GUIs

While this book is strongly focused on building up your command-line skills, it’s worth mentioning that there are some graphical tools available that can make interacting with Git easier for some use cases.

tig and gitk are two examples of graphical repository browsers, which give you a Git interface that’s similar to what many IDEs provide. To try them out, simply navigate to a repository using cd and run gitk or tig. You’ll likely have to install these tools via your package manager; many Unix flavors (including popular Linux distributions and macOS) don’t have them installed by default.