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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.

   --prompt
       Prompt for a Git repository.  Defaults to the current directory.

   -r, --repo <path>
       Open the Git repository at <path>.  Defaults to the current directory.

   -s, --status-filter <filter>
       Apply the path filter to the status widget.

   --version
       Print the git cola version and exit.

   -h, --help
       Show usage and optional arguments.

   --help-commands
       Show available sub-commands.

SUB-COMMANDS

   am
       Apply patches.

   archive
       Export tarballs from Git.

   branch
       Create branches.

   browse
       Browse tracked files.

   config
       Configure settings.

   dag
       Start the git dag Git history browser.

   diff
       Diff changed files.

   fetch
       Fetch history from remote repositories.

   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.

   remote
       Create and edit remotes.

   search
       Search for commits.

   stash
       Stash uncommitted modifications.

   tag
       Create tags.

   version
       Print the git cola version.

CONFIGURE YOUR EDITOR

       The  editor  used  by  Ctrl-e  is configured from the Preferences screen.  The environment
       variable $VISUAL is consulted when no editor has been configured.

       ProTip: Configuring your editor to gvim -f -p will open multiple tabs when editing  files.
       gvim -f -o uses splits.

       git  cola  is  {vim, emacs, textpad, notepad++}-aware.  When you select a line in the grep
       screen and press any of Enter, Ctrl-e, or the Edit button, you are  taken  to  that  exact
       line.

       The editor preference is saved in the gui.editor variable using git config.

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

       git cola has many useful keyboard shortcuts.

       You  can  see  the  available  shortcuts  by pressing the ? key, choosing Help -> Keyboard
       shortcuts from the main menu, or by consulting the git cola keyboard shortcuts reference.

TOOLS

       The git cola interface is composed of various cooperating tools.  Double-clicking  a  tool
       opens it in its own subwindow.  Dragging it around moves and places it within the window.

       Tools  can  be  hidden and rearranged however you like.  git cola carefully remembers your
       window layout and restores it the next time it is launched.

       The Control-{1, 2, 3, ...} hotkey gives focus to a specific tool.  A hidden  tool  can  be
       re-opened using the Tools menu or the Shift+Control-{1, 2, 3, ...} shortcut keys.

STATUS

       The Status tool provides a visual analog to the git status command.

       Status  displays files that are modified relative to the staging area, staged for the next
       commit, unmerged files from an in-progress merge, and files that are untracked to git.

       These are the same categories one sees when running git status on the command line.

       You can navigate through  the  list  of  files  using  keyboard  arrows  as  well  as  the
       ergonomical and vim-like j and k shortcut keys.

       There are several convenient ways to interact with files in the Status tool.

       Selecting  a file displays its diff in the DIFF viewer.  Double-clicking a file stages its
       contents, as does the the Ctrl-s shortcut key.

       Ctrl-e opens selected files in the conifgured editor,  and  Ctrl-d  opens  selected  files
       using git difftool

       Additional actions can be performed using the right-click context menu.

   Actions
       Clicking the Staged folder shows a diffstat for the index.

       Clicking the Modified folder shows a diffstat for the worktree.

       Clicking individual files sends diffs to the Diff Display.

       Double-clicking individual files adds and removes their content from the index.

       Various actions are available through the right-click context menu.  Different actions are
       available depending a file's status.

   Stage Selected
       Add to the staging area using git add Marks unmerged files as resolved.

   Launch Editor
       Launches the configured visual text editor

   Launch Difftool
       Visualize changes using git difftool.

   Revert Unstaged Edits
       Reverts unstaged content by checking out selected paths from the index/staging area

   Revert Uncommited Edits
       Throws away uncommitted edits

   Unstage Selected
       Remove from the index/staging area with git reset

   Launch Merge Tool
       Resolve conflicts using git mergetool.

   Delete File(s)
       Delete untracked files from the filesystem.

   Add to .gitignore
       Adds untracked files to to the .gitignore file.

DIFF

       The diff viewer/editor displays diffs for selected files.  Additions are  shown  in  green
       and  removals  are displayed in light red.  Extraneous whitespace is shown with a pure-red
       background.

