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.
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.
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.
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:
or
or browsed online at http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/.