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GNU Interactive Tools
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* Version 4.9.5
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** Increased version of Free Documentation License to 1.3 or later,
still with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no
Back-Cover Texts.
** Added filetype info for many more file extensions.
Thanks to Tudor Hulubei (and Wikipedia).
** Portability fixes, thanks to James Rowe and Gerald Pfeifer.
** Filesize display: go straight to scaled numbers if number with commas
doesn't fit.
** Fix free space display as root.
** gitaction: support xdg-open, kfmclient and exo-open.
* Version 4.9.4
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** New apropos command (^X^A) for key-binding search.
** Environment variables used by gnuit now start with GNUIT_
rather than GIT_ (eg GNUIT_PAGER, GNUIT_BROWSER, etc.).
The old names are still accepted for backwards compatibility.
** Rewrote gitaction, adding more file types and viewers.
** Fixed input in incremental-search mode.
** Use base 1024 when autoscaling.
** More fixes to large file support.
* Version 4.9.3
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** Fixed MacOS support.
** Fixed large file support on 32bit systems.
** On install, remove files belonging to earlier versions.
** gitfm: Scale file sizes when needed to fit available space.
** gitfm: New panel minor mode AbbrevSize: Always scale file sizes (to
e.g. 123M). Accessed with escape-e-S (panel-enable-abbrevsize).
** New config variables: GroupDigits, MaxUnscaledDigits.
** Fix parsing of comments in config files.
** gitaction: Added more viewers; If no explicit action defined for
filetype, falls back to see(1), metamail(1), [on MacOS] open(1),
and finally $GIT_PAGER.
** Added explicit license notice to many files.
* Version 4.9.2
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** Renamed package to gnuit.
** Renamed git file manager binary to gitfm.
A transitional script to warn users is installed unless configured
otherwise with ./configure --disable-transition. Config file
sections now start with "[GITFM-", but "[GIT-" is still accepted.
** Dropped leading dots from system copies of gitrc files,
and renamed them to gnuitrc.*
Files in home directory still start with ".".
~/.gitrc.TERM will be tried as a fallback if ~/.gnuitrc.TERM
doesn't exist.
** Changed code license to GPL version 3 (see COPYING).
and documentation license to GFDL 1.2 with no Invariant
Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.
** Added 64bit I/O support from Tudor Hulubei.
** New terminals: rxvt-unicode, linux-m, cygwin, Eterm.
** Added commands to manipulate .deb files (Thanks to Bruce Sass).
** Support comparing special files in gitfm.
** Restore screen when exiting.
** Fix copying symlinks.
** Add mail checking to title.
** gitps: added numbers as key bindings for signal selection.
** Fixed a scrolling inconsistency in gitview (Tudor Hulubei).
** Fixed a segmentation fault related to directory names containing
printf-like sequences (Tudor Hulubei).
** Fixed a segmentation fault in gitps when killed process left you
off the end of the list.
** Moved the info and documentation files in /usr/share (Tudor Hulubei).
** Fixed a problem with gitps (refresh was resetting the signal type
to SIGTERM) (Tudor Hulubei).
** gitps: added RefreshAfterKill variable (Default: ON), to autorefresh after
signalling a process.
** gitps: add horizontal scroll (ESC-g & ESC-J).
** Documentation fixes (Some from Tudor Hulubei).
* Version 4.3.20
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** Moving across filesystems now preserves file ownership.
** Copying no longer preserves file ownership.
** F7 (`make-directory') creates all the intermediate directories.
** Fixed a long standing bug in the xid code for long user names (I
could finally reproduce it myself).
** Fixed a crash in the incremental search code.
* Version 4.3.19
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** Fixed 2 compilation problems on non-ANSI C compilers.
** Minor fixes in gitaction.
* Version 4.3.18
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** The build/installation procedure is now based on automake.
** `make prefix=some_path' no longer recompiles git. According to the
new GNU coding standards this is the correct behaviour.
** The key sequence typed so far is displayed in the status bar, if
not completed in one second.
** `select-extension'/`unselect-extension': new builtin commands,
bound on `Alt-+'/`Alt--' (or `ESC +'/`ESC -'). These commands
select/unselect all the files in the current directory that have
the same extension as the current file. That is, if the current
file is "git.c", `select-extension' will select all the "*.c" files
in the current directory. If the current file does not have an
extension (including the case where its name starts with a dot), no
selections/unselections are made.
** The insertion of file/directory names in the command line
(Alt-Enter) is a little bit smarter. Quotes are added only when
necessary and when before the current possition there is a /, no
space is added before the name, to allow for path building.
** The incremental forward/backwards search mechanism can recall the
last searched string if the user types ^S/^R while the string is
empty. This is similar to what Emacs does.
** F2 works on *.pgp files (will ask for a passphrase).
** `ESC m f' mounts the first floppy in /mnt/floppy. `ESC r f'
unmounts it.
** A simple scroll-bar thumb (#) has been added on the right side of
the panel's frame.
** The shell command currently being executed is displayed on the
title of the xterm window.
** GIT_BROWSER: new environment variable. If set, git will use this
to view html documents. If GIT_BROWSER is not set, lynx will be
used instead.
** A more Unix like key sequence structure in gitps and gitview. You
can scroll up and down with `Space' and `Backspace' and quit with
`q'.
** Binary file split on `^C /' and (in background) on `^C b /'.
** The inconsistency between the keys and the signal names in gitps
have been fixed. Signal selection is done with upper case letters
only.
** Other bug fixes.
* Version 4.3.17
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** Many fixes and updates.
** Bzip2 compression on `^C .'.
** `^C -' creates a .tar.bz2 archive of the current directory. `^C b -'
does the same thing in background.
** `Alt-m z' and `Alt-r z' (or `ESC m z' and `ESC r z') will
mount/unmount the ZIP drive, provided you link /mnt/zip to the
appropriate device in /dev.
