Tig - cheat sheet

Tig is a user-friendly text-mode interface for git based on ncurses.

Enter - open a detail view
k / j - move up / down on the list
home / end - jump to top / bottom on the list (fn -> / fn <- on MacOS)
ctrl+n / ctrl+p - move next / prev on the parent view (navigates to next / prev commit on the history with open commit)
D - toggle date formats
X - toggle displaying commit sha
t - show tree files associated with selected commit
R - refresh current view
q - close current view
Q - clos all views
/ / ? - search forward / backward
n / N - find next / prev occurence
h - show help

Subcommands and options

tig path/to/file - browse commits history for specific file
tig --after="YYYY-MM-DD" --before="YYYY-MM-DD" - browse commits history within date range
tig --after="YYYY-MM-DD" --before="YYYY-MM-DD" -- path/to/file - browse commits history within date range for specific file
tig --grep=pattern - grep commit messages for specific pattern
tig blame path/to/file - blame specific file
tig grep pattern - grep tracked files for specific pattern
tig log - show commits log
tig log path/to/file - show commits log for specific file
tig refs - browse refs (tags or branches)
tig stash - browse stash
tig status - show status