A2.1 Extras Bundled with Git
Git has many great tools that are packaged directly with it.
Installing it through a package system such as
apt-get or MacPorts means you might
have to install these tools separately.
gitk
Arguably one of the most useful tools in Git, gitk visualizes your repository’s history, showing you how the various branches come together in the history.
gitk is billed as the “original Tcl/Tk GUI for browsing the history of a Git repository.” It requires Tcl/Tk, which is already installed on many Linux and Mac computers.
The configuration needs a little tweaking to look decent on a Mac. You
can add configuration values to the .gitk file in your home directory to customize the interface. I like my development interfaces to ...