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306<title>A short git tools survey</title>
307</head>
308<body>
309<div id="header">
310<h1>A short git tools survey</h1>
311</div>
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]312<h2 id="_introduction">Introduction</h2>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]313<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]314<div class="para"><p>Apart from git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools
315you may want to look.</p></div>
316<div class="para"><p>This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding
317link.</p></div>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]318</div>
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]319<h2 id="_alternative_augmentative_porcelains">Alternative/Augmentative Porcelains</h2>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]320<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]321<div class="ilist"><ul>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]322<li>
323<p>
324<strong>Cogito</strong> (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/)
325</p>
326<div class="literalblock">
327<div class="content">
328<pre><tt>Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the git tree history
329storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of use,
330providing generally smoother user experience than the "raw" Core GIT
331itself and indeed many other version control systems.</tt></pre>
332</div></div>
Junio C Hamanofb4fa4e2007-10-30 08:24:24[diff] [blame]333<div class="literalblock">
334<div class="content">
335<pre><tt>Cogito is no longer maintained as most of its functionality
336is now in core GIT.</tt></pre>
337</div></div>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]338</li>
339<li>
340<p>
341<strong>pg</strong> (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)
342</p>
343<div class="literalblock">
344<div class="content">
345<pre><tt>pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT to help the user manage a set of
346patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGIT, but it does have a
347slightly different feature set.</tt></pre>
348</div></div>
349</li>
350<li>
351<p>
352<strong>StGit</strong> (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)
353</p>
354<div class="literalblock">
355<div class="content">
356<pre><tt>Stacked GIT provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the
Junio C Hamanofb4fa4e2007-10-30 08:24:24[diff] [blame]357GIT environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of GIT
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]358until they get merged upstream.</tt></pre>
359</div></div>
360</li>
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]361</ul></div>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]362</div>
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]363<h2 id="_history_viewers">History Viewers</h2>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]364<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]365<div class="ilist"><ul>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]366<li>
367<p>
368<strong>gitk</strong> (shipped with git-core)
369</p>
370<div class="literalblock">
371<div class="content">
Junio C Hamano51c2ab02006-07-09 20:38:54[diff] [blame]372<pre><tt>gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of GIT repositories easily.</tt></pre>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]373</div></div>
374</li>
375<li>
376<p>
377<strong>gitview</strong> (contrib/)
378</p>
379<div class="literalblock">
380<div class="content">
381<pre><tt>gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git</tt></pre>
382</div></div>
383</li>
384<li>
385<p>
Junio C Hamanof9771f62007-01-17 17:42:30[diff] [blame]386<strong>gitweb</strong> (shipped with git-core)
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]387</p>
388<div class="literalblock">
389<div class="content">
390<pre><tt>GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.</tt></pre>
391</div></div>
392</li>
393<li>
394<p>
395<strong>qgit</strong> (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
396</p>
397<div class="literalblock">
398<div class="content">
399<pre><tt>QGit is a git/StGIT GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used
400to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit
401changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.
402Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the git
403viewers and commit tools.</tt></pre>
404</div></div>
405</li>
Junio C Hamanof9771f62007-01-17 17:42:30[diff] [blame]406<li>
407<p>
408<strong>tig</strong> (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/)
409</p>
410<div class="literalblock">
411<div class="content">
412<pre><tt>tig by Jonas Fonseca is a simple git repository browser
413written using ncurses. Basically, it just acts as a front-end
414for git-log and git-show/git-diff. Additionally, you can also
415use it as a pager for git commands.</tt></pre>
416</div></div>
417</li>
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]418</ul></div>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]419</div>
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]420<h2 id="_foreign_scm_interface">Foreign SCM interface</h2>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]421<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]422<div class="ilist"><ul>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]423<li>
424<p>
Junio C Hamanof9771f62007-01-17 17:42:30[diff] [blame]425<strong>git-svn</strong> (shipped with git-core)
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]426</p>
427<div class="literalblock">
428<div class="content">
429<pre><tt>git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion
430branch and git.</tt></pre>
431</div></div>
432</li>
433<li>
434<p>
435<strong>quilt2git / git2quilt</strong> (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)
436</p>
437<div class="literalblock">
438<div class="content">
439<pre><tt>These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit
440series in git back and forth.</tt></pre>
441</div></div>
442</li>
Junio C Hamano42f855f2007-02-06 00:09:38[diff] [blame]443<li>
444<p>
445<strong>hg-to-git</strong> (contrib/)
446</p>
447<div class="literalblock">
448<div class="content">
449<pre><tt>hg-to-git converts a Mercurial repository into a git one, and
450preserves the full branch history in the process. hg-to-git can
451also be used in an incremental way to keep the git repository
452in sync with the master Mercurial repository.</tt></pre>
453</div></div>
454</li>
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]455</ul></div>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]456</div>
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]457<h2 id="_others">Others</h2>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]458<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]459<div class="ilist"><ul>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]460<li>
461<p>
462<strong>(h)gct</strong> (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)
463</p>
464<div class="literalblock">
465<div class="content">
466<pre><tt>Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for git and
467Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files
468to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and
469perform the commit itself.</tt></pre>
470</div></div>
471</li>
472<li>
473<p>
474<strong>git.el</strong> (contrib/)
475</p>
476<div class="literalblock">
477<div class="content">
478<pre><tt>This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is modeled on
479pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
480tweaking to work on XEmacs.</tt></pre>
481</div></div>
482</li>
Junio C Hamano4604fe52008-09-19 06:37:10[diff] [blame]483</ul></div>
484<div class="para"><p>http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools has more
485comprehensive list.</p></div>
Junio C Hamanodecf50e2006-03-05 10:51:14[diff] [blame]486</div>
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