1A short Git tools survey 2======================== 3 4 5Introduction 6------------ 7 8Apart from Git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools 9you may want to look. 10 11This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding 12link. 13 14 15Alternative/Augmentative Porcelains 16----------------------------------- 17 18 - *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/) 19 20 Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the Git tree history 21 storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of use, 22 providing generally smoother user experience than the "raw" Core Git 23 itself and indeed many other version control systems. 24 25 Cogito is no longer maintained as most of its functionality 26 is now in core Git. 27 28 29 - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/) 30 31 pg is a shell script wrapper around Git to help the user manage a set of 32 patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGit, but it does have a 33 slightly different feature set. 34 35 36 - *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/) 37 38 Stacked Git provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the 39 Git environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of Git 40 until they get merged upstream. 41 42 43History Viewers 44--------------- 45 46 - *gitk* (shipped with git-core) 47 48 gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of Git repositories easily. 49 50 51 - *gitview* (contrib/) 52 53 gitview is a GTK based repository browser for Git 54 55 56 - *gitweb* (shipped with git-core) 57 58 Gitweb provides full-fledged web interface for Git repositories. 59 60 61 - *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/) 62 63 QGit is a git/StGit GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used 64 to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit 65 changes cherry picking single files or applying patches. 66 Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the Git 67 viewers and commit tools. 68 69 - *tig* (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/) 70 71 tig by Jonas Fonseca is a simple Git repository browser 72 written using ncurses. Basically, it just acts as a front-end 73 for git-log and git-show/git-diff. Additionally, you can also 74 use it as a pager for Git commands. 75 76 77Foreign SCM interface 78--------------------- 79 80 - *git-svn* (shipped with git-core) 81 82 git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion 83 branch and Git. 84 85 86 - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc) 87 88 These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit 89 series in Git back and forth. 90 91 92 - *hg-to-git* (contrib/) 93 94 hg-to-git converts a Mercurial repository into a Git one, and 95 preserves the full branch history in the process. hg-to-git can 96 also be used in an incremental way to keep the Git repository 97 in sync with the master Mercurial repository. 98 99 100Others 101------ 102 103 - *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/) 104 105 Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for Git and 106 Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files 107 to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and 108 perform the commit itself. 109 110 - *git.el* (contrib/) 111 112 This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modelled on 113 pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some 114 tweaking to work on XEmacs. 115 116 117http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools has more 118comprehensive list.