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  34 <h1>Related Tools</h1>
  35
  36 <p>Git is a true UNIX tool in the sense that it consists of many commands
  37 that do one thing well. It has been designed from the start to be easily
  38 wrapped in other tools and frontends. Currently, there are several
  39 interfaces offering more comfortable Git usage, and also graphical
  40 interfaces for browsing the history and more.</p>
  41
  42 <p>Traditionally, the low-level part of Git is called <em>plumbing</em>
  43 and the interfaces and frontends are called <em>porcelains</em>.
  44 Git itself comes with a default porcelain bundled and that is actually
  45 what you will normally mean when you say you use Git. However, there
  46 are several alternative porcelains which might offer considerably more
  47 user friendly interface or extend Git to perform some specialied tasks.</p>
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  50 <h2>Version Control Interface layers</h2>
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  54 <dt id="cogito">Cogito</dt>
  55 <dd>
  56 <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/">Cogito</a>
  57 is the most popular version control system on top of Git.
  58 It aims at seamless user interface and ease of use, providing
  59 generally smoother user experience than the "raw" Git interface
  60 and indeed also many other version control systems.</dd>
  61
  62 <dt id="stgit">StGIT</dt>
  63 <dd><a href="http://www.procode.org/stgit/">Stacked Git</a> provides
  64 a <em>Quilt</em>-like patch management functionality in the Git environment.
  65 You can easily manage your patches in the scope of Git until they get
  66 merged upstream.</dd>
  67
  68 <dt id="pg">Patchy Git (pg)</dt>
  69 <dd><a href="http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/">Patchy Git</a>
  70 aims to help the user manage a set of patches on top of the current branch.
  71 pg is somewhat like Quilt or StGIT,
  72 but it does have a slightly different feature set.</dd>
  73
  74 <dt id="hgct">(h)gct</dt>
  75 <dd><a href="http://www.cyd.liu.se/~freku045/gct/">(h)gct</a> is
  76 a GUI enabled commit tool. It has support for both Git and Mercurial.</dd>
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  80 <h2>History Visualization</h2>
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  84 <dt id="gitk">gitk</dt>
  85 <dd><a href="http://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk/">gitk</a> is a simple
  86 TK GUI for browsing history of Git repositories easily.</dd>
  87
  88 <dt id="qgit">qgit</dt>
  89 <dd><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/qgit">qgit</a> is a QT
  90 GUI for browsing history of Git repositories, similar to <em>gitk</em>.</dd>
  91
  92 <dt id="gitweb">gitweb</dt>
  93 <dd><a href="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gitweb/">gitweb</a>
  94 provides full-fledged <a href="http://www.kernel.org/git/">web interface</a>
  95 for Git repositories.</dd>
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