RabbitVCS is a graphical front-end for version control systems available on Linux. It integrates into file managers to provide file
context menu access to version control repositories. The project was originally called NautilusSvn, but due to the desire to support file managers in addition to
Nautilus
The nautilus (, ) is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae. The nautilus is the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina.
It comprises six living species in t ...
and more version control systems, it was renamed to RabbitVCS (Version Control System
).
The interface was inspired by
TortoiseSVN
TortoiseSVN is a Subversion client, implemented as a Microsoft Windows shell extension, that helps programmers manage different versions of the source code for their programs. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License.
To ...
, recognisable by the file manager shell integration, which is available on Nautilus and
Thunar
Thunar is a file manager for Linux and other Unix-like systems, initially written using the GTK+ 2 toolkit and later ported to the GTK+ 3 toolkit. It started to ship with Xfce in version 4.4 RC1 and later. Thunar is developed by Benedikt Meu ...
in the case of RabbitVCS. It can also integrate into
Gedit
gedit ( or ) is a text editor designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It was GNOME's default text editor and part of the GNOME Core Applications until GNOME version 42 in March 2022, which changed the default text editor to GNOME Text E ...
or run independently on the command line.
Note however the Thunar integration does not support SVN status marks (otherwise known as "emblems") on file icons.
Git
As of release 0.14 Beta 1,
Git
Git () is a distributed version control system: tracking changes in any set of files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing source code during software development. Its goals include speed, data inte ...
version control is also supported. Under active development on github https://github.com/rabbitvcs/rabbitvcs.
References
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Git (software)
Apache Subversion
Version control GUI tools