Documentation/git-gui.txt

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