Gitg

Gitg is a version control application. It allows to view, compare and edit version history of a git repository.

Participants

JesseVanDenKieboom, JakubSteiner

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Goals

Primary

  • Legible, beautiful view of the history

Non-Goals

  • Source code editor

Use cases:

  • View
    • Find what changed since I last looked
    • Find a specific commit that implemented feature/caused a bug (text search, bug # search)
    • Find contributions by a certain author
    • Write/generate a NEWS summary before doing a release
  • Editing
    • Cherry pick commits from one branch to another
    • Clean up a set of local commits, editing and squashing and then pushing to remote

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Discussion

Design/Apps/Gitg (last edited 2014-09-25 16:00:26 by JakubSteiner)