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git-gui - A portable graphical interface to Git

Commands

       blame
           Start a blame viewer on the specified file on the given version (or working directory if not
           specified).

       browser
           Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified commit. Files selected through the browser
           are opened in the blame viewer.

       citool
           Start gitgui and arrange to make exactly one commit before exiting and returning to the shell. The
           interface is limited to only commit actions, slightly reducing the application’s startup time and
           simplifying the menubar.

       version
           Display the currently running version of gitgui.

Description

       A Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface to Git. gitgui focuses on allowing users to make changes to
       their repository by making new commits, amending existing ones, creating branches, performing local
       merges, and fetching/pushing to remote repositories.

       Unlike gitk, gitgui focuses on commit generation and single file annotation and does not show project
       history. It does however supply menu actions to start a gitk session from within gitgui.

       gitgui is known to work on all popular UNIX systems, Mac OS X, and Windows (under both Cygwin and MSYS).
       To the extent possible OS specific user interface guidelines are followed, making gitgui a fairly native
       interface for users.

Examples

gitguiblameMakefile
           Show the contents of the file Makefile in the current working directory, and provide annotations for
           both the original author of each line, and who moved the line to its current location. The
           uncommitted file is annotated, and uncommitted changes (if any) are explicitly attributed to NotYetCommitted.

       gitguiblamev0.99.8Makefile
           Show the contents of Makefile in revision v0.99.8 and provide annotations for each line. Unlike the
           above example the file is read from the object database and not the working directory.

       gitguiblame--line=100Makefile
           Loads annotations as described above and automatically scrolls the view to center on line 100.

       gitguicitool
           Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete. This command returns a non-zero exit
           code if the window was closed in any way other than by making a commit.

       gitguicitool--amend
           Automatically enter the AmendLastCommit mode of the interface.

       gitguicitool--nocommit
           Behave as normal citool, but instead of making a commit simply terminate with a zero exit code. It
           still checks that the index does not contain any unmerged entries, so you can use it as a GUI version
           of git-mergetool(1)

       gitcitool
           Same as gitguicitool (above).

       gitguibrowsermaint
           Show a browser for the tree of the maint branch. Files selected in the browser can be viewed with the
           internal blame viewer.

Git

       Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.48.1                                         07/02/2025                                         GIT-GUI(1)

Name

       git-gui - A portable graphical interface to Git

Other

gitgui is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable versions are distributed as part of
       the Git suite for the convenience of end users.

       The official repository of the gitgui project can be found at:

           https://github.com/j6t/git-gui

See Also

gitk(1)
           The Git repository browser. Shows branches, commit history and file differences. gitk is the utility
           started by gitgui's Repository Visualize actions.

Synopsis

gitgui [<command>] [<arguments>]

See Also