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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.</tt></pre> </div></div> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>Cogito is no longer maintained as most of its functionality is now in core GIT.</tt></pre> </div></div> </li> <li> <p> <strong>pg</strong> (<a href="http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/">http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/</a>) </p> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>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.</tt></pre> </div></div> </li> <li> <p> <strong>StGit</strong> (<a href="http://www.procode.org/stgit/">http://www.procode.org/stgit/</a>) </p> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>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.</tt></pre> </div></div> </li> </ul></div> </div> <h2 id="_history_viewers">History Viewers</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="ulist"><ul> <li> <p> <strong>gitk</strong> (shipped with git-core) </p> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of GIT repositories easily.</tt></pre> </div></div> </li> <li> <p> <strong>gitview</strong> (contrib/) </p> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git</tt></pre> </div></div> </li> <li> <p> <strong>gitweb</strong> (shipped with git-core) </p> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.</tt></pre> </div></div> </li> <li> <p> <strong>qgit</strong> (<a href="http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/">http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/</a>) </p> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>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.</tt></pre> </div></div> </li> <li> <p> <strong>tig</strong> (<a href="http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/</a>) </p> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>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.</tt></pre> </div></div> </li> </ul></div> </div> <h2 id="_foreign_scm_interface">Foreign SCM interface</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="ulist"><ul> <li> <p> <strong>git-svn</strong> (shipped with git-core) </p> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion branch and git.</tt></pre> </div></div> </li> <li> <p> <strong>quilt2git / git2quilt</strong> (<a href="http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc">http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc</a>) </p> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit series in git back and forth.</tt></pre> </div></div> </li> <li> <p> <strong>hg-to-git</strong> (contrib/) </p> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>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.</tt></pre> </div></div> </li> </ul></div> </div> <h2 id="_others">Others</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="ulist"><ul> <li> <p> <strong>(h)gct</strong> (<a href="http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/">http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/</a>) </p> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>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.</tt></pre> </div></div> </li> <li> <p> <strong>git.el</strong> (contrib/) </p> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>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.</tt></pre> </div></div> </li> </ul></div> <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools">http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools</a> has more comprehensive list.</p></div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> Last updated 2008-07-16 16:54:18 UTC </div> </div> </body> </html>