** `Alt-m j' and `Alt-r j' (or `ESC m j' and `ESC r j') will
mount/unmount the JAZ drive, provided you link /mnt/jaz to the
appropriate device in /dev.
** HTML doclumentation included, installed in $(prefix)/lib/git/html.
If lynx is installed, `^X h' will point it to the right place.
** Tested on Solaris 2.6.
** Ported to IRIX 6.3 (mips-sgi-irix6.3) (TERM=iris-ansi).
** Ported to UNIX System V 4.0 (i486-pc-sysv4.0).
** If possible, `git' will print the current path on the title of
xterm terminal emulators. `gitps' will print the ps(1) options
used, and `gitview' will print the name of the file it is currently
viewing.
** GENERIC-UNPACK: New command that unifies archive unpacking. It
unpacks archives based on the extension of the file by calling the
`gitunpack' script to do the job. Currently the `gitunpack' script
is able to handle *.tar, *.tar.gz, *.tar.bz, *.tar.bz2, *.tar.Z,
*.Z, *.gz, *.bz, *.bz2, *.zip, *.jar, *.arg, *.rar, *.shar, *.deb,
*.lha, *.lzh, *.uu and *.a. The binding for GENERIC-UNPACK is `^C
X' - the one used before for UNCOMPRESS-UNTAR which is obsolete and
has been removed (together with B-UNCOMPRESS-UNTAR, UNTAR and
B-UNTAR).
** It is possible to unpack an archive into a given directory, using
GENERIC-UNPACK-INTO (^CV or ^CbV for the background version). If
the directory does not exist, it is created. Thanks to Viorel
Anghel for suggesting this.
** gitunpack (^CX, ^CbX) will unpack all the selected files.
** The rpm-related commands (^CI, ^CbI, ^Ci, ^Cbi, ^CN, ^CbN) will now
act (install, uninstall, upgrade) on all the selected files.
** Added command line options. Try `git -h', `gitps -h' and `gitview
-h' for details.
** `git' will use colors if the COLORTERM environment variable is
defined.
** `git' now accepts starting directories in the command line.
** For the MS-DOS die-hards: I added support for making the shell
`chdir' to the path `git' was in before exiting. `bash' users need
to use this shell function:
function g
{
git -p $@ 3> /tmp/git.p.$$
if test -s /tmp/git.p.$$; then
if test -d "`cat /tmp/git.p.$$`"; then
cd "`cat /tmp/git.p.$$`"
else
cd
fi
fi
rm -f /tmp/git.p.$$
}
Notice that this won't work if `git' is suspended and then resumed
(the `cd' command in the script will be executed immediately after
`git' is suspended, not after it exits).
** It is now possible to specify a list of patterns to the `+' and `-'
commands, thanks to "Viorel ANGHEL <vang@pizza.pub.ro>". For
instance, typing `+ *.java' in the command line will select all the
java files (in addition to whatever files were currently selected).
** Support for SIGWINCH has been added. `git' can be resized at will,
regardless of whether it is currently doing something or not.
** Better support for suspending `git'. `git' can now be suspended at
any time, including while it is doing something (like copying
files, etc). Also before `git' launches new programs, it will set
the SIGTSTP handler to SIG_IGN. Well behaved programs ((X)Emacs,
ncftp, the GNU shell utile, etc.) will notice this and ignore
suspend signals as well.
** refresh now works even during incremental searches & input line
reads (like make-directory, etc.).
** After changing the sorting method, `git' will reposition on the
panel entry that was the _current_ entry before the sorting. A
similar repositioning attempt is performed after creating new
directories in the current directory.
** It is now possible to view the names of those files/directories
that do not fit into the panel's visible area by using the
`horizontal-scroll-left' and `horizontal-scroll-right' commands,
bound on Alt-g and Alt-j (or `ESC g' and `ESC j' if you don't have
a working Alt key).
** The clock is back, with a (hopefully) safer implementation.
** gitmount accepts a list of devices to mount (as usual, without
the /dev/prefix). Also it is possible to select several
directories in /mnt (corresponding to devices) and mount/umount
all of them with `ESC m t' and `ESC r t'.
* Version 4.3.16
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** Minor fixes and updates.
* Version 4.3.15
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** MIME-PACK, B-MIME-PACK, MIME-UNPACK, B-MIME-UNPACK - new user
defined commands that pack/unpack mime files. The corresponding
key bindings are: ^Ck, ^Cbk, ^CK and ^CbK. The mpack package
should be installed in order for these to work.
** MIME-MAIL, B-MIME-MAIL - new user defined commands that can send
files by mail as mime messages. The corresponding key bindings
are: ^C2m and ^Cb2m. The mpack package is required for these ones
as well.
** FAST-DIFF - new user defined command (on ^Cfd). Calls diff -r -q
and reports differences between directories in terms of files that
differ, but does not report the actual differences between them.
** Added support for *.mov to gitaction.
** Added support for bin packing (i.e. packing files in the smallest
number of bins). See the info documentation for details.
** Some user defined commands now protect "weird" file names with the
POSIX specified `--' argument that terminates all options. Thus
for some commands the errors that used to occur when dealing with
file names beginning with a hyphen are now fixed, depending on
whether or not that particular command supports the `--' argument.
For the ones that don't (emacs, ghostview, tar, basename, ar, xv,
xanim, xfig, lynx, mpeg_play, zip/unzip, ispell, etc), there is
nothing I can do. GIT cannot check whether or not programs
actually do support this POSIX feature.
** `git' now works with gzip only. Support for `compress' as an
alternative has been removed. Most archives today are in `gzip'
format anyway.
** Multiple patterns are accepted on `select-files-matching-pattern'.
The patterns are separated by spaces. Spaces and \s should be
escaped with a \ if part of the pattern.
** Bug fixes.
* Version 4.3.14
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** Added support for exec_prefix.
** Added support for make prefix=...
** Added support for most of the commands provided in the mtools
package. See the ^Cm prefixes in term/.gitrc.common.
** File comparison is now built-in (on ^C B, as usual). gitcmp is gone.
** Added support for the xhost command on ^X H.
** Bug fixes.
* Version 4.3.13
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** Ported to AT&T 3B2 systems, thanks to Gaylen Miller
<gaylen@proaxis.com>.
** Under RedHat Linux 4.0 the rxvt terminal emulator exports
TERM=xterm-color which makes it possible to figure out that we have
color support. GIT now supports xterm-color as well.
** M-. (ESC .) works better in the sense that it goes up to the
previous directory and automatically positions on the entry
corresponding to the old directory.
** ^CI installs the RPM package under the cursor.
** ^Ci uninstalls the RPM package under the cursor.
** ^CN upgrades the RPM package under the cursor.
** ^Cq queries the `rpm' package manager.
These commands also have background versions: ^CbI, ^Cbi and ^CbN.
** Tested on NetBSD 1.2.
** Fixes to make GIT compile cleanly to some new architectures thanks
to Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>.
** Minor changes/fixes.
* Version 4.3.12
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** Added recursive context diffs on ^Cd and ^Cbd (background). See
the documentation for details.
** ^G behaves better as an interrupt key.
** Added support for meta keys with the 8th bit set.
** The commands binded on the function keys are now to the M-number (ESC
+ number) key sequence as well. ESC + 1 and ESC + 2 which used to
chdir to the /mnt/fdX directories have been moved on ESC ESC 1 and
ESC ESC 2.
** `git' can now compare directories: ^Ccq will quickly compare the
file names, sizes and time stamps while ^Cct will thoroughly
compare the contents of each file with the contents of its
couterpart (if any) from the other panel.
** `name-upcase' & `name-downcase': New builtin functions for renaming
the selected entries to uppercase & lowercase.
** GIT compiles out of the box under the Hurd.
** Many minor fixes.
* Version 4.3.11
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** An installation problem has been fixed. GIT no longer attempts to
change the permissions of directories.
** backward-kill-word is now on ESC Ctrl-H as well.
** The `install' rule now depends on `all', which means you can type
`make install' and get the entire package compiled and installed.
** There is now a separate rule called install-only that you can use
to install GIT without re-checking the dependencies.
** The install_strip rule has been renamed to install-strip.
* Version 4.3.10
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** Ported to qnx 4.22 thanks to Michael Hunter <mphunter@qnx.com>.
** Ported to B.O.S 02.01 (Bull Operating System - m68k-bull-sysv3).
** Panels are no longer redrawn immediately after commands started
from the command line or by pressing RETURN on the executable.
Most users seem to prefer it this way.
** Ported to Next Step 3.2 - m68k-next-nextstep3:
NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 21:57:41 PDT 1993;
root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Processor type: MC680x0 (68040)
thanks to Paul Nevai <nevai@math.ohio-state.edu>
** The file system free space is displayed in a more intuitive way,
i.e. 8,881,152 instead of 8881152. The same thing holds for the
sum of selected files.
** Bug fixes.
** Support for the AIX hft teminal, thanks to Andrei Caraman <xax@pub.ro>.
** New inputline functions (inspired from the emacs counterparts):
FUNCTION BINDING ACTION
=======================================================================
kill-word ESC d (M-d) delete next word
downcase-word ESC l (M-l) convert next word to lower case
upcase-word ESC u (M-l) convert next word to upper case
capitalize-word ESC c (M-l) capitalize next word
Unfortunately, this has lots of side effects:
*** panel-display-* names & the corresponding bindings have been changed:
- ESC e a = panel-enable-all
(previously called panel-display-all)
- ESC e d = panel-enable-date-time
(previously called panel-display-date-time)
- ESC e f = panel-enable-full-name
(previously called panel-display-full-name)
- ESC e m = panel-enable-mode
(previously called panel-display-mode)
- ESC e o = panel-enable-owner-group
(previously called panel-display-owner-group)
- ESC e s = panel-enable-size
(previously called panel-display-size)
*** conform-*-directory names & the corresponding bindings have been changed:
- ESC a c adapt-current-directory
(previously called conform-current-directory)
- ESC a o adapt-other-directory
(previously called conform-other-directory)
*** the user defined UMOUNT bindings have been changed:
- ESC r a remove (umount) /dev/fd0
- ESC r b remove (umount) /dev/fd1
- ESC r t remove (umount) the fs under the current directory
** As you can see, 4 lines of new features, 11 of side effects. Sorry
about this changes, but at the time I decided to use the previous
bindings I had no idea how wonderful emacs is :-).
* Version 4.3.9
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** A bug introduced in 4.3.8 has been fixed.
** Better handling of `aixterm' terminal emulators under AIX.
* Version 4.3.8
===============
** A few bugs have been fixed and some slow algorithms have been speed
up.
** I have tested `git' on our recently installed NFS volume and tried
to fix the related problems. I don't know whether or not I have
fixed all of them. Please let me know if it works for you.
** The default ANSI colors are correctly restored under color_xterm,
rxvt and most likely under any other (bug free :-) ANSI capable
terminal or terminal emulator.
** New commands in .gitrc.common.
** Fti matching is delayed until needed.
** gitrgrep & Co. use 'find' to walk through the file system tree.
** gitregrep and gitfgrep will call egrep and fgrep recursively.
** The clock is gone. There were too many races. Sorry guys :-( Type
^XT to get the current date/time (DATE).
** Better terminal optimizations and terminal I/O. It should work a
faster on almost every terminal.
** The gitaction script has been improved. It is now able to handle
compressed movies and accepts uppercase extensions for all image
types. Also, all the actions on C, C++, PGP, LEX, YACC, make files
have been removed. Compiling the current file was a little bit
silly since most .c files are part of bigger projects and compiling
them separately is useless.
** Many new file types are now detected in the [GIT-FTI] section. If
`git' seems slow due to the fact that about 300 file patterns are
matched for each file entry displayed, consider setting
TypeSensitivity to OFF or removing some of the unnecessary patterns
from .gitrc.common's [GIT-FTI] section. However, 4.3.8 should work
much better than 4.3.7 since the patterns are matched only when
necessary and no more than once.
