Tig doesn't show lines but instead ~T~B (or similiar)

Question

I am using tig to view git history but the interface is not showing the lines any longer, see picture.

I'm sadly on a Windows environment running git bash. Does anyone know how I can get the lines instead?

Answer 1

You want to change the "graphics" configuration to something your system supports.

Hit ~ until you see something you like; You'll see something in the statusbar that looks like set line-graphics = utf-8.

Then edit your $HOME/.gitconfig and add a that line-graphics value to a tig section:

[tig]
  line-graphics = utf-8