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6 git-gui - A portable graphical interface to Git
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9 git gui [<command>] [arguments]
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13 A Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface to Git. git gui focuses on
14 allowing users to make changes to their repository by making new
15 commits, amending existing ones, creating branches, performing local
16 merges, and fetching/pushing to remote repositories.
17 Unlike gitk, git gui focuses on commit generation and single file
19 annotation and does not show project history. It does however supply
20 menu actions to start a gitk session from within git gui.
21 git gui is known to work on all popular UNIX systems, Mac OS X, and
23 Windows (under both Cygwin and MSYS). To the extent possible OS
24 specific user interface guidelines are followed, making git gui a
25 fairly native interface for users.
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28 blame
29 Start a blame viewer on the specified file on the given version (or
30 working directory if not specified).
31 browser
33 Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified commit (or
34 HEAD by default). Files selected through the browser are opened in
35 the blame viewer.
36 citool
38 Start git gui and arrange to make exactly one commit before exiting
39 and returning to the shell. The interface is limited to only commit
40 actions, slightly reducing the application’s startup time and
41 simplifying the menubar.
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44 Display the currently running version of git gui.
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47 git gui blame Makefile
48 Show the contents of the file Makefile in the current working
49 directory, and provide annotations for both the original author of
50 each line, and who moved the line to its current location. The
51 uncommitted file is annotated, and uncommitted changes (if any) are
52 explicitly attributed to Not Yet Committed.
53 git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile
55 Show the contents of Makefile in revision v0.99.8 and provide
56 annotations for each line. Unlike the above example the file is
57 read from the object database and not the working directory.
58 git gui blame --line=100 Makefile
60 Loads annotations as described above and automatically scrolls the
61 view to center on line 100.
62 git gui citool
64 Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete. This
65 command returns a non-zero exit code if the window was closed in
66 any way other than by making a commit.
67 git gui citool --amend
69 Automatically enter the Amend Last Commit mode of the interface.
70 git gui citool --nocommit
72 Behave as normal citool, but instead of making a commit simply
73 terminate with a zero exit code. It still checks that the index
74 does not contain any unmerged entries, so you can use it as a GUI
75 version of git-mergetool(1)
76 git citool
78 Same as git gui citool (above).
79 git gui browser maint
81 Show a browser for the tree of the maint branch. Files selected in
82 the browser can be viewed with the internal blame viewer.
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85 gitk(1)
86 The Git repository browser. Shows branches, commit history and file
87 differences. gitk is the utility started by git gui's Repository
88 Visualize actions.
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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 A git gui development repository can be obtained from:
96 git clone git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
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100 git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/git-gui.git
102 or browsed online at http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/.
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106 Part of the git(1) suite
107Git 1.8.3.1 11/19/2018 GIT-GUI(1)