1 # git-cola: The highly caffeinated Git GUI
3 git-cola is a powerful Git GUI with a slick and intuitive user interface.
5 Copyright (C) 2007-2018, 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/>.
22 Screenshots are available on the
23 [git-cola screenshots page](https://git-cola.github.io/screenshots.html).
27 apt-get install git-cola
29 New releases are available on the
30 [git-cola download page](https://git-cola.github.io/downloads.html).
34 git clone git://github.com/git-cola/git-cola.git
36 [![git-cola build status](https://api.travis-ci.org/git-cola/git-cola.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/git-cola/git-cola)
38 [git-cola on github](https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola)
40 [git-cola google group](http://groups.google.com/group/git-cola/)
47 * [git](http://git-scm.com/) 1.6.3 or newer.
49 * [Python](http://python.org/) 2.6 or newer (Python 2+3 compatible).
51 * [QtPy](https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy) 1.1.0 or newer.
53 * [argparse](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/argparse) 1.1 or newer.
54 argparse is part of the stdlib in Python 2.7; install argparse separately if
55 you are running on Python 2.6.
57 * [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/) for building the documentation.
59 *git-cola* uses *QtPy*, so you can choose between *PyQt4*, *PyQt5*, and
60 *PySide* by setting the `QT_API` environment variable to `pyqt4`, `pyqt5` or
61 `pyside` as desired. `qtpy` defaults to `pyqt5` and falls back to `pyqt4`
62 if `pyqt5` is not installed.
64 Any of the following Python Qt libraries must be installed:
66 * [PyQt4](https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download)
69 * [PyQt5](https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download5)
72 * [PySide](https://github.com/PySide/PySide)
75 Set `QT_API=pyqt4` in your environment if you have both
76 versions of *PyQt* installed and want to ensure that PyQt4 is used.
78 *NOTE*: *git-cola* includes a vendored copy of its *QtPy* dependency.
80 We provide a copy of the `qtpy` module when installing *git-cola* so that you
81 are not required to install *QtPy* separately. If you'd like to provide your
82 own `qtpy` module, for example from the `python-qtpy` Debian package, then use
83 `make NO_VENDOR_LIBS=1 ...` when invoking `make`, or export
84 `GIT_COLA_NO_VENDOR_LIBS=1` into the build environment.
86 Python3 users on debian will need to install `python3-distutils` in order
87 to run the Makefile's installation steps. `distutils` is a Python build
88 requirement, but not needed at runtime.
93 *git-cola* enables additional features when the following
94 Python modules are installed.
96 [send2trash](https://github.com/hsoft/send2trash) enables cross-platform
97 "Send to Trash" functionality.
99 # BREWING INSTRUCTIONS
103 You don't need to install *git-cola* to run it.
104 Running *git-cola* from its source tree is the easiest
105 way to try the latest version.
107 git clone git://github.com/git-cola/git-cola.git
112 Having *git-cola*'s *bin/* directory in your path allows you to run
113 *git cola* like a regular built-in Git command:
115 # Replace "$PWD/bin" with the path to git-cola's bin/ directory
116 PATH="$PWD/bin":"$PATH"
122 The instructions below assume that you have *git-cola* present in your
123 `$PATH`. Replace "git cola" with "./bin/git-cola" as needed if you'd like to
124 just run it in-place.
128 * [HTML documentation](https://git-cola.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
130 * [git-cola manual](share/doc/git-cola/git-cola.rst)
132 * [git-dag manual](share/doc/git-cola/git-dag.rst)
134 * [Keyboard shortcuts](https://git-cola.github.io/share/doc/git-cola/hotkeys.html)
136 * [Contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md)
140 Normally you can just do "make install" to install *git-cola*
141 in your `$HOME` directory (`$HOME/bin`, `$HOME/share`, etc).
142 If you want to do a global install you can do
144 make prefix=/usr install
146 The platform-specific installation methods below use the native
147 package manager. You should use one of these so that all of *git-cola*'s
148 dependencies are installed.
150 Distutils is used by the `Makefile` via `setup.py` to install *git-cola* and
151 its launcher scripts. distutils replaces the `#!/usr/bin/env python` lines in
152 scripts with the full path to python at build time, which can be undesirable
153 when the runtime python is not the same as the build-time python. To disable
154 the replacement of the `#!/usr/bin/env python` lines, pass `USE_ENV_PYTHON=1`
159 Linux is it! Your distro has probably already packaged git-cola.
160 If not, please file a bug against your distribution ;-)
168 apt-get install git-cola
180 Use the [one-click install link](http://software.opensuse.org/package/git-cola).
185 [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/) is the easiest way to install
186 git-cola's *Qt4* and *PyQt4* dependencies. We will use Homebrew to install
187 the git-cola recipe, but build our own .app bundle from source.
