{"thread":{"id":"3391","subject":"[PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","startedAt":"2006-02-19T10:00:31Z","lastAt":"2006-03-04T06:42:09Z","messageCount":13,"participants":["Marco Costalba","Junio C Hamano","Alan Chandler","Jonas Fonseca","Catalin Marinas","Alexandre Julliard"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"16399","messageId":"e5bfff550602190200j1ef3858as6a1564064dc81fef@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"3391","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","fromName":"Marco Costalba","fromEmail":"mcostalba@gmail.com","sentAt":"2006-02-19T10:00:31Z","receivedAt":"2006-02-19T10:00:31Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"mcostalba@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"A brief survey of useful git tools, including third-party\nand external projects.\n\nSigned-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>\n---\n\nPlease consider this more of a RFC  then a finished patch.\n\nWhere possible, for each tool, the author's description is used as a summary.\nI found http://git.or.cz/ a good source.\n\nTools are listed alphabetically in for each section.\n\nFeel free to add/modify comments or tool's summaries. As stated this is still a\nwork in progress.\n\n\n  Documentation/git-tools.txt |   90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n 1 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)\n  create mode 100644 Documentation/git-tools.txt\n\n355a382ecca292363af2a0be4769c2b2fb2ea9e7\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-tools.txt b/Documentation/git-tools.txt\nnew file mode 100644\nindex 0000000..7e563db\n--- /dev/null\n+++ b/Documentation/git-tools.txt\n@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@\n+A short git tools survey\n+========================\n+\n+\n+Introduction\n+------------\n+\n+Apart from git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools\n+you may want to look.\n+\n+This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding link.\n+\n+\n+Alternative/Argumentative Porcelains\n+------------------------------------\n+\n+        - *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/)\n+\n+\t  Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the git tree history\n+\t  storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of\nuse, providing\n+\t  generally smoother user experience than the \"raw\" Core GIT itself and indeed\n+\t  many other version control systems.\n+\n+\n+        - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)\n+\n+\t  pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT to help the user manage a set of\n+          patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGIT, but\nit does have a\n+          slightly different feature set.\n+\n+\n+        - *StGit* (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/stgit/)\n+\n+\t  Stacked GIT provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the GIT\n+          environment. You can easily manage your patches in the\nscope of GIT until they\n+          get merged upstream.\n+\n+\n+History Viewers\n+---------------\n+\n+\t- *gitk* (shipped with git-core)\n+\n+            gitk is a simple TK GUI for browsing history of GIT\nrepositories easily.\n+\n+\n+\t- *gitview*  (contrib/)\n+\n+            gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git\n+\n+\n+\t- *gitweb* (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gitweb/)\n+\n+            GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.\n+\n+\n+        - *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)\n+\n+            QGit is a git/StGIT GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used\n+            to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit\n+            changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.\n+\n+\n+\n+Foreign SCM interface\n+---------------------\n+\n+        - *git-svn* (contrib/)\n+\n+            git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a\nsingle Subversion\n+            branch and git.\n+\n+\n+        - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)\n+\n+            These utilities convert patch series in a quilt\nrepository and commit\n+            series in git back and forth.\n+\n+\n+Others\n+------\n+\n+\t- *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)\n+\n+            Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for git and\n+            Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select\nwhich files\n+            to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit\nmessages and perform\n+            the commit itself.\n+\n+\n--\n1.2.0.g62a4\n"},{"id":"16401","messageId":"7vlkw7iphb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","threadId":"3391","inReplyTo":"e5bfff550602190200j1ef3858as6a1564064dc81fef@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"junkio@cox.net","sentAt":"2006-02-19T10:59:12Z","receivedAt":"2006-02-19T10:59:12Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"\"Marco Costalba\" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:\n\n> A brief survey of useful git tools, including third-party\n> and external projects.\n>\n> Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>\n> ---\n>\n> Please consider this more of a RFC  then a finished patch.\n>\n> Where possible, for each tool, the author's description is used as a summary.\n> I found http://git.or.cz/ a good source.\n\nThanks for starting this.\n\nBriefly mentioning tool's strength and weakness without being\ntoo subjective would be very helpful to potential users.  We\nwould encourage competition without making other tools sound\ninferiour on subjective terms.  So \"this is similar to foobar\ntool, but runs much faster, but has these limitations\" would be\na good style, but \"this draws much nicer picture than barboz\"\nwithout substantiating why it is nicer may be suboptimal.  