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Retire long unused/unmaintained gitview from the contrib/ area. * sb/remove-gitview: doc: git-gui browser does not default to HEAD doc: gitk: add the upstream repo location doc: gitk: remove gitview reference contrib: remove gitview
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Documentation/git-gui.txt

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Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified
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commit. Files selected through the
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Documentation/gitk.txt

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Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It's written in
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tcl/tk and started off in a separate repository but was later merged
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tcl/tk.
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'gitk' is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
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versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience
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of end users.
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gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project:
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git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
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SEE ALSO
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'qgit(1)'::
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A repository browser written in C++ using Qt.
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'gitview(1)'::
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A repository browser written in Python using Gtk. It's based on
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'bzrk(1)' and distributed in the contrib area of the Git repository.
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'tig(1)'::
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A minimal repository browser and Git tool output highlighter written
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