Port of the week: tig

• Author: Solène
• Date: 10 April 2018
• Tags: unix git versioning

NILToday we will discover the software named tig whose name stands

for Text-mode Interface for Git.

To install it on OpenBSD: pkg_add tig

Tig is a light and easy to use terminal application to browse a git

repository in an interactive manner. To use it, just 'cd' into a git

repository on your filesystem and type tig. You will get the list of

all the commits, with the author and the date. By pressing "Enter" key

on a commit, you will get the diff. Tig also displays branching and

merging in a graphical way.

Tig has some parameters, one I like a lot if blame which is used

like this: tig blame afile. Tig will show the file content and will

display for each line to date of last commit, it's author and the

small identifier of the commit. With this function, it gets really

easy to find who modified a line or when it was modified.

Tig has a lot of others possibilities, you can discover them in its

man pages.