git ready

learn git one commit at a time

by Nick Quaranto

newest tip: tig, the ncurses front-end to Git

This is a guest post from Nathan de Vries.

I’ve never really been a fan of gitk, but early on when I started using Git I found a tool called tig. It’s available in MacPorts and Ubuntu (since Gutsy) through apt-get install tig. Tig provides a simple command-line yet ... Read More »

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