1git-gui(1) 2========== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-gui - A portable graphical interface to Git 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10'git gui' [<command>] [arguments] 11 12DESCRIPTION 13----------- 14A Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface to Git. 'git-gui' focuses 15on allowing users to make changes to their repository by making 16new commits, amending existing ones, creating branches, performing 17local merges, and fetching/pushing to remote repositories. 18 19Unlike 'gitk', 'git-gui' focuses on commit generation 20and single file annotation and does not show project history. 21It does however supply menu actions to start a 'gitk' session from 22within 'git-gui'. 23 24'git-gui' is known to work on all popular UNIX systems, Mac OS X, 25and Windows (under both Cygwin and MSYS). To the extent possible 26OS specific user interface guidelines are followed, making 'git-gui' 27a fairly native interface for users. 28 29COMMANDS 30-------- 31blame:: 32 Start a blame viewer on the specified file on the given 33 version (or working directory if not specified). 34 35browser:: 36 Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified 37 commit (or 'HEAD' by default). Files selected through the 38 browser are opened in the blame viewer. 39 40citool:: 41 Start 'git-gui' and arrange to make exactly one commit before 42 exiting and returning to the shell. The interface is limited 43 to only commit actions, slightly reducing the application's 44 startup time and simplifying the menubar. 45 46version:: 47 Display the currently running version of 'git-gui'. 48 49 50Examples 51-------- 52git gui blame Makefile:: 53 54 Show the contents of the file 'Makefile' in the current 55 working directory, and provide annotations for both the 56 original author of each line, and who moved the line to its 57 current location. The uncommitted file is annotated, and 58 uncommitted changes (if any) are explicitly attributed to 59 'Not Yet Committed'. 60 61git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile:: 62 63 Show the contents of 'Makefile' in revision 'v0.99.8' 64 and provide annotations for each line. Unlike the above 65 example the file is read from the object database and not 66 the working directory. 67 68git gui citool:: 69 70 Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete. 71 72git citool:: 73 74 Same as `git gui citool` (above). 75 76git gui browser maint:: 77 78 Show a browser for the tree of the 'maint' branch. Files 79 selected in the browser can be viewed with the internal 80 blame viewer. 81 82SEE ALSO 83-------- 84linkgit:gitk[1]:: 85 The git repository browser. Shows branches, commit history 86 and file differences. gitk is the utility started by 87 'git-gui''s Repository Visualize actions. 88 89Other 90----- 91'git-gui' is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable 92versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience 93of end users. 94 95A 'git-gui' development repository can be obtained from: 96 97 git clone git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git 98 99or 100 101 git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/git-gui.git 102 103or browsed online at http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/[]. 104 105Author 106------ 107Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>. 108 109Documentation 110-------------- 111Documentation by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>. 112 113GIT 114--- 115Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite