git-gui

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. 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’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](git-mergetool.md)

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:: 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.

The official repository of the ’git gui’ project can be found at:

https://github.com/j6t/git-gui

GIT --- Part of the git suite