git-gui(1)

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NAME

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

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

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.
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18       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.
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22       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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COMMANDS

28       blame
29           Start a blame viewer on the specified file on the given version (or
30           working directory if not specified).
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32       browser
33           Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified commit.
34           Files selected through the browser are opened in the blame viewer.
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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.
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43           Display the currently running version of git gui.
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EXAMPLES

46       git gui blame Makefile
47           Show the contents of the file Makefile in the current working
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49           each line, and who moved the line to its current location. The
50           uncommitted file is annotated, and uncommitted changes (if any) are
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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
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58       git gui blame --line=100 Makefile
59           Loads annotations as described above and automatically scrolls the
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63           Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete. This
64           command returns a non-zero exit code if the window was closed in
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68           Automatically enter the Amend Last Commit mode of the interface.
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71           Behave as normal citool, but instead of making a commit simply
72           terminate with a zero exit code. It still checks that the index
73           does not contain any unmerged entries, so you can use it as a GUI
74           version of git-mergetool(1)
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76       git citool
77           Same as git gui citool (above).
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80           Show a browser for the tree of the maint branch. Files selected in
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OTHER

90       git gui is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
91       versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience
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94       The official repository of the git gui project can be found at:
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GIT

99       Part of the git(1) suite
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