NAME

       git-cola - The highly caffeinated git GUI

SYNOPSIS

       git cola [options] [sub-command]

DESCRIPTION

       git-cola is a sleek and powerful git GUI.

OPTIONS

       --amend
           Start git-cola in amend mode.

       -g, --git-path
           Specifies the path to the git binary.

       --prompt
           Prompt for a git repository instead of using the current directory.

       -r, --repo=<path>
           Run git-cola on the git repository in <path>. Defaults to the current directory.

       --version
           Print the git-cola version and exit.

SUB-COMMANDS

       branch
           Create branches.

       browse
           Browse tracked files.

       config
           Configure git-cola settings.

       diff
           Diff changed files.

       fetch
           Fetch remote branches.

       grep
           Use git grep to search for content.

       merge
           Merge branches.

       pull
           Fetch and merge remote branches.

       push
           Push branches to remotes.

       rebase
           Start an interactive rebase.

       search
           Search for commits.

       stash
           Stash modifications.

       tag
           Create tags.

       version
           Print the git-cola version.

CONFIG VARIABLES

       cola.savewindowsettings
           git-cola will remember its window settings when set to true. These settings are saved in
           $HOME/.config/git-cola.

       cola.fileattributes
           Enables per-file linkgit:gitattributes[5] encoding support when set to true. This tells git-cola to
           honor the configured encoding when displaying and applying diffs.

       cola.fontdiff
           Specifies the font to use for git-cola's diff display.

       cola.browserdockable
           Whether to create a dock widget with the Browser tool. Defaults to false to speedup startup time.

       cola.inotify
           Set to false to disable inotify support. Defaults to true when the pyinotify module is available.

       cola.linebreak
           Whether to automatically break long lines while editing commit messages. Defaults to true. This
           setting is configured using the Preferences dialog, but it can be toggled for one-off usage using the
           commit message editor’s settings sub-menu.

       cola.tabwidth
           The number of columns occupied by a tab character.

       cola.textwidth
           The number of columns used for line wrapping. Tabs are counted according to cola.tabwidth.

       cola.readsize
           git-cola avoids reading large binary untracked files. The maximum size to read is controlled by
           cola.readsize and defaults to 2048.

       gui.diffcontext
           The number of diff context lines used and displayed by git-cola.

       gui.displayuntracked
           git-cola avoids showing untracked files when set to false.

       gui.editor
           The default text editor is controlled by gui.editor. The config variable overrides the EDITOR
           environment variable.

       gui.historybrowser
           Specifies the history browser to use when visualizing history.

       diff.tool
           The default diff tool to use.

       merge.tool
           The default merge tool to use.

       user.email
           Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits. Can be overridden by the
           GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, and EMAIL environment variables. See
           linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].

       user.name
           Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits. Can be overridden by the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
           and GIT_COMMITTER_NAME environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
       See linkgit:git-config[1] for more details.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       EDITOR
           Specifies the default editor to use. This is ignored when the git config variable gui.editor is
           defined.

       GIT_COLA_TRACE
           When defined, git-cola logs git commands to stdout. When set to full, git-cola also logs the exit
           status and output. When set to trace, git-cola logs to the Console widget.

LANGUAGE SETTINGS

       git-cola automatically detects your language and presents some translations when available. This may not
       be desired, or you may want git-cola to use a specific language.

       You can make git-cola use an alternative language by creating a ~/.config/git-cola/language file
       containing the standard two-letter gettext language code, e.g. "en", "de", "ja", "zh", etc.::

           echo en >~/.config/git-cola/language

SOURCE

       A git-cola development repository can be obtained via git:

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

LINKS

       git-cola homepage
           http://git-cola.github.io/

       git-cola sources on github
           https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/

SEE ALSO

       linkgit:git-difftool[1]
           Compare changes using common merge tools.

       linkgit:gitk[1]
           The git repository browser. Shows branches, commit history and file differences. gitk is the utility
           started by git-cola's Repository Visualize actions.

GIT

       git-cola is independently developed from the linkgit:git[7] suite, but you can use it just like any other
       git command, e.g. git cola.

AUTHOR

       Written by David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com[1]>.

NOTES

        1. davvid@gmail.com
           mailto:davvid@gmail.com

Git                                                12/25/2013                                        GIT-COLA(1)