Provide auto-update option

[matthiasbeyer]

Currently, I'm doing this:

watch -n 10 'git log --all --oneline --decorate'

Which gives me a no-colored output (sadly) which updates every n (10 in this case) seconds.

I would love if tig could do this for me. I do not want to manually refresh the screen all the time!

What do you think about this?

[jonas]

I think that this could be part of the plan to support refreshing views after running external commands. It would basically have two options: 'update-mode' with values { no, auto, after-cmd } and an 'update-interval'. Note, that the auto will probably only update when a change has been detected, either to the branch name or to the HEAD commit.

[jonas]

Correction, one option refresh-view with values:

• no
• auto (the default)
• on-return (after an external command has run)
• (interval in seconds)

The affected views are: main, diff, blame, branch, status, stage, and stash.

[rjhilgefort]

👍

[jtheoof]

👍

[alexleekt]

👍

[jonas]

Please test it out. It is not everything that magically works now. For example it mainly supports auto-update when the index changes.

[shuangg]

periodic + interval works. auto is not. OSX 10.9.2, git 1.9.2, tig 2.0.2