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MCMarco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 19, 2006, 10:00 UTC
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A brief survey of useful git tools, including third-party and external projects.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
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Please consider this more of a RFC  then a finished patch.

Where possible, for each tool, the author's description is used as a summary. I found http://git.or.cz/ a good source.

Tools are listed alphabetically in for each section.

Feel free to add/modify comments or tool's summaries. As stated this is still a work in progress.

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+A short git tools survey
+========================
+
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Apart from git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools
+you may want to look.
+
+This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding link.
+
+
+Alternative/Argumentative Porcelains
+------------------------------------
+
+        - *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/)
+
+	  Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the git tree history
+	  storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of
use, providing
+	  generally smoother user experience than the "raw" Core GIT itself and indeed
+	  many other version control systems.
+
+
+        - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)
+
+	  pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT to help the user manage a set of
+          patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGIT, but
it does have a
+          slightly different feature set.
+
+
+        - *StGit* (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/stgit/)
+
+	  Stacked GIT provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the GIT
+          environment. You can easily manage your patches in the
scope of GIT until they
+          get merged upstream.
+
+
+History Viewers
+---------------
+
+	- *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
+
+            gitk is a simple TK GUI for browsing history of GIT
repositories easily.
+
+
+	- *gitview*  (contrib/)
+
+            gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git
+
+
+	- *gitweb* (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gitweb/)
+
+            GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.
+
+
+        - *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
+
+            QGit is a git/StGIT GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used
+            to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit
+            changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.
+
+
+
+Foreign SCM interface
+---------------------
+
+        - *git-svn* (contrib/)
+
+            git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a
single Subversion
+            branch and git.
+
+
+        - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)
+
+            These utilities convert patch series in a quilt
repository and commit
+            series in git back and forth.
+
+
+Others
+------
+
+	- *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)
+
+            Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for git and
+            Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select
which files
+            to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit
messages and perform
+            the commit itself.
+
+
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