** The ./configure option for requesting the terminfo library is now
--with-terminfo. The previous option (--enable-terminfo) is no
longer supported.
** A bug preventing users from defining their own colors in the
[GIT-FTI] section of their ~/.gitrc.TERM file has been fixed thanks
to Marian Ciobanu <ciobi@liis.sfos.ro>.
** The delay at the end of the file type sensitive action executed by
the gitaction script has been removed. This was annoying,
especially under X when starting viewers in background.
** Even though the default .gitrc.xterm is still configured with
AnsiColors = OFF, it is highly recommended to set it to ON on
terminal emulators that have ANSI colors support (aixterm under
AIX, xterm under ULTRIX, color_xterm & rxvt under Linux).
** `git' no longer attempts to execute empty commands at the command
prompt (that is, commands that contain only spaces and
semi-columns. This is not a bug, is a feature :-)
** Philippe De Muyter ported GIT 4.3.7 to sysV68 R3V7.1
(m68k-motorola-sysv). I have integrated his patch into 4.3.8.
* Version 4.3.7
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** Few improvements, mostly fixes. All the compilation/installation
problems reported in 4.3.6 have been fixed (I hope :-).
** RUMORS, RUMORS, RUMORS, .... it've heard that newer Linux systems
use "linux" instead of "console" for the TERM environment variable.
Due to this, I've linked .gitrc.linux to .gitrc.console. I'm not
sure if it will really be useful, but it won't hurt.
** `git' can now display files using different colors, depending on
their types as specified by the [GIT-FTI] section (FTI stands for
file type information). See .gitrc.common for more details. If you
don't want/like colors, they can be disabled by setting the
TypeSensitivity variable to OFF. Note that I've considered more
important to emphasize the file type and *NOT* the fact that it is
compressed. That means that foo.c and foo.c.gz will be displayed
using the same color. Of course, this approach can be changed by
modifying the configuration file...
** GIT_PAGER is a new environment variable that replaces "more" in all
the user defined commands described in the configuration files. If
your system has "less", just add GIT_PAGER=less to your
environment. By default GIT_PAGER='more'. gitaction & .gitaction
use GIT_PAGER too.
** conform-current-directory & conform-other-directory now save the
new directory into the directory history.
** Faster startup.
** ^C= now performs recursive diff.
** `flip' is the default action for *.fli and *.flc. See gitaction for
details.
** tty.c now uses /dev/vcsa to dump/restore the screen. The ioctl()
system call is no longer used. You should have the right to r/w
the corresponding /dev/vcsaX since I don't like setuids, and I also
think that the appropriate permission/owner should be set by the
login utility in the same way as for /dev/ttyX. Until then, if you
are on a single-user machine or you don't care much about security,
you can give unrestricted r/w permission on /dev/vcsaX.
* Version 4.3.6
===============
** Added scroll step. A new built-in function (set-scroll-step) lets
you modify the panel scroll step. It is also possible to set it in
the configuration file using the StartupScrollStep variable. The
built-in function set-scroll-step is binded on ^XP.
** Added incremental search. The built-in functions isearch-backward
and isearch-forward are mapped on ^S and ^R (as in emacs). If the
hardware doesn't let you change the default meaning of ^S, you can
use the alternate key sequences ^Xs and ^Xr. Wrapped isearch is
also provided.
** select-file has been moved on ^T since ^R is now used for
isearch-backward. You can also use Ctrl-\ (^\) for select-file (if
available). Sorry, I promise that this is the last time I am moving
this one :-). Anyway, if you are using Linux, you can continue to
press the 'Insert' key.
** Verdoolaege Sven has contributed an enhanced gitaction script.
Default actions are now available for many new file extensions:
zip, arj, rar, mod, s3m, voc, wav, lsm, jpeg, mpg, ps, dvi and tex.
I also added support for compressed and uncompressed manual pages.
** A bug in getting the size of symbolic links has been fixed. Only
symbolic links with no target have been affected.
** It is now possible to have a command with no body, still being able
to chdir to the directory specified in the configuration line. You
can switch between directories much faster. A command name is
still required.
- M-/ (ESC-/, Alt-/ under Linux) goes to /
- M-. (ESC-., Alt-. under Linux) goes to ..
- M-h (ESC-h, Alt-h under Linux) goes to $HOME
- M-i (ESC-i, Alt-i under Linux) goes to /usr/include
** Han Holl made gitrgrep work on SCO 3.2 V 4.2. He also reported
some other problems under SCO. See the PROBLEMS file.
** Alexander Jolk <p6mqt001@cicrp.jussieu.fr> requested that the
Makefiles makes no provisions in order not to display the commands.
Done.
** Preformatted manual pages are no longer part of the distribution.
In fact, manual pages have not been updated in this version. The
GNU projects seems to consider them obsolete, and I think that
updating only the info file will be enough. Each release will have
a decent set of manual pages, but only to figure out what it is all
about, not as a reliable source of information about GIT.
** A directory history is provided, making it easy to switch between
directories within a given set. If you change the current
directory with ^Xd or you specify a new-dir field to a command, the
directory is added to the directory history. You can switch to the
previous directory with ^X^P, to the next directory with ^X^N and
you can reset the entire directory history with ^X^R. After
reseting the directory history, the current directory is
automatically added to it.
** A new variable (ConfirmOnExit) has been added to the [GIT-Setup]
section, allowing you to specify if you want to be asked for
confirmation at exit. The default is not to be asked for
confirmation.
** Added tilde expansion on 'copy' and on 'move'. It should have been
there from the very beginning.
** make-directory no longer expect a base-name. The directory name is
tilde_expand()-ed and then created, if possible.
** The FIND function no longer asks for the start directory. It
simply ask the file name and starts searching it from the current
directory.
