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1 | Tig: text-mode interface for git |
2 | ================================ | |
3 | ||
4 | Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output | |
67d3beab | 5 | from various git commands. |
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6 | |
7 | When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to present the | |
1b4b0bd9 | 8 | user with various views, such as summarized revision log and showing the commit |
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9 | with the log message, diffstat, and the diff. |
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67d3beab | 11 | Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and colorize it. |
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13 | Resources |
14 | --------- | |
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16 | - Homepage: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig[] |
17 | - Releases: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases[] | |
18 | - Git URL: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git[] | |
19 | - Gitweb: http://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi?p=tig.git;a=summary[] | |
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20 | |
21 | Installation instructions | |
22 | ------------------------- | |
23 | ||
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24 | Download a tarball from http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases[] or clone the tig |
25 | repository http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git[]. Documentation files are | |
26 | available either in the tarballs or in the above repository in the branch named | |
27 | 'release'. | |
28 | ||
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29 | To install tig simply run: |
30 | ||
31 | $ make install | |
32 | ||
33 | To install documentation run: | |
34 | ||
35 | $ make install-docs | |
36 | ||
37 | The following tools and packages are needed: | |
38 | ||
39 | `-------------------------------`---------------------------------------------- | |
40 | Tool Description | |
41 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
42 | git-core Tig is just a frontend for git. | |
43 | ncurses Be sure to also have development files \ | |
44 | installed. Usually they are available in a | |
45 | separate package ending with `-dev`. | |
46 | asciidoc (>= 7.0), xmlto For building documentation. (Optional) | |
47 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
48 | ||
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49 | NOTE: You need to install the tig(1) man page in order for the internal help to |
50 | be available. |