From: Marco Costalba Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:04:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vlkw7iphb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On 2/19/06, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Thanks for starting this. > > Briefly mentioning tool's strength and weakness without being > too subjective would be very helpful to potential users. We > would encourage competition without making other tools sound > inferiour on subjective terms. So "this is similar to foobar > tool, but runs much faster, but has these limitations" would be > a good style, but "this draws much nicer picture than barboz" > without substantiating why it is nicer may be suboptimal. Ok, I resend the patch with 'encouraged competition' comments on, guess what, qgit. It is a little bit biased but provable. I speak only for tools I know well. I would like each tool author writes it's own advertising ;-) Also added the freshly new contrib/ emacs interface, called pcl-cvs, as in revision log message. > I am a bit afraid that the summary can become stale unless > maintained actively. This is unavoidable but also a useful 'watchdog' to test active maintenance. > I am of two minds about mentioning things available from the git > repository, but I think it makes the survey more complete and > more useful in general to include them in the list. > I agree, we don't have hundreds of tools around, so list all in just one place perhaps is not the cleanest thing, but it is more user friendly. -------------------------- cut ---------------------------------- From: Marco Costalba Date: Sun Feb 19 12:52:07 2006 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt A brief survey of useful git tools, including third-party and external projects. Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba --- Documentation/git-tools.txt | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/git-tools.txt ce159730f858f50046186301f2d8668c66526627 diff --git a/Documentation/git-tools.txt b/Documentation/git-tools.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..93a8d8b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-tools.txt @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +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. + Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the git viewers + and commit tools. + + + +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. + + - *pcl-cvs* (contrib/) + + This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is modeled on + pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some + tweaking to work on XEmacs. + -- 1.2.0.g709a