** It is now possible to select directories and delete / copy / move
them using the same builtin functions used in the previous versions
for file only operations. Since it is inherently dangerous to
delete directories, if the directory to be deleted is not empty,
the user is prompted twice, in order to reduce the possibility of
an error. Briefly, you can use the same key binding for both file
and directories common operations (i.e. pressing F8 or ^C D will
delete the current file (or directory) if there are no selected
files / directories, or all the selected files and directories
otherwise). You should pay attention because directories are
deleted recursively. Also note that the select-all built-in
function doesn't select directories. You should select them "by
hand". Just for safety...
** Most file commands have been changed in order to act on the
selected files. As an example, if you select some files in a panel
and then start the COMPRESS command, `git' will compress all the
selected files, not only the current one. If the command used
(gzip in our case) exits successfully, all the selected files will
become unselected. However, if an error occur, `git' will *not*
unselect the selected files since there is no way to tell (in
general) which files have been successfully processed.
** An utility for wiping files is provided. Its name is (of course)
gitwipe and is binded on ^C W. gitwipe overwrites the file contents
with a random sequence of numbers and then calls sync(). Note that
gitwipe does *not* delete the file since (under Linux at least) the
sync() system call might return before actually writing the new
file contents to disk. Deleting the file might be dangerous
because some file systems can detect that the blocks in the file
are no longer used and never write them back to disk in order to
improve performance. It is up to you to delete the file(s) at a
later moment.
** A new scheme is used for the configuration files. Since most of
the key bindings are common to all the terminal types and only a
few are really terminal specific, a new configuration file called
.gitrc.common is used to keep the 'common' ones. This new confi-
guration file contains only the [GITxxx-Keys] sections. Terminal
specific key bindings can be defined as usual in the .gitrc.TERM
files and, if a conflict occurs, the .gitrc.TERM definition is
used, giving the user the possibility to overwrite a 'common' key
binding if it wishes to do so.
** The configuration files commands have been enhanced with a new format
specifier:
'%?{confirmation}'
This format specifier only asks for confirmation before expanding /
executing the current command. The 'confirmation' string is displayed
and if the user doesn't confirm, the command is aborted. Otherwise,
%?{...} expands to a null string and the command is expanded /
executed normally.
** A separate history is kept for each command. This is true for both
built-in and user-defined commands. For example, if you search a
file using the user-defined FIND command and, later, you call the
FIND function again, you can walk through the file names history
using the arrow keys or ESC p / ESC n (M-p / M-n in emacs).
** Three built-in functions have been added:
*** enlarge-panel - binded on ^X1 (C-X 1)
*** enlarge-other-panel - binded on ^X0 (C-X 0)
*** two-panels - binded on ^X2 (C-X 2)
enlarge-panel will maximize the current panel, enlarge-other-panel
the other one. One of the panels will become invisible. However,
*all* the operations can still be performed. The invisible panel
will remain the default destination for copy/move operations. TAB
will also continue to work. two-panels will restore the original
two panels mode.
** A new display mode, suitable for enlarged panels, is provided.
This new mode combines all the other modes, displaying the owner,
group, date, time, size and mode of a file. It is automatically
selected by enlarge-panel and enlarge-other-panel but can be
changed afterward, by pressing ^] (C-]).
** A 'lock' built-in function has been added. It is binded on ^X p (C-x
p) and locks the terminal until the password typed at lock time is
correctly retyped.
** The `git' panels are no longer deleted/restored when a background
command is started.
** A .gitrc.sun configuration file has been added. It is a link to
.gitrc.generic.
** New Linux kernels seem to use the /dev/vcs devices to dump the
screen contents. I dont' have access to such a kernel right know,
but I will fix this in the next release. See the file PROBLEMS for
details.
** The texinfo documentation has been rewritten from scratch. It is
better organized and has many new additions. It also contains an
exhaustive description of all the default key bindings. There are
still many things that can be done, though.
** A dvi Makefile target has been aded. Type 'make dvi' if you want to
create the git.dvi file from git.texinfo. After that, you should
be able to get a PostScript documentation using dvips.
** A last minute Minix 1.6.25.1 port. Works fine, has colors. A
.gitrc.minix has been added to the distribution.
* Version 4.3.5
===============
** Owner and group names are now being cached using hash tables in
order to increase the directory reading speed.
** `git' is now able to display the file system free space on many
systems. GIT 4.3.4 was only able to do this under Linux, using the
statfs() system call. GIT 4.3.5 uses a modified version of the
fsusage.c file from the GNU fileutils 3.2 package.
** ^H (8), ^I (9), ^J (10), ^M (13), ^SPC (0) and BACKSPACE (127) can
be configured in the configuration files.
** The interrupt & quit characters are both ^G now. You can exit from
GIT with ^X^C (this is the default binding but you can change it,
of course :-) ).
** The entire set of default key bindings has been changed. I have
tried to make them be more emacs-like (where possible). Since it is
impossible to use 'z' to compress a file or 'Z' to uncompress it as
emacs does in the 'dired' mode because 'a', 'A', ... 'z', 'Z', etc
are used to enter commands in the input line, I have decided to use
the ^C prefix key for file operations. Background commands are
prefixed with ^Cb. You should read the configuration files for more
details.
** `git' now has an editable input line. Most emacs-like editing
functions suitable for editing one line of input are now available:
Function: GIT style: Emacs style:
*** backward-char ^B C-b
*** forward-char ^F C-f
*** backward-word ^[b M-b
*** forward-word ^[f M-f
*** beginning-of-line ^A C-a
*** end-of-line ^E C-e
*** delete-char ^D C-d
*** backward-delete-char ^_ DEL
*** backward-kill-word ^[^_ M-DEL
*** kill-line ^[k C-k
*** kill-to-beginning-of-line ^U
*** kill-to-end-of-line ^K
*** just-one-space ^[^@ M-SPC
*** delete-horizontal-space ^[\ M-\
*** action ^M RET
*** set-mark ^$ C-SPC
*** kill-region ^W C-w
*** kill-ring-save ^[w M-w
*** yank ^Y C-Y
*** exchange-point-and-mark ^X^X C-x C-x
** Since the entire input line code has been changed / improved, the
2048 bytes length limit no longer exist. The input line can hold as
many characters as you want.
