git-cola is a powerful Git GUI with a slick and intuitive user interface.

Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
David Aguilar and contributors

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Screenshots are available on the git-cola screenshots page.

apt-get install git-cola python-pyinotify

New releases are available on the git-cola download page.

git clone git://github.com/git-cola/git-cola.git

git-cola on github

git-cola google group

• git 1.6.3 or newer

• Python 2.5 through 2.7

• PyQt4 4.4 or newer

• argparse 1.1 or newer argparse is part of the stdlib in Python 2.7; install argparse separately if you are running on Python 2.6 or below.

pyinotify 0.7.1 or newer enables inotify support on Linux.

Normally you can just do "make install" to install git-cola in your $HOME directory ($HOME/bin, $HOME/share, etc). If you want to do a global install you can do

make prefix=/usr install

You don't need to make to run it, though. git-cola is designed to run directly out of its source tree.

bin/git-cola
bin/git-dag

Whether you install cola yourself with make install or use the git-cola.app bundle, you will need to install Qt4 and PyQt4.

The easiest way to do this is to install homebrew and use it to install git-cola.

brew install git-cola

Once brew has installed git-cola (and its dependencies) you either use git-cola.app, run from source, or install from source via make install. You can build git-cola.app by running make git-cola.app.

Installing these packages also gives you a PyQt development environment which can be used for building your own applications or hacking on cola itself.

Download the latest stable Git, Python 2.x, and Py2x-PyQt4 installers

• msysGit

• Python

• PyQt

• git-cola Installer

Once these are installed you can run git-cola from the Start menu or by double-clicking on the git-cola.pyw script.

If you are developing git-cola on Windows you can use python.exe to run git-cola directly from source.

python.exe bin/git-cola

If you want to build the git-cola Installer yourself run the provided script

contrib/win32/create-installer.sh

You have to make sure that the file

/share/InnoSetup/ISCC.exe

exists. That is normally the case when you run the msysGit bash and not the Git for Windows bash (look here for the differences).

git-cola ships with an interactive rebase editor called git-xbase. git-xbase can be used to reorder and choose commits and can be launched independently of the main git-cola interface, e.g.:

GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=$PWD/share/git-cola/bin/git-xbase git rebase -i master