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 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* (shipped with git-core) 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 - *tig* (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/) 67 68 tig by Jonas Fonseca is a simple git repository browser 69 written using ncurses. Basically, it just acts as a front-end 70 for git-log and git-show/git-diff. Additionally, you can also 71 use it as a pager for git commands. 72 73 74Foreign SCM interface 75--------------------- 76 77 - *git-svn* (shipped with git-core) 78 79 git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion 80 branch and git. 81 82 83 - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc) 84 85 These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit 86 series in git back and forth. 87 88 89 - *hg-to-git* (contrib/) 90 91 hg-to-git converts a Mercurial repository into a git one, and 92 preserves the full branch history in the process. hg-to-git can 93 also be used in an incremental way to keep the git repository 94 in sync with the master Mercurial repository. 95 96 97Others 98------ 99 100 - *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/) 101 102 Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for git and 103 Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files 104 to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and 105 perform the commit itself. 106 107 - *git.el* (contrib/) 108 109 This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is modeled on 110 pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some 111 tweaking to work on XEmacs. 112 113 114http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools has more 115comprehensive list.