Also\nI am a bit afraid that the summary can become stale unless\nmaintained actively.  Hopefully the respective authors of tools\ncan keep us updated.\n\nI am of two minds about mentioning things available from the git\nrepository, but I think it makes the survey more complete and\nmore useful in general to include them in the list.  The private\ndraft I sent out to you earlier forgot to include the foreign\nSCM interfaces.\n"},{"id":"16406","messageId":"e5bfff550602190404i6c21a940hdcac16e66498363@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"3391","inReplyTo":"7vlkw7iphb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","fromName":"Marco Costalba","fromEmail":"mcostalba@gmail.com","sentAt":"2006-02-19T12:04:13Z","receivedAt":"2006-02-19T12:04:13Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"mcostalba@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On 2/19/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:\n>\n> Thanks for starting this.\n>\n> Briefly mentioning tool's strength and weakness without being\n> too subjective would be very helpful to potential users.  We\n> would encourage competition without making other tools sound\n> inferiour on subjective terms.  So \"this is similar to foobar\n> tool, but runs much faster, but has these limitations\" would be\n> a good style, but \"this draws much nicer picture than barboz\"\n> without substantiating why it is nicer may be suboptimal.\n\nOk, I resend the patch with 'encouraged competition' comments on,\nguess what, qgit.\nIt is a little bit biased but provable. I speak only for tools I know\nwell. I would like each tool author writes it's own advertising ;-)\n\nAlso added the freshly new contrib/ emacs interface, called pcl-cvs,\nas in revision log message.\n\n> I am a bit afraid that the summary can become stale unless\n> maintained actively.\n\nThis is unavoidable but also a useful 'watchdog' to test active maintenance.\n\n> I am of two minds about mentioning things available from the git\n> repository, but I think it makes the survey more complete and\n> more useful in general to include them in the list.\n>\n\nI agree, we don't have hundreds of tools around, so list all in just\none place perhaps is\nnot the cleanest thing, but it is more user friendly.\n\n--------------------------  cut ----------------------------------\n\nFrom: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>\nDate: Sun Feb 19 12:52:07 2006 +0100\nSubject: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt\n\nA brief survey of useful git tools, including third-party\nand external projects.\n\nSigned-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>\n\n\n---\n\n  Documentation/git-tools.txt |   97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n 1 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)\n  create mode 100644 Documentation/git-tools.txt\n\nce159730f858f50046186301f2d8668c66526627\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-tools.txt b/Documentation/git-tools.txt\nnew file mode 100644\nindex 0000000..93a8d8b\n--- /dev/null\n+++ b/Documentation/git-tools.txt\n@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@\n+A short git tools survey\n+========================\n+\n+\n+Introduction\n+------------\n+\n+Apart from git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools\n+you may want to look.\n+\n+This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding link.\n+\n+\n+Alternative/Argumentative Porcelains\n+------------------------------------\n+\n+        - *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/)\n+\n+\t  Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the git tree history\n+\t  storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of\nuse, providing\n+\t  generally smoother user experience than the \"raw\" Core GIT itself and indeed\n+\t  many other version control systems.\n+\n+\n+        - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)\n+\n+\t  pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT to help the user manage a set of\n+          patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGIT, but\nit does have a\n+          slightly different feature set.\n+\n+\n+        - *StGit* (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/stgit/)\n+\n+\t  Stacked GIT provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the GIT\n+          environment. You can easily manage your patches in the\nscope of GIT until they\n+          get merged upstream.\n+\n+\n+History Viewers\n+---------------\n+\n+\t- *gitk* (shipped with git-core)\n+\n+            gitk is a simple TK GUI for browsing history of GIT\nrepositories easily.\n+\n+\n+\t- *gitview*  (contrib/)\n+\n+            gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git\n+\n+\n+\t- *gitweb* (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gitweb/)\n+\n+            GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.\n+\n+\n+        - *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)\n+\n+            QGit is a git/StGIT GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used\n+            to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit\n+            changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.\n+            Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among\nthe git viewers\n+            and commit tools.\n+\n+\n+\n+Foreign SCM interface\n+---------------------\n+\n+        - *git-svn* (contrib/)\n+\n+            git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a\nsingle Subversion\n+            branch and git.\n+\n+\n+        - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)\n+\n+            These utilities convert patch series in a quilt\nrepository and commit\n+            series in git back and forth.