every fifth line.
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.
read-git-colors (bool)
Whether to read Git’s color settings. True by default.
show-author (mixed) ["full", "abbreviated" | "email" | "email-user" | bool]
How to display author names. If set to "abbreviated" author initials will be shown. Can be toggled.
show-filename (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>.
show-file-size (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". Can be toggled.
show-date (mixed) ["relative" | "short" | "default" | "local" | bool]
Whether and how to show date. If set to "relative" a relative date will be used, e.g. "2 minutes
ago". If set to "short" no time information is shown. If set to "local", localtime(3) is used. Can be
toggled.
show-notes (mixed) [note 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-refs (bool)
Whether to show references (branches, tags, and remotes) in the main view on start-up. Can be
toggled.
show-id (bool)
Whether to show commit IDs in the main view. Disabled by default. Can be toggled. See also id-width
option.
title-overflow (mixed) [bool | int]
Whether to highlight text in commit titles exceeding a given width. When set to a boolean, it
enables/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.
show-rev-graph (bool)
Whether to show revision graph in the main view on start-up. Can be toggled. See also line-graphics
options.
show-changes (bool)
Whether to show staged and unstaged changes in the main view. Can be toggled.
show-line-numbers (bool)
Whether to show line numbers. Can be toggled.
vertical-split (bool)
Whether to split the view horizontally or vertically.
split-view-height (mixed)
Height of the lower view in a split view. 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 a view height of 66%.
status-untracked-dirs (bool)
Show untracked directories contents in the status view (analog to git ls-files --directory 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.
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.
commit-order (mixed) ["default" | "topo" | "date" | "reverse" | bool]
Commit ordering using the default (chronological reverse) order, topological order, date order or
reverse order. The default order is used when the option is set to false, and topo order when set to
true.
ignore-case (bool)
Ignore case in searches. By default, the search is case sensitive.
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
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:
# A few keybindings
bind main w scroll-line-up
bind main s scroll-line-down
bind main space enter
bind diff a previous
bind diff d next
bind diff b move-first-line
# An external command to update from upstream
bind generic F !git fetch
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 shadow the generic
keybindings which Shadow the built-in keybindings.
Keymaps
Valid keymaps are: main, diff, log, help, pager, status, stage, tree, blob, blame, branch, and
generic. Use generic to set key mapping in all keymaps.
Key values
Key values should never be quoted. Use either the ASCII value or one of the following symbolic key
names. Symbolic key names are case insensitive, Use Hash to bind to the # key, since the hash mark is
used as a comment character.
Enter, Space, Backspace, Tab, Escape, Left, Right, Up, Down, Insert, Delete, Hash, Home, End, PageUp,
PageDown, F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11, F12.
To add a key mapping that uses the Ctrl key, use a ^ prefix in your mapping. For example, Ctrl-f could be
mapped to scroll-page-down with the following line:
bind main ^f scroll-page-down
Action names
Valid action names are described below. Note, all names are case-insensitive, and you may use -, _,
and . interchangeably, e.g. "view-main", "View.Main", and "VIEW_MAIN" are the same.
Actions
Apart from the action names listed below, all actions starting with a ! or : are treated specially.
Actions beginning with a : will run an internal Tig command. These internal commands are those which you
put in a configuration file or type at the Tig prompt. As an example, "bind generic S :source .tigrc"
will source a .tigrc file in the current directory when S is pressed.
Actions beginning with a ! will be available as an external command. External commands can contain
variable names that will be substituted before the command is run. Valid variable names are:
Table 1. Browsing state variables
%(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.
%(stash) The currently selected stash name.
%(directory) The current directory path in the
tree view; empty for the root
directory.
%(file) The currently selected file.
%(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.
%(diffargs) The diff options passed on the
command line.
%(prompt) Prompt for the argument value.
As an example, the following external command will save the current commit as a patch file: "!git
format-patch -1 %(commit)". If your external 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 in ~/.tigrc to put a commit ID in 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
By default, commands are run in the foreground with their console output shown. For different behavior,
commands can be prefixed with one or more of the following control flags to specify how it should be
executed:
Table 2. External command control flags
@ Run the command in the background
with no output.
? Prompt the user before executing the
command.
< Exit Tig after executing the command.
Control flags can be combined, e.g. "!?<git commit" will prompt whether to execute the command and will
exit Tig after completion.
Table 3. 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-branch Show branch view
view-status Show status view
view-stage Show stage view
view-pager Show pager view
view-help Show help page
Table 4. View manipulation
enter Enter current line and scroll
next Move to next
previous Move to previous
parent Move to parent
view-next Move focus to next view
refresh Reload and refresh view
maximize Maximize the current view
view-close Close the current view
quit Close all views and quit
Table 5. View specific actions
status-update Update file status
status-merge Resolve unmerged file
stage-update-line Stage single line
stage-next Find next chunk to stage
diff-context-up Increase the diff context
diff-context-down Decrease the diff context
Table 6. 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 one page up
move-first-line Move cursor to first line
move-last-line Move cursor to last line
Table 7. 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 column
scroll-left Scroll one column left
scroll-right Scroll one column right
Table 8. Searching
search Search the view
search-back Search backwards in the view
find-next Find next search match
find-prev Find previous search match
Table 9. Misc
prompt Bring up the prompt
screen-redraw Redraw the screen
screen-resize Resize the screen
show-version Show version information
stop-loading Stop all loading views
options Open options menu
toggle-lineno Toggle line numbers
toggle-date Toggle date display
toggle-author Toggle author display
toggle-filename Toggle file name display
toggle-file-size Toggle file size display
toggle-rev-graph Toggle revision graph visualization
toggle-graphic Toggle (line) graphics mode
toggle-refs Toggle reference display
toggle-files Toggle file filtering for the diff
and main views
edit Open in editor
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
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
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",
"DIFF_HEADER", and "diff.header" are the same.
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 10. 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.
delimiter Delimiter shown for truncated lines.
line-number Line numbers.
id The commit ID.
date The commit date.
author The commit author.
mode The file mode holding the permissions
and type.
Table 11. Main view colors
graph-commit The commit dot in the revision graph.
palette-[0-6] 7 different colors, used for
distinguishing branches or commits.
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.
Table 12. Status view
stat-head The "On branch"-line.
stat-section Status section titles,
stat-staged Status flag of staged files.
stat-unstaged Status flag of unstaged files.
stat-untracked Status flag of untracked files.
Table 13. Tree view
tree-head The "Directory /"-line
tree-dir The directory name.
tree-file The file name.
Highlighting
Diff markup
Options concerning diff start, chunks and lines added and deleted.
diff-header, diff-chunk, diff-add, diff-del
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-rename-from, diff-rename-to,
diff-deleted-file-mode, diff-similarity, diff-dissimilarity diff-tree, diff-index, diff-stat
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-author, pp-commit, pp-merge, pp-date, pp-adate, pp-cdate, pp-refs
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.
signoff, acked, reviewed, tested, overflow
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. The syntax is:
source path
Examples:
source ~/.tig/colorscheme.tigrc
source ~/.tig/keybindings.tigrc
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
tig(1), tigmanual(7), git(7), git-config(1)
NOTES
1. fonseca@diku.dk
mailto:fonseca@diku.dk
Tig 1.2.1 11/23/2013 TIGRC(5)