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user experience than the "raw" Core Git 24 itself and indeed many other version control systems. 25 26 Cogito is no longer maintained as most of its functionality 27 is now in core Git. 28 29 30 - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/) 31 32 pg is a shell script wrapper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