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authorShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2007-06-21 00:51:00 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-06-22 22:32:32 -0700
commit37cd4f7e820da82e5731c06b7ebf83963d796e5e (patch)
tree8233136378d5c9e815115ea5a4086840727e94fa
parent47ee8ed292f14e819d8e449a56c2de02d1892483 (diff)
downloadgit-37cd4f7e820da82e5731c06b7ebf83963d796e5e.tar.gz
Document git-gui, git-citool as mainporcelain manual pages
Jakub Narebski pointed out that the git-gui blame viewer is not a widely known feature, but is incredibly useful. Part of the issue is advertising. Up until now we haven't even referenced git-gui from within the core Git manual pages, mostly because I just wasn't sure how I wanted to supply git-gui documentation to end-users, or how that documentation should integrate with the core Git documentation. Based upon Jakub's comment that many users may not even know that the gui is available in a stock Git distribution I'm offering up two basic manual pages: git-citool and git-gui. These should offer enough of a starting point for users to identify that the gui exists, and how to start it. Future releases of git-gui may contain their own documentation system available from within a running git-gui. But not today. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rwxr-xr-xDocumentation/cmd-list.perl2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-citool.txt32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-gui.txt115
-rw-r--r--git.spec.in12
4 files changed, 156 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl
index a181f753e0..fcea1d74d5 100755
--- a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl
+++ b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ git-check-attr purehelpers
git-check-ref-format purehelpers
git-cherry ancillaryinterrogators
git-cherry-pick mainporcelain
+git-citool mainporcelain
git-clean mainporcelain
git-clone mainporcelain
git-commit mainporcelain
@@ -111,6 +112,7 @@ git-fsck ancillaryinterrogators
git-gc mainporcelain
git-get-tar-commit-id ancillaryinterrogators
git-grep mainporcelain
+git-gui mainporcelain
git-hash-object plumbingmanipulators
git-http-fetch synchelpers
git-http-push synchelpers
diff --git a/Documentation/git-citool.txt b/Documentation/git-citool.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5217ab2234
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/git-citool.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+git-citool(1)
+=============
+
+NAME
+----
+git-citool - Graphical alternative to git-commit
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+'git citool'
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+A Tcl/Tk based graphical interface to review modified files, stage
+them into the index, enter a commit message and record the new
+commit onto the current branch. This interface is an alternative
+to the less interactive gitlink:git-commit[1] program.
+
+git-citool is actually a standard alias for 'git gui citool'.
+See gitlink:git-gui[1] for more details.
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
+
+Documentation
+--------------
+Documentation by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gui.txt b/Documentation/git-gui.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bd613b2fcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/git-gui.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+git-gui(1)
+==========
+
+NAME
+----
+git-gui - A portable graphical interface to Git
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+'git gui' [<command>] [arguments]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+A Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface to Git. git-gui 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 gitlink:gitk[1], git-gui 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 git-gui.
+
+git-gui 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 git-gui
+a fairly native interface for users.
+
+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 (or 'HEAD' by default). Files selected through the
+ browser are opened in the blame viewer.
+
+citool::
+ Start git-gui 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 git-gui.
+
+
+Examples
+--------
+git gui blame Makefile::
+
+ 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
+ 'Not Yet Committed'.
+
+git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile::
+
+ 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.
+
+git gui citool::
+
+ Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete.
+
+git citool::
+
+ Same as 'git gui citool' (above).
+
+git gui browser maint::
+
+ Show a browser for the tree of the 'maint' branch. Files
+ selected in the browser can be viewed with the internal
+ blame viewer.
+
+See Also
+--------
+'gitk(1)'::
+ The git repository browser. Shows branches, commit history
+ and file differences. gitk is the utility started by
+ git-gui's Repository Visualize actions.
+
+Other
+-----
+git-gui is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
+versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convience
+of end users.
+
+A git-gui development repository can be obtained from:
+
+ git clone git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
+
+or
+
+ git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/git-gui.git
+
+or browsed online at http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/[].
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
+
+Documentation
+--------------
+Documentation by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
diff --git a/git.spec.in b/git.spec.in
index b9dc1d59eb..287057e816 100644
--- a/git.spec.in
+++ b/git.spec.in
@@ -164,11 +164,10 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%{_bindir}/git-gui
%{_bindir}/git-citool
%{_datadir}/git-gui/
-# Not Yet...
-# %{!?_without_docs: %{_mandir}/man1/git-gui.1}
-# %{!?_without_docs: %doc Documentation/git-gui.html}
-# %{!?_without_docs: %{_mandir}/man1/git-citool.1}
-# %{!?_without_docs: %doc Documentation/git-citool.html}
+%{!?_without_docs: %{_mandir}/man1/git-gui.1}
+%{!?_without_docs: %doc Documentation/git-gui.html}
+%{!?_without_docs: %{_mandir}/man1/git-citool.1}
+%{!?_without_docs: %doc Documentation/git-citool.html}
%files -n gitk
%defattr(-,root,root)
@@ -188,6 +187,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%{!?_without_docs: %doc Documentation/technical}
%changelog
+* Thu Jun 21 2007 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
+- Added documentation files for git-gui
+
* Tue May 13 2007 Quy Tonthat <qtonthat@gmail.com>
- Added lib files for git-gui
- Added Documentation/technical (As needed by Git Users Manual)