Recommend a Git GUI client for Ubuntu 11.10

Question

the last thread made on this subject was 2009 so i'm hoping people can tell me what they are currently using.

I'm new to Linux and don't know much about the terminal and such yet, but I am able to use git via command line if needed. Primarily I run windows 7 and have been using Git Extensions / Gitbash.

If anyone has any recommendations on something similar that is easy to install or at least has good instructions for Ubuntu please paste a link or write up a quick description.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I don't use GUI for most Git operations but when I wanna see git tree or preview file edits then I use Giggle. Once I've tried to set up Meld as mergetool and difftool but then when want to see only git diff any_file with only a few diffs inside it was running whole Meld, that was annoying so I've forgotten about it and use only standard diff with vimdiff.

Answer 2

I highly recommend gitg . It shows a clear revision tree and is much fancier than gitk.

$sudo apt-get install gitg
$cd path/to/gitrepo
$gitg