       Right-clicking in the diff provides access to  additional  actions  that  use  either  the
       cursor location or text selection.

   Staging content for commit
       The  @@  patterns  denote  a  new  diff hunk.  Selecting lines of diff and using the Stage
       Selected Lines command will stage just the selected lines.  Clicking within  a  diff  hunk
       and selecting Stage Diff Hunk stages the entire patch diff hunk.

       The  corresponding opposite commands can be performed on staged files as well, e.g. staged
       content can be selectively removed from the index when we are  viewing  diffs  for  staged
       content.

COMMIT MESSAGE EDITOR

       The commit message editor is a simple text widget for entering commit messages.

       You  can  navigate  between  the  Subject  and  Extended  description...  fields using the
       keyboard arrow keys.

       Pressing enter when inside the Subject field jumps down to the extended description field.

       The Options button menu to the left of the subject field provides access to the additional
       actions.

       The  Ctrl+i  keyboard  shortcut  adds  a  standard  "Signed-off-by: " line, and Ctrl+Enter
       creates a new commit using the commit message and staged content.

   Sign Off
       The Sign Off button adds a standard:

          Signed-off-by: A. U. Thor <a.u.thor@example.com>

       line to the bottom of the commit message.

       Invoking this action is equivalent to passing the -s option to git commit.

   Commit
       The commit button runs git commit.  The contents of the commit message editor is  provided
       as the commit message.

       Only  staged  files are included in the commit -- this is the same behavior as running git
       commit on the command-line.

   Line and Column Display
       The current line and column number is displayed by the editor.  E.g. a 5,0  display  means
       that the cursor is located at line five, column zero.

       The  display  changes  colors when lines get too long.  Yellow indicates the safe boundary
       for sending patches to a mailing list while keeping space for inline reply markers.

       Orange indicates that the line is starting to run a bit long and should break soon.

       Red indicates that the line is running up against the standard 80-column limit for  commit
       messages.

       Keeping  commit  messages  less than 76-characters wide is encouraged.  git log is a great
       tool but long lines mess up its formatting for everyone else, so please  be  mindful  when
       writing commit messages.

   Amend Last Commit
       Clicking on Amend Last Commit makes git cola amend the previous commit instead of creating
       a new one.  git cola loads the previous commit message into the commit message editor when
       this option is selected.

       The Status tool will display all of the changes for the amended commit.

   Create Signed Commit
       Tell git commit and git merge to sign commits using GPG.

       Using  this  option  is  equivalent to passing the --gpg-sign option to git commit and git
       merge.

       This option's default value can be configured  using  the  cola.signcommits  configuration
       variable.

APPLY PATCHES

       Use the File -> Apply Patches menu item to begin applying patches.

       Dragging  and dropping patches onto the git cola interface adds the patches to the list of
       patches to apply using git am.

       You can drag either a set of patches or a directory containing patches.   Patches  can  be
       sorted using in the interface and are applied in the same order as is listed in the list.

       When  a  directory is dropped git cola walks the directory tree in search of patches.  git
       cola sorts the list of patches after they have all been found.  This allows you to control
       the  order  in  which patchs are applied by placing patchsets into alphanumerically-sorted
       directories.

CUSTOM WINDOW SETTINGS

       git cola remembers modifications to the layout and arrangement of  tools  within  the  git
       cola interface.  Changes are saved and restored at application shutdown/startup.

       git  cola  can  be  configured  to  not  save  custom layouts by unsetting the Save Window
       Settings option in the git cola preferences.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

       These variables can be set using git config or from the settings.

   cola.blameviewer
       The command used to blame files.  Defaults to git gui blame.

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

   cola.checkconflicts
       Inspect  unmerged  files  for  conflict  markers  before staging them.  This feature helps
       prevent accidental staging of unresolved merge conflicts.  Defaults to true.

   cola.defaultrepo
       git cola, when run outside of a Git repository, prompts the user for  a  repository.   Set
       cola.defaultrepo  to  the  path  of  a Git repostiory to make git cola attempt to use that
       repository before falling back to prompting the user for a repository.

   cola.fileattributes
       Enables per-file gitattributes 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.inotify
       Set  to  false  to  disable  file  system  change  monitoring.  Defaults to true, but also
       requires either Linux with inotify support or Windows  with  pywin32  installed  for  file
       system change monitoring to actually function.

   cola.refreshonfocus
       Set to true to automatically refresh when git cola gains focus.  Defaults to false because
       this can cause a pause whenever switching to git cola from another application.

