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Introduction
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`git-cola` is a powerful GUI for `git` that gives you an easy way to
interact with Git repositories.

Git Cola?
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Out of cola?  Don't panic.

Download
    Visit the
    `git-cola download page <http://cola.tuxfamily.org/downloads.html>`_

Discuss
    `git-cola mailing list <http://groups.google.com/group/git-cola>`_.

Improve
    Submit issues and enhancement requests to the
    `git-cola issue tracker <http://github.com/davvid/git-cola/issues>`_.

Contribute
    `git-cola on github <http://github.com/davvid/git-cola/>`_

    .. sourcecode:: sh

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


Installation
============
The `git-cola` installation instructions are included in
the source tarball.

See the ``INSTALL`` file for more details.

You can also read the
`installation guide <http://cola.tuxfamily.org/install.html>`_ online.


Running `git-cola`
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If you've already installed cola::

    git cola


If you have the git-cola source::

    make && bin/git-cola


Thanks to
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`git-cola` was made possible due to the contributions of the following people:

* `GIT Hackers <http://git-scm.com/about>`_
* Barry Roberts
* Boris W
* Ben Boeckel
* Daniel King
* David Aguilar
* David Martínez Martí
* Iulian Udrea
* Kelvie Wong
* Marco Costalba
* Michael Geddes
* Markus Heidelberg
* Matthew Levine
* Stefan Naewe
* Steffen Prohaska
* Uri Okrent
