Add a Documentation/git-tools.txt

A brief survey of useful git tools, including third-party
and external projects.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

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+A short git tools survey
+========================
+
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Apart from git contrib/ area there are some others third-party tools
+you may want to look.
+
+This document presents a brief summary of each tool and the corresponding
+link.
+
+
+Alternative/Augmentative Procelains
+-----------------------------------
+
+   - *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/)
+
+   Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the git tree history
+   storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of use,
+   providing generally smoother user experience than the "raw" Core GIT
+   itself and indeed many other version control systems.
+
+
+   - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)
+
+   pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT to help the user manage a set of
+   patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGIT, but it does have a
+   slightly different feature set.
+
+
+   - *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)
+
+   Stacked GIT provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the
+    GIT environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of GIT
+   until they get merged upstream.
+
+
+History Viewers
+---------------
+
+   - *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
+
+   gitk is a simple TK GUI for browsing history of GIT repositories easily.
+
+
+   - *gitview*  (contrib/)
+
+   gitview is a GTK based repository browser for git
+
+
+   - *gitweb* (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gitweb/)
+
+   GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories.
+
+
+   - *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
+
+   QGit is a git/StGIT GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used
+   to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit
+   changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.
+   Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the git
+   viewers and commit tools.
+
+
+
+Foreign SCM interface
+---------------------
+
+   - *git-svn* (contrib/)
+
+   git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion
+   branch and git.
+
+
+   - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)
+
+   These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit
+   series in git back and forth.
+
+
+Others
+------
+
+   - *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)
+
+   Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for git and
+   Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files
+   to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and
+   perform the commit itself.
+
+   - *git.el* (contrib/)
+
+   This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is modeled on
+   pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
+   tweaking to work on XEmacs.