   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 options sub-menu.

   cola.dragencoding
       git cola encodes paths dragged from its widgets  into  utf-16  when  adding  them  to  the
       drag-and-drop  mime data (specifically, the text/x-moz-url entry).  utf-16 is used to make
       gnome-terminal see the right paths, but other terminals may expect a  different  encoding.
       If you are using a terminal that expects a modern encoding, e.g. terminator, then set this
       value to utf-8.

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

   cola.savewindowsettings
       git  cola  will  remember  its  window settings when set to true.  Window settings and X11
       sessions are saved in $HOME/.config/git-cola.

   cola.signcommits
       git cola will sign commits by default when set true. Defaults to false.  See  the  section
       below on setting up GPG for more details.

   cola.tabwidth
       The number of columns occupied by a tab character.  Defaults to 8.

   cola.terminal
       The command to use when launching commands within a graphical terminal.

       cola.terminal  defaults  to xterm -e when unset.  e.g. when opening a shell, git cola will
       run xterm -e $SHELL.

       If either gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, or konsole  are  installed  then  they  will  be
       preferred over xterm when cola.terminal is unset.

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

   cola.color.text
       The default diff text color, in hexadecimal RRGGBB notation.  Defaults to "030303".

   cola.color.add
       The default diff "add" background color, in  hexadecimal  RRGGBB  notation.   Defaults  to
       "d2ffe4".

   cola.color.remove
       The  default  diff "remove" background color, in hexadecimal RRGGBB notation.  Defaults to
       "fee0e4".

   cola.color.header
       The default diff header text color, in hexadecimal RRGGBB notation.  Defaults to "bbbbbb".

   gui.diffcontext
       The number of diff context lines to display.

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

   gui.editor
       The default text editor to use is defined in gui.editor.  The  config  variable  overrides
       the VISUAL environment variable.  e.g. gvim -f -p.

   gui.historybrowser
       The history browser to use when visualizing history.  Defaults to gitk.

   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.

   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.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

   GIT_COLA_SCALE
       git  cola  can  be made to scale its interface for HiDPI displays.  When defined, git cola
       will scale icons, radioboxes, and checkboxes according to the scale factor.   The  default
       value is 1.  A good value is 2 for high-resolution displays.

       Fonts are not scaled, as their size can already be set in the settings.

   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.

   VISUAL
       Specifies the default editor to use.  This is ignored when  the  gui.editor  configuration
       variable is defined.

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.:

          mkdir -p ~/.config/git-cola &&
          echo en >~/.config/git-cola/language

       Alternatively you may also use LANGAUGE environmental variable to temporarily  change  git
       cola's  language  just  like  any other gettext-based program.  For example to temporarily
       change git cola's language to English:

          LANGUAGE=en git cola

       To make git cola use the zh_TW translation with zh_HK, zh, and en as a fallback.:

          LANGUAGE=zh_TW:zh_HK:zh:en git cola

CUSTOM GUI ACTIONS

       git cola allows you to define custom GUI actions by setting  git  config  variables.   The
       "name" of the command appears in the "Actions" menu.

   guitool.<name>.cmd
       Specifies  the shell command line to execute when the corresponding item of the Tools menu
       is invoked. This option is mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root
       of  the  working  directory,  and  in  the environment it receives the name of the tool as
       GIT_GUITOOL, the name of the currently selected file as FILENAME,  and  the  name  of  the
       current branch as CUR_BRANCH (if the head is detached, CUR_BRANCH is empty).

   guitool.<name>.background
       Run  the command in the background (similar to editing and difftool actions).  This avoids
       blocking the GUI.  Setting background to true implies noconsole and norescan.

   guitool.<name>.needsfile
       Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees  that  FILENAME  is  not
       empty.

   guitool.<name>.noconsole
       Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its output.

   guitool.<name>.norescan
       Don’t rescan the working directory for changes after the tool finishes execution.

