Documentation/git-tools: retire manually-maintained list
When Git was young, people looking for third-party Git-related tools came to the Git project itself to find them, so it made sense to maintain a list of tools here. These days, however, search engines fill that role much more efficiently, so retire the manually-maintained list. The list of front-ends and tools on the Git wiki rates perhaps a distant second to search engines, and may still have value, so retain a reference to it. Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-A short Git tools survey
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+Git Tools
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+When Git was young, people looking for third-party Git-related tools came
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+to the Git project itself to find them, thus a list of such tools was
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+maintained here. These days, however, search engines fill that role much
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+more efficiently, so this manually-maintained list has been retired.
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-Introduction
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-Apart from Git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools
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-you may want to look at.
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-This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding
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-link.
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-For a more comprehensive list, see:
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+See also the `contrib/` area, and the Git wiki:
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http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
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-Alternative/Augmentative Porcelains
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-- *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)
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-Stacked Git provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the
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-Git environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of Git
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-until they get merged upstream.
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-History Viewers
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-- *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
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-gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of Git repositories easily.
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-- *gitview* (contrib/)
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-gitview is a GTK based repository browser for Git
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-- *gitweb* (shipped with git-core)
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-Gitweb provides full-fledged web interface for Git repositories.
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-- *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
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-QGit is a git/StGit GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used
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-to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit
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-changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.
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-Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the Git
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-viewers and commit tools.
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-- *tig* (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/)
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-tig by Jonas Fonseca is a simple Git repository browser
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-written using ncurses. Basically, it just acts as a front-end
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-for git-log and git-show/git-diff. Additionally, you can also
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-use it as a pager for Git commands.
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-Foreign SCM interface
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-- *git-svn* (shipped with git-core)
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-git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion
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-- *hg-to-git* (contrib/)
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-hg-to-git converts a Mercurial repository into a Git one, and
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-preserves the full branch history in the process. hg-to-git can
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-also be used in an incremental way to keep the Git repository
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-Others
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-- *git.el* (contrib/)
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-This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modelled on
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-pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
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-tweaking to work on XEmacs.