I use git and gitk a lot. Recently, I found some enthousiastic posts about tig and decided to give it a try. It looks great for viewing the repository, however changing the repo with tig seems difficult if not unworkable.
The problem I am facing is that tig fails to start an editor for external commands, thus making it impossible to continue with the action. For example, if I select a commit and issue
!git commit --amend
I get a screen saying
vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal
Only ^C gets me out, thus stopping tig as well.
What can I do to configure this properly for either tig or git in order to get this working?
thanks in advance, Ruud
The main way to start external commands is via keybindings and what in Tig is referred to as user-defined commands. For example, to amend the last commit you can add the following to ~/.tigrc after which pressing + will put you right into Vim:
bind generic + !git commit --amend
There are several variables for the browsing state, which can be passed to external commands, such as %(commit) and %(branch) as well as %(prompt) for asking for input, for example when creating a branch.
For reference, the !<command> allows to open the output in the pager, for example !git show 3e3abcd and as such is more like Vim's :r!<command>.