git-gui(1)

1GIT-GUI(1)                        Git Manual                        GIT-GUI(1)
2
3
4

NAME

6       git-gui - A portable graphical interface to Git
7

SYNOPSIS

9       git gui [<command>] [arguments]
10

DESCRIPTION

12       A Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface to Git. git-gui focuses on
13       allowing users to make changes to their repository by making new
14       commits, amending existing ones, creating branches, performing local
15       merges, and fetching/pushing to remote repositories.
16
17       Unlike gitk(1), git-gui focuses on commit generation and single file
18       annotation, and does not show project history. It does however supply
19       menu actions to start a gitk session from within git-gui.
20
21       git-gui is known to work on all popular UNIX systems, Mac OS X, and
22       Windows (under both Cygwin and MSYS). To the extent possible OS
23       specific user interface guidelines are followed, making git-gui a
24       fairly native interface for users.
25

COMMANDS

27       blame
28           Start a blame viewer on the specified file on the given version (or
29           working directory if not specified).
30
31       browser
32           Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified commit (or
33           HEAD by default). Files selected through the browser are opened in
34           the blame viewer.
35
36       citool
37           Start git-gui and arrange to make exactly one commit before exiting
38           and returning to the shell. The interface is limited to only commit
39           actions, slightly reducing the application´s startup time and
40           simplifying the menubar.
41
42       version
43           Display the currently running version of git-gui.
44

EXAMPLES

46       git gui blame Makefile
47           Show the contents of the file Makefile in the current working
48           directory, and provide annotations for both the original author of
49           each line, and who moved the line to its current location. The
50           uncommitted file is annotated, and uncommitted changes (if any) are
51           explicitly attributed to Not Yet Committed.
52
53       git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile
54           Show the contents of Makefile in revision v0.99.8 and provide
55           annotations for each line. Unlike the above example the file is
56           read from the object database and not the working directory.
57
58       git gui citool
59           Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete.
60
61       git citool
62           Same as git gui citool (above).
63
64       git gui browser maint
65           Show a browser for the tree of the maint branch. Files selected in
66           the browser can be viewed with the internal blame viewer.
67

OTHER

75       git-gui is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
76       versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience
77       of end users.
78
79       A git-gui development repository can be obtained from:
80
81
82           git clone git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
83       or
84
85
86           git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/git-gui.git
87       or browsed online at http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/.
88

AUTHOR

90       Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
91

DOCUMENTATION

93       Documentation by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
94

GIT

96       Part of the git(7) suite
97
98
99
100
101Git 1.5.3.3                       10/09/2007                        GIT-GUI(1)