tig status not showing untracked files

[voska]

I recently upgraded tig to 2.2.2 and now when I run tig status my untracked files do not show up.

It was throwing the following error:

tig warning: /usr/local/etc/tigrc:90: status-untracked-dirs has been renamed to status-show-untracked-dirs
tig warning: Errors while loading /usr/local/etc/tigrc.

I tried updating that config in /usr/local/etc/tigrc, and while the error stopped, my untracked files still did not show under tig status.

[devshane]

#595 resolved this for me; add a config option to .tigrc:

set status-show-untracked-files = yes

[jonas]

@devshane Thanks for the hint.

I am wondering how that option is missing. A new tigrc is installed when installing Tig.

[diwo]

After upgrading to 2.2.2 with brew:

tig warning: /usr/local/etc/tigrc:90: status-untracked-dirs has been renamed to status-show-untracked-dirs
tig warning: Errors while loading /usr/local/etc/tigrc.

$ brew info tig
tig: stable 2.2.2 (bottled), HEAD
Text interface for Git repositories
http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/
/usr/local/Cellar/tig/2.2.2 (12 files, 461.2KB) *
  Poured from bottle on 2017-07-02 at 20:43:21
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/tig.rb
==> Dependencies
Recommended: readline ✔
==> Options
--with-docs
        Build man pages using asciidoc and xmlto
--without-readline
        Build without readline support
--HEAD
        Install HEAD version
==> Caveats
A sample of the default configuration has been installed to:
  /usr/local/opt/tig/share/tig/examples/tigrc
to override the system-wide default configuration, copy the sample to:
  /usr/local/etc/tigrc

Bash completion has been installed to:
  /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d

zsh completions and functions have been installed to:
  /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions

[diwo]

After running brew uninstall tig, the system-wide tigrc file still exists

$ tig
tig warning: /usr/local/etc/tigrc:90: status-untracked-dirs has been renamed to status-show-untracked-dirs
tig warning: Errors while loading /usr/local/etc/tigrc.

$ brew uninstall tig
Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/tig/2.2.2... (12 files, 461.2KB)

$ ls -lt /usr/local/etc/tigrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 dickson admin 14986 Aug 28  2014 /usr/local/etc/tigrc

I suspect it has to do with this commit:
Homebrew/homebrew-core@5600463

[jonas]

Yes, there is nothing I can do about this other than maybe documenting it. It is an upstream distribution/packaging problem. The way to fix (assuming no local edits) is rm -f /usr/local/etc/tigrc.

[jonas]

Added notes on how to fix this issue to http://jonas.github.io/tig/INSTALL.html

[Asday]

Upgraded git and had this problem, due to the newest version of tig in the ubuntu repositories being real old. Removing that and installing the latest version as per the installation instructions fixed it with no other changes.