TIG - console interface for git

Feb 10, 2016

I often need to quickly see git commit history and check on the latest modification. Git log was not interactive enough, so I was launching gitk or gitx .  It's not so efficient to open new windows when I want to stay in the console. All I want is just a quick glance, come-and-go. Especially if I work on remove machine, over the ssh... Now I'm happy to find the Tig tool. What a strange name? it's a git read backward.

Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for git. It functions mainly as a Git repository browser, but can also assist in staging changes for commit at chunk level and act as a pager for output from various Git commands.

Project links: github and homepage

Installation instruction:

$ wget http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases/tig-2.1.tar.gz
$ tar zxf tig-2.1.tar.gz
$ cd tig-2.1
$ make prefix=/usr/local
$ sudo make install prefix=/usr/local
$ cd ..
$ rm -rf tig-2.1*