Git is a true UNIX tool in the sense that it consists of many commands
that do one thing well. It has been designed from the start to be easily
wrapped in other tools and frontends. Currently, there are several
interfaces offering more comfortable Git usage, and also graphical
interfaces for browsing the history and more.
Traditionally, the low-level part of Git is called plumbing
and the interfaces and frontends are called porcelains.
Git itself comes with a default porcelain bundled and that is actually
what you will normally mean when you say you use Git. However, there
are several alternative porcelains which might offer considerably more
user friendly interface or extend Git to perform some specialized tasks.
Below, the most widely used tools are listed. Please refer to
the corresponding wiki page
for a full list.
Graphical User Interfaces
- Git Extensions (Windows)
- Git Extensions
is a small toolset to make working with Git under Windows a
little more intuitive. The shell extension will intergrate in Windows Explorer
and presents a nice context menu on files.
- GitX (Mac OS X)
- GitX
is a git GUI specifically for Mac OS X. It currently features a history viewer
much like gitk and a commit GUI like git gui. But then in silky smooth OS X style!
- GitHub for Mac (Mac OS X)
- GitHub for Mac
is a free git GUI for Mac that is simple to use. It is designed to work with GitHub
but can be used with any Git server.
- qgit (Qt)
- qgit is a Qt
GUI for browsing history of Git repositories, similar to gitk
but with more features.
- git-cola (PyQt)
- git-cola is a powerful
git GUI with a slick and intuitive user interface.
- Tig
- tig
is a text-mode interface for Git. It acts as a repository browser
that can also act as a pager for various Git commands
and manage your index (on diff chunk level).
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Version Control Interface layers
- 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.
- Guilt
- Guilt
is another patch management tool, closer to the spirit of Quilt
than StGIT.
- TopGit
- TopGit
aims to make handling of large amount of interdependent topic branches easier.
TopGit achieves that by keeping a separate topic branch
for each patch and providing few tools to maintain the branches.
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Git Hosting
Several Git hosting sites are available and open for anyone
to host their projects publicly or privately, serving personal open source
projects up to large professional endeavors:
Public Only Hosting
- repo.or.cz
- repo.or.cz is the oldest hosting site,
accomodating many hundreds of projects, with open-sourced infrastructure
and aimed at open source software. It provides full push features as well
as simple mirroring mode and gitweb interface with various enhancements.
- Gitorious
- Gitorious is another free hosting
site with a custom web interface, supporting multiple repositories per project,
local installations and with open source code.
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Public and Private Hosting
- GitHub
- GitHub is the largest hosting site
with over 1,000,000 public repositories and
provides both free hosting for public projects and paid options for private
projects. It uses a custom web interface including git-backed wiki hosting,
git-backed static site hosting and ticketing. GitHub puts emphasis
on social networking of project developers.
- Bitbucket
- Bitbucket is an up and coming free
hosting site for both private and public git or mercurial repositories.
Free features include private repository (up to 5 users, unlimited
educational) and public repository (unlimited open-source). Bitbucket
also has Wiki and issue tracking features.
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Private Only Hosting
- Unfuddle
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Unfuddle is a secure, hosted project
management solution for software development teams.
Offers secure code repositories, ticketing systems and
project management tools.
- codebase
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codebase offers
source control, issue/ticket management & deployment tracking.
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