git-gui
(1)
Name
git-gui - A portable graphical interface to Git
Synopsis
git gui [<command>] [arguments]
Description
Git Manual GIT-GUI(1)
NAME
git-gui - A portable graphical interface to Git
SYNOPSIS
git gui [<command>] [arguments]
DESCRIPTION
A Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface to Git. git gui
focuses on allowing users to make changes to their
repository by making new commits, amending existing ones,
creating branches, performing local merges, and
fetching/pushing to remote repositories.
Unlike gitk, git gui focuses on commit generation and single
file annotation and does not show project history. It does
however supply menu actions to start a gitk session from
within git gui.
git gui is known to work on all popular UNIX systems, Mac OS
X, and Windows (under both Cygwin and MSYS). To the extent
possible OS specific user interface guidelines are followed,
making git gui a fairly native interface for users.
COMMANDS
blame
Start a blame viewer on the specified file on the given
version (or working directory if not specified).
browser
Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified
commit (or HEAD by default). Files selected through the
browser are opened in the blame viewer.
citool
Start git gui and arrange to make exactly one commit
before exiting and returning to the shell. The interface
is limited to only commit actions, slightly reducing the
application's startup time and simplifying the menubar.
version
Display the currently running version of git gui.
EXAMPLES
git gui blame Makefile
Show the contents of the file Makefile in the current
working directory, and provide annotations for both the
original author of each line, and who moved the line to
its current location. The uncommitted file is annotated,
and uncommitted changes (if any) are explicitly
attributed to Not Yet Committed.
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git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile
Show the contents of Makefile in revision v0.99.8 and
provide annotations for each line. Unlike the above
example the file is read from the object database and
not the working directory.
git gui blame --line=100 Makefile
Loads annotations as described above and automatically
scrolls the view to center on line 100.
git gui citool
Make one commit and return to the shell when it is
complete. This command returns a non-zero exit code if
the window was closed in any way other than by making a
commit.
git gui citool --amend
Automatically enter the Amend Last Commit mode of the
interface.
git gui citool --nocommit
Behave as normal citool, but instead of making a commit
simply terminate with a zero exit code. It still checks
that the index does not contain any unmerged entries, so
you can use it as a GUI version of git-mergetool(1)
git citool
Same as git gui citool (above).
git gui browser maint
Show a browser for the tree of the maint branch. Files
selected in the browser can be viewed with the internal
blame viewer.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | developer/versioning/git |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
SEE ALSO
gitk(1)
The git repository browser. Shows branches, commit
history and file differences. gitk is the utility
started by git gui's Repository Visualize actions.
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OTHER
git gui is actually maintained as an independent project,
but stable versions are distributed as part of the Git suite
for the convenience of end users.
A git gui development repository can be obtained from:
git clone git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
or
git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/git-gui.git
or browsed online at http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from http://git-
core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.
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