   guitool.<name>.confirm
       Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool.

   guitool.<name>.argprompt
       Request  a  string  argument  from  the  user,  and  pass  it to the tool through the ARGS
       environment variable. Since requesting  an  argument  implies  confirmation,  the  confirm
       option  has  no  effect  if  this is enabled. If the option is set to true, yes, or 1, the
       dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact value of the variable is used.

   guitool.<name>.revprompt
       Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the REVISION environment  variable.
       In other aspects this option is similar to argprompt, and can be used together with it.

   guitool.<name>.revunmerged
       Show  only  unmerged branches in the revprompt subdialog. This is useful for tools similar
       to merge or rebase, but not for things like checkout or reset.

   guitool.<name>.title
       Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog.  Defaults to the tool name.

   guitool.<name>.prompt
       Specifies the general  prompt  string  to  display  at  the  top  of  the  dialog,  before
       subsections for argprompt and revprompt.  The default value includes the actual command.

   guitool.<name>.shortcut
       Specifies a keyboard shortcut for the custom tool.

       The  value  must  be  a  valid  string  understood by the QAction::setShortcut() API.  See
       http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qkeysequence.html#QKeySequence-2 for more  details  about
       the supported values.

       Avoid  creating  shortcuts  that  conflict  with  existing  built-in  git  cola shortcuts.
       Creating a conflict will result in no action when the shortcut is used.

SETTING UP GPG FOR SIGNED COMMITS

       When creating signed commits gpg will attempt to read your password from the terminal from
       which  git cola was launched.  The way to make this work smoothly is to use a GPG agent so
       that you can avoid needing to re-enter your password every time you commit.

       This also gets you a graphical passphrase prompt instead  of  getting  prompted  for  your
       password in the terminal.

   Install gpg-agent and friends
       On Mac OS X, you may need to brew install gpg-agent and install the Mac GPG Suite.

       On Linux use your package manager to install gnupg2, gnupg-agent and pinentry-qt, e.g.:

          sudo apt-get install gnupg2 gnupg-agent pinentry-qt

       On  Linux, you should also configure Git so that it uses gpg2 (gnupg2), otherwise you will
       get errors mentioning, "unable to open /dev/tty".  Set Git's gpg.program to gpg2:

          git config --global gpg.program gpg2

   Configure gpg-agent and a pin-entry program
       On Mac OS X, edit ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf to include the line,:

          use-agent

       This is typically not needed on Linux, where gpg2 is used, as this is  the  default  value
       when using gpg2.

       Next,  edit  ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf  to  contain  a pinentry-program line pointing to the
       pinentry program for your platform.

       The following example ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf shows how to use pinentry-qt on Linux:

          pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt
          default-cache-ttl 3600
          enable-ssh-support
          use-standard-socket

       This following example .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf shows how to use MacGPG2's pinentry app on On
       Mac OS X:

          pinentry-program /usr/local/MacGPG2/libexec/pinentry-mac.app/Contents/MacOS/pinentry-mac
          default-cache-ttl 3600
          enable-ssh-support
          use-standard-socket

       Once  this  has been setup then you will need to start the gpg-agent daemon.  First, check
       if it is already running.:

          env | grep GPG_AGENT_INFO
          echo bye | gpg-connect-agent

       If you see the following output:

          GPG_AGENT_INFO=...
          OK closing connection

       Then the daemon is already running, and you do not need to start it yourself.

       If it is not running, eval the output  of  gpg-agent  --daemon  in  your  shell  prior  to
       launching git cola.:

          eval $(gpg-agent --daemon)
          git cola

WINDOWS NOTES

   Git Installation
       If  Git  is installed in a custom location, e.g. not installed in C:/Git or Program Files,
       then the path to Git must be  configured  by  creating  a  file  in  your  home  directory
       ~/.config/git-cola/git-bindir that points to your git installation.  e.g.:

          C:/Tools/Git/bin

LINKS

   Git Cola's Git Repository
       https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/

   Git Cola Homepage
       https://git-cola.github.io/

   Mailing List
       https://groups.google.com/group/git-cola

AUTHOR

       David Aguilar and contributors

COPYRIGHT

       2007-2015, David Aguilar and contributors