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

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.
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17       Unlike gitk, 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.
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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.
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COMMANDS

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

45       git gui blame Makefile
46           Show the contents of the file Makefile in the current working
47           directory, and provide annotations for both the original author of
48           each line, and who moved the line to its current location. The
49           uncommitted file is annotated, and uncommitted changes (if any) are
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52       git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile
53           Show the contents of Makefile in revision v0.99.8 and provide
54           annotations for each line. Unlike the above example the file is
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57       git gui blame --line=100 Makefile
58           Loads annotations as described above and automatically scrolls the
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62           Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete. This
63           command returns a non-zero exit code if the window was closed in
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67           Automatically enter the Amend Last Commit mode of the interface.
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70           Behave as normal citool, but instead of making a commit simply
71           terminate with a zero exit code. It still checks that the index
72           does not contain any unmerged entries, so you can use it as a GUI
73           version of git-mergetool(1)
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75       git citool
76           Same as git gui citool (above).
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78       git gui browser maint
79           Show a browser for the tree of the maint branch. Files selected in
80           the browser can be viewed with the internal blame viewer.
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OTHER

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

98       Part of the git(1) suite
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