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  25    Cogito is no longer maintained as most of its functionality
  26    is now in core GIT.
  27
  28
  29    - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)
  30
  31    pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT to help the user manage a set of
  32    patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGIT, but it does have a
  33    slightly different feature set.
  34
  35
  36    - *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)
  37
  38    Stacked GIT provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the
  39    GIT environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of GIT
  40    until they get merged upstream.
  41
  42
  43 History Viewers
  44 ---------------
  45
  46    - *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
  47
  48    gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of GIT repositories easily.
  49
  50
  51    - *gitview*  (contrib/)
  52
  53    gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git
  54
  55
  56    - *gitweb* (shipped with git-core)
  57
  58    GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.
  59
  60
  61    - *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
  62
  63    QGit is a git/StGIT GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used
  64    to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit
  65    changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.
  66    Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the git
  67    viewers and commit tools.
  68
  69    - *tig* (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/)
  70
  71    tig by Jonas Fonseca is a simple git repository browser
  72    written using ncurses. Basically, it just acts as a front-end
  73    for git-log and git-show/git-diff. Additionally, you can also
  74    use it as a pager for git commands.
  75
  76
  77 Foreign SCM interface
  78 ---------------------
  79
  80    - *git-svn* (shipped with git-core)
  81
  82    git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion
  83    branch and git.
  84
  85
  86    - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)
  87
  88    These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit
  89    series in git back and forth.
  90
  91
  92    - *hg-to-git* (contrib/)
  93
  94    hg-to-git converts a Mercurial repository into a git one, and
  95    preserves the full branch history in the process. hg-to-git can
  96    also be used in an incremental way to keep the git repository
  97    in sync with the master Mercurial repository.
  98
  99
 100 Others
 101 ------
 102
 103    - *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)
 104
 105    Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for git and
 106    Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files
 107    to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and
 108    perform the commit itself.
 109
 110    - *git.el* (contrib/)
 111
 112    This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is modeled on
 113    pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
 114    tweaking to work on XEmacs.
 115
 116
 117 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools has more
 118 comprehensive list.