1 A short git tools survey
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5 Introduction
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8 Apart from git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools
9 you may want to look.
11 This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding
12 link.
15 Alternative/Augmentative Porcelains
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18 - *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/)
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.
26 - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)
28 pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT to help the user manage a set of
29 patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGIT, but it does have a
30 slightly different feature set.
33 - *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)
35 Stacked GIT provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the
36 GIT environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of GIT
37 until they get merged upstream.
40 History Viewers
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43 - *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
45 gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of GIT repositories easily.
48 - *gitview* (contrib/)
50 gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git
53 - *gitweb* (shipped with git-core)
55 GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.
58 - *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
60 QGit is a git/StGIT GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used
61 to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit
62 changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.
63 Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the git
64 viewers and commit tools.
66 - *tig* (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/)
68 tig by Jonas Fonseca is a simple git repository browser
69 written using ncurses. Basically, it just acts as a front-end
70 for git-log and git-show/git-diff. Additionally, you can also
71 use it as a pager for git commands.
74 Foreign SCM interface
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77 - *git-svn* (shipped with git-core)
79 git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion
80 branch and git.
83 - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)
85 These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit
86 series in git back and forth.
89 - *hg-to-git* (contrib/)
91 hg-to-git converts a Mercurial repository into a git one, and
92 preserves the full branch history in the process. hg-to-git can
93 also be used in an incremental way to keep the git repository
94 in sync with the master Mercurial repository.
97 Others
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100 - *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)
102 Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for git and
103 Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files
104 to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and
105 perform the commit itself.
107 - *git.el* (contrib/)
109 This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is modeled on
110 pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
111 tweaking to work on XEmacs.
114 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools has more
115 comprehensive list.