** All the built-in command names have been changed in order to match
the emacs style function names: <ChangePanel> has become
change-panel. By convention, built-in commands are now lowercase
while user defined commands are uppercase.
** When copying files that are longer than 32 Kb, the copied percent
is displayed on the status bar.
** The copy_files built-in command can be interrupted in the middle of
a file copy action. If the operation is interrupted in the middle,
the incomplete file is deleted.
** The configuration files are using now shell environment variables
to call the shell, editor, mail reader, compress and virtual memory
status utility. That means that if you set GIT_SHELL, GIT_EDITOR,
GIT_RMAIL, GIT_COMPRESS or GIT_VMSTAT to some value, that value
will be used instead of the default one. The defaults are:
*** GIT_SHELL='/bin/sh'
*** GIT_EDITOR='vi'
*** GIT_RMAIL='emacs -f rmail'
*** GIT_COMPRESS='gzip -9'
*** GIT_VMSTAT='free'
If GIT_SHELL is not defined but SHELL is, GIT_SHELL will be set to
that value.
If GIT_EDITOR is not defined but EDITOR is, GIT_EDITOR will be set
to that value.
** History expansion has been added. `git' now takes advantage of the
full power of the history library. Each command entered at the
prompt is expanded and added to the history. !!, !?, !-n, ... are
now available. See the history library documentation for more
details.
** The package can be compiled in a different directory, keeping the
source tree unmodified. You should be able to make an empty
directory, chdir to it and start git-4.3.5/configure, then make.
** The distribution has been split into three directories: src, man
and info.
** GIT has been tested on IRIX 4.0.5F. It works. It also works on
SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.3 and Irix 5.2 according to Eric Jaron
Stieglitz <ephraim@ctr.columbia.edu>.
** `make install' creates a symbolic link from $(libdir)/.gitrc.xterm
to $(libdir)/.gitrc.xterms in order to avoid problems on systems
that have the TERM environment variable defined as xterms instead
of xterm.
** A script doing recursive grep (gitrgrep) has been added to the
distribution. It might be useful.
* Version 4.3.4
===============
** Richard Stallman saw it and agreed to be part of the GNU project.
** The package is no longer called 'UNIX Interactive Tools'. I've
changed its name to 'GNU Interactive Tools'.
** GIT is now able to correctly restore the terminal foreground and
background under X. The previous version had a problem with this
because there is no way to find out the terminal colors at startup.
The [Setup] section of the configuration file specifies the colors
that GIT should set at exit.
** If gcc is detected at configure time, -Wall is added to CFLAGS.
** A bug in Makefile.in has been fixed.
** Two gitps bugs have been fixed.
** Better ^Z (suspend) management. GIT doesn't wait any longer for a
key to be pressed after the 'fg' command is entered at the shell
prompt.
** The hpterm terminal emulator support works better. It is far from
being perfect, but it works better than the previous versions.
** Added support for System V and BSD terminal interfaces.
** Added support for AIX aixterm terminal emulator.
** If a .gitrc.TERM file cannot be found for a specific terminal, a
generic configuration file (.gitrc.generic) is used.
** Tested on a Bull computer running AIX.
** Tested on some BSD 4.3 systems at FSF.
** Tested on a Sun running SunOS 4.0.3 at FSF.
** A better Sun port thanks to Johann Friedrich Heinrichmeyer.
** A better Alpha port thanks to Dan Pop.
** Added some emacs-like key bindings. There will be more in the next
version.
** Code cleanup.
* Version 4.3.3
===============
** Added support for moving files on MS-DOS file systems.
** Added support for terminals that can't write on the last character
of the screen without scrolling the entire screen.
** Alt-k starts diff with the two panels current files as arguments.
** Cosmetic changes.
** Bug fixes.
* Version 4.3.2
===============
** A lot of work has been done to make the UIT package compile with
traditional K&R compilers. I've successfully compiled it with such
a compiler on our HP-UX 9000/715.
** The installation procedure has been simplified: UIT 4.3.2 uses the
'configure' script! The 'configure' script was generated from the
file configure.in (available in the package) using the autoconf
utility version 1.11. To install the UIT 4.3.2 package just type:
./configure
make
make install
** The configure script first check for the termcap library. If the
termcap library is not found, some terminfo libraries will be
searched: ncurses, curses, termlib, tinfo, terminfo. If you want to
change this default behavior and search for terminfo libraries
before searching the termcap library, run
./configure --enable-terminfo
instead of
./configure
** UIT now understands some symbolic key names in the configuration
files: F0, F1, F2, ... F10, UP, DOWN, RIGHT, LEFT, INS, DEL, HOME,
END, PGUP, PGDOWN. You can still specify a key sequence, but, for
the function & cursor keys, it's a better idea to get them from the
termcap/terminfo database if they can be found there. So, the
command for the F1 key on the Linux console (the configuration file
is .uitrc.console) can be:
F1 = UIT-HELP; man uit
or
^[A = UIT-HELP; man uit
** If some key doesn't have a termcap/terminfo description (like the
F11/F12 keys on the Linux console) you can specify the key sequence
in the usual way.
** The UIT package will use the GNU readline library if available. If
this library is not installed on your system, uit will use the
sources for the history and tilde expansion included in the
package. For Linux systems, the DLL readline library version 2.0.1
is available at sunsite.unc.edu in the directory /pub/Linux/libs.
The package name is librl-2.0.1.tar.gz. This package also includes
a readline linked ftp, bash-1.14.1 and gdb-4.12 binaries. The bash
binary is about 60k smaller that the SLACKWARE 2.0.0 version and,
hold your breath..., the gdb binary is about 500k smaller too. So,
if you really want things to work better, install this DLL readline
library. UIT will work just fine without it, but using a shared
library generally means shorter binaries ...
