git-cola(1)

git cola [options]

git-cola is a git gui optimized for working with the git index. See below for a full list of options and usage information.

--repo=<path>: Run git-cola on the git repository in <path>.
--style=<style>: Launch git-cola with a different stylesheet. git-cola currently ships with a built-in "dark" style. To use it, specify --style=dark.

cola.savewindowsettings: Whether git-cola should remember its window settings.
cola.geometry: Specifies information about git-cola's window size and position.
cola.fontui: Specifies the font to use for the main git-cola interface.
cola.fontdiff: Specifies the font to use for git-cola's diff display.
gui.diffcontext: The number of diff context lines used and displayed by git-cola
gui.editor: The default text editor is controlled by gui.editor. This config variable overrides the EDITOR environment variable.
gui.historybrowser: Specifies the history browser to use when visualizing history.
merge.tool: The default merge tool to use. This config variable overrides the MERGETOOL environment variable.
user.email: 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 git-commit-tree(1).
user.name: 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 git-commit-tree(1).

See git-config(1) for more details.

EDITOR: Specifies the default editor to use. This is ignored when the git config variable gui.editor is defined.
MERGETOOL: Specifies the default merge tool to use. This is ignored when the git config variable merge.tool is defined.

A git-cola development repository can be obtained via git:

git clone git://github.com/davvid/git-cola.git

git cola ships with an alternative stylesheet called dark. You can use this stylesheet by running git cola --style=dark.

You can also skin git cola by providing your own Qt stylesheet. E.g. git cola --style=/path/to/style.qss.

Built-in styles can be found in /usr/share/cola/styles.

git-difftool(1): git-cola includes a custom git command called git-difftool that allows you to stage changes using the standard git merge tools.
gitk(1): 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 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>.

git-cola(1) Manual Page