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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.
-
-This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding
-link.
-
-
-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
- storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of use,
- 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- Cogito is no longer maintained as most of its functionality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.
-
-
- - *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
- 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
- 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.
-
-
- - *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.
-
-
- - *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
-------
-
- - *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)
-
- 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
- pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
- tweaking to work on XEmacs.
-
-
-http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools has more
-comprehensive list.
+See also the `contrib/` area, and the Git wiki:
+http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools