echo en >~/.config/git-cola/language
git-cola - The highly caffeinated git GUI
git cola [options] [sub-command]
git-cola is a sleek and powerful git GUI written in Python. See below for a full list of options and usage information.
Specifies the path to the git binary.
Prompt for a git repository instead of using the current directory.
Run git-cola on the git repository in <path>. Defaults to the current directory.
Print the git-cola version and exit.
Create branches.
Browse tracked files.
Configure git-cola settings.
Fetch remote branches.
Use git grep to search for content.
Merge branches.
Fetch and merge remote branches.
Push branches to remotes.
Search for commits.
Stash modifications.
Create tags.
git-cola will remember its window settings when set to true. These settings are saved in $HOME/.config/git-cola.
Enables per-file linkgit:gitattributes[5] encoding support when set to true. This tells git-cola to honor the configured encoding when displaying and applying diffs.
Specifies the font to use for git-cola's diff display.
Whether to create a dock widget with the Browser tool. Defaults to false to speedup startup time.
The number of columns occupied by a tab character.
Whether to automatically break long lines while editing commit messages. Defaults to true. This setting is configured using the Preferences dialog, but it can be toggled for one-off usage using the commit message editor’s settings sub-menu.
The number of columns used for line wrapping. Tabs are counted according to cola.tabwidth.
git-cola avoids reading large binary untracked files. The maximum size to read is controlled by cola.readsize and defaults to 2048.
The number of diff context lines used and displayed by git-cola.
The default text editor is controlled by gui.editor. The config variable overrides the EDITOR environment variable.
Specifies the history browser to use when visualizing history.
The default diff tool to use.
The default merge tool to use.
Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits. Can be overridden by the GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, and EMAIL environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits. Can be overridden by the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_NAME environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
See linkgit:git-config[1] for more details.
Specifies the default editor to use. This is ignored when the git config variable gui.editor is defined.
When defined, git-cola logs git commands to stdout. When set to full, git-cola also logs the exit status and output. When set to trace, git-cola logs to the Console widget.
git-cola automatically detects your language and presents some translations when available. This may not be desired, or you may want git-cola to use a specific language.
You can make git-cola use an alternative language by creating a ~/.config/git-cola/language file containing the standard two-letter gettext language code, e.g. "en", "de", "ja", "zh", etc.::
echo en >~/.config/git-cola/language
A git-cola development repository can be obtained via git:
git clone git://github.com/git-cola/git-cola.git
Compare changes using common merge tools.
The git repository browser. Shows branches, commit history and file differences. gitk is the utility started by git-cola's Repository Visualize actions.
git-cola is independently developed from the linkgit:git[7] suite, but you can use it just like any other git command, e.g. git cola.
Written by David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>.