Questions tagged [git-cola]

For questions about usage of git-cola, a GUI front-end for git.

Git Cola is a graphical front-end for git. It is open source, written in Python, and currently lives at https://git-cola.github.io/.

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git-cola will not run on windows

I have installed git-cola using the setup installer for windows. I pointed it to proper installs of git and python. When I try to launch git-cola, nothing happens whatsoever. Is there something I am missing here?
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Python 2.6 ImportError: No module named argparse

I'm trying to run git-cola from Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 and receive: Traceback (most recent call last): File "....../bin/git-cola", line 24, in from argparse import ArgumentParser ImportError: No module named argparse I…
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git push with git-cola failing

I started getting the following error a week ago when pushing with git-cola...I found something about a similar problem happening a lot a couple years ago but it didn't help at all. "git push" returned exit status 128 Have you rebased/pulled…
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Starting git-cola in branch view

The majority of times I start git-cola I go through the sequence Branch → Visualize Current Branch... (or Visualize All Branches...). Is there a way to directly launch one of those views from the command line? $ git-cola --version cola version 2.5
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recover previous version of project using git COLA

how to get the previous version of project once it is committed using GIT COLA GUI. I have a C++ file in the project. i created that file on 13th feb. i made changes to that file on 14th feb and saved it. now i want to get back to version dat was…
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git-cola installation procedure in RHEL6.7 hosts

I need to install git-cola in RHEL6.7 hosts. Can someone help with the procedure on how to install/compile it. Tried installing it through rpm but having many dependencies, neither we have any rpm's related for RHEl6.X version. They are available…
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Ubuntu python Qt import fail

I am not able to launch git-cola on Ubuntu 20.04. As a troubleshooting exercise, I did this: darnstein@EXTP346360104:Downloads$ python3 Python 3.8.10 (default, Sep 28 2021, 16:10:42) [GCC 9.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or…
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git-cola no response after installation whose installer is made by pynsist upon Ubuntu

I tried to use pynsist to make a windows installer for git-cola from my Ubuntu 15.10 desktop. I just git clone git-cola project and setup the installer according to the instruction. Seems OK for pynsist pynsist.cfg. Here is snippet at the…
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git staging no whitespace

I know about interactive staging (from a GUI point of view at least) and I know how to ignore whitespace changes in git diff with git diff -w. I'm using git-cola at the moment and there is the option to hide whitespace changes on the diff view but…
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