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<h1>Tig: text-mode interface for git</h1>
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<p>Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output
from various git commands.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and colorize it.</p>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
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Homepage:    <a href="http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/</a>
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Manual:      <a href="http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/manual.html">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/manual.html</a>
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Tarballs:    <a href="http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases/">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases/</a>
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Git URL:     git://repo.or.cz/tig.git (mirror) or
                <a href="http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git</a> (master)
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Gitweb:      <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/tig.git">http://repo.or.cz/w/tig.git</a>
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<h2>Installation instructions</h2>
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<p>Download a tarball from <a href="http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases</a> or clone the tig
repository <a href="http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git</a>. Documentation files are
available in the tarballs and in the <em>release</em> branch of the tig repository.</p>
<p>The quick and simple way to install tig with documentation is to run:</p>
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<pre><tt>$ make
$ make install install-doc</tt></pre>
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<p>Optionally, you can use the <tt>configure</tt> script to detect library location:</p>
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<pre><tt>$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install</tt></pre>
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<p>If your iconv library is not in the default library and include path, you'll
probably want to pass the "&#8212;with-libiconv" option to the "configure" script to
tell it where to look. Note, if you are building from the tig repository, you
need to first make the configure script:</p>
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<pre><tt>$ make configure</tt></pre>
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<p>The following tools and packages are needed:</p>
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    git-core
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    Tig is just a frontend for git.
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    ncurses
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    Be sure to also have development files                                 installed. Usually they are available in a                                 separate package ending with <tt>-dev</tt>.
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    iconv
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    If iconv is not provided by the c library                                 you need to change the Makefile to link it                                 into the binary.
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<p>The following optional tools and packages are needed for creating the
configure script and building documentation:</p>
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    autoconf
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    Contains autoreconf for generating configure                                 from configure.ac.
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    asciidoc (&gt;= 8.0)
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    Generates HTML and (DocBook) XML from text.
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    xmlto
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    Generates manpages and chunked HTML from XML.
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    DocBook XSL (&gt;= 1.72.0)
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    Used by xmlto for building manpages.
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    DocBook (DSSL/Jade) tools
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    Generates PDF from XML.                                 Also known as docbook-utils.
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