Tree Contributors

Thanks go out so the following people who have helped bring tree to the pinnacle of perfection that it is: ;)

Francesc Rocher

Added HTML output (-H).
Added options -o, -L and -R.

Gerald Scheidl

Added -S option to print ASCII graphics lines for use under Linux console when an alternate console font has been selected (might also work under DOS telnet).

Guido Socher (and others)

Made tree more portable. Should compile under Solaris.

Mitja Lacen

Discovered bug where tree will segmentation fault on long pathnames.
Discovered in -L argument processing.

Nathaniel Delage

Discovered problem with recursive symlink detection

A. Karthik

Suggested option to remove file and directory report at end of tree listing.

Roger Luethi

Spotted memory over-allocation bug in read_dir().
Submitted several patches to fix various memory leaks.

Daniel Lee

Reported that Tru64 defines TRUE/FALSE in sys/types.h (OSF1 standard?)

Paolo Violini

Found bug in tree that caused it to seg-fault if 50 file arguments where given and directory coloring was turned on.

Mitsuaki Masuhara

Discovered tree crashed on missing arguments.
Discovered that tree did not properly encode characters in filenames when used as URLs when using the -H option.

Johan Fredrik

Pointed out that tree did not list large files.

Ted Tiberio

Submitted patch which fixed a compiler issue and cleaned up HTML and CSS code, applied CSS to all output, and fixed up HTML to 4.01 strict standards.

David MacMahon

Added '|' support to the pattern matching routines.

Dan Jacobson

Pointed out that -t did not sort properly for files with the same timestamp.
Suggested option to change HTML title and H1 string.
Suggested -r option for reversed alphanumeric sort ala 'ls -r'.

Kyosuke Tokoro

Provided patch to support OS/2, fix HTML encoding, provide charset support. Added to authors list.

Florian Ernst

Debian maintainer who pointed out problems and applied fire to feet to fix stuff.

Jack Cuyler

Suggested -h option for human readable output for -s, ala ls -lh.

Jonathon Cranford

Supplied patch to make tree under cygwin.

Richard Houser

Provided patch to fix a colorization bug when dealing with special files and directories that seem to have an extension.

Zurd

Suggested removing trailing slash on user supplied directory names if -f option is used.

John Nintendud

Pointed out broken HTML output in 1.5.1.

Mark Braker

Suggested --filelimit option.

Michael Vogt

Suggested -v option (version sort).

Wang Quanhong

Provided build options for Solaris.

Craig McDaniel

Provided build options and source mods for HP NonStop support.

Christian Grigis

Noted that setlocale() should come before MB_CUR_MAX check.

Kamaraju Kusumanchi

Submitted patch to remove compiler warnings for Solaris.

Martin Nagy

Provided patch which fixes issue where indent may output more than it should when dirs[*] is not properly cleared before use.

William C. Lathan III

Showed that tree was not properly quoting arguments to recursively called tree instances when using -R.

Ulrich Eckhardt

Submitted patch for --si option.

Tim Waugh (redhat)

Pointed out a potential memory leak in listdir().

Markus Schnalke

Tracked down bug where tree would print "argetm" before the filename of a symbolic link when the "target" option was specified for LINK in dircolors.

Ujjwal Kumar

Suggested that tree backslash spaces like ls does for script use. Made output more like ls.

Ivan Shmakov

Pointed out multiple CLI defenciencies (via Debian)

Mantas Mikulnas

Provided patch to make tree more reliably detect the UTF-8 locale.

Tim Mooney (and others)

Noticed S_ISDOOR/S_IFDOOR spelling mistake for under Solaris.

Han Hui

Pointed out possible memory overflow in read_dir (path/lbuf not equal in size to pathsize/lbufsize.)

Ryan Hollis

Pointed out problems with the Makefile w/ respect to OSX.

Philipp M?ller

Provided patch for filesize sorting.

Sascha Zorn

Pointed out that the HTML output was broken when -L 1 option was used.

Alexandre Wendling

Pointed out that modern systems may use 32 bit uid/gids which could lead to a potential buffer overflow in the uid/gid to name mapping functions.

