A timeless classic, have for years and will continue to use it daily
Tig – Text-mode interface for Git
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Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git
#12Using it for years. Pretty good and it's even included in the latest versions of git for windows (if you can't use something else, as it was my case for a while)
Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git
#13In Poland in the 90s there was a spreadsheet application for DOS named TIG. It was a companion to word editor named TAG.
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#14Tig is and has been my favorite utility for browsing git logs for years now. Thanks tig developers and contributors! It's handy to know that the arrow keys are used for browsing the log messages, while return followed by either pgup/pgdn or j/k are used for scrolling the contents of a log message. And it's easy to search logs with /. Tig is also theme-able. For instance with: curl -so ~/.tigrc ' https://raw.githubuse…
same here also it's much faster to open when you have a really large repository
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#15tig seems like it could be a cool tool, but trying to view screenshots (on ios latest safari) left me stuck on a flickr login screen. ):
For what it's worth, I don't think the screenshots do it any favor.
The main thing is that it's a terminal-based git client with Vim bindings, and customization. It's hard to represent that in screenshots :)
But I've also been using it for years and it's working perfectly for me.
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#16Mandatory plug: https://magit.vc/
And for Vim nerds: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
(I tend to be using different editors most of the time, but haven't found a text editor Git integration better than either Magit or Fugitive.)
Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git
#17Tig is and has been my favorite utility for browsing git logs for years now. Thanks tig developers and contributors! It's handy to know that the arrow keys are used for browsing the log messages, while return followed by either pgup/pgdn or j/k are used for scrolling the contents of a log message. And it's easy to search logs with /. Tig is also theme-able. For instance with: curl -so ~/.tigrc ' https://raw.githubuse…
I will also say tig is awesome. I use it all the time and have submitted a few PRs to it for my particular idiosyncrasies. Vim's gv plugin is also good.
Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git
#18Mandatory plug: https://magit.vc/
That's the first thing that drove me initially to Emacs. I never found a Git client that well-crafted.
That's because most aren't designed as git porcelains. Magit enhances and, in some cases, replaces git's abstractions with its own. If a git frontend starts by taking git's own built-in porcelain as a given then it's already doomed to failure.
Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git
#19text-mode interface for Git
Based on the comments here saying they love Tig, I know I'm missing something, but: doesn't Git provide a text interface (the `git` command) to Git?
I'm not trying to be obtuse; I genuinely don't know what Tig provides that Git doesn't already do, but would love to know!
Re: Tig – Text-mode interface for Git
#20text-mode interface for Git Based on the comments here saying they love Tig, I know I'm missing something, but: doesn't Git provide a text interface (the `git` command) to Git? I'm not trying to be obtuse; I genuinely don't know what Tig provides that Git doesn't already do, but would love to know!
It provides a curses-based TUI, while generally git just provides a CLI.