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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

by Travis Swicegood
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 47m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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2.3 Using Git’s GUI

Git comes with a Tcl/Tk[14] GUI interface. You can run it from within your project’s directory by typing git gui at the command prompt. Some OS-specific installers include context menu links to open git-gui—the name of the project—in the folder you are at.

git-gui provides an interface—like that in Figure 5, git-gui running—to many of the commands we’ll be discussing in this book. We won’t specifically be covering the GUI interface, but if you prefer working with a GUI, you can follow along relatively closely with the examples using git-gui.

images/git-gui.png
Figure 5. git-gui running

Although git-gui provides you with an interface ...

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