\n+\n+\n+Others\n+------\n+\n+\t- *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)\n+\n+            Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for git and\n+            Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select\nwhich files\n+            to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit\nmessages and perform\n+            the commit itself.\n+\n+        - *pcl-cvs* (contrib/)\n+\n+            This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is\nmodeled on\n+            pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will\nprobably need some\n+            tweaking to work on XEmacs.\n+\n--\n1.2.0.g709a\n"},{"id":"16407","messageId":"200602191225.54311.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk","threadId":"3391","inReplyTo":"e5bfff550602190200j1ef3858as6a1564064dc81fef@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","fromName":"Alan Chandler","fromEmail":"alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk","sentAt":"2006-02-19T12:25:53Z","receivedAt":"2006-02-19T12:25:53Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/1862247e5ea8eac114c842f9dc3a5db6253754e24ef7171757cf97eedce48b8c?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Sunday 19 February 2006 10:00, Marco Costalba wrote:\n> +\n> +Alternative/Argumentative Porcelains\n> +------------------------------------\n\nAren't these \"Augmentative Procelains\" rather than ones that argue a lot.\n\n-- \nAlan Chandler\nhttp://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk\nOpen Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.\n"},{"id":"16408","messageId":"43F866EF.1080500@gmail.com","threadId":"3391","inReplyTo":"200602191225.54311.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","fromName":"Marco Costalba","fromEmail":"mcostalba@gmail.com","sentAt":"2006-02-19T12:39:11Z","receivedAt":"2006-02-19T12:39:11Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"mcostalba@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Alan Chandler ha scritto:\n> On Sunday 19 February 2006 10:00, Marco Costalba wrote:\n> \n>>+\n>>+Alternative/Argumentative Porcelains\n>>+------------------------------------\n> \n> \n> Aren't these \"Augmentative Procelains\" rather than ones that argue a lot.\n> \n\nYes, you are arguing correctly!\n"},{"id":"16436","messageId":"20060220020147.GB8759@diku.dk","threadId":"3391","inReplyTo":"e5bfff550602190200j1ef3858as6a1564064dc81fef@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","fromName":"Jonas Fonseca","fromEmail":"fonseca@diku.dk","sentAt":"2006-02-20T02:01:47Z","receivedAt":"2006-02-20T02:01:47Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"fonseca@diku.dk","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/f82f3ad698717c51873b020c750a92438c820a24056dc39fe4d07baa10a92264?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote Sun, Feb 19, 2006:\n> +\t- *gitview*  (contrib/)\n> +\n> +            gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git\n> +\n> +\n> +\t- *gitweb* (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gitweb/)\n> +\n> +            GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.\n\nYou can make it more asciidoc-friendly if you convert the list to use\nthe format:\n\n*gitview* (contrib)::\n\n\tgitview is a GTK based repository browser for git\n\nftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gitweb/[*gitweb*]::\n\n\tGITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.\n\n-- \nJonas Fonseca\n"},{"id":"16439","messageId":"e5bfff550602192221v65a50896r639ce0e7234ada84@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"3391","inReplyTo":"20060220020147.GB8759@diku.dk","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","fromName":"Marco Costalba","fromEmail":"mcostalba@gmail.com","sentAt":"2006-02-20T06:21:42Z","receivedAt":"2006-02-20T06:21:42Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"mcostalba@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On 2/20/06, Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> wrote:\n> Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote Sun, Feb 19, 2006:\n> > +     - *gitview*  (contrib/)\n> > +\n> > +            gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git\n> > +\n> > +\n> > +     - *gitweb* (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gitweb/)\n> > +\n> > +            GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.\n>\n> You can make it more asciidoc-friendly if you convert the list to use\n> the format:\n>\n> *gitview* (contrib)::\n>\n>         gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git\n>\n> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gitweb/[*gitweb*]::\n>\n>         GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.\n>\n> --\n> Jonas Fonseca\n>\n\nThanks, I will change the format.\n\nI am waiting to collect some more comments so to change git-tools.txt only once.\n\nMarco\n"},{"id":"16447","messageId":"tnxwtfq8gok.fsf@arm.com","threadId":"3391","inReplyTo":"e5bfff550602190200j1ef3858as6a1564064dc81fef@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","fromName":"Catalin Marinas","fromEmail":"catalin.marinas@arm.com","sentAt":"2006-02-20T10:31:39Z","receivedAt":"2006-02-20T10:31:39Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"catalin.marinas@arm.com","avatar":null},"body":"\"Marco Costalba\" <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:\n> +        - *StGit* (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/stgit/)\n\nThis line should be:\n\n+        - *StGIT* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)\n\nThe URL you put is just the download area which may change.\n\nThanks.