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.
56 * [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/) for building the documentation.
60 *git-cola* enables additional features when the following
61 Python modules are installed.
63 [pyinotify](https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify) 0.7.1 or newer
64 enables inotify support on Linux.
66 [send2trash](https://github.com/hsoft/send2trash) enables cross-platform
67 "Send to Trash" functionality.
69 # BREWING INSTRUCTIONS
73 You don't need to install *git-cola* to run it.
74 Running *git-cola* from its source tree is the easiest
75 way to try the latest version.
77 git clone git://github.com/git-cola/git-cola.git
82 Having *git-cola*'s *bin/* directory in your path allows you to run
83 *git cola* like a regular built-in Git command:
85 # Replace "$PWD/bin" with the path to git-cola's bin/ directory
86 PATH="$PWD/bin":"$PATH"
92 The instructions below assume that you have *git-cola* present in your
93 `$PATH`. Replace "git cola" with "./bin/git-cola" as needed if you'd like to
98 Normally you can just do "make install" to install *git-cola*
99 in your `$HOME` directory (`$HOME/bin`, `$HOME/share`, etc).
100 If you want to do a global install you can do
102 make prefix=/usr install
104 There are also platform-specific installation methods.
105 You'll probably want to use one of these anyways since they
106 have a nice side-effect of installing *git-cola*'s PyQt4
107 and argparse dependencies.
111 Linux is it! Your distro has probably already packaged git-cola.
112 If not, please file a bug against your distribution ;-)
120 apt-get install git-cola
132 Use the [one-click install link](http://software.opensuse.org/package/git-cola).
136 Before setting up homebrew, use
137 [pip](https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installing.html) to install
138 [sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/latest/install.html).
140 Sphinx is used to build the documentation.
142 sudo pip install sphinx
144 [Homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/) is the easiest way to install
145 git-cola's *Qt4* and *PyQt4* dependencies. We will use homebrew to install
146 the git-cola recipe, but build our own .app bundle from source.
148 brew install git-cola
150 Once brew has installed git-cola you can:
154 `git clone git://github.com/git-cola/git-cola.git && cd git-cola`
156 2. Build the git-cola.app application bundle
160 3. Copy it to _/Applications_
162 `rm -fr /Applications/git-cola.app && cp -r git-cola.app /Applications`
164 ## WINDOWS INSTALLATION
166 Download the latest stable Git, Python 2.x, and Py2x-PyQt4 installers
168 * [msysGit](http://msysgit.github.com/)
170 * [Python](http://python.org/download/)
172 * [PyQt](http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download/)
174 * [git-cola Installer](https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/downloads)
176 Once these are installed you can run *git-cola* from the Start menu or
177 by double-clicking on the `git-cola.pyw` script.
179 If you are developing *git-cola* on Windows you can use `python.exe` to run
180 *git-cola* directly from source.
182 python.exe ./bin/git-cola
184 See "WINDOWS (continued)" below for more details.
188 * [HTML documentation](https://git-cola.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)
190 * [git-cola manual](share/doc/git-cola/git-cola.rst)
192 * [git-dag manual](share/doc/git-cola/git-dag.rst)
194 * [Keyboard shortcuts](https://git-cola.github.io/share/doc/git-cola/hotkeys.html)
196 * [Contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md)
200 *git-cola* ships with an interactive rebase editor called *git-xbase*.
201 *git-xbase* can be used to reorder and choose commits and is typically
202 launched through the *git-cola*'s "Rebase" menu.
204 *git-xbase* can also be launched independently of the main *git-cola* interface
205 by telling `git rebase` to use it as its editor:
207 env GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="$PWD/share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase" \
208 git rebase -i origin/master
210 The quickest way to launch *git-xbase* is via the *git cola rebase*
211 sub-command (as well as various other sub-commands):
213 git cola rebase origin/master
217 The *git-cola* command exposes various sub-commands that allow you to quickly
218 launch tools that are available from within the *git-cola* interface.
219 For example, `./bin/git-cola find` launches the file finder,
220 and `./bin/git-cola grep` launches the grep tool.
222 See `git cola --help-commands` for the full list of commands.
224 $ git cola --help-commands
227 {cola,am,archive,branch,browse,classic,config,
228 dag,diff,fetch,find,grep,merge,pull,push,
229 rebase,remote,search,stash,tag,version}
233 {cola,am,archive,branch,browse,classic,config,
234 dag,diff,fetch,find,grep,merge,pull,push,
235 rebase,remote,search,stash,tag,version}
238 am apply patches using "git am"
239 archive save an archive
240 branch create a branch
241 browse browse repository
242 classic browse repository
243 config edit configuration
250 pull pull remote branches
251 push push remote branches
252 rebase interactive rebase
254 search search commits
255 stash stash and unstash changes
257 version print the version
260 ## WINDOWS (continued)
262 # WINDOWS-ONLY HISTORY BROWSER CONFIGURATION UPGRADE
264 You may need to configure your history browser if you are upgrading from an
265 older version of *git-cola*.
267 `gitk` was originally the default history browser, but `gitk` cannot be
268 launched as-is on Windows because `gitk` is a shell script.
270 If you are configured to use `gitk`, then change your configuration to
271 go through Git's `sh.exe` on Windows. Similarly,we must go through
272 `python.exe` if we want to use `git-dag`.
274 If you want to use *gitk* as your history browser open the
275 *Preferences* screen and change the history browser command to:
277 C:/Git/bin/sh.exe --login -i C:/Git/bin/gitk
279 Alternatively, if you'd like to use *git-dag* as your history browser, use:
281 C:/Python27/python.exe C:/git-cola/bin/git-dag
283 *git-dag* became the default history browser on Windows in `v2.3`, so new
284 users should not need to configure anything.
286 # BUILDING WINDOWS INSTALLERS
288 Windows installers are built using
289 [Pynsist](http://pynsist.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).
290 [NSIS](http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page) is also needed.
292 To build the installer using *Pynsist*:
294 1. (If building from a non-Windows platform), run
295 `./contrib/win32/fetch_pyqt_windows.sh`.
296 This will download a PyQt binary installer for Windows and unpack its files
297 into `pynsist_pkgs/`.
298 2. Run `pynsist pynsist.cfg`.
299 The installer will be built in `build/nsis/`.
302 Before *Pynsist*, installers were built using *InnoSetup*.
303 The *InnoSetup* scripts are still available:
305 ./contrib/win32/create-installer.sh
307 You have to make sure that the file */share/InnoSetup/ISCC.exe* exists.
308 That is normally the case when you run the *msysGit bash* and not the
309 *Git for Windows bash* (look [here](http://msysgit.github.com/)
310 for the differences).