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IMPORTANT NOTE: although this page has a "gitolite.com" URL, this is not about gitolite. That's just an artifact of "sitaramc.github.com" being translated to "gitolite.com" and so ALL my git related stuff gets carried over. Gitolite documentation has another /gitolite in the URL, so you can tell. My apologies for this confusion.

using git’s GUI tools

Here’s how to launch the GUI tools:

• from the “git bash” command line (type gitk or git gui)
• right click on a directory containing a repository and choose “git GUI here”; this launches git gui
• if you already have one GUI open, launch the other one from the menus (“Repository -> Visualise History”, or “File -> Start Git GUI”)

using git at the command line

Git has a command line interface and two different GUI interfaces.

The command line interface allows you to do pretty much anything, and is really the most convenient once you get used to it. You can get to the command line in one of the following ways:

• (on Windows) click the “git” or “git bash” icon on your desktop/taskbar or wherever the install put it. This will start with the “git bash shell” set to whatever your “HOME” directory is. From there you can navigate (using the cd command) to wherever your repository is.

  • the “git bash shell” is almost a complete unix shell. So directories like E:\some\path are accessed as /e/some/path.

• if your repository is in E:\Myname\projects\projectname, open E:\Myname\projects in the file manager, right click on projectname, and choose “git bash here”. This will open the “git bash” command line positioned at that directory.