\n\n-- \nCatalin\n"},{"id":"16746","messageId":"e5bfff550602260022jde1fe2n4ec117c609a5d22d@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"3391","inReplyTo":"tnxwtfq8gok.fsf@arm.com","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","fromName":"Marco Costalba","fromEmail":"mcostalba@gmail.com","sentAt":"2006-02-26T08:22:17Z","receivedAt":"2006-02-26T08:22:17Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"mcostalba@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"A brief survey of useful git tools, including third-party\nand external projects.\n\nSigned-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>\n---\n\nSuggestions/corrections from the list has been collected during the\npast week, so I resend\nthe updated patch.\n\nPlease consider for apply.\n\nOne note. The suggestion of Jonas (  -*gitview*    ->  *gitview* :: )\nhas not been applied because\nthe output had no indent on project name. I played a little with\nasciidoc to get an indent but without\nsuccess, so I revert to original indented format.\n\n  Documentation/git-tools.txt |   97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n 1 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)\n  create mode 100644 Documentation/git-tools.txt\n\n8f41794257a6efe46f44e056710dfadcfbf362d7\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-tools.txt b/Documentation/git-tools.txt\nnew file mode 100644\nindex 0000000..7854972\n--- /dev/null\n+++ b/Documentation/git-tools.txt\n@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@\n+A short git tools survey\n+========================\n+\n+\n+Introduction\n+------------\n+\n+Apart from git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools\n+you may want to look.\n+\n+This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding link.\n+\n+\n+Alternative/Augmentative Porcelains\n+-----------------------------------\n+\n+        - *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/)\n+\n+\t  Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the git tree history\n+\t  storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of\nuse, providing\n+\t  generally smoother user experience than the \"raw\" Core GIT itself and indeed\n+\t  many other version control systems.\n+\n+\n+        - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)\n+\n+\t  pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT to help the user manage a set of\n+          patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGIT, but\nit does have a\n+          slightly different feature set.\n+\n+\n+        - *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)\n+\n+\t  Stacked GIT provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the GIT\n+          environment. You can easily manage your patches in the\nscope of GIT until they\n+          get merged upstream.\n+\n+\n+History Viewers\n+---------------\n+\n+\t- *gitk* (shipped with git-core)\n+\n+            gitk is a simple TK GUI for browsing history of GIT\nrepositories easily.\n+\n+\n+\t- *gitview*  (contrib/)\n+\n+            gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git\n+\n+\n+\t- *gitweb* (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gitweb/)\n+\n+            GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.\n+\n+\n+        - *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)\n+\n+            QGit is a git/StGIT GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used\n+            to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit\n+            changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.\n+            Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among\nthe git viewers\n+            and commit tools.\n+\n+\n+\n+Foreign SCM interface\n+---------------------\n+\n+        - *git-svn* (contrib/)\n+\n+            git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a\nsingle Subversion\n+            branch and git.\n+\n+\n+        - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)\n+\n+            These utilities convert patch series in a quilt\nrepository and commit\n+            series in git back and forth.\n+\n+\n+Others\n+------\n+\n+\t- *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)\n+\n+            Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for git and\n+            Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select\nwhich files\n+            to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit\nmessages and perform\n+            the commit itself.\n+\n+        - *pcl-cvs* (contrib/)\n+\n+            This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is\nmodeled on\n+            pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will\nprobably need some\n+            tweaking to work on XEmacs.\n+\n--\n1.2.2.g8fcf1\n"},{"id":"16770","messageId":"7vslq57mzn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","threadId":"3391","inReplyTo":"e5bfff550602260022jde1fe2n4ec117c609a5d22d@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"junkio@cox.net","sentAt":"2006-02-26T22:51:08Z","receivedAt":"2006-02-26T22:51:08Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"\"Marco Costalba\" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:\n\n> A brief survey of useful git tools, including third-party\n> and external projects.\n>\n> Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>\n> ---\n>\n> Suggestions/corrections from the list has been collected during the\n> past week, so I resend\n> the updated patch.\n>\n> Please consider for apply.\n\nThanks.  I've considered it, but it is seriously linewrapped.\n\n> +        - *pcl-cvs* (contrib/)\n> +\n> +            This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is\n> modeled on\n> +            pcl-cvs.\n\nAlso is the emacs one really pcl-cvs?  I thought it was modeled\nafter pcl-cvs, but this is a different implementation to deal\nwith git.  If Alexandre does not have a name for it, I'd say\nwe'll list it as \"git.el\".