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   1A short git tools survey
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   5Introduction
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   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
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  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
  26   - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)
  27
  28   pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT to help the user manage a set of
  29   patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGIT, but it does have a
  30   slightly different feature set.
  31
  32
  33   - *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)
  34
  35   Stacked GIT provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the
  36    GIT environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of GIT
  37   until they get merged upstream.
  38
  39
  40History Viewers
  41---------------
  42
  43   - *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
  44
  45   gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of GIT repositories easily.
  46
  47
  48   - *gitview*  (contrib/)
  49
  50   gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git
  51
  52
  53   - *gitweb* (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gitweb/)
  54
  55   GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.
  56
  57
  58   - *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
  59
  60   QGit is a git/StGIT GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used
  61   to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit
  62   changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.
  63   Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the git
  64   viewers and commit tools.
  65
  66
  67
  68Foreign SCM interface
  69---------------------
  70
  71   - *git-svn* (contrib/)
  72
  73   git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion
  74   branch and git.
  75
  76
  77   - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)
  78
  79   These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit
  80   series in git back and forth.
  81
  82
  83Others
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  85
  86   - *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)
  87
  88   Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for git and
  89   Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files
  90   to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and
  91   perform the commit itself.
  92
  93   - *git.el* (contrib/)
  94
  95   This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is modeled on
  96   pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
  97   tweaking to work on XEmacs.