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gitg is a Git GUI that provides a graphical representation of Git actions. Use this tag for help with the gitg tool.

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How do you push code with gitg?

I can do everything else I need but with the GUI I cannot seem to figure out how to pull or push code. Pushing is more important in this case, anyone know how?
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how can I do a git pull in the gitg / gitx visual tool?

I can do a push using gitg and push my code to the remote master branch but I can't see any option to do a git pull. I am on Ubuntu 10 and 11
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How can I checkout a branch in a new gitg?

In the older GNOME2 gitg interface it was easily possible to checkout a branch by clicking on it with a right mouse button. How can I checkout a branch in the new GNOME3 interface? Right-click now only allows to Rename, Remove, Copy Name, and set a…
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How do I change the interface language of gitg in Windows?

I just installed gitg from the Windows binaries on a Windows 7 machine. Even though the machine's display language is set to English, the interface for gitg displays in German locale. I've looked in settings (Einstellungen) but there doesn't seem to…
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Can I use gitg to see the changes only on one file/directory?

This is driving me crazy, as it's very easy on gitk (just gitk the/file) but I am not able to do it on gitg which I really like to see the history. It's not a well documented tool.
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Gitg behavouir as gitk --all

I switched to gitg from gitk to visualize my git tree. There is one thing I can't stand. Let's say I have two branches (dev, master) that look like this: Anytime I checkout to master the visualization changes: That means that the branch I am…
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Git pull and push not working (using gitg client)

I'm not sure if it matters but I'm using a Bitbucket private repository. I installed git on my Ubuntu machine and then installed gitg. I've lived on windows all my life and getting used to the terminal is frankly very difficult. This is also my…
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Stage multiple files in gitg

Is it possible to stage multiple files in gitg? In the commit tab, I can select all the unstaged files but right-clicking (While holding down Shift) to stage does not seem to work. Dragging them also does not seem to work. All I do currently is to…
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Use SSH in gitg without starting ssh-agent

When I fetch from a remote repository via an SSH Url, I get the error no auth sock variable. After starting an ssh agent, the error disappears and it works again: eval $(ssh-agent) ssh-add gitg Is there a way to use ssh with gitg without having an…
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Git: Commits that stick-out of master without being in a branch

I've been working on a project for some time using a git local repository for version control. I have two branches in the repository: master and "other" (not its real name). When I run git branch I get this list: other * master Looking at my…
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Git browse through non-empty commits

I work on this project which has many commits with empty changesets. As much as I would like to run git filter-branch and remove those commits, this is really not an option. Are there any tools (e.g. gitg tig) that would allow me to browse through…
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