Documentation/git-tools.txt

   1 A short git tools survey
   2 ========================
   3
   4
   5 Introduction
   6 ------------
   7
   8 Apart from git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools
   9 you may want to look.
  10
  11 This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding
  12 link.
  13
  14
  15 Alternative/Augmentative Porcelains
  16 -----------------------------------
  17
  18    - *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/)
  19
  20    Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the git tree history
  21    storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of use,
  22    providing generally smoother user experience than the "raw" Core GIT
  23    itself and indeed many other version control systems.
  24
  25
  26    - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)
  27
  28    pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT to help the user manage a set of
  29    patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGIT, but it does have a
  30    slightly different feature set.
  31
  32
  33    - *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)
  34
  35    Stacked GIT provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the
  36     GIT environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of GIT
  37    until they get merged upstream.
  38
  39
  40 History Viewers
  41 ---------------
  42
  43    - *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
  44
  45    gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of GIT repositories easily.
  46
  47
  48    - *gitview*  (contrib/)
  49
  50    gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git
  51
  52
  53    - *gitweb* (shipped with git-core)
  54
  55    GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.
  56
  57
  58    - *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
  59
  60    QGit is a git/StGIT GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used
  61    to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit
  62    changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.
  63    Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the git
  64    viewers and commit tools.
  65
  66    - *tig* (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/)
  67
  68    tig by Jonas Fonseca is a simple git repository browser
  69    written using ncurses. Basically, it just acts as a front-end
  70    for git-log and git-show/git-diff. Additionally, you can also
  71    use it as a pager for git commands.
  72
  73
  74 Foreign SCM interface
  75 ---------------------
  76
  77    - *git-svn* (shipped with git-core)
  78
  79    git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion
  80    branch and git.
  81
  82
  83    - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)
  84
  85    These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit
  86    series in git back and forth.
  87
  88
  89    - *hg-to-git* (contrib/)
  90
  91    hg-to-git converts a Mercurial repository into a git one, and
  92    preserves the full branch history in the process. hg-to-git can
  93    also be used in an incremental way to keep the git repository
  94    in sync with the master Mercurial repository.
  95
  96
  97 Others
  98 ------
  99
 100    - *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)
 101
 102    Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for git and
 103    Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files
 104    to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and
 105    perform the commit itself.
 106
 107    - *git.el* (contrib/)
 108
 109    This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is modeled on
 110    pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
 111    tweaking to work on XEmacs.
 112
 113
 114 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools has more
 115 comprehensive list.