[ANN] git cola: a highly caffeinated git gui

[ANN] git cola: a highly caffeinated git gui

[David Aguilar]

Greetings!

The latest version of git cola is available for download from the
usual interwebs:

    http://cola.tuxfamily.org/
    http://gitorious.org/projects/git-cola/

git cola is a highly functional git gui licensed under the gpl.
It's written in Python/Qt4.  In addition to its native platform
(Linux/Unix), cola also runs on OSX and Windows.

Although tarballs, .rpms and .deb packages are available, building it
from source is very easy.

On debian it's as simple as:

    sudo apt-get install simplejson python-qt4 pyqt4-dev-tools python-pyinotify
    git clone git://gitorious.org/git-cola/mainline.git cola
    cd cola && ./configure && make && make install

Like git gui, it allows you to do very fine-grained commits.  It has a
bunch of other random useful stuff, so I figured it was about time to
announce it here.  It has inotify support on Linux, which is why
there's no rescan button in cola.

Hopefully the code isn't too rotten ;-)


CAVEATS:

i18n/l10n is incomplete.  I used the latest .po files from git-gui,
but obviously there are a number of strings in git cola that don't
have translations.  If there is an interest in cola from the user
community then I will need some advice on how to handle this
situation.  I don't like having stolen the .po's from git-gui (sorry
Shawn!) but it did prove that the infrastucture for "LANG=ja git cola"
is working correctly.

cola works by parsing git commands.  It's pretty fast despite the
process overhead, though it'll probably be a bit slower on windows.  I
have no idea what cr/lf issues exist (if any), though I've tried to be
careful about it.


enjoy,

p.s. if you happen to prefer dark color themes you can run: git cola
--style=dark

-- 
 David

Re: [ANN] git cola: a highly caffeinated git gui

[H.Merijn Brand]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:08:01 -0700, "David Aguilar" <davvid@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> The latest version of git cola is available for download from the
> usual interwebs:
> 
>     http://cola.tuxfamily.org/
>     http://gitorious.org/projects/git-cola/

Your dependencies don't match.

# cola-1.1.1-2.noarch.rpm

$ cola
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/cola", line 112, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/cola", line 53, in main
    from cola.models import Model
  File "../../cola/models.py", line 9, in <module>
  File "../../cola/utils.py", line 9, in <module>
  File "../../cola/defaults.py", line 4, in <module>
ImportError: No module named PyQt4.QtCore

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Re: [ANN] git cola: a highly caffeinated git gui

[David Aguilar]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:34 PM, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:08:01 -0700, "David Aguilar" <davvid@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings!
>>
>> The latest version of git cola is available for download from the
>> usual interwebs:
>>
>>     http://cola.tuxfamily.org/
>>     http://gitorious.org/projects/git-cola/
>
> Your dependencies don't match.
>
> # cola-1.1.1-2.noarch.rpm

sorry, I used alien to convert my .debs into an rpm. scripts/mkdeb.sh.
yum installing pyqt4 should fix it.



> ImportError: No module named PyQt4.QtCore
>
> --
> H.Merijn Brand          Amsterdam Perl Mongers  http://amsterdam.pm.org/
> using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00,
> 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, SuSE 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin.
> http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/           http://www.test-smoke.org/
> http://qa.perl.org      http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
>



--
 David