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 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2 or newer.

• 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.

pyinotify 0.7.1 or newer enables inotify support on Linux.

send2trash enables cross-platform "Send to Trash" functionality.

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

Linux is it! Your distro has probably already packaged git-cola. If not, please file a bug against your distribution ;-)

yaourt -S git-cola

apt-get install git-cola

yum install git-cola

emerge git-cola

Use the one-click install link.

Homebrew is the easiest way to install git-cola, Qt4 and PyQt4.

brew install git-cola

Once brew has installed git-cola you can build a git-cola.app application bundle from source and copy it to /Applications.

make git-cola.app

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).

• HTML documentation

• git-cola manual

• git-dag manual

• Keyboard shortcuts

• Contributing guidelines

git-cola ships with an interactive rebase editor called git-xbase. git-xbase can be used to reorder and choose commits and is typically launched through the git-cola's "Rebase" menu.

git-xbase can also be launched independently of the main git-cola interface by telling git rebase to use it as its editor:

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

You can also launch git-xbase via the git-cola rebase sub-command (as well as various other sub-commands):

bin/git-cola rebase origin/master