** Changes in the configuration files:
*** ^De starts the editor sending the selected files as para-
meters. So, if you want to edit multiple files at once, select
them, then press ^De . The default editor is joe, but you can
use any other editor if you change the corresponding line in
the configuration file.
*** ^Dd starts the 'more' viewer sending the selected files
as parameters. See above.
*** ^Du displays on the status bar the result of the 'du -s'
command
*** ^Df displays on the status bar the result of the 'df'
command, one line at a time
*** ^Dm displays on the status bar the result of the 'mount'
command, one line at a time
*** ^Dv displays on the status bar the result of the 'free'
command, one line at a time
*** ^Dw displays on the status bar the result of the 'whereis'
command, one line at a time
*** ^DW displays on the status bar the result of the 'which'
command, one line at a time
*** ^Dh displays on the status bar the result of the 'users'
command, one line at a time
** The file and path names copied to the command line are now quoted
because files residing on ISO9660 CDs may contain ';' and the shell
will fail to expand the resulting string.
** Three new default actions have been added to the uitaction script
for *.texi, *.texinfo and *.man. See the uitaction script for more
details.
** 3 bugs have been fixed.
* Version 4.3.1
===============
** UIT now uses the GNU history library. The default history file is
~/.uithistory.
** The number of files in a panel is no longer limited to 1024. If
you have enough memory, UIT can now display all the files in the
directory, even if the directory is a very big one. UIT dynamically
allocates memory for the directory data so UIT 4.3.1 needs about
120k-140k of memory less than UIT 4.3 (for usual directories).
** UIT can move files between file systems by copying the source file
to the destination file and then removing the source file.
** The source files termcap.l and termcap.h have been removed. UIT
4.3.1 now use the standard termcap library. If you want to use a
local termcap database (like .termcap), you can do it by setting
the TERMCAP environment variable to point to it:
TERMCAP = /home/joe/.termcap
** UIT 4.3.1 needs only the 'cm' and the 'cl' terminal capability. If
available, 'me', 'md', 'mr', 'vi' and 've' are also used.
** Using the standard termcap database has some advantages:
*** UIT 4.3.1 now does padding (if padding is required)
*** UIT 4.3.1 can handle any kind of parameterized terminal
capabilities.
*** uit, uitps, uitview are smaller.
*** No more problems with different versions of lex/flex...
** UIT has now terminfo support. You can choose between termcap and
terminfo at compile time.
** The selected files are marked with a '*' in the right side. This
can be useful if your terminal doesn't know about brightness (the
me & md terminal capabilities).
** The current file of the current panel is marked with a '>' in the
left side.
** The current file of the other panel is marked with a '*' in the
left side. You can see this way which is the current file of the
other panel.
** UIT is able to run a command sending to it the selected file names
as parameters. This is done using the new %i and %I parameters
available in the formatted string. Suppose the current directory
test_dir contains the files foo, bar, tutu and gogu, and foo & tutu
are selected, the following command
^Wyt = TAR; tar cf %b.tar %i;;;;y
will be expanded as
tar cf test_dir.bar foo tutu
Thus, you can make your favorite commands act only on the selected
files.
** A new builtin command (<CopySelectedFilesToCmdLn>) is available.
This command lets you to insert all the selected files names into
the command line. I've mapped it on ^Kg. If there is no selected
file, only the current file name is copied.
** Changes in the configuration files:
*** the archive (.tar.gz) created with ^Wz get its name from
the directory under the cursor.
So, in the configuration files,
^Wz = tar cf - * | gzip -9cf > %b.tar.gz is now
^Wz = tar cf - %d | gzip -9c > %d.tar.gz
*** elm can be started with ^Ke
*** the shell can be started with ^Kj
*** as explained before, I've added ^Kg & ^Wyt
** A new utility (uitkeys) is provided to help users to set up the
configuration files .uitrc.TERM.
** If uit/uitps/uitview doesn't find a local configuration file
.uitrc.TERM, it tries to use the global version (usually found in
the /usr/local/lib directory). This way, users are able to run uit/
uitps/uitview without having to copy the configuration file(s) in
their home directory.
** uit now understands '~' in the 'newdir' field, in the <ChangeDir>
builtin command, etc ...
** The procedure of setting up colors has been simplified. If you want
to try to run UIT with colors, just set AnsiColorSequences to ON in
the configuration files.
** MS-DOS files are copied without the __x bits.
** UIT can now display the host-name, system type, machine type and
the current date on the status bar using the following escape
sequences:
\h -> the host name
\s -> the system type
\m -> the machine type
\t -> the date
Please read the configuration files for more details.
** For the sake of readability, in the configuration files '1' and '0'
have been replaced by 'y' and 'n'.
** The size of the command line has been increased to 2k.
** alloca.c is now included in the distribution. You should be able to
compile the UIT 4.3.1 package even if the target system does not
support the alloca() function. For such systems, define in the
Makefile ALLOCAOBJ = alloca.o .
** A better Makefile:
- you can uninstall the UIT package using 'make uninstall'
- you can build a distribution file using 'make dist'
** A *MUCH* *MUCH* *MUCH* better code.
** N bugs have been fixed :-(.
* Version 4.3
=============
** A new script that executes a different action for each file type
specified. If you press F2 or ^Kz on a "*.c" file, UIT will compile
it, if you press F2 or ^Kz on a "*.tar.gz" file, UIT will list the
tar archive contents, if you press the same keys on a "*.gz" file
UIT will display its uncompressed contents on the screen, etc ...
By default uitaction checks for the following patterns:
"*.cc" "*.c" "*.l" "*.y" "*.h" "*.s" "*.S" "*.o" "*.a" "*.sa"
"Makefile" "makefile"
"*.tar.gz" "*.tgz" "*.tar.z" "*.tar.Z" "*.taz" "*.tar" "*.gz"
"*.z" "*.Z"
"*.doc" "*.txt"
"*.gif" "*.jpg" "*.tif" "*.bmp"
and acts as appropriate. If no pattern is found, the file is
displayed using more. Feel free to change this.