\n"},{"id":"16797","messageId":"e5bfff550602262244q592cb085scc7a93cc99e1cf8e@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"3391","inReplyTo":"7vslq57mzn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","fromName":"Marco Costalba","fromEmail":"mcostalba@gmail.com","sentAt":"2006-02-27T06:44:10Z","receivedAt":"2006-02-27T06:44:10Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"mcostalba@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On 2/26/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:\n> >\n> > Please consider for apply.\n>\n> Thanks.  I've considered it, but it is seriously linewrapped.\n>\n\nSorry for this. It is ok 80 columns max?\n\n> > +        - *pcl-cvs* (contrib/)\n> > +\n> > +            This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is\n> > modeled on\n> > +            pcl-cvs.\n>\n> Also is the emacs one really pcl-cvs?  I thought it was modeled\n> after pcl-cvs, but this is a different implementation to deal\n> with git.  If Alexandre does not have a name for it, I'd say\n> we'll list it as \"git.el\".\n>\n\nOk, waiting for Alexandre's answer.\n\nThis week I foreseen to be quite busy, so perhaps the patch will be\ndelayed a little bit.\n\nMarco\n"},{"id":"16798","messageId":"87psl9i4as.fsf@wine.dyndns.org","threadId":"3391","inReplyTo":"7vslq57mzn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","fromName":"Alexandre Julliard","fromEmail":"julliard@winehq.org","sentAt":"2006-02-27T08:39:23Z","receivedAt":"2006-02-27T08:39:23Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"julliard@winehq.org","avatar":null},"body":"Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:\n\n> Also is the emacs one really pcl-cvs?  I thought it was modeled\n> after pcl-cvs, but this is a different implementation to deal\n> with git.  If Alexandre does not have a name for it, I'd say\n> we'll list it as \"git.el\".\n\nIt doesn't really have a specific name, so yes, \"git.el\" is fine.\n\n-- \nAlexandre Julliard\njulliard@winehq.org\n"},{"id":"17139","messageId":"e5bfff550603032242v55f88c5fvd385e17f210eb7dc@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"3391","inReplyTo":"87psl9i4as.fsf@wine.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt","fromName":"Marco Costalba","fromEmail":"mcostalba@gmail.com","sentAt":"2006-03-04T06:42:09Z","receivedAt":"2006-03-04T06:42:09Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"mcostalba@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"A brief survey of useful git tools, including third-party\nand external projects.\n\nSigned-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>\n---\n\n Documentation/git-tools.txt |   97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n 1 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)\n create mode 100644 Documentation/git-tools.txt\n\n5e8c2ec9d08dce7f333b0963d7911c3096ab6588\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-tools.txt b/Documentation/git-tools.txt\nnew file mode 100644\nindex 0000000..00e57a6\n--- /dev/null\n+++ b/Documentation/git-tools.txt\n@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@\n+A short git tools survey\n+========================\n+\n+\n+Introduction\n+------------\n+\n+Apart from git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools\n+you may want to look.\n+\n+This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding\n+link.\n+\n+\n+Alternative/Augmentative Procelains\n+-----------------------------------\n+\n+   - *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/)\n+\n+   Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the git tree history\n+   storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of use,\n+   providing generally smoother user experience than the \"raw\" Core GIT\n+   itself and indeed many other version control systems.\n+\n+\n+   - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)\n+\n+   pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT to help the user manage a set of\n+   patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGIT, but it does have a\n+   slightly different feature set.\n+\n+\n+   - *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)\n+\n+   Stacked GIT provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the\n+    GIT environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of GIT\n+   until they get merged upstream.\n+\n+\n+History Viewers\n+---------------\n+\n+   - *gitk* (shipped with git-core)\n+\n+   gitk is a simple TK GUI for browsing history of GIT repositories easily.\n+\n+\n+   - *gitview*  (contrib/)\n+\n+   gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git\n+\n+\n+   - *gitweb* (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gitweb/)\n+\n+   GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.\n+\n+\n+   - *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)\n+\n+   QGit is a git/StGIT GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used\n+   to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit\n+   changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.\n+   Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the git\n+   viewers and commit tools.\n+\n+\n+\n+Foreign SCM interface\n+---------------------\n+\n+   - *git-svn* (contrib/)\n+\n+   git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion\n+   branch and git.\n+\n+\n+   - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)\n+\n+   These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit\n+   series in git back and forth.\n+\n+\n+Others\n+------\n+\n+   - *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)\n+\n+   Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for git and\n+   Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files\n+   to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and\n+   perform the commit itself.\n+\n+   - *git.el* (contrib/)\n+\n+   This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is modeled on\n+   pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some\n+   tweaking to work on XEmacs.\n--\n1.2.2.gce4c\n"}]}