Tig – A Command Line Browser for Git Repositories

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In a recent article, we’ve described how to install and use GRV tool for viewing Git repositories in Linux terminal. In this article, we would like to introduce to you another useful command-line based interface to git called Tig.

Tig is a free open source, cross platform ncurses-based text-mode interface for git. It is a straight-forward interface to git that can help in staging changes for commit at chunk level and works as a pager for output from different Git commands. It can run on Linux, MacOSX as well as Windows systems.

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