I love tig. Still, I think the defaults aren’t the best for most developers. Here are two easy customizations to make the default view better.
First, put
alias tig='tig -n 1000'in your ~/.bashrc to reduce tig’s startup time (especially on large repositories).
There’s rarely a need to go back more than 1000 commits from your current HEAD position in an interactive, GUI-driven manner.
And if you really need to see everything, do
$ \tigon the terminal to bypass the shell alias.
Second, put the following in your ~/.tigrc file:
set main-view = date author id:width=10 commit-title:yes,graph,refs
.
This makes the default view show git commit hashes (where width is the number of hex digits to show), so that you don’t have to press ENTER on a particular commit to see its hash.
Happy hacking!
