2 <div class=
"sectionbody">
3 <p>Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output
4 of various git commands.
</p>
5 <p>When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to present the
6 user with various views, such as summarized commit log and showing the commit
7 with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.
</p>
8 <p>Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and try to colorize it.
</p>
12 <div class=
"sectionbody">
13 <p>To get tig either grab the Makefile and tig.c files from the home page:
</p>
17 <a href=
"http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/
</a>
21 <p>or clone the tig repository using the URL:
</p>
25 <a href=
"http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git
</a>
29 <p>Documentation files are available either at the home page or in the above
30 repository in the branch named
<em>release
</em>.
</p>
32 <h2>Installation instructions
</h2>
33 <div class=
"sectionbody">
34 <p>To install tig simply run:
</p>
35 <div class=
"literalblock">
37 <pre><tt>$ make install
</tt></pre>
39 <p>To install documentation run:
</p>
40 <div class=
"literalblock">
42 <pre><tt>$ make install-docs
</tt></pre>
44 <p>The following tools and packages are needed:
</p>
45 <div class=
"tableblock">
48 cellspacing=
"0" cellpadding=
"4">
67 Tig is just a frontend for git.
75 Be sure to also have development files installed. Usually they are available in a
83 separate package ending with
<tt>-dev
</tt>.
88 asciidoc (
>=
7.0), xmlto
91 For building documentation. (Optional)
97 <div class=
"admonitionblock">
100 <div class=
"title">Note
</div>
102 <td class=
"content">You need to install the tig(
1) man page in order for the internal help to