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