Documentation/git-tools: retire manually-maintained list

When Git was young, people looking for third-party Git-related tools
came to the Git project itself to find them, so it made sense to
maintain a list of tools here. These days, however, search engines fill
that role much more efficiently, so retire the manually-maintained
list.

The list of front-ends and tools on the Git wiki rates perhaps a distant
second to search engines, and may still have value, so retain a
reference to it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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-A short Git tools survey
-========================
+Git Tools
+=========
 
+When Git was young, people looking for third-party Git-related tools came
+to the Git project itself to find them, thus a list of such tools was
+maintained here. These days, however, search engines fill that role much
+more efficiently, so this manually-maintained list has been retired.
 
-Introduction
-------------
-
-Apart from Git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools
-you may want to look at.
-This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding
-link.
-For a more comprehensive list, see:
+See also the `contrib/` area, and the Git wiki:
 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
-
-
-Alternative/Augmentative Porcelains
------------------------------------
-
-- *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)
-+
-Stacked Git provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the
-Git environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of Git
-until they get merged upstream.
-
-
-History Viewers
----------------
-
-- *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
-+
-gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of Git repositories easily.
-
-
-- *gitview*  (contrib/)
-+
-gitview is a GTK based repository browser for Git
-
-
-- *gitweb* (shipped with git-core)
-+
-Gitweb provides full-fledged web interface for Git repositories.
-
-
-- *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
-+
-QGit is a git/StGit GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used
-to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit
-changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.
-Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the Git
-viewers and commit tools.
-
-- *tig* (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/)
-+
-tig by Jonas Fonseca is a simple Git repository browser
-written using ncurses. Basically, it just acts as a front-end
-for git-log and git-show/git-diff. Additionally, you can also
-use it as a pager for Git commands.
-
-
-Foreign SCM interface
----------------------
-
-- *git-svn* (shipped with git-core)
-+
-git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion
-branch and Git.
-
-
-- *hg-to-git* (contrib/)
-+
-hg-to-git converts a Mercurial repository into a Git one, and
-preserves the full branch history in the process. hg-to-git can
-also be used in an incremental way to keep the Git repository
-in sync with the master Mercurial repository.
-
-
-Others
-------
-
-- *git.el* (contrib/)
-+
-This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modelled on
-pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
-tweaking to work on XEmacs.