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) 2007-2015, 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 python-pyinotify
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 on github](https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola)
38 [git-cola google group](http://groups.google.com/group/git-cola/)
46 * [git](http://git-scm.com/) 1.6.3 or newer.
48 * [Python](http://python.org/) 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2 or newer.
50 * [PyQt4](http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download) 4.4 or newer
52 * [argparse](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/argparse) 1.1 or newer.
53 argparse is part of the stdlib in Python 2.7; install argparse separately if
54 you are running on Python 2.6.
58 *git-cola* enables additional features when the following
59 Python modules are installed.
61 [pyinotify](https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify) 0.7.1 or newer
62 enables inotify support on Linux.
64 [send2trash](https://github.com/hsoft/send2trash) enables cross-platform
65 "Send to Trash" functionality.
67 # BREWING INSTRUCTIONS
71 You don't need to install *git-cola* to run it.
72 Running *git-cola* from its source tree is the easiest
73 way to try the latest version.
75 git clone git://github.com/git-cola/git-cola.git
80 Having *git-cola*'s *bin/* directory in your path allows you to run
81 *git cola* like a regular built-in Git command:
83 # Replace "$PWD/bin" with the path to git-cola's bin/ directory
84 PATH="$PWD/bin":"$PATH"
90 The instructions below assume that you have *git-cola* present in your
91 `$PATH`. Replace "git cola" with "./bin/git-cola" as needed if you'd like to
96 Normally you can just do "make install" to install *git-cola*
97 in your `$HOME` directory (`$HOME/bin`, `$HOME/share`, etc).
98 If you want to do a global install you can do
100 make prefix=/usr install
102 There are also platform-specific installation methods.
103 You'll probably want to use one of these anyways since they
104 have a nice side-effect of installing *git-cola*'s PyQt4
105 and argparse dependencies.
109 Linux is it! Your distro has probably already packaged git-cola.
110 If not, please file a bug against your distribution ;-)
118 apt-get install git-cola
130 Use the [one-click install link](http://software.opensuse.org/package/git-cola).
134 [Homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/) is the easiest way to install
135 git-cola, *Qt4* and *PyQt4*.
137 brew install git-cola
139 Once brew has installed git-cola you can:
143 `git clone git://github.com/git-cola/git-cola.git && cd git-cola`
145 2. Build the git-cola.app application bundle
149 3. Copy it to _/Applications_
151 `rm -fr /Applications/git-cola.app && cp -r git-cola.app /Applications`
153 ## WINDOWS INSTALLATION
155 Download the latest stable Git, Python 2.x, and Py2x-PyQt4 installers
157 * [msysGit](http://msysgit.github.com/)
159 * [Python](http://python.org/download/)
161 * [PyQt](http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download/)
163 * [git-cola Installer](https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/downloads)
165 Once these are installed you can run *git-cola* from the Start menu or
166 by double-clicking on the `git-cola.pyw` script.
168 If you are developing *git-cola* on Windows you can use `python.exe` to run
169 *git-cola* directly from source.
171 python.exe ./bin/git-cola
173 See "WINDOWS (continued)" below for more details.
177 * [HTML documentation](https://git-cola.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)
179 * [git-cola manual](share/doc/git-cola/git-cola.rst)
181 * [git-dag manual](share/doc/git-cola/git-dag.rst)
183 * [Keyboard shortcuts](https://git-cola.github.io/share/doc/git-cola/hotkeys.html)
185 * [Contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md)
189 *git-cola* ships with an interactive rebase editor called *git-xbase*.
190 *git-xbase* can be used to reorder and choose commits and is typically
191 launched through the *git-cola*'s "Rebase" menu.
193 *git-xbase* can also be launched independently of the main *git-cola* interface
194 by telling `git rebase` to use it as its editor:
196 env GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="$PWD/share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase" \
197 git rebase -i origin/master
199 The quickest way to launch *git-xbase* is via the *git cola rebase*
200 sub-command (as well as various other sub-commands):
202 git cola rebase origin/master
206 The *git-cola* command exposes various sub-commands that allow you to quickly
207 launch tools that are available from within the *git-cola* interface.
208 For example, `./bin/git-cola find` launches the file finder,
209 and `./bin/git-cola grep` launches the grep tool.
211 See `git cola --help-commands` for the full list of commands.
213 $ git cola --help-commands
216 {cola,am,archive,branch,browse,classic,config,
217 dag,diff,fetch,find,grep,merge,pull,push,
218 rebase,remote,search,stash,tag,version}
222 {cola,am,archive,branch,browse,classic,config,
223 dag,diff,fetch,find,grep,merge,pull,push,
224 rebase,remote,search,stash,tag,version}
227 am apply patches using "git am"
228 archive save an archive
229 branch create a branch
230 browse browse repository
231 classic browse repository
232 config edit configuration
239 pull pull remote branches
240 push push remote branches
241 rebase interactive rebase
243 search search commits
244 stash stash and unstash changes
246 version print the version
249 ## WINDOWS (continued)
251 # WINDOWS-ONLY HISTORY BROWSER CONFIGURATION UPGRADE
253 You may need to configure your history browser if you are upgrading from an
254 older version of *git-cola*.
256 `gitk` was originally the default history browser, but `gitk` cannot be
257 launched as-is on Windows because `gitk` is a shell script.
259 If you are configured to use `gitk`, then change your configuration to
260 go through Git's `sh.exe` on Windows. Similarly,we must go through
261 `python.exe` if we want to use `git-dag`.
263 If you want to use *gitk* as your history browser open the
264 *Preferences* screen and change the history browser command to:
266 C:/Git/bin/sh.exe --login -i C:/Git/bin/gitk
268 Alternatively, if you'd like to use *git-dag* as your history browser, use:
270 C:/Python27/python.exe C:/git-cola/bin/git-dag
272 *git-dag* became the default history browser on Windows in `v2.3`, so new
273 users should not need to configure anything.
275 # BUILDING WINDOWS INSTALLERS
277 Windows installers are built using
278 [Pynsist](http://pynsist.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).
279 [NSIS](http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page) is also needed.
281 To build the installer using *Pynsist*:
283 1. (If building from a non-Windows platform), run
284 `./contrib/win32/fetch_pyqt_windows.sh`.
285 This will download a PyQt binary installer for Windows and unpack its files
286 into `pynsist_pkgs/`.
287 2. Run `pynsist pynsist.cfg`.
288 The installer will be built in `build/nsis/`.
291 Before *Pynsist*, installers were built using *InnoSetup*.
292 The *InnoSetup* scripts are still available:
294 ./contrib/win32/create-installer.sh
296 You have to make sure that the file */share/InnoSetup/ISCC.exe* exists.
297 That is normally the case when you run the *msysGit bash* and not the
298 *Git for Windows bash* (look [here](http://msysgit.github.com/)
299 for the differences).