1git-gui(1) 2========== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-gui - A portable graphical interface to Git 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11'git gui' [<command>] [arguments] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15A Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface to Git. 'git gui' focuses 16on allowing users to make changes to their repository by making 17new commits, amending existing ones, creating branches, performing 18local merges, and fetching/pushing to remote repositories. 19 20Unlike 'gitk', 'git gui' focuses on commit generation 21and single file annotation and does not show project history. 22It does however supply menu actions to start a 'gitk' session from 23within 'git gui'. 24 25'git gui' is known to work on all popular UNIX systems, Mac OS X, 26and Windows (under both Cygwin and MSYS). To the extent possible 27OS specific user interface guidelines are followed, making 'git gui' 28a fairly native interface for users. 29 30COMMANDS 31-------- 32blame:: 33 Start a blame viewer on the specified file on the given 34 version (or working directory if not specified). 35 36browser:: 37 Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified 38 commit (or 'HEAD' by default). Files selected through the 39 browser are opened in the blame viewer. 40 41citool:: 42 Start 'git gui' and arrange to make exactly one commit before 43 exiting and returning to the shell. The interface is limited 44 to only commit actions, slightly reducing the application's 45 startup time and simplifying the menubar. 46 47version:: 48 Display the currently running version of 'git gui'. 49 50 51Examples 52-------- 53`git gui blame Makefile`:: 54 55 Show the contents of the file 'Makefile' in the current 56 working directory, and provide annotations for both the 57 original author of each line, and who moved the line to its 58 current location. The uncommitted file is annotated, and 59 uncommitted changes (if any) are explicitly attributed to 60 'Not Yet Committed'. 61 62`git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile`:: 63 64 Show the contents of 'Makefile' in revision 'v0.99.8' 65 and provide annotations for each line. Unlike the above 66 example the file is read from the object database and not 67 the working directory. 68 69`git gui blame --line=100 Makefile`:: 70 71 Loads annotations as described above and automatically 72 scrolls the view to center on line '100'. 73 74`git gui citool`:: 75 76 Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete. 77 This command returns a non-zero exit code if the window was 78 closed in any way other than by making a commit. 79 80`git gui citool --amend`:: 81 82 Automatically enter the 'Amend Last Commit' mode of 83 the interface. 84 85`git gui citool --nocommit`:: 86 87 Behave as normal citool, but instead of making a commit 88 simply terminate with a zero exit code. It still checks 89 that the index does not contain any unmerged entries, so 90 you can use it as a GUI version of linkgit:git-mergetool[1] 91 92`git citool`:: 93 94 Same as `git gui citool` (above). 95 96`git gui browser maint`:: 97 98 Show a browser for the tree of the 'maint' branch. Files 99 selected in the browser can be viewed with the internal 100 blame viewer. 101 102SEE ALSO 103-------- 104linkgit:gitk[1]:: 105 The Git repository browser. Shows branches, commit history 106 and file differences. gitk is the utility started by 107 'git gui''s Repository Visualize actions. 108 109Other 110----- 111'git gui' is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable 112versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience 113of end users. 114 115A 'git gui' development repository can be obtained from: 116 117 git clone git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git 118 119or 120 121 git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/git-gui.git 122 123or browsed online at http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/[]. 124 125GIT 126--- 127Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite