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'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/.

GIT

   Part of the git(1) suite

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