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git frontends

Posted Jun 2, 2010 21:47 UTC (Wed) by dh (subscriber, #153)
Parent article: Giggle: A Git GUI

I really like having graphical frontends for systems like git as they much better represent the inherent complexity than a command-line interface can do.

I almost daily access the git repositories in our company and most of the time, I use gitk and git-gui for browsing and checkin. Branch switching, branch creation and merging or rebasing I normally do on the command line and for the rather seldom deeper investigations into a file's history, I take qgit. The Eclipse egit integration I only use for its branch report in the projects window. And don't forget the ncurses-based "tig" client for remote access which I need sometimes - actually so seldom that I never remember the keys for the commands to use tig with...

Ciao, Dirk


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git frontends

Posted Jun 2, 2010 22:46 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

Do you have programmable bash completion enabled (assuming you use bash)?

If not, try:

. /etc/bash_completion

or whatever it takes. Git's completion function is a great help in exploring the repository.

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