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Jakub Narebski pointed out that the git-gui blame viewer is not a widely known feature, but is incredibly useful. Part of the issue is advertising. Up until now we haven't even referenced git-gui from within the core Git manual pages, mostly because I just wasn't sure how I wanted to supply git-gui documentation to end-users, or how that documentation should integrate with the core Git documentation. Based upon Jakub's comment that many users may not even know that the gui is available in a stock Git distribution I'm offering up two basic manual pages: git-citool and git-gui. These should offer enough of a starting point for users to identify that the gui exists, and how to start it. Future releases of git-gui may contain their own documentation system available from within a running git-gui. But not today. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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git-gui(1)
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NAME
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git-gui - A portable graphical interface to Git
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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'git gui' [<command>] [arguments]
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DESCRIPTION
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A Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface to Git. git-gui focuses
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on allowing users to make changes to their repository by making
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new commits, amending existing ones, creating branches, performing
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local merges, and fetching/pushing to remote repositories.
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Unlike gitlink:gitk[1], git-gui focuses on commit generation
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and single file annotation, and does not show project history.
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It does however supply menu actions to start a gitk session from
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within git-gui.
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git-gui is known to work on all popular UNIX systems, Mac OS X,
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and Windows (under both Cygwin and MSYS). To the extent possible
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OS specific user interface guidelines are followed, making git-gui
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a fairly native interface for users.
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COMMANDS
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blame::
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Start a blame viewer on the specified file on the given
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version (or working directory if not specified).
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browser::
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Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified
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commit (or 'HEAD' by default). Files selected through the
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browser are opened in the blame viewer.
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citool::
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Start git-gui and arrange to make exactly one commit before
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exiting and returning to the shell. The interface is limited
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to only commit actions, slightly reducing the application's
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startup time and simplifying the menubar.
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version::
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Display the currently running version of git-gui.
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Examples
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git gui blame Makefile::
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Show the contents of the file 'Makefile' in the current
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working directory, and provide annotations for both the
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original author of each line, and who moved the line to its
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current location. The uncommitted file is annotated, and
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uncommitted changes (if any) are explicitly attributed to
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'Not Yet Committed'.
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git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile::
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Show the contents of 'Makefile' in revision 'v0.99.8'
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and provide annotations for each line. Unlike the above
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example the file is read from the object database and not
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the working directory.
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git gui citool::
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Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete.
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git citool::
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Same as 'git gui citool' (above).
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git gui browser maint::
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Show a browser for the tree of the 'maint' branch. Files
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selected in the browser can be viewed with the internal
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blame viewer.
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See Also
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'gitk(1)'::
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The git repository browser. Shows branches, commit history
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and file differences. gitk is the utility started by
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git-gui's Repository Visualize actions.
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Other
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git-gui is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
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versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convience
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of end users.
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A git-gui development repository can be obtained from:
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git clone git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
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or
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git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/git-gui.git
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or browsed online at http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/[].
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Author
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Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
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Documentation
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Documentation by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
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GIT
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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