-A short Git tools survey
-========================
+Git Tools
+=========
+When Git was young, people looking for third-party Git-related tools came
+to the Git project itself to find them, thus a list of such tools was
+maintained here. These days, however, search engines fill that role much
+more efficiently, so this manually-maintained list has been retired.
-Introduction
-------------
-
-Apart from Git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools
-you may want to look at.
-This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding
-link.
-For a more comprehensive list, see:
+See also the `contrib/` area, and the Git wiki:
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
-
-
-Alternative/Augmentative Porcelains
------------------------------------
-
-- *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/)
-+
-Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the Git tree history
-storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of use,
-providing generally smoother user experience than the "raw" Core Git
-itself and indeed many other version control systems.
-+
-Cogito is no longer maintained as most of its functionality
-is now in core Git.
-
-
-- *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)
-+
-pg is a shell script wrapper around Git to help the user manage a set of
-patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGit, but it does have a
-slightly different feature set.
-
-
-- *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)
-+
-Stacked Git provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the
-Git environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of Git
-until they get merged upstream.
-
-
-History Viewers
----------------
-
-- *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
-+
-gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of Git repositories easily.
-
-
-- *gitview* (contrib/)
-+
-gitview is a GTK based repository browser for Git
-
-
-- *gitweb* (shipped with git-core)
-+
-Gitweb provides full-fledged web interface for Git repositories.
-
-
-- *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
-+
-QGit is a git/StGit GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used
-to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit
-changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.
-Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the Git
-viewers and commit tools.
-
-- *tig* (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/)
-+
-tig by Jonas Fonseca is a simple Git repository browser
-written using ncurses. Basically, it just acts as a front-end
-for git-log and git-show/git-diff. Additionally, you can also
-use it as a pager for Git commands.
-
-
-Foreign SCM interface
----------------------
-
-- *git-svn* (shipped with git-core)
-+
-git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion
-branch and Git.
-
-
-- *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)
-+
-These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit
-series in Git back and forth.
-
-
-- *hg-to-git* (contrib/)
-+
-hg-to-git converts a Mercurial repository into a Git one, and
-preserves the full branch history in the process. hg-to-git can
-also be used in an incremental way to keep the Git repository
-in sync with the master Mercurial repository.
-
-
-Others
-------
-
-- *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)
-+
-Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for Git and
-Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files
-to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and
-perform the commit itself.
-
-- *git.el* (contrib/)
-+
-This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modelled on
-pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
-tweaking to work on XEmacs.