git gui

Sibling of citool — broader scope.

🎯 What & why

Tk-based GUI for repository operations — broader than citool. Branches, push/pull, log view.

🧠 Mental model

Same Tk runtime as citool — git gui is the broader scope (branches, remotes, fetch/pull/push) while citool is just the commit composer. Both call the porcelain commands behind the scenes.

🛠️ Synopsis

git gui [<command>] [<arguments>] [<revision>]

🎚️ Switches & options

Flag	What it does
`citool`	Open in commit-only mode (the same as `git citool`).
`browser <revision>`	Browse the tree at `<revision>`.
`blame <path>`	Open a blame view on `<path>`.
`--working-dir <dir>`	Operate on a specific worktree.

💡 Use cases

Lightweight GUI on a system without modern Git tooling.
Demonstrating Git operations visually.

🧪 Examples

Launch.

$ git gui

🎓 Recommendations

Same caveat as citool — modern alternatives are better. git gui is fine for ad-hoc use on shared servers.