If you press F2 or ^Kz on a "*.gif" file or a "*.jpg" file and you
have the zgv utility installed, you will be able to see it. If you
want to change the gif/jpeg viewer, all you need to do is to change
its name in the uitaction script. I don't know a "*.bmp" or "*.tif"
viewer. Feel free to add one in the uitaction script. The script
can be easy enhanced. Just read it. You can have a local version
of this script (in the current directory). Please read the manual
page for more details.
** UIT 4.3 was tested on DEC OSF/1 operating system.
** Enhanced configuration files:
- uitaction (F2 or ^Kz)
- grep (^Vr)
- ispell (^Vi)
- ' | more' added to finger, w, ...
- reset (terminal reset) (^WR)
- mv (you can now change a file name even if the two panels
don't show the same directory) (^Vr)
- chmod for a group of files (^Wlm)
- chown for a group of files (^Wlo)
- chgrp for a group of files (^Wlg)
- conform the current directory to the other panel
directory (Alt-c c, ESC c c, ^[cc) - <ConformCurrentDir>
- conform the other panel directory to the current panel
directory (Alt-c o, ESC c o, ^[co) - <ConformOtherDir>
- tar + gzip in one shot (^Wz). Something like that is
executed: tar cf - * | gzip -9cf > %b.tar.gz
- the background version of the previous command (^Wbz)
- gunzip + un-tar in one shot (^Wv). Something like that is
executed: gzip -dc %f | tar xf -
- the background version of the previous command (^Wbv)
- copy the other panel path to the command line (^Ka)
** Enhanced manual pages.
** A better Makefile
** 3 bugs have been fixed.
** Better error checking on directories.
** ^H support (treated as backspace).
** The ASCII documentation has been removed. I think that every modern
UNIX system should have the man utility.
* Version 4.2c
==============
** UIT 4.2c was tested on HP-UX operating system.
** UIT 4.2c implements a curses-like algorithm to prevent useless
screen refreshes. *NOTHING* will be displayed on the screen if it
is already there. This will speed up UIT when working on terminals.
To force a screen refresh you can use ^Wr ( <HardRefresh> ).
** UIT 4.2c is able to select/unselect files using a pattern matching
method. You can now select something like *.c, *.h or unselect *.o.
This is done with ^Vs (select) / ^Vu (unselect).
** The configuration files .uitrc.TERM where enhanced. You can now
start tar xf, tar cf, gzip, gunzip, uuencode, uudecode as
foreground or background commands. This is done with ^Wx / ^Wbx,
^Wt / ^Wbt, ^Wc / ^Wbc, ^Wu / ^Wbu, etc. There is also possible to
directly send by mail a file to someone as an ASCII file (^Va) or
as an uuencoded binary file (^Vb).
** Bug fix: UIT 4.2c now correctly stops when it is started as a
background job.
** Files can be sorted in 9 different ways. The most important
sorting methods are "by name", "by extension", "by size" and "by
date".
** A new script uitmount which allows you to mount any block device
without specifying the fs type. You may now insert the floppy in
the drive and type 'uitmount fd0' and the first floppy will be
mounted in the directory /mnt/fd0. Under Linux just press F11 or
F12. You don't need to know the fs type anymore. The directories
/mnt/fd0 and /mnt/fd1 must exist. If you want to use uitmount with
the block device /dev/xxx then the directory /mnt/xxx must exist.
** You can now install uit with 'make install'
** A new feature has been added to the command line: pressing Alt-h
you can delete the last command line word. The built-in command
name is <DeleteCmdLnWord>. I now that the command line is not very
flexible and I'll probably change it in the future.
** <ChangeDir> can now use ~ as home directory specification.
** <ChangeDir> can now be canceled with TAB.
** UIT 4.2c is now able now to display up to 99G of free file system
space. Big enough, I suppose :-) .
* Version 4.2b
==============
** UIT 4.2b now contains info format documentation.
** UIT 4.2b has separate configuration files for each type of terminal.
** An ASCII version of the manual page (uit.doc) included for those
who can't read neither the nroff version nor the info version.
** New built-in function for changing the current panel directory.
** uit, uitps and uitview are a little bit smaller than the previous
versions (uitcmp was small enough :-) ).
** UIT 4.2b package now correctly runs under X (in an xterm window).
Previous versions did not due to a bug in handling the ioctl() call
to get the screen contents.
** UIT 4.2b now supports full configurable key sequences. The key
pressed is identified faster.
** 5 minor bugs have been fixed. See the ChangeLog file for details.
* Version 4.2a and older
========================
** UIT 4.2a has been tested with Linux 1.0 and ULTRIX V4.2A.
** As to Linux 1.0 you can't do a screen dump if you are not super
user so the <ShowTty> command is no longer completely supported for
the normal users. Even if you are not super user, <ShowTty> is
still useful because you can see the result of the latest command.
** As to Linux 1.0 MS-DOS files are all executable (__x__x__x). UIT
now checks the file system type and ignores the executable bits if
the current directory belongs to a MS-DOS file system.
** UIT 4.2a can now display longer file names (with the 'FullName'
FileDisplayMode value).
** UIT 4.2a can now display setuid, set group id attributes and the
sticky bit.
** Lots of optimizations have been made to speed up UIT when working with
terminals.
** Filenames containing control characters are correctly displayed.
(control characters are displayed as '?')
** New options in the configuration file permitting to increase the
displaying speed on very slow terminals.
** An interactive process viewer / killer utility is provided.
** An interactive HEX/ASCII file viewer is now available.
* Notes
=======
*** Starting with version 4.0, this program is no longer named PSH.
PSH was the name used until version 3.2b.
*** Please read the INSTALL file before starting UIT 4.3.
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