189 [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/latest/install.html) is used to build the
192 brew install sphinx-doc
193 brew install git-cola
195 Once brew has installed git-cola you can:
199 `git clone git://github.com/git-cola/git-cola.git && cd git-cola`
201 2. Build the git-cola.app application bundle
205 PYTHON=$(brew --prefix python3)/bin/python3 \
206 PYTHON_CONFIG=$(brew --prefix python3)/bin/python3-config \
207 SPHINXBUILD=$(brew --prefix sphinx-doc)/bin/sphinx-build \
211 3. Copy it to _/Applications_
213 `rm -fr /Applications/git-cola.app && cp -r git-cola.app /Applications`
215 Newer versions of Homebrew install their own `python3` installation and
216 provide the `PyQt5` modules for `python3` only. You have to use
217 `python3 ./bin/git-cola` when running from the source tree.
219 ### UPGRADING USING HOMEBREW
221 If you upgrade using `brew` then it is recommended that you re-install
222 *git-cola*'s dependencies when upgrading. Re-installing ensures that the
223 Python modules provided by Homebrew will be properly setup.
225 This is required when upgrading to a modern (post-10.11 El Capitan) Mac OS X.
226 Homebrew now bundles its own Python3 installation instead of using the
227 system-provided default Python.
233 # uninstall git-cola and its dependencies
234 brew uninstall git-cola
238 # re-install git-cola and its dependencies
239 brew install git-cola
241 ## WINDOWS INSTALLATION
243 **IMPORTANT** If you have a 64-bit machine, install the 64-bit versions only.
244 Do not mix 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
246 Download and install the following:
248 * [Git for Windows](https://git-for-windows.github.io/)
250 * [Git Cola](https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/releases)
252 Once these are installed you can run *git cola* from the Start menu.
254 See "WINDOWS (continued)" below for more details.
258 *git-cola* ships with an interactive rebase editor called *git-xbase*.
259 *git-xbase* can be used to reorder and choose commits and is typically
260 launched through the *git-cola*'s "Rebase" menu.
262 *git-xbase* can also be launched independently of the main *git-cola* interface
263 by telling `git rebase` to use it as its editor:
265 env GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="$PWD/share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase" \
266 git rebase -i origin/master
268 The quickest way to launch *git-xbase* is via the *git cola rebase*
269 sub-command (as well as various other sub-commands):
271 git cola rebase origin/master
275 The *git-cola* command exposes various sub-commands that allow you to quickly
276 launch tools that are available from within the *git-cola* interface.
277 For example, `./bin/git-cola find` launches the file finder,
278 and `./bin/git-cola grep` launches the grep tool.
280 See `git cola --help-commands` for the full list of commands.
282 $ git cola --help-commands
285 {cola,am,archive,branch,browse,config,
286 dag,diff,fetch,find,grep,merge,pull,push,
287 rebase,remote,search,stash,tag,version}
291 {cola,am,archive,branch,browse,config,
292 dag,diff,fetch,find,grep,merge,pull,push,
293 rebase,remote,search,stash,tag,version}
296 am apply patches using "git am"
297 archive save an archive
298 branch create a branch
299 browse browse repository
300 config edit configuration
307 pull pull remote branches
308 push push remote branches
309 rebase interactive rebase
311 search search commits
312 stash stash and unstash changes
314 version print the version
318 The following commands should be run during development:
323 # Check for pylint warnings. All new code must pass 100%.
326 The test suite can be found in the [test](test) directory.
328 The tests are setup to run automatically when code is pushed using
329 [Travis CI](https://travis-ci.org/git-cola/git-cola).
330 Checkout the [Travis config file](.travis.yml) for more details.
332 When submitting patches, consult the [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).
334 # WINDOWS (continued)
338 In order to develop *git cola* on Windows you will need to install
339 Python3 and pip. Install PyQt5 using `pip install PyQt5`
340 to make the PyQt5 bindings available to Python.
342 Once these are installed you can use `python.exe` to run
343 directly from the source tree. For example, from a Git Bash terminal:
345 /c/Python36/python.exe ./bin/git-cola
347 ## Multiple Python versions
349 If you have multiple versions of Python installed, the `contrib/win32/cola`
350 launcher script might choose the newer version instead of the python
351 that has PyQt installed. In order to resolve this, you can set the
352 `cola.pythonlocation` git configuration variable to tell cola where to
353 find python. For example:
355 git config --global cola.pythonlocation /c/Python36
357 ## BUILDING WINDOWS INSTALLERS
359 Windows installers are built using
361 * [Pynsist](http://pynsist.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
363 * [NSIS](http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page) is also needed.
365 To build the installer using *Pynsist* run:
367 ./contrib/win32/run-pynsist.sh
369 This will generate an installer in `build/nsis/`.
371 ## WINDOWS HISTORY BROWSER CONFIGURATION UPGRADE
373 You may need to configure your history browser if you are upgrading from an
374 older version of *git-cola*.
376 `gitk` was originally the default history browser, but `gitk` cannot be
377 launched as-is on Windows because `gitk` is a shell script.
379 If you are configured to use `gitk`, then change your configuration to
380 go through Git's `sh.exe` on Windows. Similarly,we must go through
381 `python.exe` if we want to use `git-dag`.
383 If you want to use *gitk* as your history browser open the
384 *Preferences* screen and change the history browser command to:
386 "C:/Program Files/Git/bin/sh.exe" --login -i C:/Git/bin/gitk
388 *git-dag* became the default history browser on Windows in `v2.3`, so new
389 users should not need to configure anything.