6 git-gui - A portable graphical interface to Git
10 'git gui' [<command>] [arguments]
14 A Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface to Git. 'git-gui' focuses
15 on allowing users to make changes to their repository by making
16 new commits, amending existing ones, creating branches, performing
17 local merges, and fetching/pushing to remote repositories.
19 Unlike 'gitk', 'git-gui' focuses on commit generation
20 and single file annotation and does not show project history.
21 It does however supply menu actions to start a 'gitk' session from
24 'git-gui' is known to work on all popular UNIX systems, Mac OS X,
25 and Windows (under both Cygwin and MSYS). To the extent possible
26 OS specific user interface guidelines are followed, making 'git-gui'
27 a fairly native interface for users.
32 Start a blame viewer on the specified file on the given
33 version (or working directory if not specified).
36 Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified
37 commit (or 'HEAD' by default). Files selected through the
38 browser are opened in the blame viewer.
41 Start 'git-gui' and arrange to make exactly one commit before
42 exiting and returning to the shell. The interface is limited
43 to only commit actions, slightly reducing the application's
44 startup time and simplifying the menubar.
47 Display the currently running version of 'git-gui'.
52 git gui blame Makefile::
54 Show the contents of the file 'Makefile' in the current
55 working directory, and provide annotations for both the
56 original author of each line, and who moved the line to its
57 current location. The uncommitted file is annotated, and
58 uncommitted changes (if any) are explicitly attributed to
61 git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile::
63 Show the contents of 'Makefile' in revision 'v0.99.8'
64 and provide annotations for each line. Unlike the above
65 example the file is read from the object database and not
66 the working directory.
68 git gui blame --line=100 Makefile::
70 Loads annotations as described above and automatically
71 scrolls the view to center on line '100'.
75 Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete.
76 This command returns a non-zero exit code if the window was
77 closed in any way other than by making a commit.
79 git gui citool --amend::
81 Automatically enter the 'Amend Last Commit' mode of
84 git gui citool --nocommit::
86 Behave as normal citool, but instead of making a commit
87 simply terminate with a zero exit code. It still checks
88 that the index does not contain any unmerged entries, so
89 you can use it as a GUI version of linkgit:git-mergetool[1]
93 Same as `git gui citool` (above).
95 git gui browser maint::
97 Show a browser for the tree of the 'maint' branch. Files
98 selected in the browser can be viewed with the internal
104 The git repository browser. Shows branches, commit history
105 and file differences. gitk is the utility started by
106 'git-gui''s Repository Visualize actions.
110 'git-gui' is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
111 versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience
114 A 'git-gui' development repository can be obtained from:
116 git clone git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
120 git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/git-gui.git
122 or browsed online at http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/[].
126 Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
130 Documentation by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
134 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite