| git-gui(1) |
| ========== |
| |
| NAME |
| ---- |
| git-gui - A portable graphical interface to Git |
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| SYNOPSIS |
| -------- |
| [verse] |
| 'git gui' [<command>] [arguments] |
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| DESCRIPTION |
| ----------- |
| A Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface to Git. 'git gui' focuses |
| on allowing users to make changes to their repository by making |
| new commits, amending existing ones, creating branches, performing |
| local merges, and fetching/pushing to remote repositories. |
| |
| Unlike 'gitk', 'git gui' focuses on commit generation |
| and single file annotation and does not show project history. |
| It does however supply menu actions to start a 'gitk' session from |
| within 'git gui'. |
| |
| 'git gui' is known to work on all popular UNIX systems, Mac OS X, |
| and Windows (under both Cygwin and MSYS). To the extent possible |
| OS specific user interface guidelines are followed, making 'git gui' |
| a fairly native interface for users. |
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| COMMANDS |
| -------- |
| blame:: |
| Start a blame viewer on the specified file on the given |
| version (or working directory if not specified). |
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| browser:: |
| Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified |
| commit (or 'HEAD' by default). Files selected through the |
| browser are opened in the blame viewer. |
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| citool:: |
| Start 'git gui' and arrange to make exactly one commit before |
| exiting and returning to the shell. The interface is limited |
| to only commit actions, slightly reducing the application's |
| startup time and simplifying the menubar. |
| |
| version:: |
| Display the currently running version of 'git gui'. |
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| Examples |
| -------- |
| `git gui blame Makefile`:: |
| |
| Show the contents of the file 'Makefile' in the current |
| working directory, and provide annotations for both the |
| original author of each line, and who moved the line to its |
| current location. The uncommitted file is annotated, and |
| uncommitted changes (if any) are explicitly attributed to |
| 'Not Yet Committed'. |
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| `git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile`:: |
| |
| Show the contents of 'Makefile' in revision 'v0.99.8' |
| and provide annotations for each line. Unlike the above |
| example the file is read from the object database and not |
| the working directory. |
| |
| `git gui blame --line=100 Makefile`:: |
| |
| Loads annotations as described above and automatically |
| scrolls the view to center on line '100'. |
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| `git gui citool`:: |
| |
| Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete. |
| This command returns a non-zero exit code if the window was |
| closed in any way other than by making a commit. |
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| `git gui citool --amend`:: |
| |
| Automatically enter the 'Amend Last Commit' mode of |
| the interface. |
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| `git gui citool --nocommit`:: |
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| Behave as normal citool, but instead of making a commit |
| simply terminate with a zero exit code. It still checks |
| that the index does not contain any unmerged entries, so |
| you can use it as a GUI version of linkgit:git-mergetool[1] |
| |
| `git citool`:: |
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| Same as `git gui citool` (above). |
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| `git gui browser maint`:: |
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| Show a browser for the tree of the 'maint' branch. Files |
| selected in the browser can be viewed with the internal |
| blame viewer. |
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| SEE ALSO |
| -------- |
| linkgit:gitk[1]:: |
| The git repository browser. Shows branches, commit history |
| and file differences. gitk is the utility started by |
| 'git gui''s Repository Visualize actions. |
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| Other |
| ----- |
| 'git gui' is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable |
| versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience |
| of end users. |
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| A 'git gui' development repository can be obtained from: |
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| git clone git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git |
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| or |
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| git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/git-gui.git |
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| or browsed online at http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/[]. |
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| GIT |
| --- |
| Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |