1 # git-cola: The highly caffeinated git GUI
3 ## git-cola is a sleek and powerful git GUI
5 Copyright (C) 2007-2012, David Aguilar and contributors
7 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
23 apt-get install git-cola python-inotify
25 New releases are available on the
26 [git-cola download page](http://git-cola.github.com/downloads.html).
31 git clone git://github.com/git-cola/git-cola.git
33 [git-cola on github](https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola)
35 [git-cola google group](http://groups.google.com/group/git-cola/)
43 * [git](http://git-scm.com/) 1.6.3 or newer
45 * [Python](http://python.org/) 2.6 or newer
47 * [PyQt4](http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download) 4.4 or newer
51 [pyinotify](https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify) >= 0.7.1
52 enables inotify support on Linux.
54 # BREWING INSTRUCTIONS
56 Normally you can just do "make install" to install *git-cola*
57 in your `$HOME` directory (`$HOME/bin`, `$HOME/share`, etc).
58 If you want to do a global install you can do
60 make prefix=/usr install
62 You don't need to install cola to run it, though.
63 *git-cola* is designed to run directly out of its source tree.
71 Whether you install cola yourself with `make install` or
72 use the `git-cola.app` bundle, you will need to install
75 The easiest way to do this is to [install homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/)
76 and use it to install git-cola.
80 Once brew has installed git-cola (and its dependencies) you use
81 `git-cola.app` or install from source using `make install`.
82 Installing these packages also gives you a PyQt development
83 environment which can be used for building your own applications
84 or hacking on cola itself.
87 ## WINDOWS INSTALLATION
89 Download the latest stable Git, Python 2.6, and Py26-PyQt4 installers
91 * [msysGit](http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/)
93 * [Python](http://python.org/download/)
95 * [PyQt](http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download/)
97 * [git-cola Installer](https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/downloads)
99 Once these are installed you can run *git-cola* from the Start menu or
100 from a Git Bash by typing `cola`.
102 If you are developing *git-cola* on Windows you can run the code by
103 using the `win32/cola` shell script.
105 /c/Python26/python setup.py build
108 The `win32/cola` script assumes that you have `python` installed in
109 either `/c/Python26` or `/c/Python25`. Adjust accordingly.