Florian Sesser

Provided patch to add JSON support.

Brian Mattern & Jason A. Donenfeld

Provided patch to add --matchdirs functionality.

Jason A. Donenfeld

Added --caseinsentive, renamed --ignore-case option.
Bugged me a lot.

Stephan Gabert

Found a bug where the wrong inode (and device) information would be printed for symbolic links.

Nick Craig-Wood

Fixed issue where mbstowcs() fails to null terminate the string due to improper UTF-8 encoding leading to garbage being printed.

Mantas Mikulėnas

Fixed issue with malformed multibyte string handling.

Wagner Camarao

Pointed out that JSON size output ignored -h/--si flags

John Lane, Tad, others

Fixed JSON output hanging commas

Jacob Wahlgren

Improved command line switch error reporting.
Symbolic links not displayed if a -P pattern is active
Missing argument error reporting fixes on long format switches.

Shawn Mehan

Update BINDIR in Makefile for MacOS X -- It is not allowed to install programs to /usr/bin on MacOS X any longer due to System Integrity Protection (SIP)

Kirill Kolyshkin

Some man page fixes and cleanups

Alyssa Ross

Suggested adding support for BSD's CLICOLOR and CLICOLOR_FORCE environment variables.

Tomáš Beránek

Make sure we always use xmalloc / xrealloc

Sergei Maximov

Make XML/HTML/JSON output mutually exclusive.

Jonas Stein

Deprecate using local -DLINUX / -DCYGWIN and use the OS provided defines

John A. Fedoruk

Suggested --filesfirst option.

Michael Osipov

Optimized makefile, HP/UX support.

Richard Mitchell

Suggested --metafirst option

Paul Seyfert

Honor -n (no color) even if the CLICOLOR_FORCE environment variable is set

Filips Romāns (via Debian)

Make tree colorization use reset (rs code in dir_colors,) not normal color when resetting attributes.

Chentao Credungtao (via Debian)

Properly sort --fromfile input

Jake Zimmerman (and others)

Suggest support for .gitignore files (--gitignore option)

Eric Pruitt

Always HTML escape filenames in HTML output even when -C is used.

Michiel Beijen (and others)

Suggest Support multiple -I and -P instances.
Suggest that / match directories in patterns (also Taylor Faubion)
Suggested to update MANPATH for OS X

Michal Vasilek

Various Makefile fixes

Josey Smith

Reported an error with * in the patchmatch code where *foo*bar would match *foo alone.

Maxim Cournoyer

Reported HTML url output issue w/ 2.0.0-2.0.1

Kenta Arai

Reported Segfault with --filelimit option

Ben Brown

Updates to the Makefile
Reported use after free error

Erik Skultety

Reported same use after error

Saniya Maheshwari / Mig-hub ? / Carlos Pinto

Reported various issues with --gitignore

Piotr Andruszkow

Suggested adding support for --info and --gitignore for the --fromfile option.

Kenta Arai

Add NULL guard for json_printinfo() and xml_printinfo() (and fix ftype printing for XML)
Fix getcharset() to not return a getenv() pointer.

Sebastian Rose

Another attempt at fixing extraneous /'s in HTML URLs/output.

Dave Rice

Fixed XML output

Timm Fitschen

Suggest adding support for the NO_COLOR environment variable.

Chentao Credungtao

Suggested supporting symbolic links in --fromfile (--fflinks option)

Sith Wijesinghe and Matthew Sessions

Remove many C90 isms to make compiling with C90 compilers easier.

simonpmind (gitlab)

Reported issue where following links while doing JSON output would lead to incorrect JSON output.

German Lashevich

Reported an issue where .info patterns relative to the .info file that did not use a wildcard for matching the prefix were not matching files properly.

Javier Jaramago Fernández

Reported a buffer overflow in listdir() when file names are allowed to be longer than 256 characters (like when using fromfile.)

6ramr (gitlab)

Reported issue with following symbolic links when a full tree was gathered.

And many others whom I've failed to keep track of. I should have started this list years ago.