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3 <p>Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output
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4 of various git commands.</p>
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5 <p>When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to present the
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6 user with various views, such as summarized revision log and showing the commit
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7 with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.</p>
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8 <p>Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and try to colorize it.</p>
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13 <p>To get tig either grab the Makefile and tig.c files from the home page:</p>
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17 <a href="http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/</a>
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21 <p>or clone the tig repository using the URL:</p>
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25 <a href="http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git">http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git</a>
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29 <p>Documentation files are available either at the home page or in the above
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30 repository in the branch named <em>release</em>.</p>
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32 <h2>Installation instructions</h2>
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33 <div class="sectionbody">
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34 <p>To install tig simply run:</p>
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35 <div class="literalblock">
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37 <pre><tt>$ make install</tt></pre>
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39 <p>To install documentation run:</p>
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40 <div class="literalblock">
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41 <div class="content">
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42 <pre><tt>$ make install-docs</tt></pre>
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44 <p>The following tools and packages are needed:</p>
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45 <div class="tableblock">
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61 <tbody valign="top">
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67 Tig is just a frontend for git.
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75 Be sure to also have development files installed. Usually they are available in a
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83 separate package ending with <tt>-dev</tt>.
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88 asciidoc (>= 7.0), xmlto
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91 For building documentation. (Optional)
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100 <div class="title">Note</div>
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102 <td class="content">You need to install the tig(1) man page in order for the internal help to
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