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user experience than the "raw" Core Git 24itself and indeed many other version control systems. 25+ 26Cogito is no longer maintained as most of its functionality 27is now in core Git. 28 29 30- *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/) 31+ 32pg is a shell script wrapper around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