Re: [PATCH] Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt

["Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>]

On 2/19/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 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.

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From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
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 <mcostalba@gmail.com>


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+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.
+
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