1 A short Git tools survey
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8 Apart from Git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools
11 This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding
15 Alternative/Augmentative Porcelains
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18 - *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/)
20 Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the Git tree history
21 storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of use,
22 providing generally smoother user experience than the "raw" Core Git
23 itself and indeed many other version control systems.
25 Cogito is no longer maintained as most of its functionality
29 - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)
31 pg is a shell script wrapper around Git to help the user manage a set of
32 patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGit, but it does have a
33 slightly different feature set.
36 - *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)
38 Stacked Git provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the
39 Git environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of Git
40 until they get merged upstream.
46 - *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
48 gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of Git repositories easily.
51 - *gitview* (contrib/)
53 gitview is a GTK based repository browser for Git
56 - *gitweb* (shipped with git-core)
58 Gitweb provides full-fledged web interface for Git repositories.
61 - *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
63 QGit is a git/StGit GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used
64 to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit
65 changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.
66 Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the Git
67 viewers and commit tools.
69 - *tig* (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/)
71 tig by Jonas Fonseca is a simple Git repository browser
72 written using ncurses. Basically, it just acts as a front-end
73 for git-log and git-show/git-diff. Additionally, you can also
74 use it as a pager for Git commands.
80 - *git-svn* (shipped with git-core)
82 git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion
86 - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)
88 These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit
89 series in Git back and forth.
92 - *hg-to-git* (contrib/)
94 hg-to-git converts a Mercurial repository into a Git one, and
95 preserves the full branch history in the process. hg-to-git can
96 also be used in an incremental way to keep the Git repository
97 in sync with the master Mercurial repository.
103 - *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)
105 Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for Git and
106 Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files
107 to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and
108 perform the commit itself.
110 - *git.el* (contrib/)
112 This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modeled on
113 pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
114 tweaking to work on XEmacs.
117 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools has more