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tig is cool too. It's an ncurses based interface for exploring git history. apt-get install tig; and then run tig; in any directory that's a git repo

• jeybalachandran 14y ago
  +1 for tig, you can also brew install tig
• cbsmith 14y ago
  magit does the right thing for "emacs users".
• philsnow 14y ago
  Came here to suggest tig; one nice feature about it is that if you're annotating a file in the "blob" view (IIRC), the annotation information streams in as tig walks the commit tree backwards. This can be nice in a repository with thousands of commits.
• bostonvaulter2 14y ago
  +1 for tig. tig blame is also excellent, you can easily drill down to see who changed a line. Plus tig is a great replacement for git log since it launches in around 0.25 seconds compared to 1+ seconds for gitk and other graphical viewers.
  • davidw 14y ago
    M-x vc-annotate does a nice 'blame', along with color coding to show the age of changes.
    • antihero 14y ago
      > M-x vc-annotate Could you explain this further? I think I'm being thick.
      • davidw 14y ago
        Sorry, should have added "In Emacs ...". You don't even need magit to get some nice git interaction.