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Git file history viewer

Is there a way to view version history (not simple diff) in a git repository? I am looking at something like what you would expect from the tortoiseSvn log / diff browser, but for ubuntu. I do not want to see diffs directly, but rather the entire file with the version in the original context, with highlighting showing the differences from the previous version

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gitg does this, accessible through repositories. There are other git visualizers, but I don't know about them.

For gitg, select the commit in the branch, and then the tab "tree" (next to the "details" that show the difference).

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There is a turtle. I would recommend not cloning as much as I did with the SVN tortoise.

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to keep an eye on koen, there is also gitk , also known as git-gui , which is the “official” gui git browser, and shows the difference on a per-commit basis and is fixed in the tree as well as qgit , which is very similar, but with qt- interface.

to run gitk , just type gitk ~/path/to/my/AWESOMEPROJECTOFAWESOME and look away!

You may need sudo apt-get install gitk depending on how you installed git .

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I have been using gitup in the last few months, and besides a few graphical quirks, it has been really nice working with.

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