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diff --git a/Documentation/git-gui.txt b/Documentation/git-gui.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..13252a1aa6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-gui.txt @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +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 gitlink:gitk[1], 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 citool:: + + Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete. + +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: + + 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/[]. + +Author +------ +Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>. + +Documentation +-------------- +Documentation by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>. + +GIT +--- +Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |