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Showing a file tree view of a commit in tig

I'm using tig and would like to see the list of changed files in a commit, possibly drilling down to a diff view of a specific file, yet I haven't found a way to do this. Is it possible, or is only the diff view available on a commit?

Solution

  • The gentleman behind tig has graciously created a dedicated view log: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21323680/2916086

    Thank you sir!

    UPDATE: pipe in the data you want tig to format. For example:

    > git log --stat|tig
> alias tigstat='git log --stat|tig'
> tigstat

    Basically, just press Enter on the commit you are interested, while in the default view of tig.

    In detail:

    1. highlight a commit in the default view, using the up and down cursor keys.
    2. press enter on a commit in the default view. Then use up and down or the j and k keys to navigate the diff.

    The list of changed files should be at the top of the diff.

    See http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/manual.html#viewer for more info

    You can also get this information using:

    git log --stat
git log --stat A_COMMIT_SHA