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Use this command to install GitAhead:

winget install --id=GitAhead.GitAhead -e

GitAhead is a graphical Git client designed to help users understand and manage their source code history. It provides an intuitive interface for exploring and manipulating complex Git operations, enabling developers to visualize and navigate their project's history with ease.

Key Features:

Intuitive Interface: Simplifies complex Git operations through a user-friendly design.
Multi-platform Support: Available on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Winget Installation: Can be installed via Winget for seamless setup.
Qt Framework: Built using Qt, ensuring a native look and feel across platforms.
Community Collaboration: Supported by a collaborative community contributing to its development.

Audience & Benefit:

Ideal for developers and teams seeking clarity in their project history. GitAhead empowers users with tools to efficiently collaborate, resolve conflicts, and maintain a clear understanding of their codebase's evolution through visual representations of commit histories.

Please Note!

GitAhead is no longer under active development. Low-level maintenance and bug fix releases will be made as necessary for the foreseeable future, but no new features or major changes are planned at this time. Please consider continuing development in a rebranded fork for anything other than trivial changes.

GitAhead - Understand Your History

GitAhead is a graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history. It's available as a pre-built binary for Windows, Linux, and macOS, or can be built from source by following the directions below.

Build Environment

C++11 compiler
- Windows - MSVC >= 2017 recommended
- Linux - GCC >= 6.2 recommended
- macOS - Xcode >= 10.1 recommended
CMake >= 3.3.1
Ninja (optional)

Dependencies

External dependencies can be satisfied by system libraries or installed separately. Included dependencies are submodules of this repository. Some submodules are optional or may also be satisfied by system libraries.

External Dependencies

Qt (required >= 5.9)

Included Dependencies

libgit2 (required)
cmark (required)
git (only needed for the credential helpers)
libssh2 (needed by libgit2 for SSH support)
openssl (needed by libssh2 and libgit2 on some platforms)

Note that building OpenSSL on Windows requires Perl and NASM.

How to Build

Initialize Submodules

git submodule init
git submodule update

Build OpenSSL

# Start from root of gitahead repo.
cd dep/openssl/openssl

Win:

perl Configure VC-WIN64A
nmake

Mac:

./Configure darwin64-x86_64-cc no-shared
make

Linux:

./config -fPIC
make

Configure Build

# Start from root of gitahead repo.
mkdir -p build/release
cd build/release
cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../..

If you have Qt installed in a non-standard location, you may have to specify the path to Qt by passing where `` points to the Qt install directory that contains , , etc.