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diff --git a/Documentation/git-tools.txt b/Documentation/git-tools.txt index a96403cb8c..ad8b823f77 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tools.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tools.txt @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -A short git tools survey +A short Git tools survey ======================== Introduction ------------ -Apart from git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools +Apart from Git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools you may want to look. This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding @@ -17,26 +17,26 @@ Alternative/Augmentative Porcelains - *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/) - Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the git tree history + Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the Git tree history storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of use, - providing generally smoother user experience than the "raw" Core GIT + providing generally smoother user experience than the "raw" Core Git itself and indeed many other version control systems. Cogito is no longer maintained as most of its functionality - is now in core GIT. + is now in core Git. - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/) - pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT to help the user manage a set of - patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGIT, but it does have a + pg is a shell script wrapper around Git to help the user manage a set of + patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGit, but it does have a slightly different feature set. - *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 + 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. @@ -45,33 +45,33 @@ History Viewers - *gitk* (shipped with git-core) - gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of GIT repositories easily. + gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of Git repositories easily. - *gitview* (contrib/) - gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git + gitview is a GTK based repository browser for Git - *gitweb* (shipped with git-core) - GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories. + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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. + use it as a pager for Git commands. Foreign SCM interface @@ -80,20 +80,20 @@ Foreign SCM interface - *git-svn* (shipped with git-core) git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion - branch and git. + branch and Git. - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc) These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit - series in git back and forth. + series in Git back and forth. - *hg-to-git* (contrib/) - hg-to-git converts a Mercurial repository into a git one, and + 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 + also be used in an incremental way to keep the Git repository in sync with the master Mercurial repository. @@ -102,14 +102,14 @@ Others - *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/) - Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for git and + Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for Git and Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and perform the commit itself. - *git.el* (contrib/) - This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is modeled on + This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modeled on pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some tweaking to work on XEmacs. |