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"font-family: monospace;">
2 <h1>Tig: text-mode interface for git
</h1>
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"sectionbody">
5 <p>Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output
6 from various git commands.
</p>
7 <p>When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to present the
8 user with various views, such as summarized revision log and showing the commit
9 with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.
</p>
10 <p>Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and colorize it.
</p>
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18 Homepage:
<a href=
"http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig
</a>
23 Releases:
<a href=
"http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases
</a>
28 Git URL:
<a href=
"http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git
</a>
33 Gitweb:
<a href=
"http://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi?p=tig.git;a=summary">http://pasky.or.cz/gitweb.cgi?p=tig.git;a=summary
</a>
38 <h2>Installation instructions
</h2>
39 <div class=
"sectionbody">
40 <p>Download a tarball from
<a href=
"http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases
</a> or clone the tig
41 repository
<a href=
"http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git
</a>. Documentation files are
42 available either in the tarballs or in the above repository in the branch named
44 <p>To install tig simply run:
</p>
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47 <pre><tt>$ make install
</tt></pre>
49 <p>To install documentation run:
</p>
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"literalblock">
52 <pre><tt>$ make install-docs
</tt></pre>
54 <p>The following tools and packages are needed:
</p>
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77 Tig is just a frontend for git.
85 Be sure to also have development files installed. Usually they are available in a separate package ending with
<tt>-dev
</tt>.
90 asciidoc (
>=
7.0), xmlto
93 For building documentation. (Optional)