# git-gui

## NAME



           git-gui - A portable graphical interface to Git
    


## SYNOPSIS



           _git gui_ [<command>] [<arguments>]
    


## DESCRIPTION



           A Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface to Git. _git gui_ focuses on
           allowing users to make changes to their repository by making new
           commits, amending existing ones, creating branches, performing
           local merges, and fetching/pushing to remote repositories.
    
           Unlike _gitk_ , _git gui_ focuses on commit generation and single file
           annotation and does not show project history. It does however
           supply menu actions to start a _gitk_ session from within _git gui_.
    
           _git gui_ is known to work on all popular UNIX systems, Mac OS X,
           and Windows (under both Cygwin and MSYS). To the extent possible
           OS specific user interface guidelines are followed, making _git gui_
           a fairly native interface for users.
    


## COMMANDS



           blame
               Start a blame viewer on the specified file on the given
               version (or working directory if not specified).
    
           browser
               Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified
               commit. Files selected through the browser are opened in the
               blame viewer.
    
           citool
               Start _git gui_ and arrange to make exactly one commit before
               exiting and returning to the shell. The interface is limited
               to only commit actions, slightly reducing the application’s
               startup time and simplifying the menubar.
    
           version
               Display the currently running version of _git gui_.
    


## EXAMPLES



           **git gui blame Makefile**
               Show the contents of the file _Makefile_ in the current working
               directory, and provide annotations for both the original
               author of each line, and who moved the line to its current
               location. The uncommitted file is annotated, and uncommitted
               changes (if any) are explicitly attributed to _Not Yet_
               _Committed_.
    
           **git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile**
               Show the contents of _Makefile_ in revision _v0.99.8_ and provide
               annotations for each line. Unlike the above example the file
               is read from the object database and not the working
               directory.
    
           **git gui blame --line=100 Makefile**
               Loads annotations as described above and automatically scrolls
               the view to center on line _100_.
    
           **git gui citool**
               Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete.
               This command returns a non-zero exit code if the window was
               closed in any way other than by making a commit.
    
           **git gui citool --amend**
               Automatically enter the _Amend Last Commit_ mode of the
               interface.
    
           **git gui citool --nocommit**
               Behave as normal citool, but instead of making a commit simply
               terminate with a zero exit code. It still checks that the
               index does not contain any unmerged entries, so you can use it
               as a GUI version of git-mergetool(1)
    
           **git citool**
               Same as **git gui citool**(above).
    
           **git gui browser maint**
               Show a browser for the tree of the _maint_ branch. Files
               selected in the browser can be viewed with the internal blame
               viewer.
    


## OTHER



           _git gui_ is actually maintained as an independent project, but
           stable versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the
           convenience of end users.
    
           The official repository of the _git gui_ project can be found at:
    
               https://github.com/j6t/git-gui
    


## GIT



           Part of the git(1) suite
    


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