tig

Description

Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands.

When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to present the user with various views, such as summarized revision log and showing the commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.

Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and colorize it.

User instructions

tig 2.2 is installed on all the workstations from Debian repository.

Documentation is available from the man page; see also the man pages for the configuration file (tigrc) and the tig manual (tigmanual).

License

GNU General Public License v2.

Admin notes

The version from the Debian repository is sufficiently recent currently.