git-cola is a powerful git GUI with a slick and intuitive user interface.

Copyright (C) 2007-2012, 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 cola

git-cola on github

git-cola google group

• git 1.6.3 or newer

• Python 2.5 through 2.7

• PyQt4 4.4 or newer

pyinotify >= 0.7.1 enables inotify support on Linux.

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.

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

Whether you install cola yourself with make install or use the git-cola.app bundle, you will need to install Qt4 and PyQt4.

The easiest way to do this is to install homebrew and use it to install git-cola.

brew install git-cola

Once brew has installed git-cola (and its dependencies) you use git-cola.app or install from source using make install.

Installing these packages also gives you a PyQt development environment which can be used for building your own applications or hacking on cola itself.

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.

You can also use pythonw.exe to invoke the git-cola.pyw script directly from the command-line.

If you are developing git-cola on Windows you can run it from its source tree by using pythonw.exe.

pythonw.exe bin/git-cola