GIT-GUI(1)                                                          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 gitk, 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&#8217;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 blame --line=100 Makefile
              Loads annotations as described above and automatically scrolls
              the view to center on line 100.


       git gui citool
              Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete.
              This command returns a non-zero exit code if the window was
              closed in any way other than by making a commit.


       git gui citool --amend
              Automatically enter the Amend Last Commit mode of the interface.


       git gui citool --nocommit
              Behave as normal citool, but instead of making a commit simply
              terminate with a zero exit code. It still checks that the index
              does not contain any unmerged entries, so you can use it as a
              GUI version of git-mergetool(1)


       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/:
       http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/.


GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite




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