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Git Graphic Tools Summary
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https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools
git-gui (distributed with Git)
git-gui (announcement, gitweb) by Shawn Pearce is a tool for creating commits and managing branches. It was inspired by and initially based on gitool. Written in Tcl/Tk. Stable versions are shipped with Core Git since version 1.5.
gitk (distributed with Git)
gitk is a simple Tcl/Tk GUI for browsing history of Git repositories easily, distributed with Git.
git-cola
git-cola (gitweb, github) by David Aguilar is a git commit tool, similar to git-gui, written in PyQt4. You can get tarballs at http://cola.tuxfamily.org/. Native packages exist for Debian, Fedora, and Arch. Mac OSX and Windows binaries are available on the website.
teamgit
teamGit (http://www.devslashzero.com/teamgit) by Abhijit Bhopatkar is a successor of kgit. It is intended to be a complete developmenet workflow management app with git as a base tool. As of oct 2008 it can be used as a pretty good commit tool. Please see feature table below.
gitg
gitg (gitg) by Jesse van den Kieboom is a clone of GitX for gtk+/GNOME. As such it tries to follow the implementation of GitX closely, while providing tight integration into the GNOME desktop.
giggle
Giggle (homepage) is a graphical frontend for browsing history of Git repositories (think of gitk on GTK+). Result of a Hackathon 2007, later developed by Imendio’s Carlos Garnacho and Sven Herzberg. Currently maintained by Mathias Hasselmann. Available from http://github.com/hasselmm/giggle/. As of November ’09, no developper activity for more than 6 months.
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diff Graphic Tools Summary
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Meld is written with the excellent pygtk toolkit. Python + Glade + Gtk+ is the most productive gui programming environment I’ve ever used. (And I’ve used quite a few).
Alternate tools
Kdiff3
Very good for large merges. Automatic merge facility.
Xxdiff
Has some nice features such as CVS unmerge and good scriptability. Does 2 and 3 way file comparison but only 2 way directory comparison.
TkDiff
Two way file only diff viewer. Depends only on tk.
GtkDiff
Gtk1.x diff tool. Project seems dead.